Daily Schedule
May 14-25, 2012
Monday, May 14
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12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Registration (Fuld Hall Common Room)
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3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
Tour of Institute campus (meet in Fuld Hall Common Room)
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6:00 p.m. -
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Welcome dinner and orientation (Dining Hall)
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Tuesday, May 15
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8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Breakfast (Dining Hall)
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9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Joan Licata, IAS, “Tangent Vectors and Twisting Planes: An Introduction to Legendrian Knot Theory”
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10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
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Break
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10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
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Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr College, “The Flexibility and Rigidity of Lagrangian and Legendrian Submanifolds”
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11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Jennifer Hom, Columbia University, “Applications of the Knot Floer complex to concordance”
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12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch (Dining Hall)
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2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
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4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Introductions
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6:30 p.m. -
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Opening Dinner (Dining Hall)
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Wednesday, May 16
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8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Breakfast (Dining Hall)
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9:00 a.m.
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Group Photo – Fuld Hall Common Room
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9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Joan Licata, IAS, “Tangent Vectors and Twisting Planes: An Introduction to Legendrian Knot Theory”
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10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
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Break
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10:45 a.m. – 11: 45 a.m.
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Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr College, “The Flexibility and Rigidity of Lagrangian and Legendrian Submanifolds”
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11: 50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Radmilla Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania, “Categorification and Khovanov link homology”
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12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch (Dining Hall)
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2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
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4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course(Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Helmut Hofer, IAS, “At the Interface of Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry”
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6:30 p.m. -
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Informal dinner + Chat on how to apply to graduate schools, postdocs, and IAS (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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Thursday, May 17
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8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Breakfast (Dining Hall)
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10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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T-shirt Sale (Harry’s Bar, Dining Hall) *Cash only*
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9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Joan Licata, IAS, “Tangent Vectors and Twisting Planes: An Introduction to Legendrian Knot Theory”
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10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
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Break
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10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
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Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr College, “The Flexibility and Rigidity of Lagrangian and Legendrian Submanifolds”
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11:50 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Doris Hein, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Arnold conjecture for Clifford symplectic pencils”
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12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch (Dining Hall)
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2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (White Levy Room)
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3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
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4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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5:30p.m. – 6:30p.m.
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Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Rhonda Hughes, Bryn Mawr “Bringing Diversity to Mathematics”
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6:30 p.m. -
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Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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Friday, May 18 Princeton University Day (see separate schedule)
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8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
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Breakfast (Dining Hall)
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9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr College, “The Flexibility and Rigidity of Lagrangian and Legendrian Submanifolds”
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10:15 am
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Depart for Princeton University
(talks, lunch, dinner and play)
(Bus departs from front of Fuld Hall no later than 10:15 am )
(Bus departs from Princeton at 9:15 pm to come back to IAS)
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Saturday, May 19
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7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
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Breakfast (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Joan Licata, IAS, “Tangent Vectors and Twisting Planes: An Introduction to Legendrian Knot Theory”
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10:40 p.m. – 11:10 a.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra, University of Georgia, “A proof of the classification theorem of over-twisted contact structures on a closed oriented 3-manifold”
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11:20 p.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Elif Dalyan, Hitit University, “Open book decomposition of links of quotient surface singularities and support genus problem”
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12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Laura Starkston, The University of Texas at Austin, “Symplectic and Stein fillings of contact 3-manifolds”
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2:35 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Milena Pabiniak, Cornell University, "Lower bounds for Gromov width in the unitary and special orthogonal coadjoint orbits"
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Sunday, May 20 Day off
Monday, May 21
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8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
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Breakfast (Dining Hall)
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9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Margaret Symington, Mercer University, “From Linear Algebra to the Non-Squeezing Theorem of Symplectic Geometry”
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10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
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Break
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10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
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Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Eleny Ionel, Stanford University, “Symplectic Techniques: The Space of Holomorphic Curves”
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11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Sinem Celik Onaran, Hacettepe University, “Invariants of Legendrian Knots”
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12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch (Dining Hall)
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2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
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4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Dr. Jennifer Slimowitz Pearl, NSF “An Introduction to the National Science Foundation and Funding Opportunities”
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6:30 p.m. -
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Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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7:30 p.m. -
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Movie, Agora
Wolfensohn Hall
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Tuesday, May 22
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8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Breakfast (Dining Hall)
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9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Margaret Symington, Mercer University, “From Linear Algebra to the Non-Squeezing Theorem of Symplectic Geometry”
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10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
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Break
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10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
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Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Eleny Ionel, Stanford University, “Symplectic Techniques: The Space of Holomorphic Curves”
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11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Marta Batoreo, University of California, Santa Cruz, “On the rigidity of the Maslov index for coisotropic submanifolds”
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12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch (Dining Hall)
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2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
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4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Dusa McDuff, Barnard, TBA
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6:30 p.m. -
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Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Chat with Dusa and Katrin Wehrheim during dinner
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Wednesday, May 23
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8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Breakfast (Dining Hall)
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9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Margaret Symington, Mercer University, “From Linear Algebra to the Non-Squeezing Theorem of Symplectic Geometry”
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10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
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Break
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10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
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Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Eleny Ionel, Stanford University, “Symplectic Techniques: The Space of Holomorphic Curves”
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11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Kate Kearny, Louisiana State University, "An obstruction to Knots bounding Möbius bands in B4"
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12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch (Dining Hall)
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2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
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4:00 p.m. – 5:30p.m.
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Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
"How to construct topological invariants via decompositions and the symplectic category", Katrin Wehrheim, IAS
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6:30 p.m. -
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Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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Thursday, May 24
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8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Breakfast (Dining Hall)
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9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Margaret Symington, Mercer University, “From Linear Algebra to the Non-Squeezing Theorem of Symplectic Geometry”
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10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
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Break
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10:45 a.m. – 11: 45 a.m.
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Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Eleny Ionel, Stanford University, “Symplectic Techniques: The Space of Holomorphic Curves”
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11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Allison Gilmore, Princeton University, “Knot Floer homology and gl (1|1) quantum invariants”
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12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch (Dining Hall)
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2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (White Levy Room)
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3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
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4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
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5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Wrap up
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6:30 p.m. -
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Closing Dinner (Birch Garden, Dining Hall)
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Friday, May 25
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8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Breakfast (Dining Hall)
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9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
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Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Margaret Symington, Mercer University, “From Linear Algebra to the Non-Squeezing Theorem of Symplectic Geometry”
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10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Break
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10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
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Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Eleny Ionel, Stanford University, “Symplectic Techniques: The Space of Holomorphic Curves”
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11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Juanita Pinzón-Caicedo, Indiana University, "Independence in the smooth concordance groups through SO(3)-Chern-Simons invariants"
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12:30 p.m. -
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Lunch
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Close of Program
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