UCSD Symplectic Topology seminar, Spring 2003
UCSD Symplectic Topology seminar, Spring 2003
Math 216, Spring 2003, Tuesdays 11:00-12:30 in room 7218.
Organisers: Justin Roberts, Peter Teichner
This term we hope to follow the plan we didn't follow last term:
namely, to try to learn something about symplectic topology from the
point of view of pseudo-holomorphic curves. We intend to start by
reading some parts of the book "J-holomorphic curves and
quantum cohomology" by McDuff and Salamon, and to proceed to the
sections about Floer homology and Gromov-Witten invariants.
April 8: Peter Teichner Introduction
April 15: Jana Comstock Linear symplectic geometry
April 22: Li Yu Symplectic and Kaehler manifolds
April 29: Justin Roberts Hamiltonian mechanics
May 6: Henning Hohnhold Moduli spaces of Riemann
surfaces
May 13: Shelly Harvey J-holomorphic curves
May 23 (Fri, 4pm): Anna Grinberg Gromov-Witten
invariants
June 3: Justin Roberts Gromov-Witten invariants II
June 10: Tom Fleming (10am) Infinite-dimensional Morse
theory
June 10: Peter Teichner (11am) Floer homology
justin@math.ucsd.edu
