Recent Developments in Symplectic Topology
Workshop at the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, MA
April 20-22 2007


Talks will be at the Clay Institute (One Bow Street, Cambridge MA 02138)

Program:
Friday April 20
9:30   Registration
10:00-11:00   Paul Seidel Some reflections on Viterbo functoriality and mirror symmetry
11:30-12:30   Rahul Pandharipande Gromov-Witten theory and Noether-Lefschetz theory
2:00-3:00   Francois Lalonde The fibered structure of virtual moduli spaces in symplectic fibrations, push-forwards, and a product formula for GW-invariants
3:30-4:30   Mohammed Abouzaid Tropical decompositions and Fukaya categories
5:00-6:00   Helmut Hofer Quantitative Symplectic Geometry
6:30   Wine and Cheese
Saturday April 21
9:30-10:30   Cliff Taubes The Seiberg-Witten equations and Embedded Contact Homology
11:00-12:00   Dusa McDuff Hamiltonian S^1-manifolds are uniruled
2:00-3:00   Dietmar Salamon Nonlinear Hardy spaces and stable maps
3:00-4:00   Yael Karshon Torus actions and groups of symplectomorphisms
4:30-5:30   Viktor Ginzburg The Conley conjecture: infinitely many periodic points of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms
6:30   Banquet = Dinner
Sunday April 22
9:30-10:30   Kenji Fukaya Kuranishi correspondence and foundation of various topological field theories
11:00-12:00   Chris Woodward Functoriality for Lagrangian correspondences in Floer theory
2:00-3:00   Claude Viterbo Commuting Hamiltonians and Hamilton-Jacobi equations
3:30-4:30   Ivan Smith Fukaya categories of cotangent bundles
well deserved relaxation: 8pm The Dudley Orchestra plays STRAUSS - Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 8, MOZART - Clarinet Concerto, STRAUSS - Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare, in Paine Hall; tickets $7; more info.