Dear colleagues:

There will be a colloquium as follows at Kavli IPMU
(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of
the Universe).

Regards,

Satoshi Kondo (Kavli IPMU)
http://www.ipmu.jp/
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Speaker:Alan Weinstein (Berkeley)

Title:Linear canonical relations and their quantization

Date:Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00

Place:Lecture Hall

Abstract:
A useful approach to the problem of passing from classical to quantum
mechanics in a coherent way is to find a functorial quantization of
linear canonical relations between symplectic vector spaces.
A standard quantization of such relations leads to unbounded operators
which cannot always be composed, reflecting some deviation from
transversality in the composition of the relations themselves.

In this talk, I will describe possible mathematical settings on the
classical and quantum sides, give examples, and describe some attempts
to resolve the problems associated with "bad compositions".
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