Yaron Ostrover

	yaron ostrover
"She can't do sums a bit !" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums ?" Alice said, turning suddenly to the white Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition," she said, "if you give me time-- but I can't do Subtraction under any circumstances!"
I am currently a C.L.E Moore instructor in the department of Mathematics at MIT.
research: My primary areas of interest are Symplectic Geometry and Hamiltonian Dynamics. In particular I'm interested in Floer and Quantum Homology, Geometry of the Group of Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms, and Symplectic Capacities. I did my Ph.D. at Tel-Aviv University under the supervision of professor Leonid Polterovich
Papers and Preprints: Note: the files here might be slightly different than the published versions. On the quantum homology algebra of toric Fano manifolds (Joint with Ilya Tyomkin). Preprint arXiv:0804.0270 Brunn-Minkowski Inequality for Symplectic Capacities of Convex Domains (Joint with Shiri Artstein-Avidan). International Mathematics Research Notices. Volume 2008, 2008. article ID rnn044 The M-ellipsoid, Symplectic Capacities and Volume (Joint with Shiri Artstein-Avidan and Vitali Milman). Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. Volume 83, Issue 2, 2008 On Symplectic Capacities and Volume Radius (Joint with Shiri Artstein-Avidan). Preprint. math.SG/0603411 Calabi Quasi-morphisms for Some Non-monotone Symplectic Manifolds. Algebraic & Geometric Topology 6 (2006), 405-434. On the extremality of of Hofer's metric on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphism ( Joint with Roy Wagner) . International Mathematics Research Notices. No. 35 (2005), 2123-2142. A Comparison of Hofer's Metrics on Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms and Lagrangian Submanifolds. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics Vol. 5, No. 5 (2003), 803-812. Geometric and Algebraic properties of the group of Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms. Ph.D thesis (pdf)
Teaching: Spring 2008, Single Variable Calculus 18.01 e-mail: ostrover at math dot mit dot edu (If you are not a program then you know what to do....) Address: Yaron Ostrover Department of Mathematics MIT, 2-244 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, U.S.A.