05w5104 Recent Advances in Symplectic Geometry - Celebrating Dusa McDuff's 60th Birthday

Arriving Saturday, December 3 and departing Thursday, December 8, 2005

Organizers: Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Helmut Hofer (Institute for Advanced Studies), John Milnor (SUNY at Stony Brook), Dietmar Salamon (ETH Zurich).

Confirmed Participants

Information for Participants

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Objectives

The objective of this workshop is to bring the leading experts of symplectic geometry together to exchange ideas. The field of symplectic geometry has a large interface to other mathematical disciplines, like algebraic geometry, differential topology (particularly in small dimensions) and dynamical systems to name a few, and occurs as a fundamental structure in physics itself. There are many new developments. The workshop will be concerned with the following topics: Enumerative real algebraic geometry, the topology of Lagrangian embeddings, Lefschetz pencils and near symplectic structure, Floer Field Theory, Hamiltonian group actions and Hamiltonian dynamics, string topology and symplectic field theory, geometry of symplectic diffeomorphism groups, and symplectic methods in the topology of three-manifolds.