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Symplectic and Poisson Geometry in interaction with Algebra, Analysis and Topology
May 4, 2010 to May 7, 2010

Organizer(s)

Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Alvaro Pelayo* (University of California, Berkeley), Steve Zelditch (Northwestern University), Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley)
To apply for funding, you must register by Fri, May 07 2010.
The first week of May 2010 coincides with the first year anniversary of Alan Weinstein's retirement from UC Berkeley; Weinstein has been one of the most influential figures in symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry and analysis in the past forty years. Weinstein's fundamental work inspired many others and led to the development of central concepts in symplectic and Poisson geometry, as well as to the establishment of symplectic geometry as an independent discipline within mathematics. This conference will be a forum to celebrate Weinstein's fundamental contributions to geometry and mathematics at large.

Symplectic and Poisson Geometry in interaction with Algebra, Analysis and Topology

For more information please send an email to apelayo@math.berkeley.edu or with the subject "Symplectic and Poisson Geometry in interaction with Algebra, Analysis and Topology".


Photograph by Basil Glew-Galloway

Funding

To apply for funding, you must register by Fri, May 07 2010. Click to Register
Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are made typically 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.
Schedule
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
10:15AM - 11:05AM Victor Guillemin Zoll-type phenomena in spectral theory [Video available]
11:15AM - 12:20PM Chris Croke Boundary and Conjugacy Rigidity [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Mélanie Bertelson Another point of view on affine connections [Video available]
3:20PM - 4:10PM Marius Crainic Conn's linearization theorem [Video available]
4:25PM - 5:15PM Clifford Taubes Contact structures and the topology of 3-manifolds [Video available]
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
9:10AM - 10:00AM Graeme Segal Geometric aspects of the positivity of energy in quantum field theory [Video available]
10:15AM - 11:05AM San Vu-Ngoc Symplectic and spectral theory of semitoric integrable systems [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:20PM Viktor Ginzburg The Weinstein-Moser theorem and the motion of a change in a magnetic field [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Jiang-Hua Lu On a Poisson structure on conjugacy classes [Video available]
3:20PM - 4:10PM Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach Compatible structures and Dirac pairs [Video available]
4:25PM - 5:15PM Bertram Kostant Experimental evidence for the occurrence of E_8 in nature and the radii of the Gosset circles [Video available]
Thursday, May 06, 2010
9:10AM - 10:00AM Yong-Geun Oh Spectral invariants and Lagrangian intersection: open-closed Floer theory [Video available]
10:15AM - 11:05AM Tudor Ratiu Poisson Geometry in Control, Optimization, and Imaging [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:20PM Ping Xu Characteristic classes and Courant algebroids [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Nicolai Reshetikhin On Hamiltonian structure of gauge theories [Video available]
Friday, May 07, 2010
9:10AM - 10:00AM Henrique Bursztyn B-fields, quantization and Morita equivalence [Video available]
10:15AM - 11:05AM Michael Hitrik Spectra for non-selfadjoint operators in two dimensions [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:20PM Ezra Getzler Supergravity and gerbes on superspace [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Pierre Schapira Quantization of Hamiltonian isotopies and applications to symplectic topology [Video available]

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