Symplectic Geometry and Hamiltonian
Dynamics
Workshop in honour of Edi Zehnder
on the occasion of his 60th
birthday
6-10 November 2000
11:00 - 12:00 Paul Rabinowitz (Madison)
"Chaotic geodesics"
14:00 - 15:00 Misha Bialy (Tel Aviv)
"The geometry of extremals for an elliptic equation"
16:00 - 17:00 Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv)
"Symplectic invariants and nonconservative dynamics"
Tuesday 7 November
11:00 - 12:00 Yiming Long (Nankai)
"Iteration thery for a Maslov-type index and multiplicity
of closed characteristics"
14:00 - 15:00 Claude Viterbo (Ecole
Polytechnique)
"Real algebraic and symplectic topology"
16:00 - 17:00 John Mather (Princeton)
"Differentiability of the minimal average action in one
higher dimension"
Wednesday 8 November
11:00 - 12:00 Sigurd Angenent
(Madison)
"The topology of closed geodesics on surfaces"
14:00 - 15:00 Helmut Hofer (NYU)
"Symplectic field theory I"
16:00 - 17:00 Yakov Eliashberg
(Stanford)
"Symplectic field theory II"
Thursday 9 November
11:00 - 12:00 Michel Herman (Orsay)
"On a theorem of Newhouse:
the notion of a KAM symplectic manifold and energy surface"
Michel Herman sadly died on 2 November.
14:00 - 15:00 Victor Ginzburg (Santa Cruz)
"Hamiltonian systems with and without periodic orbits"
16:00 - 17:00 Jean Christophe Yoccoz (Orsay)
title TBA
Friday 10 November
11:00 - 12:00 Matthias Schwarz (MPI, Leipzig)
"New existence results for contact structures in high
dimensions"
14:00 - 15:00 Paul Biran (Tel Aviv)
"Lagrangian non-intersections"
16:00 - 17:00 Paul Seidel (Ecole Polytechnique)
"An exact sequence for symplectic Floer homology"
All lectures are taking place in the
Herman Weyl Zimmer at ETH-Zentrum