University of Toronto's Symplectic Geometry Seminar

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upcoming conferences and announcements: symplectic geometry wiki

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Fall 2008

• The symplectic geometry seminars are held Mondays 2:10--3:00 PM in BA 6183 , unless otherwise indicated.
• Symplectic Lunches: We go for lunch on Mondays at 12:30pm before the seminars. We alternate between Sylvester's (16 Bancroft Ave), Thai Angels (285 College St W), and Simon Sushi (401 Spadina Avenue) Please join us!
• If you would like to join our mailing list, or if you would like to give a talk, email Alfonso Gracia-Saz at alfonso (at-sign) math (dot) toronto (dot) edu.

Date	Speaker	Title and abstract	Lunch venue
Monday, August 25 2:10 PM, BA 4010 (Unusual location)	Bill Goldman University of Maryland	Geometry and dynamics of surface group representations
Monday, September 08	Johan Martens University of Toronto	Moduli of parabolic Higgs bundles and Atiyah algebroids	Sylvester's
Monday, September 15	Yael Karshon University of Toronto	Shortening the Hofer length of Hamiltonian circle actions	Sylvester's
Monday, September 22	Marco Gualtieri University of Toronto	Groupoids and generalized complex geometry	Thai Angels
Monday, September 29	Joel Kamnitzer University of Toronto	A framework for symplectic knot homology	Simon Sushi
Friday, October 3 1:10 PM, BA 6183 (Unusual time and date)	Christopher Woodward Rutgers University	Functoriality in Floer-Fukaya theory and Gromov-Witten theory	Informal dinner
Monday, October 13	No seminar (Thanksgiving)
Monday, October 20	Frol Zapolsky Tel Aviv University	Symplectic quasi-states and applications	Thai Angels
Monday, October 27	Fabian Ziltener University of Toronto	Coisotropic submanifolds and leafwise fixed points of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms	Simon Sushi
Monday, November 3	Alexander Odesski Brock University	Algebraic structures connected with pairs of compatible associative algebras	Thai Angels
Monday, November 10	Matthias Franz University of Western Ontario	The equivariant cohomology of weighted projective space	Sylvester's
Monday, November 17	Masaki Tsukamoto Kyoto University	Geometry of the space of Brody curves and Gromov's mean dimension	Thai Angels
Monday, November 24	Sergei Tabachnikov Pennsylvania State University	Pentagram map, a completely integrable system	Simon Sushi
Monday, December 1	Michele Audin Universite de Strasbourg	Questions on Lagrangian skeletons	Thai Angels

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Symplectic Seminar webpages for previous terms:

Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008