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Symplectic and Contact Topology and Dynamics: Puzzles and Horizons

March 22, 2010 to March 26, 2010
Organized By: Paul Biran (Tel Aviv University), John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Helmut Hofer (Courant Institute), Dusa McDuff *(Barnard College), Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University),
 
Parent Programs:
Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
 
Participant List:
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This workshop will focus on recent progress in central problems in symplectic and contact topology and Hamiltonian dynamics such as rigidity of Lagrangian submanifolds, algebra/topology/geometry of symplectomorphism and contactomorphism groups, exotic symplectic and contact structures, and existence of periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and Reeb flows. It will explain applications of the "large machines" such as Floer Theory, Symplectic Field Theory and Fukaya categories, showing where these machines do not yet provide satisfactory answers. Special attention will also be paid to articulating new problems and directions, as well as to explaining interactions between symplectic and contact topology and other fields.





Accomodations:

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available.
The cut-off date for reservations is March 5, 2010.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: MSRISYMPLECTICMSRISY. If you are making your reservations on line, please go to Hotel Durant website, choose your dates of stay and enter the "123MSRI" promo code in the box. The cut-off date for reservations is February 23, 2010. The rate is $110 per night plus tax.


New, completely renovated Hotel Shattuck Plaza has rooms available for you!
MSRI’s preferred rate is $131. Guests can either call the hotel’s main line, 510-845-7300, and ask for the MSRI rate or go to http://www.hotelshattuckplaza.com, click on "Corporate Rates" in the reservation screen and type the code msri10.

If you are interested in finding participants to share a hotel room with please visit Hotel Sharing . You will need to create an account (this will only take a few minutes). After log in please go to the "Main Forum" to view the "Hotel Sharing" thread.
 

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Schedule

Monday March 22, 2010

09:30AM - 10:20AM  Clifford Taubes Arnold's chord conjecture in dimension 3
10:20AM - 10:50AM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
10:50AM - 11:40AM  Claude Viterbo Symplectic Homogenization
11:40AM - 01:20PM  Lunch
01:20PM - 02:10PM  Octav Cornea Enumerative invariants and Lagrangian cobordism    (See Abstract)
02:20PM - 03:10PM  Felix Schlenk Monotone Lagrangian tori in CP^n and products of spheres
03:10PM - 04:00PM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
04:00PM - 04:50PM  Mohammed Abouzaid Framed bordism and Lagrangian embeddings of exotic spheres

Tuesday March 23, 2010

09:30AM - 10:20AM  Gordana Matic Contact structures and sutured floer homology
10:20AM - 10:50AM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
10:50AM - 11:40AM  Sheila Sandon Application of generating functions to contact rigidity phenomena in R^2n x S1
11:40AM - 01:20PM  Lunch
01:20PM - 02:10PM  Susan Tolman Symplectic circle actions with minimal fixed points
02:20PM - 03:10PM  Dmitry Tamarkin Microlocal condition for non-displaceability
03:10PM - 04:00PM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
04:00PM - 04:50PM  François Lalonde Homological Lagrangian Monodromy

Wednesday March 24, 2010

09:00AM - 10:00AM  Yong-Geun Oh Weinstein's conjecture on symplectically fillable contact manifolds
10:00AM - 10:30AM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
10:30AM - 11:30AM  Mihai Damian Floer homology on the universal cover and lagangion embeddings
11:45AM - 12:45PM  Richard Hind Embeddings of ellipsoids

Thursday March 25, 2010

09:30AM - 10:20AM  Ko Honda HF-hat = EC-hat via open book decompositions
10:20AM - 10:50AM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
10:50AM - 11:40AM  Klaus Niederkruger Some observations about the size of tubular neighborhoods in contact geometry
11:40AM - 01:20PM  Lunch
01:20PM - 02:10PM  Michael Usher Filtered Floer theory and Hamiltonian dynamics
02:20PM - 03:10PM  Urs Frauenfelder On Rabinowitz Floer homology
03:10PM - 04:00PM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
04:00PM - 04:50PM  Yael Karshon Convexity package for momentum maps on contact manifolds

Friday March 26, 2010

09:30AM - 10:20AM  Peter Albers Spectral invariants in Rabinowitz Floer homology and applications
10:20AM - 10:50AM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
10:50AM - 11:40AM  Miguel Abreu Contact and Lagrangian Floer homologies of toric manifolds
11:40AM - 01:20PM  Lunch
01:20PM - 02:20PM  Chris Wendl Open books and fiber sums, SFT and ECH: a plethora of obstructions to symplectic filling
02:20PM - 03:10PM  Paul Seidel Enhanced intersection numbers
03:10PM - 04:00PM  Coffee, tea in the atrium

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