IAS/PU-Montreal-Paris-Tel-Aviv Symplectic Geometry

Knots associated to overtwisted manifolds are less explored. There are two types of knots in an overtwisted manifold – loose and non-loose. Non-loose knots are knots with tight complements whereas loose knots have overtwisted complements. While we...

In this talk we consider the links of simple singularities, which are contactomoprhic to S3/G for finite subgroups G of SU(2,C). We explain how to compute the cylindrical contact homology of S3/G by means of perturbing the canonical contact form by...

Recent years have seen the appearance of a plethora of possible metrics on spaces of Lagrangian submanifolds. Indeed, on top of the better-known Lagrangian Hofer metric and spectral norm, Biran, Cornea, and Shelukhin have constructed families of so...

An exceptionally gifted mathematician and an extremely complex person, Floer exhibited, as one friend put it, a "radical individuality." He viewed the world around him with a singularly critical way of thinking and a quintessential disregard for...

While by a result of McDuff the space of symplectic embeddings of a closed 4-ball into an open 4-ball is connected, the situation for embeddings of cubes C4=D2×D2 is very different. For instance, for the open ball B4 of capacity 1, there exists an...

Eliashberg and Thurston showed that taut foliations on 3-manifolds can be approximated by tight contact structures. I will explain a new approach to this theorem which allows one to control the resulting Reeb flow and hence produce many hypertight...

Siegel has recently defined ‘higher’ symplectic capacities using rational SFT that obstruct symplectic embeddings and behave well with respect to stabilisation. I will report on joint work with Julian Chaidez that relates these capacities to algebro...

I will describe my recent work, joint with Shaoyun Bai, which studies a class of bifurcations of moduli spaces of embedded pseudo-holomorphic curves in symplectic Calabi-Yau 3-folds and their associated obstruction bundles. As an application, we are...

In his search for closed orbits in the planar restricted three-body problem, Poincaré’s approach roughly reduces to:

1. Finding a global surface of section;
2. Proving a fixed-point theorem for the resulting return map.

This is the setting for the...