Thematic school on Contact and Symplectic Topology
Orsay, October 14-16, 2015


The lectures will take place in the Petit Amphi, on the ground floor of building 425 (directions).

Wednesday, October 14th

10h30-12h30
Mini-course by John Pardon at IHES

14h30-15h30
Juan Carlos Álvarez Paiva (Lille 1)
La géométrie convexe du point de vue symplectique

16h-18h
Felix Schlenk (Neuchâtel)
Symplectic embedding problems

Thursday, October 15th

9h30-10h30
Federica Pasquotto (Amsterdam)
Minimax principle and periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems

11h-12h30
Frédéric Le Roux (Paris 6)
Spectral invariants and topological dynamics for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms on surfaces (I)

14h-15h30
Vincent Humilière (Paris 6)
Spectral invariants and topological dynamics for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms on surfaces (II)

16h-17h
Frol Zapolski (Haifa)
On an equivalence of Morse complexes of the action functional and its finite-dimensional approximations

Friday, October 16th

11h-12h30
Patrick Massot (Polytechnique)
Une introduction à la topologie de contact (I)

14h00-15h30
Klaus Niederkrüger (Toulouse)
Une introduction à la topologie de contact (II)

16h-17h
Paolo Ghiggini (Nantes)
Une introduction à la topologie de contact (III)


Some financial support will be offered to a limited number of PhD students and young researchers to allow them to attend this thematic school. Requests should be emailed to the organizers along with a CV and the names of a couple of referees.

This thematic school is funded by the project "Attractivité 2015" provided by the Université Paris-Sud.

Organizers: Frédéric Bourgeois, Rémi Leclercq, Anne Vaugon.