Symplectic Geometry and Physics Workshop I: Symplectic Geometry - IPAM

Symplectic Geometry and Physics Workshop I: Symplectic Geometry

Part of the Long Program Symplectic Geometry and Physics
March 24 - 28, 2003

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, March 24, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:40
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
13:30-14:30
Vsevolod Shevchishin (Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany)
On the symplectic isotopy problem.
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
Dietmar Salamon (ETH, Zurich)
Wall crossing for symplectic vortices and quantum cohomology.
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:30
Ignasi Mundet i Riera (University Polit. Catalunya)
A compactification of the universal jacobian and Hamiltonian Gromov-Witten invariants

Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:30
Yi-Jen Lee (Purdue University)
Noncontractible periodic orbits, Gromov Invariants, and Floer-theoretic torsions.
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Claude Viterbo (Ec Pol)
Floer homology and several complex variables.

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Dieter Kotschick (LMU Munich)
Geography of symplectic four-manifolds and applications
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
Peter Ozsvath (Princeton University)
Holomorphic disks and knot invariants

Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:30
Michael Hutchings (University of California at Berkeley)
The embedded contact homology of T<sup>3</sup>
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Stefano Vidussi (KSU)
Non-isotopic lagrangian tori in a fixed homology class

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Ronald Fintushel (MSU)
Branched covers and Seiberg-Witten invariants
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
Tian-Jun Li (University of Minnesota)
Symplectic 4-manifolds with Kodaira dimension zero
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:30
Andras Stipsicz (Renyi Institute, Budapest)
On Stein fillings of contact 3-manifolds

Thursday, March 27, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:40
Emmanuel Giroux (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France)
Contact structures and symplectic open books
10:40-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Ko Honda (University of Southern California)
Knots in contact manifolds.

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Paolo Lisca (University of Pisa)
Fillability versus tightness
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
Kaoru Ono (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Symplectic fillings of links of certain isolated surface singularities
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:30
Francisco Presas (Stanford University)
Lagrangian submanifolds in Lefschetz pencils.
17:30-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
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