Organized by:
Alberto Abbondandolo (Bochum)
Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford)
Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth)
Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv)
Stefan Suhr (Bochum)
The primary goal of this program is to investigate the causal structure on the space of Legendrian submanifolds—an emerging area of “hard” contact topology with deep connections to Riemannian and Lorentzian geometries, contact Hamiltonian dynamics, and Hofer-type geometry. This space is primarily studied through various flavors of Legendrian Contact Homology, a sophisticated algebraic invariant of Floer-theoretic nature, intricately linked to contact Hamiltonian dynamics and, in particular, to Reeb chords connecting Legendrian submanifolds.
Another central theme of the program is the interaction between contact topology and two areas of mathematical physics: General Relativity and Thermodynamics, with the causal structure providing a unifying framework.
Wednesday 2/11/26 11:15AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Michael Entov (Technion),
Title: Mini Course: Filtered Legendrian contact homology and contact dynamics Part 1
Thursday 2/12/26 11:15AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Michael Entov (Technion),
Title: Mini Course: Filtered Legendrian contact homology and contact dynamics Part 2
Thursday 2/12/26 2:00 PM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Alessandro Bravetti (University of Camerino)
Title: Contact Hamiltonian Systems: from mechanics to thermodynamics and more
Friday 2/13/26 11:15AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Michael Entov (Technion),
Title: Mini Course: Filtered Legendrian contact homology and contact dynamics Part 3
Friday 2/13/26 2:00 PM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Dimitroglou Rizell (Uppsala University)
Title: A survey of quantitative results for Legendrian submanifolds
Monday 2/16/26 11:15 AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Michael Entov (Technion),
Title: Mini Course: Filtered Legendrian contact homology and contact dynamics Part IV
Tuesday 2/17/26 11:15 AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University)
Title: Mini Course: Contact Topology meets Thermodynamics Part I
Wednesday 2/18/26 11:15 AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Miguel Sanchez Caja (University of Granada)
Title: Mini Course: Lorentz–Finsler Geometry and its Applications Part I
Wednesday 2/18/26 2:00 PM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Eric Kilgore (University of Southern California)
Title: A Legendrian non-squeezing phenomenon
Thursday 2/19/26 11:15AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Miguel Sanchez Caja (University of Granada)
Title: Mini Course: Lorentz–Finsler Geometry and its Applications Part II
Thursday 2/19/26 2:00 PM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University)
Title: Mini Course: Contact Topology meets Thermodynamics Part II
Friday 2/20/26 11:15 AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Miguel Sanchez Caja (University of Granada)
Title: Mini Course: Lorentz–Finsler Geometry and its Applications Part III
Monday 2/23/26 11:15AM – Seminar Room – 313
CAMPUS CLOSED DUE TO WEATHER
Tuesday 2/24/26 11:15 AM – ZOOM
Speaker: David Sloan (Lancaster University)
Title: Contact Systems in Physics
Wednesday 2/25/26 11:15AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth)
Title: Mini Course: Contact Geometry, Causality and Smooth Structures on spacetimes Part 1
Wednesday 2/25/26 1:30PM – Lecture hall– 102
Speaker: Dylan Cant (University of Montreal)
Title: Mini Course: Orderability and spectral geometries via contact Floer cohomology for quotient spaces Part I
Thursday 2/26/26 10:00AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Dylan Cant (University of Montreal)
Title: Mini Course: Orderability and spectral geometries via contact Floer cohomology for quotient spaces Part II
Thursday 2/26/26 11:15AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Dylan Cant (University of Montreal)
Title: Mini Course: Orderability and spectral geometries via contact Floer cohomology for quotient spaces Part III
Thursday 2/26/26 2:00 PM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth)
Title: Mini Course: Contact Geometry, Causality and Smooth Structures on spacetimes Part II
Friday 2/27/26 11:15 AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth)
Title: Mini Course: Contact Geometry, Causality and Smooth Structures on spacetimes Part III
Friday 2/27/26 2:00 PM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Jakob Hedicke
Title: TBA
Workshop: Contact geometry, general relativity, and thermodynamics: March 2-6, 2026
Tuesday 3/10/26 10:00AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Egor Shelukhin (University of Montreal)
Title: Mini Course:
Tuesday 3/10/26 11:15AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Egor Shelukhin (University of Montreal)
Title: Mini Course:
Wednesday 3/11/26 11:15 AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Thursday 3/12/26 11:15 AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Friday 3/13/26 11:15 AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: TBA
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Friday 3/13/26 2:00 PM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: TBA
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