2015 Summer School on Moduli Problems in Symplectic Geometry

Europe/Paris
Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center (IHES)

Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center

IHES

35 route de Chartres, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
Description

Organized as part of the IHÉS Lectures, this Summer School aims to provide PhD students, post-docs, and young researchers with an overview of recent developments in the theory of moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectic and contact geometry.

Moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic curves arise as the zero set of a Fredholm section of a suitable bundle. Provided this section can be appropriately perturbed, these moduli spaces yield powerful contact and symplectic invariants such as Gromov-Witten theory, contact homology, symplectic homology, and Symplectic Field Theory. Constructions and applications of these invariants will be addressed in detail during the workshop. There are two main perturbative techniques, geometric and functional analytic.

The geometric perturbation methods are powerful for applications and practical from a computational point of view but typically require many restrictive assumptions and fail to generalize broadly. We will introduce researchers to the polyfold machinery of Hofer, Wysocki, and Zehnder, a new analytic framework designed to resolve the issue of transversality systematically. As computations are integral in applications of the aforementioned invariants, we will also explore how geometric perturbation schemes can be incorporated into the polyfold package.

We will supplement 7 mini courses with moderated discussions and related talks by senior faculty on current and future directions for the field.


Confirmed speakers:

M. Abouzaid, Columbia University *
P. Biran, ETH Zürich
N. Bottman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
F. Bourgeois, Université Paris-Sud Orsay
D. Cristofaro-Gardiner, Harvard University
T. Ekholm, Uppsala University *
Y. Eliashberg, Stanford
J. Fish, Institute for Advanced Study *
H. Hofer, Institute for Advanced Study *
M. Hutchings, UC Berkeley *
D. McDuff, Barnard College, Columbia University
J. Nelson, Columbia University and the Institute for Advanced Study
I. Smith, University of Cambridge
J. Solomon, Hebrew University
C. Viterbo, Ecole Normale Supérieure
K. Wehrheim, UC Berkeley *
C. Wendl, University College London *

* Mini course speakers


Organizing Committee

Chair: J. Nelson (Columbia University and the Institute for Advanced Study)
D. Cristofaro-Gardiner (Harvard University)
J. Fish (Institute for Advanced Study and UMass Boston)

Scientific Advisory Committee

H. Hofer (Institute for Advanced Study)
M. Hutchings (UC Berkeley)
D. McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia University)


With the support of La Société Générale

 

