YAMABE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
GEOMETRY AND SYMPLECTIC TOPOLOGY
Lectures will be held in Room 16, in the basement level of
Vincent Hall
on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota.
Registration and breaks will be held in Room 120 Vincent Hall.
A
map to Vincent Hall
and a map of
the Twin Cities campus
may be useful.
If needed, here is an
updated ten-day weather forecast.
The Math Department Colloquium Thursday, September 14
will be given by
Dusa McDuff,
SUNY Stony Brook.
Her title will be,
What is symplectic topology?
Friday, September 15, 2006
2:30 pm:
Registration and refreshments
120 Vincent Hall
All talks will be in Vincent Hall 16, in the lower level.
3:15 pm:
Welcome
Larry Gray, Math Department chair
3:20 pm:
Introduction
Bob Gulliver, Conan Leung, Tian-Jun Li, Jiaping Wang
3:30 pm:
Dusa McDuff,
SUNY Stony Brook
Symplectomorphism groups -- an introduction
Abstract
4:30 pm:
Coffee Break,
120 Vincent Hall
5:00 pm:
Mikio Furuta,
University of Tokyo
Pontrjagin-Thom construction in non-linear Fredholm theories
Abstract
Saturday, September 16, 2006
8:15 am:
Continental Breakfast
120 Vincent Hall
All talks in Vincent Hall 16.
9:30 am:
Ron Fintushel,
Michigan State University
Surgery on nullhomologous tori
Abstract
10:30 am:
Group Photo
10:40 pm:
Coffee Break,
120 Vincent Hall
11:10 am:
Peter Ozsváth,
Columbia University
On knot Floer homology
Abstract
12:10 pm:
Lunch
2:30 pm:
Denis Auroux,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lefschetz pencils and the symplectic topology of complex surfaces
Abstract
3:30 pm:
Coffee Break,
120 Vincent Hall
4:00 pm:
Yongbin Ruan,
University of Michigan
Symplectic birational geometry
Abstract
6:15 pm:
Wine and appetizer reception
and
7:15 pm
Symposium Banquet
in
Coffman Union (across Washington Ave.) Mississippi Room, 3rd floor
Sunday, September 17, 2006
8:15 am:
Continental Breakfast
120 Vincent Hall
All talks in Vincent Hall 16.
9:30 am:
Helmut Hofer,
Courant Institute
Fredholm Theory in Polyfolds
Abstract
10:30 am:
Coffee Break,
120 Vincent Hall
11:00 am:
Yakov Eliashberg,
Stanford University
Legendrian surgery and contact homology
Abstract
Link to
Main symposium web page
Page maintained by
Bob Gulliver
Last Updated on September 11, 2006