Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
04
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Quantum footprints of symplectic rigidity
Leonid Polterovich
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We discuss interactions between quantum mechanics and symplectic topology including a link between symplectic displacement energy, a fundamental notion of symplectic dynamics, and the quantum speed limit, a universal constraint on the speed of...

Oct
02
2018

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

On the existence of minimal Heegaard splittings
Dan Ketover
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In the 80s Pitts-Rubinstein conjectured that certain kinds of Heegaard surfaces in three-manifolds can be isotoped to index 1 minimal surfaces. I’ll describe in detail a proof of their conjecture and some applications. This is joint work with...

Oct
02
2018

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

Prescribing scalar curvature in high dimension
1:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We consider the classical problem of prescribing the scalar curvature of a manifold via conformal deformation of the metric, dating back to works by Kazdan and Warner. This problem is mainly understood in low dimensions, where blow-ups of solutions...