Symplectic Geometry Seminar 2009-2010

Symplectic Geometry Seminar, 2009-2010


	The seminar meets Mondays at 4pm in 383-N unless otherwise noted. There is tea at 3:30pm on the 2nd floor in the Common Room For abstracts (if available), click on the title of the talk. For the academic year 2009-2010, see also the Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology program at MSRI.

Monday, Jan 25, see the MRC Distinguished Lecture by Arthur Avila (IMPA & Jussieu)

Contact manifolds with symmetries and invariants

Dynamical zeta functions and Floer homology

Floer theory, hypercontact structures and hyperkaehler geometry

The determinant bundle of the moduli space of curves with Lagrangian boundary conditions

C^0 rigidity of the Poisson bracket

Combinatorial constructions of relative contact homology for Legendrian knots

Lagrangian Floer cohomology (area exam)

Constraints on the derivatives of a holomorphic curve at a point

Symplectic topology of Mane's critical values

Gradient Flows, concavity and complexity on manifolds with boundary

Morse inequalities for manifolds with boundary

Monday, May 17, see the MRC Distinguished Lecture by SERGUEI NOVIKOV (University of Maryland and Landau/Steklov Institutes Russian Academy of Sciences)

For further information, please contact Eleny Ionel