teaching & seminars
2024 / 2025 winter term (oct – feb)
On leave: No seminars, lectures or tutorings.
2024 summer term (apr – jul)
Graduate Student Seminar on "Topological Persistence in Symplectic Geometry"
Tuesdays 11:45 am - 12:45 pm, Room 1.315 (Johann-von-Neumann-Haus)
Main reference: arXiv:1904.04044
Co-organizer: Thibaut Mazuir
Aim: Discuss applications of persistent methods to problems in symplectic / contact geometry and dynamics.
Talk 1 (April 16) Introduction to persistent homology / barcodes and discussion of topics (based on Ch.1 – 4)
Talk 2 (April 30) Filtered Hamiltonian Floer homology, Hofer’s metric and the dynamical stability theorem — W. Zhang
Talk 3 (May 07) Constraints on pth powers of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms (based on arXiv:1412.8277) — T. Mazuir
Talk 4 (May 14) C0 symplectic mapping class group and barcodes (based on arXiv:2101.07878) — M. Guelen
Talk 5 (May 21) Triangulation, Persistence and Fukaya category (based arXiv:2304.01785) — V. Majewski
Talk 6 (June 11) Distinguishing Legendrian knots (based on arXiv:2312.09144) — D. Suchodoll
Talk 7 (June 18) Symplectic homology: An introduction — M. Rothgang
Talk 8 (June 25 July 9) Symplectic persistence modules (based on Ch. 9) — S. Faisal
Talk 9 (July 16) Topological data analysis — N. Weiss
There are no talks May 28 and June 4 due to conferences.