- 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.