Speakers

Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv)

Felix Schlenk (Neuchâtel)

Karl Friedrich Siburg (Dortmund)

Program

9:50 - 10:00  Welcome

10:00 - 10:50  Leonid Polterovich

Contact topology meets thermodynamics

Abstract: I discuss the appearance of certain notions and results from contact topology in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. These include non-smooth Legendrian submanifolds, Reeb chords, and the partial order on the space of Legendrians. Based on joint work with Michael Entov and Lenya Ryzhik.

11:00 -  11:50  Felix Schlenk

 Symplectic embeddings by singular methods

Abstract: Singular methods have recently brought much progress about symplectic embedding problems (such as finding exotic Lagrangian tori, exotic cube or "almost ball"' embeddings, and staircases). This is in two ways: Certain singular spaces, in which the embeddings are obvious, can be smoothed to (for instance) CP2; and singular J-curves are used to distinguish embeddings.  My talk is based on work of  Adaloglou, Bargallo i Gomez, Brendel, Evans, Hauber, McDuff, Mikhalkin, Schmitz, Siegel and myself.

12:00 - 14:00  Lunch and coffee break

14:00 - 14:50  Karl Friedrich Siburg

Back to the roots

Abstract: Along the route we will encounter some people and places from the past, as well as a little lost gem from celestial mechanics.

Registration

Registration is free but mandatory for external participants. Please contact George Marinescu: gmarines@math.uni-koeln.de

Organizers

Peter Albers, George Marinescu, Eva Miranda, Kai Zehmisch

Poster