Seminar: Symplektische Geometrie / Symplectic Geometry — Wintersemester 2016-17, HU Berlin

This is a working group seminar run by Klaus Mohnke and Chris Wendl on recent developments in symplectic geometry. Participants are expected to be familiar with the basics of symplectic geometry, including some knowledge of holomorphic curves and/or Floer-type theories. The seminar will be conducted in English.

Our main objective this semester will be to understand the paper Subflexible symplectic manifolds by Emmy Murphy and Kyler Siegel. As background to prepare for this, we are likely to also talk about the following papers:

There may occasionally also be talks on other topics of current interest in symplectic topology.

Scheduling (updated!):
Starting in the second week (October 24), the seminar will meet on Mondays 9:30 - 11:00 (s.t.) in 1.315 (Rudower Chaussee 25).

Schedule of talks

Except for the first week, the times listed below are "s.t.", i.e. there is no 15 minute delay.
Thursday October 20, 2016
13:00-15:00
RUD 25, Room 1.012
Speaker: Chris Wendl
Topic: Survey on Weinstein domains, flexibility, subflexibility and symplectic homology
Monday October 24, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Alex Fauck
Topic: Introduction to symplectic homology
Monday October 31, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Alex Fauck
Topic: (continuation from last week)
Monday November 7, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Alex Fauck
Topic: (continuation from last week)
Monday November 14, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Alex Fauck
Topic: (continuation from last week)
Monday November 21, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Matthias Wende
Topic: Fragility of the Dehn twist
Monday November 28, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker 1: Matthias Wende
Topic: (contiuation from last week)
Speaker 2: Agustin Moreno
Topic: Weinstein handles surgery
Monday December 5, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Felix Schmäschke
Topic: Handle attachment and symplectic homology
Monday December 12, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Agustin Moreno
Topic: Flexible Weinstein structures
Monday January 9, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Felix Schmäschke
Topic: (continuation from December 5)
Monday January 16, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Monday January 23, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Felix Schmäschke
Topic: (continuation from last time)
Monday January 30, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Viktor Fromm
Topic: Twisted symplectic homology
Monday February 6, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Viktor Fromm
Topic: (continuation from last time)
Monday February 13, 2016
9:30-11:00
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Julian Chaidez
Topic: Subflexible symplectic manifolds
Achtung! Extra post-semester meeting...
Monday March 13, 2016
10:30-?
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Felix Noetzel
Topic: Subflexible symplectic manifolds (continuation)
And another!
Thursday March 16, 2016
13:00-?
RUD 25, Room 1.315
Speaker: Felix Noetzel
Topic: (continuation from last time)