Conference on New Challenges and Perspectives in Symplectic Field Theory

June 25-29, 2007

Stanford

Program

 

Monday, June 25, 2007

08:00 - 09:00
Registration and Continental breakfast


09:00 - 10:00
Dusa McDuff
(Stony Brook University)
Uniruled symplectic manifolds
Abstract
10:20 - 11:20
Helmut Hofer
(New York University)
Polyfolds and SFT
11:40 - 12:30
Tobias Ekholm
(Uppsala University)
Introduction to SFT - I
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


14:20 - 15:20
Gang Tian
(Princeton University)
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:50
Dietmar Salamon
(ETH Zürich)
Instanton Floer homology with Lagrangian boundary conditions
17:10 - 18:00
Tobias Ekholm
(Uppsala University)
Introduction to SFT - II
Abstract

 

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

08:00 - 09:00
Registration and Continental breakfast


09:00 - 10:00
Ko Honda
(University of Southern California)
Invariants of exact Lagrangian cobordisms
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:20 - 11:20
Emmanuel Giroux
(Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Fibrations in Contact Geometry
11:40 - 12:30
Frédéric Bourgeois
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
A survey of contact homology
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


14:20 - 15:20
Paul Biran (Tel Aviv University)
Octavian Cornea (Université de Montréal)
Quantum Structures for Lagrangian Submanifolds
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:50
Claude Viterbo
(École Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
17:10 - 18:00
Joshua Sabloff
(Haverford College)
Invariants of Legendrian Submanifolds from Contact Homology
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

08:00 - 09:00
Continental breakfast


09:00 - 10:00
Tomasz Mrowka
(MIT)
Knot homologies from singular instantons
10:20 - 11:20
Peter S. Ozsvath
(Columbia University)
Knot Floer Homology
Abstract
11:40 - 12:30
Eric Katz
(Duke University)
Relative Gromov-Witten Invariants \& Symplectic Field Theory
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


14:20 - 15:20
Eleny Ionel
(Stanford University)
Gromov-Witten invariants and degenerations
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:50
Matthias Schwarz
(Universität Leipzig)
Floer Homology and the Free Loop Space
Abstract

 

Thursday, June 28, 2007

08:00 - 09:00
Continental breakfast


09:00 - 10:00
David Gabai
(Princeton University)
Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
Abstract

Papiers / Papers
10:20 - 11:20
Rahul Pandharipande
(Princeton University)
BPS states in GW theory
Abstract
11:40 - 12:30
Kai Cieliebak
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
Transversality issues in SFT
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


14:20 - 15:20
Robert Gompf
(The University of Texas at Austin)
Constructing Stein manifolds after Eliashberg
Abstract
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:50
Yong-Geun Oh (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Kaoru Ono (Hokkaido University)
Floer theory for Lagrangian submanifolds
Abstract
17:10 - 18:00
Katrin Wehrheim
(MIT)
Polyfolds
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Friday, June 29, 2007

08:00 - 09:00
Continental breakfast


09:00 - 10:00
Paul Seidel
(MIT)
Classification and computation for symplectic and contact manifolds
Abstract
10:20 - 11:20
Clifford Taubes
(Harvard University)
Seiberg-Witten equations, the Weinstein conjecture and Embedded Contact Homology
11:30 - 12:30
Etienne Ghys
(École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
$\omega \wedge d \omega$