Sheila Margherita Sandon
CNRS, Nantes and CRM
January 25, 2013 from 16:00 to 18:00 (Montreal/Miami time) On location
Colloquium presented by Sheila Margherita Sandon (CNRS, Nantes and CRM)
Contact topology studies odd-dimensional manifolds endowed with a maximally non-integrable field of hyperplanes. It is commonly considered the odd-dimensional sister of symplectic topology, with which it shares the local flexibility property. Following the work of Eliashberg-Kim-Polterovich and of myself (partly jointly with Vincent Colin) I will discuss some global rigidity phenomena for contact manifolds, that can be seen as contact analogues (but with some specific and still quite mysterious features) of the symplectic non-squeezing theorem by Gromov, of the Arnold conjecture on fixed points of Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms and of the Hofer metric on the Hamiltonian group.
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Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, ROOM 6214