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Introductory Workshop:<br />

Symplectic and Contact Geometry<br />

and Topology<br />

August 17, 2009 to August 21, 2009<br />

09:00AM - 09:15AM Welcome to <strong>MSRI</strong><br />

Monday August 17, 2009<br />

Historical overview, motivating problems and<br />

09:15AM - 10:15AM Dusa McDuff<br />

basic background<br />

10:15AM - 11:00AM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

11:00AM - 12:00PM Dusa McDuff Basic background, ctd<br />

12:00PM - 01:30PM Lunch<br />

01:30PM - 03:00PM Peter Albers Floer Homology<br />

03:00PM - 03:45PM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

03:45PM - 05:00PM Sikimeti M'au -- Lagrangian Floer Homology<br />

Tuesday August 18, 2009<br />

09:00AM - 10:15AM Mohammed<br />

Obstruction in Lagrangian Floer Theory<br />

Abouzaid<br />

10:15AM - 11:00AM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

11:00AM - 12:00PM Mark McLean Symplectic Homology<br />

12:00PM - 01:45PM Lunch<br />

Algebraic formalism of Symplectic Field<br />

01:45PM - 03:00PM Yakov Eliashberg<br />

Theory (SFT)<br />

03:00PM - 03:45PM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

03:45PM - 05:00PM Helmut Hofer Analytic foundations of SFT<br />

05:00PM - 06:00PM Reception in the atrium<br />

Wednesday August 19, 2009<br />

Open book decompositions and the Giroux<br />

09:00AM - 10:15AM John Etnyre<br />

correspondence<br />

10:15AM - 11:00AM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

11:00AM - 12:00PM Denis Auroux Lefschetz fibrations and 4-manifolds<br />

12:00PM - 01:45PM Lunch<br />

01:45PM - 03:00PM Yakov Eliashberg Algebraic formalism of SFT ctd<br />

03:00PM - 03:45PM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

03:45PM - 05:00PM Helmut Hofer Analytic foundations of SFT ctd<br />

Thursday August 20, 2009<br />

Convex surfaces and classification of contact<br />

09:00AM - 10:15AM Ko Honda<br />

structures<br />

10:15AM - 11:00AM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

"Analytic foundations: polyfold structures for<br />

11:00AM - 12:00PM Katrin Wehrheim<br />

holomorphic disks"<br />

12:00PM - 01:45PM Lunch<br />

01:45PM - 03:00PM Lenhard Ng Knot homology<br />

03:00PM - 04:00PM Coffe, tea inthe atrium<br />

Wide - narrow dichotomy for Lagrangians<br />

04:00PM - 05:00PM Octav Cornea<br />

submanifolds<br />

Friday August 21, 2009<br />

09:00AM - 10:00AM Paolo Rossi Integrable systems of SFT<br />

10:00AM - 10:30AM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

10:30AM - 11:20AM Maksim<br />

Maydanskiy<br />

High dimensional Lefschetz fibrations and<br />

Floer homology<br />

11:30AM - 12:20PM Lisa Traynor Problem session (maybe overlap with lunch)<br />

12:00PM - 02:00PM Lunch<br />

Quasi-states and quasi-morphisms in<br />

02:00PM - 03:00PM Michael Entov<br />

symplectic topology<br />

03:00PM - 04:00PM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

04:00PM - 05:00PM Victor Ginzburg Periodic orbits in Hamiltonian dynamics

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