Gauge Theory / Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Gauge theory / Symplectic geometry

Fall 2006


Columbia's gauge theory/symplectic geometry seminar meets regularly on Fridays in Math 507, at 2:30pm.

Sept 22 Yi Ni (Princeton) Knot Floer homology detects fibred knots
Sept 29 Mike Usher (Princeton) The topology of symplectic sums of four-manifolds
Oct 6 No seminar
Oct 13 Paul Biran (Tel-Aviv) Open books, fillings and the symplectic mapping class group
Oct 12-15 DUSA Fest at Stony Brook
Oct 20 András Juhász (Princeton) Floer homology and surface decompositions
Oct 27 Stefano Vidussi (UC Riverside) Symplectic S^1 x N^3 and subgroup separability
Nov 3 No seminar: joint NY symplectic geometry seminar at Courant
Nov 10 Peter Albers (Courant) Vanishing of the fundamental class of displaceable Lagrangian submanifolds
Nov 17 Scott Morrison (UC Berkeley) Fixing the functoriality of Khovanov homology
Nov 24 Thanksgiving break
Dec 1 (*1 pm, room 507) Helmut Hofer (Courant) A general Fredholm theory
Dec 1 (*2:30 pm, room 507) Paul Seidel (Chicago / MIT) Homological algebra of Lefschetz fibrations
Dec 8 (*1:30 pm, room 417) Joint NY symplectic geometry seminar: Melissa Liu (Columbia) Gromov-Witten invariants of toric Calabi-Yau threefolds
Dec 8 (*2:30pm, room 507) Joint NY symplectic geometry seminar: Mohammed Abouzaid (Chicago) Homological Mirror Symmetry for Toric Varieties
Organizers: M. Khovanov, C. Manolescu, P. S. Ozsváth