The speaker, Prof. Aissa Wade is a professor of Mathematics at Penn State University. She was the head of the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Senegal during the period 2016-2018. She received her Master’s Degree in Mathematics from the University of Dakar, Senegal and her PhD in Mathematics from University Montpellier 2, France before joining the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She has held visiting positions at several institutions including The University of North Carolina, The African University of Science and Technology and The University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France. Her research interests are in Poisson Geometry and related areas such as Symplectic Topology, Contact Geometry, and Mathematical Physics.
|
Conference online Link |
Register to atend: https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CLlFzj5SSnWxZ3tgyrXEsg |
| Meeting number (access code): - | |
| Meeting password: - | |
| Date | Friday January 14, 2022 |
| Time | 14:00-15:00 (UTC) |
| Speaker | Prof Aissa WADE |
| Affiliation | Penn State University |
| Domain | Differential Geometry |
| Title | Modular class of Poisson manifolds and Jacobi boundles |
| Abstract |
In this talk, we will discuss modular classes of Poisson manifolds and Jacobi bundles. The study of modular classes of Poisson manifolds goes back to Koszul’s work in 1985. The modular class of a Poisson manifold is a class in the first Lichnerowicz-Poisson cohomology group that determines the obstruction to the existence of a volume form, which is invariant under the flows of all Hamiltonian vector fields. |