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Symplectic Geometry and Physics Workshop I: Symplectic Geometry

March 24 - 28, 2003

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, March 24, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:40

Eleny Ionel (University of Wisconsin)

"Counting embedded curves in 3-folds"

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Naichung Conan Leung (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

"Geometry over R,C,H,O"

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Vsevolod Shevchishin (Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany)

"On the symplectic isotopy problem."

2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:00

Dietmar Salamon (ETH, Zurich)

"Wall crossing for symplectic vortices and quantum cohomology."

4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:30

Ignasi Mundet i Riera (University Polit. Catalunya)

"A compactification of the universal jacobian and Hamiltonian Gromov-Witten invariants"


Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

Yi-Jen Lee (Princeton University)

"Noncontractible periodic orbits, Gromov Invariants, and Floer-theoretic torsions."
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Claude Viterbo (Ec Pol)

"Floer homology and several complex variables."

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Dieter Kotschick (LMU Munich)

"Geography of symplectic four-manifolds and applications"

2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:00

Peter Ozsvath (Princeton University)

"Holomorphic disks and knot invariants"


Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

Michael Hutchings (University of California at Berkeley)

"The embedded contact homology of T3"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Stefano Vidussi (KSU)

"Non-isotopic lagrangian tori in a fixed homology class"

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Ronald Fintushel (MSU)

"Branched covers and Seiberg-Witten invariants"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:00

Tian-Jun Li (University of Minnesota)

"Symplectic 4-manifolds with Kodaira dimension zero"

4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:30

Andras Stipsicz (Renyi Institute, Budapest)

"On Stein fillings of contact 3-manifolds"


Thursday, March 27, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:40

Emmanuel Giroux (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France)

"Contact structures and symplectic open books"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Ko Honda (University of Southern California)

"Knots in contact manifolds."

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Paolo Lisca (University of Pisa)

"Fillability versus tightness"

2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:00

Kaoru Ono (Hokkaido University, Japan)

"Symplectic fillings of links of certain isolated surface singularities"

4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:30

Francisco Presas (Stanford University)

"Lagrangian submanifolds in Lefschetz pencils."

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, March 28, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:40

Mark Gross (UCSD / University of Warwick)

"Affine manifolds and mirror symmetry"

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University)

"Asymptotic analysis and homological mirror symmetry"

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Lenny Ng (Stanford University)

"Knot and braid invariants from contact homology"

2:30 - 3:00 Conclusion

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