Blog post: ajb: The closing talk: Geometry of Jets and Fields

I gave the final talk at the conference 'Geometry of Jets and Fields' in honour of Prof. Grabowski. The reason was because I won the poster competition. As Prof. Grabowski had on the opening day discussed our applications in geometric mechanics, I discussed some more mathematical ideas around this.

 

In particular I sketched our theory of weighted Lie algebroids and weighted Lie groupoids. Importantly, I gave our guiding principal which states that `compatibility with grading means the action of the homogeneity structure is a morphism in the category you are interested in'. For sure, so far that principal seems to be working.

 

You can find the slides here. You can also find these slides and others via the conference homepage.

 

I think, or I should say hope, that the talk was well received. It was an honour and a pleasure to give a talk at the conference in his honour.
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