WS 2004/2005 

• 25 October 2004
  Charles Thomas, Cambridge UK, 
  "Contact forms on simply connected 7-manifolds."
  5:15pm  HWZ  (Algebra and Topology Seminar).
  

• 1 November 2004
  Alexandru Oancea, ETHZ
  "Fibered Symplectic Homology and the Leray-Serre spectral sequence I."
  
  
• 8 November 2004
  
Alexandru Oancea, ETHZ
"Fibered Symplectic Homology and the Leray-Serre spectral sequence II."


• 22 November 2004
  Chenchang Zhu, ETHZ,
  "Symplectic (stacky) groupoids of Poisson manifolds."
  
  
• 6 December 2004
  Joel Fine, Imperial College,
  "Constant scalar curvature Kaehler metrics on fibred complex surfaces."
  
  
• 17 January 2005
  
Elke Markert, Notre Dame,
"Connective 1-dimensional euclidean field theories."

 

• 11 April 2005
  Stephan Wehrli, Universitaet Zuerich,
  "Khovanov homology" (Heegaard Seminar).
  
  
• 18 April 2005
  
Sechselaeuten


• 25 April 2005
  Olaf Mueller, Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin,
  "Hamiltonian flows and measure preservation in Frechet manifolds."
  
  
• 2 May 2005
  2.15pm  Felix Schlenk, Universitaet Leipzig,
  "Lagrangian tori in tame symplectic manifolds."
  3.45pm  Urs Frauenfelder, Hokkaido University,
  "Finite dimensional approximation of the symplectic vortex equations."
  
  
• 9 May 2005
  Katrin Wehrheim, IAS,
  "Sneak preview of Polyfolds, Clusters ... and a new Lagrangian Floer homology."
  
  
• 23 May 2005
  Jean Francois Barraud, Universite de Lille,
  "The spectral sequence of the Path-Loop fibration and Symplectic Topology."
  
  
• 6 June 2005
  Frederic Bourgeois, Universite Libre de Bruxelles,
  "Fundamental group of the space of tight contact structures on the torus."
  
  
• 13 June 2005
  Mohan Bhupal, METU,
  "Symplectic fillings of links of quotient surface singularities."
  
  
• 20 June 2005
  2.15pm Denis Auroux, MIT,
  "Fiber sums of Lefschetz fibrations."
  
  
• 27 June 2005
  Gabriel Paternain, Cambridge University,
  "Rigidity aspects of hyperbolic optical hypersurfaces."
  
  
  
  
  SS 2006
  
  
• 10 April 2006
  2:15pm  Kai Cieliebak, LMU Muenchen,
  "Transversality for holomorphic curves."
  3:45pm  Richard Thomas, Imperial College, London,
  "Stability and Constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics."
  
  
• 17 April 2006
  Easter Monday
  
  
• 24 April 2006
  Sechselaeuten
  
  
• 8 May 2006
  Joel Fine, Imperial College, London,
  "Toric anti-self-dual four manifolds via complex geometry."
  
  
• 15 May 2006
  Alessio Corti, Imperial College, London,
  "Quantum orbifold cohomology of Fano toric stacks."
  
  
• 22 May 2006
  Hong-Van Le,  University of Prague,
  "The existence of symplectic 3-forms on 7-manifolds."
  
  
• 29 May 2006
  Katrin Wehrheim, MIT,
  16:15    Ackerstrasse 47
  "Functoriality for Lagrangian correspondences."
  
  
• 12 June 2006
  Yuri Chekanov, MCCME, Moscow,
  "Equivariant Morse-Floer theory."
  
  
• 26 June 2006
  Felix Schlenk, Brussels,
  "Positive topological entropy of Reeb flows in cotangent bundles."
  
  
• 3 July 2006
  2:15pm  Yuri Chekanov, MCCME, Moscow,
  "Applications of equivariant Floer homology."
  3:45pm  Michael Farber, Durham,
  "Different variations of the notion cat(X) and applications to dynamics."
  
