LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

Spitalfields Day

MATHEMATICS RESEARCH CENTRE
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

Symplectic Topology
Wednesday, 1st April 1998

Organisers: Dietmar Salamon & John Rawnsley

9:30-10:00Coffee
10:00-11:00Dusa McDuff (Stony Brook)
The topology of the symplectomorphism group
11:30-12:30Susan Tolman (Urbana-Champaign)
Hamiltonian actions on symplectic manifolds:
cohomology and classification problems
12:30-14:00Buffet lunch
14:00-15:00Michael Hutchings (Harvard)
Circle-valued Morse theory, Reidemeister torsion,
and Seiberg-Witten invariants of 3-manifolds
15:00-16:00Tea
16:00-17:00Karen Uhlenbeck (Austin)
Geometry and Integrable Systems
19:00Party with the Dick Smith Blues Band

Everyone is welcome to attend, but it is requested that all participants give notice by contacting Peta McAllister or Hazel Graley at the Mathematics Research Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.

The LMS Spitalfields Day is part of a two-week workshop on Symplectic Topology,
Monday 23rd March - Friday 3rd April 1998 which is part of the
EPSRC Warwick Symposium on Symplectic Geometry 1997-98.