From Dynamical Systems to
Symplectic Topology
Conference in honour of Edi
Zehnder
on the occasion of his 70th
birthday
ETH Zurich, 8-12 November 2010
Conference
webpage
10:00 - 11:00 Helmut Hofer (IAS,
Princeton)
Holomorphic curves and dynamics in dimensions two and three
11:30 - 12:30 Michael Huchings
(UC Berkeley)
New obstructions to symplectic
embeddings in four dimensions
14:00 - 15:00 Alberto
Abbondandolo (Univ Pisa)
Stable manifolds in
holomorphic dynamics
15:30 - 16:30 Dusa McDuff
(Columbia, New York)
The
Hofer conjecture on
embeddings
of symplectic ellipsoids
17:00 - 18:00 Kai Cieliebak
(LMU, Munich)
Stable
Hamiltonian structures
Tuesday 9 November
10:00 - 11:00 John Franks
(Northwestern, Chicago)
Area
preserving entropy zero diffeomorphisms
11:30 - 12:30 Yiming Long
(Nankai Univ, Tianjin)
Rotation type solutions of spatially
periodic Hamiltonian systems
14:00 - 15:00 Yasha Eliashberg
(Stanford)
Computing symplectic
invariants via Legendrian surgery
15:30 - 16:30 Emmanuel Giroux
(ENS, Lyon)
Some remarks on
Weinstein domains
Colloquium (UniZH, Karl Schmid Strasse 4,
K02-F-150)
17:15 - 18:15 Alain
Chenciner (IMCCE, Paris)
The symmetries of the
N-body problem
Wednesday 10 November
10:00 - 11:00 Claude Viterbo
(Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Aubry-Mather theory for non-convex
Hamiltonians
11:30 - 12:30 Paul Rabinowitz
(Madison)
Hybrid solutions for a
family of nonlinear elliptic PDE's
14:00 - 15:00
Leonid Polterovich
(Univ Chicago)
Poisson brackets
and symplectic invariants
Thursday 11 November
(All lectures on
thursday are in D7.2)
10:00 - 11:00 Viktor
Ginzburg
(Santa Cruz)
Periodic orbits of
Hamiltonian systems: the
Conley conjecture and beyond
11:30 - 12:30 Lai-Sang Young
(Courant Institute, NYU)
Mathematics of shear-induced chaos
14:00 - 15:00 Albert Fathi (ENS,
Lyon)
Lyapunov functions: towards an
Aubry-Mather theory of homeomorphisms?
15:30 - 16:30 Etienne Ghys (ENS,
Lyon)
Chebyshev nets
Friday 12 November
10:00 - 11:00 Mark Levi (Penn
State)
Arnold diffusion along a chain
of
oscillators
11:30 - 12:30 John Mather
(Princeton)
Aubry sets in my proof of Arnold
diffusion
14:00 - 15:00 Kenji Fukaya
(Kyoto)
Calculations and
applications of Lagrangian Floer cohomology
The lectures are
taking
place in G3 at ETH-Zentrum
unless otherwise mentioned