Courant Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Spring 2007


Mondays and Wednesdays the seminar meets in WWH room 1314 from 5-8 pm.
 For any questions or remarks please send an email.


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    
Wed 3/14   SPRING RECESS   SPRING RECESS    
       
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)
A symplectic category featuring Lagrangian correspondences
and holomorphic quilts (abstract)

 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
Wed 4/11 5 pm Federica Pasquotto (Amsterdam) Linking subsets producing critical points (abstract)
 
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
 
       
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  
 

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