Variational aspects of Dynamics

Series
Dynamical Systems Working Seminar
Time
Friday, March 31, 2017 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 254
Speaker
Lei Zhang – School of Mathematics, GT
Organizer
Jiaqi Yang
In this talk, we will give an introduction to the variational approach to dynamical systems. Specifically, we will discuss twist maps and prove the classical results that area-preserving twist map has Birkhoff periodic orbits for each rational rotation number.