Conference on Topology, Geometry and Dynamics. In honour of François Lalonde

August 31 - September 4, 2015

Program
 

Monday, August 31, 2015
08:45 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)

09:00 - 09:15
Welcoming Address - Guy Breton, recteur de l'Université de Montréal

09:15 - 09:30
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissants (6245)


Chair : Octav Cornea
Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:30
Helmut Hofer
(IAS)
Feral J-curves and small invariant subsets
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Mohammed Abouzaid
(Columbia University)
Floer cohomology and loop homology
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break


Chair : Iosif Polterovich
Meeting room(s) : 6254

14:00 - 15:00
Sergei Tabachnikov
(Pennsylvania State University)
Linear difference equations, frieze patterns, and projective polygons: Three sides of the same coin
Abstract
15:00 - 15:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:20 - 16:20
Dusa McDuff
(Columbia University)
Constructing the virtual moduli cycle
16:40 - 17:40
Paul Seidel
(MIT)
Lefschetz pencils and enumerative geometry

 

Tuesday, September 1, 2015
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Chair : Leonid Polterovich
Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:30
Victor Guillemin
(MIT)
The generalized Legendre transform and its applications to inverse spectral problems
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Nick Sheridan
(IAS)
Counting curves using the Fukaya category
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break


Chair : Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Meeting room(s) : 6254

14:00 - 15:00
San Vu Ngoc
(Université de Rennes )
Spectral theory of confining magnetic fields via symplectic geometry
Abstract
15:00 - 15:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:20 - 16:20
Dietmar A. Salamon
(ETH Zürich)
An open-closed isomorphism in instanton Floer homology
Abstract
16:40 - 17:40
Paul Biran
(ETH)
Lagrangian topology from the cobordism viewpoint
Abstract

17:40
Reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Wednesday, September 2, 2015
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Chair : François Laudenbach
Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Étienne Ghys
(ENS Lyon)
The topology of a real algebraic curve in the neighborhood of a singular point
Abstract
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:15 - 11:15
Claude Viterbo
(École Normale Supérieure)
11:30 - 12:30
Yakov Eliashberg
(Stanford University)
Making cobordisms symplectic
Abstract

Free afternoon

 

Thursday, September 3, 2015
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Chair : Edward Bierstone
Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:30
Urs Frauenfelder
(Universität Augsburg)
Global surfaces of section for the restricted three body problem
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Vadim Kaloshin
(University of Maryland, College Park)
An integrable billiard close to an ellipse of small eccentricity is an ellipse
Abstract

12:00
Lunch break


Chair : Mihai Damian
Meeting room(s) : 6254

14:00 - 15:00
Michael Entov
(Technion - Israel Institute of Techno.)
Connecting trajectories of Hamiltonian flows
Abstract
15:00 - 15:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:20 - 16:20
Stéphane Nonnenmacher
(CEA-Saclay)
16:40 - 17:40
Jean-Yves Welschinger
(Université Lyon 1)

19:15
Banquet (François Lalonde will give a brief recital)

 

Friday, September 4, 2015
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Chair : Kaoru Ono
Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Kenji Fukaya
(Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook)
An SO(3) analogue of Atiyah–Floer conjecture
Abstract
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:15 - 11:15
Yael Karshon
(University of Toronto)
Distinguishing symplectic blowups of the complex projective plane
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Denis Auroux
(University of California, Berkeley)
Two new constructions of monotone Lagrangian tori
Abstract

Closure of the workshop

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