Schedule (tentative)

All lectures are held at Hörsaal 1, Talstr. 35, Institut für Geophysik und Geologie



Precourse by U. Frauenfelder, J. Latschev and M. Schwarz(Saturday + Sunday)

August 5, Saturday

Time


9:00 - 10:30

Floer homology theory I. (M. Schwarz)

11:00 - 12:30

Floer homology theory II. (M.Schwarz)

Lunch break


14:30 - 16:00

Gromov-Witten invariants I. (U. Frauenfelder)



August 6, Sunday

Time


9:00 - 10:30

Gromov-Witten invariants II. (U. Frauenfelder)

11:00 - 12:30

Differential algebra of a Legendrian knot I. (J. Latschev)

Lunch break

14:30 - 16:00

Differential algebra of a Legendrian knot II. (J. Latschev)





Lectures by F. Bourgeois, K. Cieliebak, Ya. Eliashberg, T. Ekholm, R. Hind, L. Ng, M. Schwarz and A. Voronov (Monday - Friday)

Overview of Lectures

August 7, Monday

Time


9:00 - 10:00

Andrejewski-Lecture I. "The structure of Symplectic Field Theory (SFT)" (Y. Eliashberg)

10:30 - 11:30

Contact homology: Computations and applications I. (F. Bourgeois)

Lunch break


14:00 - 15:00

Algebraic structures arising in SFT I. (Y. Eliashberg)

15:15 - 16:15

Floer homology and loop product. (M. Schwarz)

Coffee break


16:45 - 17:45

Invariants of knots and links via SFT I. (L. Ng)



August 8, Tuesday

Time


9:00 - 10:00

Andrejewski-Lecture II. "Differential equations arising in SFT" (Y. Eliashberg)

10:30 - 11:30

Contact homology: Computations and applications II. (F. Bourgeois)

Lunch break


14:00 - 15:00

Algebraic structures arising in SFT II. (Y. Eliashberg)

15:15 - 16:15

SFT and string topology I. (K. Cieliebak)

Coffee break


16:45 - 17:45

Invariants of knots and links via SFT II. (L. Ng)



August 9, Wednesday

Time


9:00 - 10:00

SFT and quantum integrable systems. (Y. Eliashberg)

10:15 - 11:15

Contact homology: Computations and applications III. (F. Bourgeois)

11:30 - 12:30

SFT and string topology II. (K. Cieliebak)



August 10, Thursday

Time


9:00 - 10:00

Andrejewski-Lecture III. "Applications of SFT". (Y. Eliashberg)

10:30 - 11:30

SFT and string topology III. (K. Cieliebak)

Lunch break


14:00 - 15:00

SFT and symplectic capacities. (R. Hind)

15:15 - 16:15

A version of rational symplectic field theory for Legendrian submanifolds I. (T. Ekholm)

Coffee break


16:45 - 17:45

Categorification of Gromov-Witten theory and SFT. (A. Voronov)



August 11, Friday

Time


9:00 - 10:00

What's next? (Y. Eliashberg)

10:15 - 11:15

A version of rational symplectic field theory for Legendrian submanifolds II. (T. Ekholm)

11:30 - 12:30

t.b.a.

Lunch break


14:00 - 15:00

t.b.a.