Special Year Seminar - Math

Date:
Oct
28
2026

Special Year Learning Seminar

Putting Contact Geometry in Order: Orderability and Contact Rigidity
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Using loops of contactomorphisms generated by vector fields that are positively transverse to the contact distribution, Eliashberg and Polterovich introduced the notion of orderability for contact manifolds. Recent work seems to suggest that the...

Oct
29
2026

Special Year Research Seminar

The Symplectic Mahler Conjecture for Balanced Convex Domains and Hanner Polytopes
Vinicius Ramos
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

A balanced convex domain in $R^n$ is a compact convex set that is invariant under the $(Z/2)^n$ action which flips the signs of the coordinates. In this talk, I will explain a construction of a simple symplectic embedding of a ball of capacity 4...