Topology in Dynamics and Physics (TIDY)

School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University



LOCAL COORDINATORS

Misha Bialy

Yaron Ostrover

Leonid Polterovich

                             Lorenz attractor
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Paul Biran (ETH, Zurich)

Yael Karshon (University of Toronto)

Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago)




PROGRAM OVERVIEW


The program focuses on interaction between topology/geometry, dynamical systems and 
mathematical physics. It sponsors postdoctoral fellows, visitors and distinguished lecture series.





LIST OF DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS



TIDY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW





 SCHEDULE FOR 2012-2013



DATE / ROOM

ACTIVITY

SPEAKER




October 29, 2012. 12:15 PM

Schreiber 006,  TAU.


Distinguished lecture in Mathematical Physics

Title: On geometrical structures and properties of solutions to
Hamiltonian systems of partial differential equations. 
Boris Dubrovin

(SISSA & Steklov Math. Institute)




October 30, 2012, 11:10 AM

Schreiber 209,  TAU.
Geometry and Dynamics Seminar

Title: Pentagram map and frieze patterns
Valentin Ovsienko

(CNRS, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon)



October 31, 2012. 12:15 PM

Schreiber 006,  TAU.
Distinguished lecture in Mathematical Physics

Title: On topological recursion for integrable systems
Boris Dubrovin

(SISSA & Steklov Math. Institute)




November 28, 2012, 14:10 PM

Schreiber 210,  TAU.

Geometry and Dynamics Seminar

Title: Morse-Bott-Kirwan theory
Yael Karshon

(University of Toronto)



November 28, 2012, 15:10 PM

Schreiber 210,  TAU.
Geometry and Dynamics Seminar

Title: Equivariant generating function homology and general
contact non-squeezing in $\R^{2n} \times S^1$
Maia Fraser

(University of Chicago)




January 7, 2013. 12:15 PM

Schreiber 006,  TAU.
Distinguished lecture in Mathematical Physics

Title: Delocalization of chaotic eigenstates: an entropy approach
Stéphane Nonnenmacher

(Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Saclay)



January 9, 2013. 14:00 PM

Schreiber 209,  TAU.
Distinguished lecture in Mathematical Physics
 
Title: Quantum scattering in presence of classical hyperbolicity

Stéphane Nonnenmacher

(Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Saclay)



March 4, 2013. 12:15 PM

Schreiber 006,  TAU.
Distinguished lectures in Dynamics

Title: Geodesic ray transforms and geometric inverse problems.
Gabriel Paternain

(University of Cambridge)



March 6, 2013. 14:00 PM

Schreiber 209,  TAU.
Distinguished lectures in Dynamics

Title:
Spectral rigidity and invariant distributions on Anosov surfaces
Gabriel Paternain

(University of Cambridge)



March 11, 2013. 12:15 PM

Schreiber 006,  TAU.
Distinguished lectures in Geometry

Title: Approximation by rational functions and Lagrangian embeddings
Stefan Nemirovski

(Steklov Mathematical Institute)



March 12, 2013. 11:00 AM

Schreiber 210,  TAU.
Distinguished lectures in Geometry

Title: Pentagram Map, twenty years after.  Lectures  #1
Sergei Tabachnikov

(Pennsylvania State University)



March 13, 2013. 14:00 PM

Schreiber 209,  TAU.
Distinguished lectures in Geometry

Title: Spacetimes and Contact Geometry
Stefan Nemirovski

(Steklov Mathematical Institute)



March 13, 2013. 15:00 PM

Schreiber 209,  TAU
Distinguished lectures in Geometry

Title: Pentagram Map, twenty years after.  Lectures  #2
Sergei Tabachnikov

(Pennsylvania State University)



March 20, 2013. 14:00 PM

Schreiber 209,  TAU
Distinguished lectures in Geometry

Title: Bordered Heegaard Floer homology
Peter Ozsváth

(Princeton University)




April 09, 2013. 11:00 AM

Schreiber 008,  TAU
Distinguished lectures in Mathematical Physics        ABSTRACT

Title: Quantum Uncertainty - in All Its Guises
Paul Busch      

(University of York)



April 10, 2013. 14:00 PM

Schreiber 209,  TAU
Distinguished lectures in Mathematical Physics        ABSTRACT

Title: On the "Zoo" of Heisenberg Uncertainties, and How to
Measure Incompatible Quantum Observables

Paul Busch

(University of York)



April 24, 2013. 14:00 PM

Schreiber 209,  TAU
Geometry and Dynamics Seminar

Title: Rigidity of coisotropic submanifolds and their characteristic foliations
Sobhan Seyfaddini

(Ecole Normale Supérieure)




May 19, 2013. 11:00 AM

Schreiber 210,  TAU
Distinguished lectures in Geometry

Title: A Math Mosaic ("Tales from both pockets")
Dmitri Burago

(Penn State University)



May 28, 2013. 11:00 AM

Schreiber 210,  TAU
Distinguished lectures in Dynamics

Title: Kirkwood gaps and instability for three body problems
Vadim Kaloshin

(University of Maryland)



May 29, 2013. 14:00 PM

Schreiber 209,  TAU
Distinguished lectures in Dynamics

Title: Quasiergodic hypothesis and Arnold diffusion in dimension 3
Vadim Kaloshin

(University of Maryland)



June 4, 2013. 11:00 AM

Schreiber 210,  TAU
Distinguished lectures in Mathematical Physics  

Title: Symplectic Eggs, Quantum Blobs, and Uncertainty
Maurice de Gosson

(University of Vienna)



June 5, 2013. 14:00 PM

Schreiber 209,  TAU
Distinguished lectures in Mathematical Physics 

Title: The Wigner Transform and the Uncertainty Principle
Maurice de Gosson

(University of Vienna)



June 17, 2013. 12:15 PM

Schreiber 006,  TAU.
Distinguished lectures in Geometry

Title: On the geography of Legendrian submanifolds
Frédéric Bourgeois

(Université Libre de Bruxelles)



June 19, 2013. 14:00 PM

Schreiber 210,  TAU.
Distinguished lectures in Geometry

Title: S^1-equivariant symplectic homology and linearized contact homology
Frédéric Bourgeois

(Université Libre de Bruxelles)