Typical Courses Taught by Robert Bryant
- MATH 123S, GEOMETRY
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- MATH 267, DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
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- MATH 268, Topics in DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY: Symplectic Geometry
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- The first third of the course is devoted to
'classical' symplectic geometry: Lagrangians,
Legendre transformations, Hamiltonians, symplectic
manifolds and the Darboux-Weinstein theorem,
symmetries and conservation laws and the Arnold-
Liouville theorem, momentum mappings,
reduction, and convexity.
The second third of the course is devoted to
developing elliptic methods: pseudo-holomorphic
curves, Gromov compactness and moduli,
applications to packing and (non)-squeezing
theorems, etc.
The final third covers related topics and recent
developments, such as relations with toric
varieties, representation theory, or other topics
that depend on the interests of the class.