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Participants
  • Agustin Moreno
  • Ailsa Keating
  • Alessia Mandini
  • Alexander Fauck
  • Alexandra Kjuchukova
  • Alexandre Perrier
  • Alvaro del Pino
  • Amiel PEIFFER-SMADJA
  • Amit Solomon
  • Ana Pires
  • Andrew Hanlon
  • Andrew Lee
  • Ashraf Owis
  • Bahar ACU
  • Benjamin Filippenko
  • Berit Singer
  • Brian Tervil
  • Carolina Lemos de Oliveira
  • Carsten Haug
  • Catherine Cannizzo
  • Cecilia Karlsson
  • Chris Gerig
  • Christopher Policastro
  • Cédric De Groote
  • Daniel Alvarez-Gavela
  • David Tourigny
  • Douglas Schultz
  • durand philippe
  • Egor Shelukhin
  • Emily Campling
  • Felix Hensel
  • Felix Schmäschke
  • Francois Charette
  • Gabriele Benedetti
  • Guillem Cazassus
  • Hassan Jolany
  • Hatice ÇOBAN
  • Henrique Sá Earp
  • Honghao Gao
  • Hui Li
  • HYUNJOO CHO
  • Jacob Rooney
  • Jacqueline Espina
  • Jagna Wisniewska
  • Jaime Bustillo
  • Jan-David Salchow
  • Jian Wang
  • Jingyu Zhao
  • Joey van der Leer Duran
  • Jovana Duretic
  • Juan Ojeda
  • Juan Ángel Rojo
  • Jungsoo Kang
  • Keon Choi
  • Kyler Siegel
  • Laura Hayward
  • Laura Starkston
  • Lorenzo Rigolli
  • Lucas Dahinden
  • Luis Diogo
  • Luis E. Portilla P.
  • Marcelo Ribeiro de Resende Alves
  • Matthew Bernard
  • Michael Khanevsky
  • Milena Pabiniak
  • Mohammed Abdelmalek
  • Momchil Konstantinov
  • Morgan Weiler
  • Murat Saglam
  • My Huynh
  • Nathaniel Bottman
  • Nena-Maria Röttgen
  • Nil Sirikci
  • Oldrich Spacil
  • Oleg Lazarev
  • Osman Okutan
  • Pavel Giterman
  • Pedro Salomao
  • Peter Uebele
  • Ralph Klaasse
  • Rebecca Glover
  • Robert Castellano
  • Robert Magnus
  • Roberta Guadagni
  • Rogerio Fernandez
  • Roman Golovko
  • Saraswathi Venkatesh
  • Sebastian Pöder
  • Sherry Gong
  • Smail CHEMIKH
  • Stephan Mescher
  • Sven Prüfer
  • Thomas Naugle
  • Tobias Sodoge
  • Umut Varolgunes
  • Urs Fuchs
  • Viktor Fromm
  • Vincent Humiliere
  • Vincent Létourneau
  • Vinicius Ramos
  • Vukašin Stojisavljević
  • Wolfgang Schmaltz
  • Xin Jin
  • Yeongjin Bae
  • Yesim Demiroglu
  • Young-Chan Kang
  • Zhengyi Zhou
  • Ziva Myer
Elisabeth Jasserand
    • 8:30 AM 9:30 AM
      Registration and welcome coffee 1h
    • 9:30 AM 10:30 AM
      Dusa McDUFF 1h
      Introduction to Regularization Problems
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Chris WENDL 1h
      Classical transversality methods in SFT (1/3)
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 2h
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Katrin WEHRHEIM 1h
      Introduction to Polyfold Regularization (1/2)
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 3:30 PM 4:30 PM
      Joel FISH 1h
      sc-Banach spaces and the sc-calculus (1/3)
    • 5:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Office Hours 1 1h
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Coffee 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:30 AM
      Paul BIRAN 1h
      Lagrangian Cobordisms, Dehn-twists and Real Algebraic Geometry
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Chris WENDL 1h
      Classical transversality methods in SFT (2/3)
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 2h
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Joel FISH 1h
      The rise of sc-retracts (2/3)
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 3:30 PM 4:30 PM
      Chris WENDL 1h
      Discussion
    • 5:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Office Hours 2 1h
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Coffee…. 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:30 AM
      Joel FISH 1h
      Boundary, corners, strong bundles, and implicit function theorems (3/3)
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Yakov ELIASHBERG 1h
      Midsummer Bures Dreams
    • 12:00 PM 2:30 PM
      Buffet Lunch at IHES 2h 30m
    • 2:30 PM 3:30 PM
      Nathaniel BOTTMAN 1h
      Discussion
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 4:00 PM 5:00 PM
      Michael HUTCHINGS 1h
      Obstruction Bundle Gluing (1/3)
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Coffee…. 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:30 AM
      Claude VITERBO 1h
      On properties of filling of contact manifolds (joint work with A. Oancea)
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Chris WENDL 1h
      Classical transversality methods in SFT (3/3)
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 2h
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Katrin WEHRHEIM 1h
      Regularization theorem for Fredholm sections of M-polyfold bundles (2/2)
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 3:30 PM 4:30 PM
      Michael HUTCHINGS 1h
      Obstruction Bundle Gluing (2/3)
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Coffee…. 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:30 AM
      Nathaniel BOTTMAN 1h
      Fredholm theory and Deligne-Mumford spaces for witch balls
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Michael HUTCHINGS 1h
      Obstruction Bundle Gluing (3/3)
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 2h
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Joanna NELSON 1h
      An Integral lift of contact homology
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 3:30 PM 4:30 PM
      Michael HUTCHINGS 1h
      Discussion
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Coffee….. 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:30 AM
      Helmut HOFER 1h
      Polyfolds and the construction of Symplectic Field Theory (1/4)
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Jake SOLOMON 1h
      Holomorphic disks and special Lagrangians
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 2h
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Helmut HOFER 1h
      Discussion
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 3:30 PM 4:30 PM
      Tobias EKHOLM 1h
      Introduction to knot contact homology (1/3)
    • 5:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Mohammed ABOUZAID 1h
      Lagrangian Floer cohomology in families (1/3)
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Coffee…. 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:30 AM
      Helmut HOFER 1h
      Polyfolds and the construction of Symplectic Field Theory (2/4)
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Tobias EKHOLM 1h
      Knot contact homology and string topology (2/3)
    • 12:00 PM 2:30 PM
      Buffet Lunch at IHES 2h 30m
    • 2:30 PM 3:30 PM
      Frédéric BOURGEOIS 1h
      A symplectic invariant for contact manifolds
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 4:00 PM 5:00 PM
      Mohammed ABOUZAID 1h
      Lagrangian Floer cohomology in families (2/3)
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Coffee…. 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:30 AM
      Helmut HOFER 1h
      Polyfolds and the construction of Symplectic Field Theory (3/4)
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Tobias EKHOLM 1h
      Knot contact homology, Chern-Simons theory, and topological string (3/3)
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 2h
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Ivan SMITH 1h
      A symplectic Khovanov Puzzlebook
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 3:30 PM 4:30 PM
      Tobias EKHOLM 1h
      Discussion
    • 5:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Mohammed ABOUZAID 1h
      Lagrangian Floer cohomology in families (3/3)
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Coffee…. 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:30 AM
      Helmut HOFER 1h
      Polyfolds and the construction of Symplectic Field Theory (4/4)
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Daniel CRISTOFARO-GARDINER 1h
      Symplectic embeddings of products
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 2h
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Mohammed ABOUZAID 1h
      Discussion
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 3:30 PM 4:30 PM
      Helmut HOFER 1h
      Discussion