Leonard M. Blumenthal Lectures in geometry 2019-2020 Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State University) LECTURE I: MONDAY, December 23, 12:15 PM ROOM SCHREIBER 006 (DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM) FOUR EQUIVALENT PROPERTIES OF INTEGRABLE BILLIARDS LECTURE II: WEDNESDAY, December 25, 14:10 PM ROOM DAN DAVID 110 (GEOMETRY AND DYNAMICS SEMINAR) INTRODUCING SYMPLECTIC BILLIARDSLeonard M. Blumenthal Lectures in Geometry is a distinguished lecture series delivered each academic year at School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University. Former speakers include Helmut Hofer, Aleksey Pogorelov, Gilles Pisier, Marcel Berger as well as 2002-2003 Viktor L. Ginzburg (UC Santa Cruz) Periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems: twisted geodesic flows and relative symplectic invariants-I,II 2003-2004 Alexander Givental (UC Berkeley) Symmetries of Gromov-Witten Theory-I,II 2004-2005 Dmitri Burago (Penn State) Choosing "good" coordinates: from asymptotic geometry of tori to boundary rigidity-I.II I. Using the telescope as a microscope: Large scale determination of small scale structure II. Novikov conjectures and Novikov theorems 2006-2007 Michael Kapovich (University of California, Davis) I. Products of matrices II. How to compute triangle inequalities 2007-2008 Albert Fathi (ENS-Lyon) ( abstracts) II. Hamilton-Jacobi and Denjoy-Schwartz: why dynamics matters in the regularity of smooth subsolutions? 2007-2008 Shlomo Sternberg (Harvard) A report on recent work of Alekseev, Bursztyn and Meinrenken II. The Alekseev, Bursztyn, Meinrenken category 2009 Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford)
I. Construction and application of maps with simple singularities
II. Symplectic topology of Stein manifolds
For the abstracts click here 2011 Helmut Hofer (IAS, Princeton) I. Symplectic Dynamics II. Generalizations of Fredholm theory. For the abstracts click here 2012 Paul Biran (ETH, Zurich) Lagrangian topology: geometry, algebra and bureaucracy I. Old and new invariants of Lagrangian manifolds and what to do with them II. Geometric and algebraic aspects of Lagrangian topology and organizational matters 2013 Danny Calegari (University of Chicago) Surfaces from linear programming 2014 Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC Berkeley) I. Deterministic limit shapes in statistical mechanics II. Ice and 6-vertex models in statistical mechanics: mathematical perspective 2015 Richard Evan Schwartz (Brown University) I. The projective heat map II. The plaid model 2016 Bo Berndtsson (Chalmers University of Technology) Complex Brunn-Minkowski Theory 2017 Yair Minsky (Yale University) Gluing hyperbolic 3-manifolds 2018 Peter Ozsvath (Princeton University) Knot Floer Homology 2019 Gang Tian (Peking University, Princeton University) I. Analytic minimal model program II. Recent progress on Kahler-Ricci flow |