  
  WS 2006/2007
  
  
• 6 November 2006
  Oliver Fabert, LMU Muenchen/ETH Zuerich,
  "Floer Homology in Symplectic Field Theory."
  
  
• 27 November 2006
  Janko Latschev, HU Berlin,
  "Algebraic structures in Symplectic Field Theory."
  


• 4 December 2006
  Janko Latschev, HU Berlin,
  "Symplectic Field Theory and string topology."
  
  
• 11 December 2006
  Robert Bryant, Duke University,
  "Almost complex geometry in dimension 6."
  
  
• 18 December 2006
  Chris Wendl, MIT,
  "Holomorphic foliations and low-dimensional Symplectic Field Theory."
  
  
• 15 January 2006
  Yaron Ostrover, MIT,
  "Symplectic capacities and volume radius."
  
  
  
  SS 2007
  
  
  

• 23 April 2007
  Alexandru Oancea, Strasbourg/ETH Zuerich,
  "An exact sequence for contact and symplectic homology."
  
  
• 7 May 2007
  Anna Beliakova, Uni Zuerich,
  "Simplification of the combinatorial link Floer homology."
  
  
• 14 May 2007
  Gabor Szekelyhidi, Imperial College,
  "The Calabi flow on an unstable ruled surface"
  
  
• 4 June 2007
  Joseph Johns, Courant Institute, NYU,
  "Fukaya categories of Morse Complexifications."
  
  
  HS 2007
  

• 1 October 2007
  Paul Biran, Tel Aviv Univ,
  "The symplectic mapping class group and symplectic fillings."
  

• 8 October 2007
  Otto von Koert, ULB Bruxelles,
  "Contact homology of left-handed stabilizations and connected sums."
  
  
• 15 October 2007
  Janko Latschev, ETH Zuerich,
  "Ng's cord algebra for knots and relative contact homology."
  
  
• 22 October 2007
  Gabi Ben Simon, ETH Zuerich,
  "The nonlinear Maslov index and the Calabi homomorphism."
  
  
• 29 October 2007
  Jean-Yves Welschinger, ENS Lyon,
  "Towards Floer cohomology of Lagrangian spheres in
  symplectic manifolds with vanishing first Chern class."
  
  
• 5 November 2007
  Yochay Jerby, Tel-Aviv University,
  "Quantum cohomology and projective duality."
  
  
• 19 November 2007
  Chris Wendl, ETH Zuerich,
  "Compactness for Embedded Holomorphic Curves in 3-manifolds:
  why "nice" curves degenerate nicely."
  
  
• 26 November 2007
  Jan Wehrheim, LMU Munich,
  "Vortex invariants for toric manifolds."
  
  
• 3 December 2007
  Octav Cornea, Univ Montreal,
  "Geometric rigidity for Lagrangian submanifolds."
  
  
• 10 December 2007,
  14:15  HWZ,  Michael Khanevsky, Tel Aviv Univ,
  "A Gysin-Floer exact sequence for Lagrangian Floer homology."
  15:45  WHZ,  Emmanuel Opshtein, Univ Strasbourg,
  "Maximal symplectic packings in P^2."
  
  
• 17 December 2007
  Paul Biran, Tel Aviv,
  "Quantum products and enumeration of holomorphic disks."
  
  
  
  FS 2008
  
  
• 25 February 2008
  Sonya Hohloch, ETH,
  "Floer homology for homoclinic tangles."
  
  
• 3 March 2008
  Klaus Niederkrueger, UL Bruxelles,
  "Negatively stabilized open books and the plastikstufe."
  
  
• 17 March 2008
  Thomas Vogel, LMU Munich,
  "Flexibility versus rigidity for tight confoliations."
  
  
• 31 March 2008
  Oliver Fabert, LMU Munich,
  "Trivial curves, obstruction bundles and the action filtration in SFT."
  
