Geometry & Dynamics Seminar for Students



2002-3


October 21, 2002:
Leonid Polterovich, Tel-Aviv University

Calabi Quasi-Morphism & Measured Trees

October 28, 2002:
Leonid Polterovich, Tel-Aviv University

Calabi Quasi-Morphism & Floer Theory

November 4, 2002:
Paul Biran, Tel-Aviv University

Lagrangian Topology

November 11, 2002:
Paul Biran, Tel-Aviv University

Symplectic Obstructions in Algebraic Geometry

November 25, 2002:
Paul Biran, Tel-Aviv University

Floer Homology & Algebraic Geometry

December 2, 2002:
Gabi Ben Simon, Tel-Aviv University

The Maslov Quasimorphism

December 9, 2002:
Yaron Ostrover, Tel-Aviv University

Floer Homology & Symplectic Action

December 16, 2002:
Michael Entov, Technion

Pair of Pants Product in Floer Homology

December 23, 2002:
Michael Entov, Technion

Pair of Pants Product in Floer Homology II

December 30, 2002:
Paul Biran, Tel-Aviv University

Symplectic Topology with Quantum Effects

January 6, 2003:
Dan Mangoubi, Tel-Aviv University & Technion

Geometry of the 1'st Eigenvalue of the Laplacian
(following L. Friedlander & N. Nadirashvili)


January 13, 2003:
Gabi Katz, Brandeis University & Bennington College

Taut Maps    M ³ ----> S¹   &  2-Cycles Realizing the Thurston Norm


February 24, 2003:
Dan Mangoubi, Tel-Aviv University & Technion

Geometry of the 1'st Eigenvalue of the Laplacian  II.
(following L. Friedlander & N. Nadirashvili)



March 3, 2003:
Yaron Ostrover, Tel-Aviv University

The Burago-Ivanov Proof of the Hopf Conjecture.


March 10, 2003:
Yohai Jerby, Tel-Aviv University

A Solution of Arnold's Chord Conjecture.
(following K. Mohnke.)



March 24, 2003:
Michael Entov, Technion

Calabi Quasimorphism & Clifford Torus.


April 7, 2003:
Lev Buhovski, Tel-Aviv University

Hamiltonian Displacement in Cotangent Bundles.


April 28, 2003:
Felix Schlenk, ETH Zurich

Closed Orbits of a Charge in a Magnetic Field.


May 12, 2003:
Leonid Polterovich, Tel-Aviv University

Asymptotic Geometry of Harmonic Functions & Eigenfunctions.
(Work in progress with M. Sodin)



May 19, 2003:
Michael Bialy, Tel-Aviv University

Lengths of Periodic Orbits for Convex Billiards.


May 26, 2003: Yurii Burago, St. Petersburg University

Two Dimensional Alexandrov Spaces of Bounded Integral Curvature:
Basic Properties, Asymptotic Behavior & Bi-Lipschitz Equivalence.