This event is in the past.It took place on February 12, 2026 at Hertz Hall.

Mathematics Department Colloquium: On the dynamics of Reeb vector fields 1
Educational Talk

Mathematics Department Colloquium: On the dynamics of Reeb vector fields

February 12 at 4pm

At Hertz Hall

Southside, Berkeley

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Explore how geometry explains the chaos of celestial orbits. This math colloquium traces Reeb vector fields from Poincaré's work on periodic orbits to breakthroughs using pseudo-holomorphic curves, revealing why some 3D spaces harbor infinite orbits.

Academic lecture
Advanced mathematics
Classical & modern geometry