Research Directions in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology

​Bahar Acu is a Researcher in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. She was a Boas Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University, IL, USA from 2017-2020. Catherine Cannizzo is a Research Assistant Professor at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University, USA. She holds a Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley, USA.Dusa McDuff is Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College, USA.  She holds a Ph. D. from the University of Cambridge, UK.Ziva Myer is an Assistant Research Professor at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. She received her PhD from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA, USA.Yu Pan is an Assistant Professor at the Center of Applied Mathematics at Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University, USA. She was a CLE Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA from 2017-2020. Lisa Traynor is a Professor of Mathematics and the Class of 1897 Professor of Science at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA.  She obtained her Ph.D. from Stony Brook University.

• A Polyfold proof of Gromov's non-squeezing theorem (K. Wehrheim).- Infinite staircases for Hirzebruch surfaces (T. Holm).- Action-angle and complex coordinates on toric manifolds (H. Lee).- An introduction to Weinstein handlebodies for complements of smoothed Toroc divisors (B. Acu).- Constructions of Lagrangian Cobordisms  (L. Traynor).- On Khovanov homology and related invariants (M. Zhang).- Braids, Fibered Knots, and Concordance Questions (D. Hubbard).