Appears in collection : From smooth to $C^{0}$ symplectic geometry: topological aspects and dynamical implications / Géométrie symplectique de lisse à $C^{0}$: aspects topologiques et implications dynamiques

The aims of this talk are two-fold: a) to give a biased overview of some structural properties of (smooth) symplectic mapping class groups, together with some key proof ingredients, and b) to present some open questions, both about those groups and about their $C^{0}$ counterparts, whose study was recently initiated by Alexandre Jannaud.