Geometry & Dynamics Seminar for Students


Spring 2004 Talks

8.3.2004:
Ronny Hadany, Tel-Aviv University

A Proof of the Rudnick-Kurlberg Conjecture


15.3.2004: Ronit  Fuchs, Tel-Aviv University

Slow Volume Preserving Diffeomorphism on The Torus and Other Manifolds


22.3.2004: Felix Schlenk, University of Leipzig

Periodic Orbits of Classical Hamiltonian Systems at Low Energies


3.5.2004: Matatyahu Rubin, Ben-Gurion University

How to Reconstruct a Topological Space from a Group of Homeomorphisms of the Space


10.5.2004: Joa Weber, ETH Zurich

Floer homology of cotangent bundles and noncontractible periodic orbits


31.5.2004: Michael Entov, Technion

Intersection Floer Homology for Lagrangian Fibers of Toric Manifolds
(after C.-H.Cho & Y.-G.Oh)




Fall 2003 Talks

3.11.2003: Yaron Ostrover, Tel-Aviv Univesity

New results on Calabi quasimorphism


10.11.2003: Lev Buhovsky, Tel-Aviv University

New Results on Lagrangian Submanifolds of Cotangent Bundles


17.11.2003: Fima Dinaburg, Institute of Earth Physics, Russian Ac. of Sciences

A Statistical Model Built on Sand


24.11.2003: Gabi Ben Simon, Tel-Aviv University

Partially Ordered Groups in Symplectic Geometry


1.12.2003: Alexander Ivrii, Universite de Montreal

Holomorphic Curves and Symplectic 4-Manifolds


8.12.2003: Uzy Smilansky, Weizmann Institute

Counting Nodal Domains


15.12.2003: Michael Bialy, Tel-Aviv University

Symplectic Twist Maps, Frenkel Kontorova Chains and Riemannian Geometry


22.12.2003: Yohai Jerby, Tel-Aviv University

Singular Varieties and Lagrangian Cycles


29.12.2003: Shlomo Sternberg, Harvard University

Geometrical Quantization Using the Atiyah-Singer Signature


5.1.2004: Alexander Givental, UC Berkeley

Symmetries of Gromov-Witten Theory


12.1.2004: Simon Litsyn, Tel-Aviv University

Recent Breakthroughs in Sphere Packings


Organized by Paul Biran & Leonid Polterovich .