Courant Symplectic Geometry SeminarFall 2007 |
| September | starting at | |||
| Wed 9/05 | 4 pm | Peter Albers (NYU) | On work of Entov and Polterovich I | |
| Mo 9/10 | 4 pm | Umberto Hryniewicz (NYU) | On work of Entov and Polterovich II | |
| Wed 9/12 | 4 pm | Al Momin (NYU) | On work of Entov and Polterovich III | |
| Mo 9/17 | 4 pm | Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) | A hierarchy of rigid subsets in symplectic manifolds-I | Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) is visiting Sept 17 -- 28 |
| Wed 9/19 | 4 pm | Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) | A hierarchy of rigid subsets in symplectic manifolds-II |
Urs Frauenfelder (Munich)
is visiting Sept 17 -- 29
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| Thur 9/20 room 613 |
4 pm 5:15 pm |
Urs Frauenfelder (Munich) Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) |
On Floer Rabinowitz homology
Floer theory vs. quantum-classical correspondence
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New York Area Symplectic Geometry Seminar at Courant Institute |
| Slides of Leonid Polterovich's lecture series (~15Mb) | ||||
| Mo 9/24 | no seminar |
AIM workshop Towards Relative Symplectic Field Theory September 24 -- 28 at CUNY |
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| Wed 9/26 | ||||
| October | ||||
| Mo 10/01 | 4 pm | Peter Albers (NYU) | On the number of Reeb orbits of certain contact S1-manifolds | |
| Wed 10/03 | 4 pm | Al Momin (NYU) | Intersections in low-dimensional contact homology | |
| Fri 10/05 |
11 am | Matilde Marcolli (MPI Bonn) | How noncommutative geometry looks at arithmetic - room 813 | this is a Geometry/Topology seminar |
| 1 pm | Alan Weinstein (Berkeley) | Groupoid symmetry for Einstein's equations? (abstract) - room 1013 | ||
| Mo 10/08 | 4 pm | no seminar | Columbus Day | |
| Wed 10/10 | 4 pm | Barney Bramham (NYU) | Area preserving disk maps and pseudo-holomorphic foliations - part I | |
| Mo 10/15 | 4 pm | Michael Usher (Princeton) | Spectral numbers in Floer theories (abstract) | |
| Wed 10/17 | 4 pm | Barney Bramham (NYU) | Area preserving disk maps and pseudo-holomorphic foliations - part II | |
| Mo 10/22 | 3:45 pm | Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard) | On the concept and properties of mass in general relativity | this is a Mathematics Colloquium |
| Wed 10/24 | 4 pm | no seminar | no seminar | |
| Mo 10/29 | 3:45 pm | Paul Rabinowitz (Madison) | Single and multi-transition solutions for a class of PDE's | this is a Mathematics Colloquium |
| Wed 10/31 | 4 pm |
Dusa McDuff (Columbia/Stony Brook) |
Monodromy in Hamiltonian Floer theory |
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| November | ||||
| Mo 11/05 | 4 pm | Umberto Hryniewicz (NYU) | Foliations of convex sets in R4 | |
| Wed 11/07 | 4 pm | no seminar | no seminar | |
| Mo 11/12 | 4 pm 5 pm |
Yasha Eliashberg (Columbia/Stanford) Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT) |
Legendrian knots in overtwisted contact 3-manifolds
SYZ fibrations and homological mirror symmetry |
Double Feature |
| Wed 11/14 | 4 pm | no seminar | no seminar | |
| Fri 11/16 room 1302 |
1 pm | Helmut Hofer (NYU) | Holomorphic Curves in Symplectic Geometry and Hamiltonian Dynamics | this is a Graduate Student/Postdoc Seminar |
| Mo 11/19 | 4 pm | no seminar | ||
| Wed 11/21 | 4 pm | no seminar |
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| Mo 11/26 | 4 pm | Van Vu (Rutgers) | The Circular Law | this is a Mathematics Colloquium |
| Wed 11/28 | 4 pm | no seminar |
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| December | ||||
| Mo 12/03 | 4 pm | no seminar | no seminar | |
| Wed 12/05 | 4 pm | Larry Guth (Stanford) | Symplectic embeddings of polydisks (abstract) | |
| Fri 12/07 (at Columbia) |
4 pm 5:15 pm |
Larry Guth (Stanford) Søren Galatius (Stanford) |
Symplectic embeddings (abstract)
Holomorphic curves and stable homotopy theory (abstract)
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New York Area Symplectic Geometry Seminar at Columbia University |
| Mo 12/10 | 4 pm | Yasha Savelyev (Stony Brook) | Quantum characteristic classes (abstract) | |
| Wed 12/12 | 4 pm | Percy Deift (NYU) | Symplectic aspects of the eigenvalue problem | |