Aissa Wade

associate professor of mathematics
Penn State University Park

University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition 2008

Poisson Structures and Their Normal Forms

Jean-Paul Dufour and Nguyen Tien Zung
As a graduate student, I began to explore normal forms of Poisson structures. I had the pleasure to work with Jean-Paul Dufour on this topic.This book covers many exciting aspects of Poisson geometry. It's a comprehensive, nicely written treatise on normal forms of Poisson structures. The book covers others related topics: Lie groupoids, Lie algebroids, etc. It gives a good exposition full of valuable insights.