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CAST  -  Contact And Symplectic Topology
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Conferences sponsored by CAST

  • June 17-21, 2012 Workshop on Interactions Between Algebra and Dynamics in Symplectic Topology (Haifa, Israel)
    Deep interactions between algebra and dynamics have been a central feature of symplectic topology since its first steps in the1970-80s: on one hand, Hamiltonian dynamics has been used to study algebraic structures encoding geometric properties of a symplectic manifold and its submanifolds (e.g. various versions of quantum and Lagrangian Floer homology), as well as such basic algebraic objects as the group of symplectomorphisms of the manifold and the Poisson-Lie algebra of functions on the manifold, while, on the other hand, the study of these algebraic structures has produced interesting applications to Hamiltonian dynamics. The goal of the workshop is to bring together leading researchers working on these developments, broaden their perspective and help them to find out new links between their approaches.
    Contact: Michael Entov

  • July 9-20, 2012 CAST Summer School 2012 (Budapest, Hungary)
    The two-week long Summer School and Conference of the Contact and Symplectic Topology (CAST) network will be held July 9-20, 2012, at the Renyi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest. There will be four lecture series in contact, symplectic and low dimensional topology given by * Michael Hutchings , UC Berkeley, USA * Lenny Ng, Duke University, USA * Robert Lipschitz, Columbia University, USA * Kai Cieliebak, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany
    Contact: Andras Stipsicz

  • July 23-27, 2012 Workshop of Symplectic Field Theory 6 (Munich, Germany)
    The topic of this workshop is Embedded Contact Homology. Main lecturer is Michael Hutchings, with additional lectures by Dusa McDuff and Chris Wendl. As usual, there will be a precourse on the weekend July 21-22, 2012. Some limited financial support for graduate students may be available. Please register by April 30, 2012.
    Contact: Kai Cieliebak

  • July 30 - August 3, 2012 From Conservative Dynamics to Symplectic and Contact Topology (Lorentz Center, Leiden)
    This workshop will focus on some aspects of symplectic and contact geometry where the interactions between topology, geometry and dynamics have proved most fruitful and have generated problems of high current interest. Exemplary for such questions are the Weinstein conjecture and the topology of the group of symplectic/Hamiltonian/contact diffeomorphisms. Besides lectures by senior researchers, there will be short presentations by graduate students and postdocs. The programme is intended to leave ample time for discussions and collaborations.
    Contact: Federica Pasquotto

  • 03/09/2012 - 07/09/2012 Periodic orbits in contact and Riemannian geometry (Touquet Paris-Plage, France)
    This conference brings together researchers in contact and Riemannian geometry to discuss the relation between geometric and topological invariants of contact and Riemannian manifolds and the existence and properties of periodic Reeb orbits and geodesics.
    Contact: Juan-Carlos Alvarez Paiva

Other conferences

Preliminary announcements

  • May 21 to May 25, 2012 Contact topology in higher dimensions (American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California)
    The main topics for the workshop are * The existence of contact structures on all odd dimensional manifolds. * The exploration of the number and type of contact structures a given manifold can support. * The study of Legendrian submanifolds of a contact manifold. * The non-squeezing phenomenon. * The investigation of symplectic fillings in high dimensions. While little is known about any of this topics, there has recently been promising progress on all of them. This workshop will bring together experts in contact topology (especially ones contributing to the progress on these higher dimensional questions) as well as experts in high dimensional topology, symplectic field theory, and related areas, to energize research in high dimensional contact geometry. The workshop will differ from typical conferences in some regards. Participants will be invited to suggest open problems and questions before the workshop begins, and these will be posted on the workshop website. These include specific problems on which there is hope of making some progress during the workshop, as well as more ambitious problems which may influence the future activity of the field. Lectures at the workshop will be focused on familiarizing the participants with the background material leading up to specific problems, and the schedule will include discussion and parallel working sessions.
    Contact: John Etnyre, Emmanuel Giroux, and Klaus Niederkrüger

Past conferences
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