Workshop on Floer Theory and Symplectic Dynamics

May 19-24, 2008

Program

 

Monday, May 19, 2008

08:30 - 09:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissants (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Denis Auroux
(MIT)
Special Lagrangian Tori and Mirror Symmetry
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:20 - 11:20
Claude Viterbo
(École Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
Homogenization in Symplectic Dynamics
11:30 - 12:30
Mohammed Abouzaid
(MIT)
Viterbo Functoriality in Lagrangian Floer Homology

12:30 - 15:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

15:00 - 16:00
Yael Karshon
(University of Toronto)
Shortening the Hofer Length of Hamiltonian Circle Actions
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:30
Frédéric Bourgeois
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
An Exact Sequence for Symplectic and Contact Homology

17:30
Reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, Z-240


Meeting room : Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, Z-240

09:00 - 10:00
Eduard Zehnder
(ETH-Zentrum)
Surfaces of Section and Reeb Flows in Dimension 3
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
10:20 - 11:20
Viktor L. Ginzburg
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
The Shub-Sullivan Theorem and the Action Gap
11:30 - 12:30
Yaron Ostrover
(MIT)
On Algebraic Properties of the Quantum Homology

12:30 - 15:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

15:00 - 16:00
Kaoru Ono
(Hokkaido University)
Floer-Novikov Cohomology and Symplectic Fixed Points
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:30
Michael Entov
(Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
$C^0$-rigidity of Poisson Brackets

 

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Lev Buhovsky
(Tel Aviv University)
Rigidity of the Poisson Bracket
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:20 - 11:20
Yuri Chekanov
(Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education)
Monotone Lagrangian Tori in $R^{2n}$, $CP^n$ and Products of Spheres
11:30 - 12:30
Alexandru Oancea
(Université Louis Pasteur à Strasbourg)
Symplectic Homology and Rabinowitz Floer Homology

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Dietmar Salamon
(ETH Zürich)
Hypercontact structures and Floer homology
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245

 

Thursday, May 22, 2008

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Matthias Schwarz
(Universität Leipzig)
Various Product Structures in Floer Homology
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:20 - 11:20
Ely Kerman
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Hofer's Geometry and the Displacement Energy of Coisotropic Submanifolds
11:30 - 12:30
Samuel Lisi
(Stanford University)
Energy Threshold for Generalized Pseudoholomorphic Curves

12:30 - 15:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

15:00 - 16:00
Guangcun Lu
(Beijing Normal University)
Conley Conjecture on Cotangent Bundles
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:30
Richard Hind
(University of Notre-Dame)
Symplectic Embeddings in Higher Dimensions

19:30
Banquet Chez Queux (158, St-Paul Street East)

 

Friday, May 23, 2008

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Paul Biran
(Tel Aviv University)
Relative Ennumerative Geometry on Lagrangian Tori
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:20 - 11:20
Alberto Abbondandolo
(Università di Pisa)
A Cobordism Argument in Floer Homology
11:30 - 12:30
Peter Albers
(Courant Institute)
The Weinstein Conjecture for PS-overtwisted Contact Manifolds

12:30 - 15:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

15:00 - 16:00
Urs Frauenfelder
(Maximilians Universität München)
Reeb Chords in Prequantization Spaces
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:30 - 17:30
Kenji Fukaya
(Kyoto University)
Lagrangian Floer Theory on Toric Manifolds