Geometry & Dynamics Seminar

Fall 2008 & Spring 2009






10.11.2008Paul Biran, Tel-Aviv University

Lagrangian quantum homology I


17.11.2008Paul Biran, Tel-Aviv University

Lagrangian quantum homology II


24.11.2008Paul Biran, Tel-Aviv University

Lagrangian quantum structures - computations and examples


1.12.2008Egor Shelukhin, Tel-Aviv University

The Calabi-Yau Theorem


8.12.2008Misha Bialy, Tel-Aviv University

Maximizing orbits in higher dimensional convex billiards


15.12.2008Alex Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Actions of Product Groups on Manifolds


22.12.2008Paul Biran, Tel-Aviv University

Lagrangian quantum structures and Hamiltonian dynamics


29.12.2008Daniel Wise, McGill University

An introduction to word-hyperbolic groups


5.1.2009Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland/Penn State

Hausdorff dimension of oscillatory motions


12.1.2009Yasha Savelyev, University of Massachusets, Amherst

Virtual Morse theory for the Hofer length functional


19.1.2009Isidora Milin, Tel-Aviv University

Orderability of Contactomorphism Groups of Lens Spaces


9.3.2009Tim Perutz, Columbia University

Lagrangian sphere-bundles


16.3.2009Sonja Hohloch, Tel-Aviv University

Floer theory and hypercontact structures


23.3.2009Iosif Polterovich, Montreal University

Shape optimization for low eigenvalues of the Laplacian


30.3.2009Elon Lindenstrauss, Hebrew University

On the distribution of periodic geodesics and flats


20.4.2009Milena Radnovic, Math Institute SANU, Belgrade, Serbia

Poncelet porisms and beyond


27.4.2009Frol Zapolsky, Tel-Aviv University

Topological measures on surfaces of higher genus


4.5.2009Francois Lalonde, Universite de Montreal, and ENS Lyon

The relative Seidel morphism, the Albers map and the Lagrangian transformation group


11.5.2009Egor Shelukhin, Tel-Aviv University

Deforming the toric symplectic form - contractibility of hamiltonian loops (following D.McDuff & S.Tolman)


18.5.2009Lev Buhovsky, Tel-Aviv University

The C^0 rigidity of the Poisson bracket


25.5.2009Misha Bialy, Tel-Aviv University

Smoothly integrable geodesic flows on surfaces


1.6.2009Victor Ivrii, University of Toronto

Spectral Asymptotics and Dynamics


15.6.2009Igor Zelenko, Texas A&M University

Symplectification, Prolongations, and Geometry of Distributions

22.6.2009

Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University

Construction and applications of maps with simple singularities









Organized by Paul Biran & Leonid Polterovich .