Schedule

Monday

June 21

Title

09:30 -- 10:30

Victor Guillemin

Equivariant de Rham theory and graphs

11:00 -- 12:00

Paul Biran

Decompositions of symplectic manifolds. Examples and applications

14:00 -- 14:30

Kai Cieliebak

Subcritical symplectic manifolds

15:00 -- 16:00

Emmanuel Giroux

Surgery, tomography and contact lenses

16:30 -- 17:30

Reyer Sjamaar

Moment maps and Riemannian symmetric pairs

17:30

Porto reception

Tuesday

June 22

Title

09:30 -- 10:30

Viktor Ginzburg

Periodic orbits in magnetic fields in dimensions greater than two

11:00 -- 12:00

Denis Auroux

Branched coverings of CP2 and invariants of symplectic 4-manifolds

14:00 -- 14:30

group photo

15:00 -- 16:00

Dusa McDuff

Symplectic fibrations over S2

16:30-- 17:30

Tomasz Mrowka

Gauge theory and low dimensional topology

Wednesday

June 23

Title

09:30 -- 10:30

Susan Tolman

Intersection cohomology of symplectic quotients

11:00 --12:00

Yakov Eliashberg

Towards Symplectic Field Theory

12:00

trip to Sintra

Thursday

June 24

Title

09:30 -- 10:30

Leonid Polterovich

Asymptotic geometry of symplectic and contact transformations

11:00 -- 12:00

Eugene Lerman

Nonlinear normal modes in symplectic stratified spaces

14:00 --14:30

David Gay

Attaching 4-dimensional symplectic 2-handles along transverse knots

15:00 -- 16:00

Alan Weinstein

Geometry of Poisson manifolds and supermanifolds

16:30 -- 17:30

Lisa Jeffrey

The Verlinde formula for parabolic bundles

Friday

June 25

Title

09:30 -- 10:30

Robert Gompf

Constructing symplectically aspherical manifolds

11:00 --12:00

Jonathan Weitsman

TBA

14:00-- 14:30

Vincent Colin

Torsion of tight contact structures

15:00 -- 16:00

Yael Karshon

Tori in symplectomorphism groups

16:30 -- 17:30

Hansjorg Geiges

Contact structures and periodic fundamental groups

19:30

dinner party

Saturday

June 26

Title

09:30 -- 10:30

Peter Ozsvath

The theta divisor and three-manifold invariants

11:00 -- 12:00

Michèle Audin

Spaces of hyperelliptic curves and the Arnold-Liouville theorem

12:00

Lisbon tours


There will be coffee breaks at 10h30 and 16h00. All talks take place at the large conference hall of "Pavilhão de Civil", Instituto Superior Técnico.

This schedule is also availbale in postscript format (ps) and pdf format (pdf).



 omega99@math.ist.utl.pt    Jun 15 1999