ICMS

Jul 5, 2010 - Jul 9, 2010

15 South College Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AA

Organisers

Name	Institution
Cieliebak, Kai	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet
Kedra, Jarek	University of Aberdeen & University of Szczecin
McDuff, Dusa	Barnard College, Columbia University
Polterovich, Leonid	Tel Aviv University & University of Chicago

Honorary Guest
Helmut Hofer, Institute for Advanced Study

This meeting will mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of the paper “The topology of symplectic maps” by Helmut Hofer, where he introduced a remarkable metric on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a symplectic manifold. This metric is now known as the Hofer metric and is a classical notion of symplectic geometry. Hofer geometry has been extensively investigated for the last 20 years, but still there are many open problems.

Invited Speakers
Miguel Abreu
Augustin Banyaga
Misha Bialy
Yasha Eliashberg
Misha Entov
Etienne Ghys *
Boris Khesin
Francois Lalonde
Kaoru Ono
Yaron Ostrover *
Pierre Py
Dietmar Salamon *
Matthias Schwarz
Jean-Claude Sikorav
Claude Viterbo

* to be confirmed

Workshop funded by:
EPSRC
LMS
EMS
GMJT
ESF - CAST

Arrangements

Participation
Participation is by invitation only. People interested to participate should contact Jarek Kedra. The workshop will begin on Monday morning 5 July and finish on Friday afternoon 9 July 2010.

UK Visas
If you are travelling from overseas you may require an entry visa. A European visa does not guarantee entry to the UK. Please use this link to the UK Visas site to find out if you need a visa and, if so, how to apply for one. If you do require a visa, ICMS can provide a signed invitation letter.

Venue
The workshop will be held at 15 South College Street, Edinburgh. All lectures will be held in the Newhaven Lecture Theatre. To view this room and a list of the visual equipment available click here. In addition, two blackboards have recently been installed.

Wireless Access
The workshop venue, 15 South College Street, has wireless access throughout. On arrival at Registration you will be given instructions and a code for accessing the wireless network.  For those without laptops, there will also be a couple of computers available for you to check your emails.

Travel
Information about travel to the UK and Edinburgh is available here. Lothian buses charge 1.20 GBP for a single journey and 3.00 GBP for a day ticket. Please note that the exact fare is required and no change is given.

A taxi directly from the airport will cost approximately 18.00 to 20.00 GBP to the city centre for a one-way journey.

From the airport, you can take the airport bus Airlink to the city centre. It will cost you 3.50 GBP for a single ticket, or 6.00 GBP return. More details on the airport bus Airlink is available here. The bus will take you to Waverley Bridge (next to Waverley Railway Station).

If travelling by train, please note that Edinburgh has two railway stations - Waverley Railway Station being the main station and closest to the workshop venue at 15 South College Street. If you alight at Edinburgh Waverley, the workshop venue is an easy 10 minute walk over North and South Bridge map. The second railway station is called Haymarket and is at the West End of the city centre.

Accommodation
If your invitation included the offer of accommodation, then ICMS will arrange this. En-suite rooms have been booked in two locations: The Kenneth MacKenzie Suite in the city centre, and Chancellor's Court in the Pollock Halls area.

Participants are also free to make their own arrangements and may claim back the cost, with receipts, up to a maximum of £55.00 a night for up to 6 nights. A list of Edinburgh accommodation of various sorts and prices is available here .

Meals and Refreshments
Morning and afternoon refreshments will be provided on each day of the workshop.

Buffet lunches will be provided on Monday 5 July and Friday 9 July only.

The workshop dinner will take place on the evening of Thursday 8 July (venue to be confirmed). The workshop grant will cover the cost of this catering.

Registration
Registration will take place on the morning of Monday 5 July at 15 South College Street, Edinburgh. 

Financial Arrangements
Your individual financial arrangements will be laid out in your invitation email and on the final email, which will be sent shortly before the workshop.

If we have agreed to pay some of your travel costs, you will be informed by email. Reimbursement will take place after the workshop and will involve payment directly into your bank account. At Registration you will be given an expenses claim form and this should be submitted to ICMS, with original receipts. It would be helpful if you could bring your bank details to the workshop. In addition to the bank account number, participants from the USA and Canada will require their bank’s routing number, those from the UK will be asked for the bank sort code, and those from Europe and the rest of the world, their IBAN and SWIFT/BIC code. We cannot reimburse any item without a signed claim form and original receipts.

Programme

TBA