Courant Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Fall 2006


Mondays and Wednesdays the seminar meets in WWH room 1314 from 4-7pm.

Some talks on Mondays start at 5 pm due to the Mathematics Colloquium.
For any questions or remarks send an email
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September starting at      
Wed 9/06 4 pm Joe Johns (NYU)  Complexifications of Morse function, the directed Fukaya category and exact Lagrangian submanifolds in cotangent bundles (an overview)  
          
Mo 9/11 4 pm Joe Johns (NYU) A spectral sequence of Seidel, Fukaya and Smith I  
Wed 9/13 4 pm Joe Johns (NYU) A spectral sequence of Seidel, Fukaya and Smith II  
     
Third Yamabe Memorial Symposium from 15 - 17th  
Mo 9/18 4 pm Robert Lipshitz (Columbia) Q Gradings in Heegaard-Floer Homology (abstract)  
Wed 9/20 4 pm Joe Johns (NYU)  High dimensional complexifications     
         
Mo 9/25 4 pm Robert Lipshitz (Columbia) Q Gradings in Heegaard-Floer Homology - Part II  
Wed 9/27 4 pm Sunil Pinnamaneni (NYU) Pseudoholomorphic Curves into Contact Lie Groups and The Holomorphic Wacky Principle I (abstract)  
         
October        
Mo 10/02 4 pm Sunil Pinnamaneni (NYU) Pseudoholomorphic Curves into Contact Lie Groups and The Holomorphic Wacky Principle II  
Tues 10/03
(room 402)
4 pm Peter Albers (NYU) Orderability of the universal cover of the group of contactomorphisms of  RP3 -- yet another proof  (abstract)  
Wed 10/04 4 pm Sunil Pinnamaneni (NYU) Pseudoholomorphic Curves into Contact Lie Groups and The Holomorphic Wacky Principle III   
              
Mo 10/09 4 pm NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR  
Wed 10/11 4 pm NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR  
       DUSA Fest from 12 - 15th  
Mo 10/16
4 pm Fabian Ziltener (LMU) Symplectic Vortices on the Complex Plane and Quantum Cohomology: Part I  
Tues 10/17
1 pm
2:15 pm
Paul Biran (Tel-Aviv)
Quantum Cohomology and Relative Symplectic Invariants
Part 1: Algebraic Structures and Foundations
Part 2: Applications
 Special
Differential Geometry /
Symplectic Geometry Seminar
Wed 10/18 6 pm Fabian Ziltener (LMU)  Symplectic Vortices on the Complex Plane and Quantum Cohomology: Part II  (special time)
Fri 10/20
(room 1013)
1 pm Alan Weinstein (Berkeley)  The symplectic 2-torus as a Poisson Lie "group" Differential Geometry Seminar
         
Mo 10/23 4 pm NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR  
Wed 10/25 4 pm NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR  
         
Mo 10/30
5 pm Xiuxiong Chen (Madison) The existence of C^{1,1} solution and its applications (abstract)  
November        
Wed 11/01 4 pm Xiuxiong Chen (Madison) The almost C^\infinity regularity of homogeneous MA equation (arising from Kähler geometry) and its application (abstract)  
     
     
Fri 11/03 1 pm Ciprian Manolescu (Columbia) A combinatorial description of knot Floer homology (abstract) Differential Geometry Seminar
Fri 11/03
(room 101)
4 pm

5:15 pm 
Xiuxiong Chen (Madison)

Eugene Lerman (UIUC)
A recent update on extremal Kähler metrics

Singular symplectic toric varieties - first steps (abstract)
New York Area
Symplectic Geometry Seminar
at Courant Institute
          
Mo 11/06 4 pm NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR  
Wed 11/08 4 pm NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR  
 Fri 11/10 11 am
Ioana Suvaina (NYU) Einstein metrics on 4-manifolds with finite cyclic fundamental group Differential Geometry Seminar
         
Mo 11/13 4 pm NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR Math Colloquium at 3:45 pm  
Wed 11/15 4 pm Al Momin (NYU) Floer Homology for Surface Diffeomorphisms  
         
Mo 11/20 5 pm Umberto Hryniewicz (NYU) Basic classical Fredholm analysis for J-holomorphic curves  
Wed 11/22 4 pm Thanksgiving Break Thanksgiving Break  
         
Mo 11/27 4 pm Rémi Leclercq (Montreal) Spectral invariants in Lagrangian intersection theory (abstract)   
Tues 11/28 3:30 pm Cliff Taubes (Harvard) A proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension 3 this is a Mathematics Colloquium
Wed 11/29 4 pm Rémi Leclercq (Montreal) Spectral invariants in Lagrangian intersection theory - part 2   
December        
Mo 12/04 4 pm Ioana Suvaina (NYU) Symplectic surgeries and their applications (abstract)  
Wed 12/06 4 pm Ioana Suvaina (NYU) Symplectic surgeries and their applications - part 2  
          
Fri 12/08 11 am Yongbin Ruan (Ann Arbor) Witten equation and singularity theory Differential Geometry Seminar
Fri 12/08
(at Columbia)
1:30 pm

2:30 pm
Melissa Liu (Columbia)

Mohammed Abouzaid
(Chicago)
Gromov-Witten Invariants of Toric Calabi-Yau Threefolds (abstract)

Homological Mirror Symmetry for Toric Varieties  (abstract)
New York Area
Symplectic Geometry Seminar
at Columbia University
         
Mo 12/11 3:30 pm Dennis Auroux (MIT) Homological mirror symmetry and torus fibrations this is a Mathematics Colloquium
Wed 12/13      Special All day conference on Quantum Theory and Manifolds
(check the bottom of the page)
Graduate Center at CUNY 
 

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