Program

SFT IX

(You can download a PDF version here)

 

 

UPDATED ON 05.12.18---Videos now available! (click on [video] in the titles)

 

UPDATED ON 26.10.18---Final order of talks

 

UPDATED ON 23.08.18---Lecture notes now available!

 

 

NEW!: Literature and lecture notes for the lecture series by H. Hofer & J. Fish (for the links, see "Literature" in the menu on the left).

 

 

All lectures take place in the lecture hall T-1001 (for the directions, see "Practical Info" in the menu on the left).

Precours: August 25-26, 2018

  • Saturday, August 25
   
     
10:00 -      11:30   Kai Cieliebak - Symplectic Field Theory [ video]
    Moduli spaces in SFT, algebraic structures, transversality problems.
     
13:00 - 14:30   Alexandru Doicu - Sc-calculus [ video]
    Sc-Banach spaces, sc-smoothness, reparametrization action, chain rule, sc-manifolds.
     
15:00 - 16:30   Alexandru Doicu - Sc-Fredholm theory [ video]
    Contraction and basic germs, sc-Fredholm germs, implicit function theorem, sc+ perturbations, transversality and compactness of perturbed solution spaces.
     
     
  • Sunday, August 26
   
     

10:00 - 11:30

  Wolfgang Schmaltz - Retracts [ video]
    Gluing and antigluing, retractions and retracts, smooth maps between retracts, example: gluing of half-cylinders.
     
13:00 - 14:30   Benjamin Filippenko - M-polyfolds [ video]
    Local models of M-polyfolds, strong bundles, sc-Fredholm sections (in particular fillings), with or without isotropy.
     
15:00 - 16:30  

Zhengyi Zhou - Groupoids and polyfolds [ video]

    M-polyfolds, polyfolds, bundles, sections via groupoids and functors, multi-section functors and perturbed zero sets.

 

Main Workshop: August 27 - 31, 2018

  • Monday, Augsust 27
   
     
08:30 - 09:00   Registration
     
09:00 - 10:30   Helmut Hofer
    Big Picture I & II [ video]
     
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee Break
     
11:00 - 12:30   Joel Fish
    Local-Local Theory I & II [ video]
     
14:30 - 15:30   Michael Jemison
    Lego Pieces with an application to Deligne-Mumford Spaces with Boundary 1 [ video]
     

15:30 - 16:00

  Coffee Break
     
16:00 - 17:00   Dusa McDuff
    Branched Orbifold models of Polyfold Fredholm sections [ video]
     
17:00 - 18:00   Jake Solomon
    Inductive extension of multisections [ video]
     
18:00 - 20:00   Reception
     
     
  • Tuesday, August 28
   
     

09:00 - 10:30

  Helmut Hofer
    Big Picture III & IV [ video]
     

10:30 - 11:00

  Coffee Break
     

11:00 - 12:30

  Joel Fish
    From Local-Local to Local I & II [ video]
     

14:30 - 15:30

  Michael Jemison
    Lego Pieces with an application to Deligne-Mumford Spaces with Boundary 2 [ video]
     

15:30 - 16:00

  Coffee Break
     

16:00 - 17:00

  Benjamin Filippenko
    Fiber products of polyfolds and the PSS morphism [ video]
     

17:00 - 18:00

  Michael Hutchings
    Obstruction bundle gluing [ video]
     

19:00 - 21:00

  City Tour
     
     
  • Wednesday, August 29
   
     

09:00 - 09:45

  Joel Fish
    From Local-Local to Local III [ video]
     

09:45 - 10:30

  Helmut Hofer
    From Local to Global I [ video]
     

10:30 - 11:00

  Coffee Break
     

11:00 - 11:45

  Helmut Hofer
    From Local to Global II [ video]
     

11:45 - 12:30

  Helmut Hofer
    Perturbation Theory and Transversality I
     

Afternoon

  Free
     
     
  • Thursday, August 30
   
     

09:00 - 10:30

  Helmut Hofer
    Perturbation Theory and Transversality II & III [ video]
     

10:30 - 11:00

  Coffee Break
     

11:00 - 12:30

  Helmut Hofer
    Perturbation Theory and Transversality IV & V [ video]
     

14:30 - 15:30

  Tobias Ekholm
    Open Gromov-Witten theory, skein modules, large N duality, and knot contact homology [ video]
     

15:30 - 16:00

  Coffee Break
     

16:00 - 17:00

  Wolfgang Schmaltz
    Gromov-Witten Axioms for Symplectic Manifolds via Polyfold Theory [ video]
     

17:00 - 18:00

  Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner
    Refined asymptotics for the ECH spectrum [ video]
     
     
  • Friday, August 31
   

 

   
09:00 - 10:30   Zhengyi Zhou

 

  Quotients of polyfolds, equivariant fundamental class and localization [ video]
     
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee Break

 

   
11:00 - 12:30   Katrin Wehrheim

 

  Family polyfold theory and adiabatic limits [ video]
     
     

 

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