Courant Symplectic Geometry SeminarSpring 2007 |
| January | starting at | |||
| Mo 1/22 | 5 pm | organizational meeting | ||
| Wed 1/24 | 5 pm | Peter Albers (NYU) | HWZ I - Chapter 2 | |
| Mo 1/29 | 5 pm | Joe Johns (NYU) | HWZ I - Chapter 3 | |
| Wed 1/31 | 5 pm | Al Momin (NYU) | HWZ I - Chapter 3 | |
| February | ||||
| Mo 2/05 | 5 pm | Joel Fish (NYU) | A local Gromov compactness theorem for unparameterized pseudo-holomorphic curves (abstract) | |
| Wed 2/07 | 5 pm | Peter Albers (NYU) | Floer homology for negative line bundles with applications to Hamiltonian chords (abstract) | |
| Mo 2/12 | 5 pm | Barney Bramham (NYU) | HWZ I - Chapter 4 | |
| Wed 2/14 | 5 pm | Umberto Hryniewicz (NYU) | HWZ I - Chapter 4 | |
| Mo 2/19 | |
PRESIDENTS' DAY | PRESIDENTS' DAY | |
| Wed 2/21 | 5 pm | Umberto Hryniewicz (NYU) | HWZ I - Chapter 4 | |
| Fri 2/23 (room 813) |
11 am | Jean-Michel Bismut (Paris/NYU) | The hypoelliptic Dirac operator | this is a Differential Geometry seminar |
| Mo 2/26 | 5 pm | Alan Hammond (NYU) | The uncertainty principle (abstract) | |
| Tues 2/27 (room 1314) |
2 pm | Alan Hammond (NYU) | The uncertainty principle - part 2 | |
| March | ||||
| Mo 3/05 | 5 pm | Yaron Ostrover (MIT) | Symplectic Capacities and Volume Radius (abstract) | |
| Wed 3/07 | 5:30 pm | Joe Johns (NYU) | Polyfolds: The Morse theory example - part 1 | |
| Mo 3/12 | SPRING RECESS | SPRING RECESS ![]() |
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| Wed 3/14 | SPRING RECESS | SPRING RECESS ![]() |
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| Mo 3/19 | 5 pm | Peter Albers (NYU) | On work of Niederkrüger and Presas | Urs Frauenfelder (Munich) is visiting March 19 -- April 7 |
| Tues 3/20 (room 1314) |
2-3:30 pm | Alan Hammond (NYU) | Thomas-Fermi theory and the stability of matter (Note: This talk does not rely on previous talks!) |
special date and time |
| 3:45 pm | Alan Hammond (NYU) | The uncertainty principle - part 3: decomposing phase-space | ||
| Wed 3/21 | 5 pm | Joe Johns (NYU) | Polyfolds: The Morse theory example - part 2 | |
| Fri 3/23 (room 813) |
11 am | Ludmil Katzarkov (Miami & IAS) | TBA | this is a Differential Geometry seminar |
| Fri 3/23 (at Columbia) |
4 pm 5 pm |
Katrin Wehrheim (MIT) John Etnyre (Georgia Tech) |
The space of plane fields on a 3-manifold (abstract) |
New York Area Symplectic Geometry Seminar at Columbia University |
| Mo 3/26 | 5 pm | Urs Frauenfelder (Munich) | Symmetry breaking for S1-invariant Morse functions (abstract) | |
| Wed 3/28 | 5 pm | Urs Frauenfelder (Munich) | Symmetries arising in the Arnold-Givental conjecture (abstract) | |
| Fri 3/30 | 1 pm | Dmitry Orlov (Steklov & IAS) | Mirror symmetry from mathematical point of view | this is a Differential Geometry seminar |
| April | ||||
| Mo 4/02 | 5 pm | Dusa McDuff (Stony Brook) | Hamiltonian S1-manifolds are uniruled | |
| Wed 4/04 | 5 pm | Umberto Hryniewicz (NYU) | The structure of rational and ruled symplectic 4-manifolds (abstract) | |
| Fri 4/06 | 11 am | Gabriel Katz (William Paterson) | Morse Theory on Manifolds with Boundary and Convexity | this is a Differential Geometry seminar |
| Mo 4/09 | 5 pm | Federica Pasquotto (Amsterdam) is visiting April 9 -- April 28 |
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| Wed 4/11 | 5 pm | Federica Pasquotto (Amsterdam) | Linking subsets producing critical points (abstract) |
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| Fri 4/13 (room 813) |
11 am | Ciprian Manolescu (Columbia) | Combinatorial Heegaard-Floer invariants for four-dimensional cobordisms | this is a Differential Geometry seminar |
| Fri 4/13 (room 101) |
4 pm 5:15 pm |
Federica Pasquotto (Amsterdam) Chris Woodward (Rutgers) |
Closed characteristics on non-compact hypersurfaces in R2n (abstract) Pseudoholomorphic quilts and applications (abstract) |
New York Area Symplectic Geometry Seminar at Courant Institute |
| Mo 4/16 | 5 pm | Liat Kessler (MIT) | A compact symplectic four-manifold admits only finitely many toric actions: soft and hard proofs (abstract) | |
| Tues 4/17 (room 1314) |
4pm | Janko Latschev (Munich) | Chain-level string topology with a view towards SFT | special date and time |
| Wed 4/18 | 5 pm | Peter Albers (NYU) | A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) - ctd. | |
| Mo 4/23 | 5 pm | Umberto Hryniewicz (NYU) | A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) - ctd. | |
| Wed 4/25 | 5 pm | Peter Albers (NYU) | A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) - ctd. | |
| Fri 4/27 |
Richard Thomas (Imperial/Columbia) | This talk has been rescheduled!!! See May 1st! | ||
| Mo 4/30 | 5 pm | Barney Bramham (NYU) | Pseudholomorphic Foliations and Area Preserving Disc Maps (abstract) | double header |
| 6:30 pm | Chris Wendl (MIT) | Intersection Theory and Compactness for Holomorphic Curves in Low Dimensions (abstract) | ||
| May | ||||
| Tues 5/01 (room 813) |
11 am | Richard Thomas (Imperial/Columbia) | Counting curves in Calabi-Yau 3-folds | this is a Differential Geometry seminar |
| Wed 5/02 | 5 pm | Barney Bramham (NYU) | Pseudholomorphic Foliations and Area Preserving Disc Maps - part 2 | |
| Fri 5/04 (at Stony Brook) |
4 pm 5:15 pm |
Jake Solomon (IAS/Princeton) Tian-Jun Li (Minnesota) |
A Differential Equation for the Open Gromov-Witten Potential (abstract) The Kodaira Dimension of Symplectic 4-Manifolds (abstract) |
New York Area Symplectic Geometry Seminar at Stony Brook |
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| Mo 5/07 | 10 am | various speakers | A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) - ctd. | |
| Tue 5/08 | 10 am | various speakers | A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) - ctd. | |
| Thu 5/10 | 10 am | Peter Albers (NYU) | More about the Plastikstufe |