  
• 7 April 2008
  Jan Swoboda, ETH,
  "Yang-Mills equations and loop groups."
  
  
• 21 April 2008
  Mark McLean, Cambridge,
  "Exotic Stein manifolds."
  
  
• 28 April 2008
  Urs Frauenfelder, LMU Munich,
  "Obstructions to exact contact embeddings via Floer Rabinowitz homology."
  
  
• 19 May 2008
  Remi Janner, ETH,
  "Geodesics in the moduli space of flat connections and Yang-Mills theory."
  

HS 2008

• 22 September 2008
  Mark McLean, ETH,
  "Symplectic homology of exotic Stein manifolds."
  
  
• 29 September 2008
  Matthias Schwarz, Univ Leipzig,
  "Product structures in Floer theory on cotangent bundles."
  
  
• 6 October 2008
  Al Momin, MPI Leipzig,
  "Intersections and Contact Homology in 3-Dimensions."
  
  
• Friday, 10 October, 4:15pm, HWZ
  Urs Frauenfelder, LMU Muenchen,
  "A remark on Morse homology on noncompact manifolds."
  
  
• 13 October 2008
  Peter Albers, ETH,
  "Reeb chords in prequantization spaces."
  
  
• 20 October 2008
  Barney Bramham, Univ Leipzig,
  "Pseudoholomorphic foliations for area preserving disc maps."
  
  
• 27 October 2008
  Felix Schlenk, Univ Neuchatel,
  "Symplectic embeddings of ellipsoids into balls,
  Diophantine equations, and Fibonacci numbers."
  
  
• 3 November 2008
  Alberto Abbondandolo, Universita di Pisa,
  "Morse homology on infinite dimensional manifolds."
  
  
• 10 November 2008
  Dominic Joyce, Oxford,
  "Kuranishi homology and Kuranishi cohomology:
  a new tool in symplectic geometry."
  
  
• 17 November 2008
  Chris Wendl, ETH,
  "Symplectic fillings and holomorphic curves."
  
  
• 1 December 2008
  Joa Weber, HU Berlin,
  "Regularity and transversality for the heat flow."
  
  
• 8 December 2008
  Joel Fine, Université Libre de Bruxelles,
  "Definite connections and symplectic Calabi-Yau manifolds."
  
  
• 15 December 2008
  Federica Pasquotto, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
  "Existence of periodic orbits on non-compact hypersurfaces."
  
  

FS 2009

• 23 February 2009
  Peter Albers, ETH,
  "Rabinowitz Floer homology and leafwise intersections."
  
• 2 March 2009
  Alexandru Oancea, ULP Strasbourg,
  "S^1-equivariant symplectic homology."
  
• 9 March 2009
  Vincent Colin, Univ Nantes,
  "Sutures and contact homology."
  
• 16 March 2009
  Mark McLean, ETH,
  "Computability and Exotic Stein Manifolds."
  
• 23 March 2009
  Kai Cieliebak, LMU Munich,
  "Rabinowitz-Floer homology and its applications."
  
• 30 March 2009
  Chris Wendl, ETH,
  "Partially planar contact manifolds, and their symplectic fillings."
  
• 6 April 2009
  Mohammed Abouzaid, MIT,
  "Framed bordism and Lagrangian embeddings of exotic spheres."
  
• 13 April 2009
  Ostermontag
  
• 20 April 2009
  Sechselaeuten
  
• 4 May 2009
  Hansjoerg Geiges, Univ Koeln,
  "Diffeotopy groups via contact topology."
  
• 11 May 2009
  Lenny Ng, Duke Univ,
  "Legendrian Symplectic Field Theory."
  
• 25 May 2009
  Francois Lalonde, Univ Montreal,
  ''The mapping class group of Lagrangian submanifolds within ambient Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms: 
  reflections on the rigidity between real and complex transformation groups.''
  
  
  

HS 2009