Special Year 2011-12: Symplectic Dynamics - Seminar

Symplectic Dynamics Seminar

October 19, 2011 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm

In 1966 V. Arnold showed how solutions of the Euler equations of hydrodynamics can be viewed as geodesics in the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms. This provided a motivation to study the geometry of this group equipped with the $L^2$...