Schedule for the Courant Symplectic Seminar

Spring 2006

Some talks on Mondays start at 5 pm due to the Mathematics Colloquium. Mondays and Wednesdays the seminar meets in WWH room 1314.

March starting at      
Mo 3/20 4 pm  Umberto Hryniewicz (NYU)  Manifolds of Maps

 

Wed 3/22 3:30 pm  Dragomir Dragnev (NYU)  Global perturbations of Hamiltonian systems

 

Fr 3/24
4 pm
5:15 pm
Tara Holm (UConn/Cornell)
Viktor Ginzburg (UCSC)
Orbifold Cohomology of Abelian Symplectic Reductions
Coisotropic Intersections
Courant - Stony Brook
Joint Symplectic Geometry Seminar

at Stony Brook
       

 

Mo 3/27 5 pm  Marco Zambon (University of Zürich)  Poisson manifolds and coisotropic submanifolds

 

Wed 3/29 3:30 pm  Chris Wendl (LMU)  How strange can a finite energy foliation get? 

 

April         

 

Mo 4/03 4 pm  Dragomir Dragnev (NYU)  The proof of the coisotropic intersection theorem.

 

Tues 4/04
4 pm
room 1013
Frédéric Bourgeois (ULB) A long exact sequence for symplectic and contact homology  
Wed 4/05 3:30 pm  Urs Frauenfelder (LMU)   Vortices on the cylinder

 

Fr 4/07   11 am  Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia)  Differential Geometry Seminar      (room 813)

  

Fr 4/07  2 pm  Chris Woodward (Rutgers)  Differential Geometry Seminar      (room 813)     
     
   
Mo 4/10 4 pm    

 

Wed 4/12 3:30 pm Urs Frauenfelder (LMU)    Restrictions to displaceable exact contact embeddings I

Urs Frauenfelder (LMU) is visting

       

from April 1 - 21

Mo 4/17 5 pm Urs Frauenfelder (LMU)   Restrictions to displaceable exact contact embeddings II

 

Wed 4/19 3:00 pm    

 

Fr 4/21
(room 101)
4 pm
5:15 pm
Ko Honda (USC) 
Thomas Vogel (IAS/UPenn)
Reeb vector fields and open book decompositions
Existence of Engel structures
Courant - Stony Brook
Joint Symplectic Geometry Seminar

at Courant 
Sa 4/22 10 am  Ko Honda (USC)  Informal Talk    (in room 1302)

 

         
Mo 4/24 4 pm    

 

Wed 4/26 3:30 pm  Liat Kessler (NYU)  Gromov compactness - revisited

 

May         

 

Mo 5/01 4 pm  NO ROOM NO SEMINAR 

 

Wed 5/03 3:30 pm