Content

Part I: Symplectic structures, Hamiltonian actions, moment maps, symplectic quotients and reduction.
Part II: Contact structures, open books, convex manifolds, fillability

Assessment

Homework assignments

Literature

• Lectures on symplectic geometry, Ana Cannas da Silva (course reading).
  
  
• Introduction to symplectic topology, Dusa Mc Duff and Dietmar Salamon
  
  
• Symplectic Inariants and Hamiltonian dynamics, Helmut Hofer and Eduard Zehnder

F. Pasquotto, 6.9.2011