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Title of the course: “Introduction to Floer Homology”

Lecturer: Marco Mazzucchelli (CNRS & ENS Lyon)

Syllabus:

Lecture 1: Crash course in algebraic topology: singular homology and cohomology, DeRham cohomology.

Lecture 2: The Morse homology theorem.

Lecture 3: Variational principle for Hamiltonian periodic orbits, action spectrum, the Conley-Zehnder index.

Lecture 4: Construction of the Floer homology groups for aspherical manifolds I.

Lecture 5: Construction of the Floer homology groups for aspherical manifolds II, proof of the Arnold conjecture on the fixed points of generic Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms.

The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL -Lausanne seeks to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Mathematics with research interests in the theory of dynamical systems, broadly construed. Indicative areas of interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic/analytical dynamics, dynamics and geometry, ergodic theory, locally homogeneous spaces.

https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/faculty-position-in-mathematics/

Applications should be uploaded (as PDFs) by** September 30, 2020 **to

https://facultyrecruiting.epfl.ch/positiondetails/23691270

Enquiries may be addressed to:
Prof. Victor Panaretos
Chair of the Search Committee
E-mail: direction.math@epfl.ch

Abbiamo appreso che la Commissione Scientifica dell’UMI ha approvato la nostra richiesta di creazione del Gruppo UMI proposto dai DinAmicI. L’inizio ufficiale delle attività del gruppo è fissato a giorno 1 settembre.

Il primo passo sarà l’elezione degli organi ufficiali del gruppo, le elezioni saranno indette dal Presidente dell’UMI nei prossimi mesi. Vi faremo sapere!

The Italian Mathematical Union has recently approved our application for the creation of “Gruppo UMI DinAmicI”, a unit inside the Union. The activities of the group will officially start on September, 1st.

A PhD position in the semiclassical theory of subelliptic operators is being advertised at the University of Bath (UK). The prospective advisor is Véronique Fischer. The student will be part of the project titled “Quantum Limits for sub-elliptic operators”:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/quantum-limits-for-sub-elliptic-operators/?p122901
As part of the same project there is also a call for Postdoc (Research Associate):  https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CC7693
The deadline for both applications is Sunday, September 13, 2020.

Another position is being advertised in contact and symplectic topology at the University of Utrecht (NL).  The prospective advisor is Álvaro del Pino. The student will be part of the project “Tangent distributions and h-principles”: https://gqt.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/229/2020/06/Announcement.pdf
The deadline for the application is Saturday, August 1, 2020.

The Bernoulli Institute of the University of Groningen (NL) is advertising a 4-year PhD position in dynamical systems, to work on the combination of multi-timescale dynamical systems and networks. The application deadline is August 31, for more information please refer to https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007TEP

There is also a call for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) or (preferably) Associate Professor, with a strong track record in Dynamical Systems. The deadline for the application is August 16. For more information please refer to https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007RTP

A Ricercatore di tipo A (non-tenure-track 3 year) position in Mathematical Physics (S.C. 01/A4, SSD MAT/07) has been announced at Università degli Studi di Milano.

Deadline: 15 July 2020

Info and application form: https://www.unimi.it/it/ateneo/lavora-con-noi/reclutamento-ricercatori/selezioni-ricercatori/ricercatore-tipo-sc-01/a4-ssd-mat/07-codice-4390

The University of Groningen is looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) or (preferably) Associate Professor, depending on your profile (see The University of Groningen Career Paths in Science), with a strong track record in Dynamical Systems.

Deadline for application: 16 August 2020

All info at https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007RTP&dept=fse

Note that in nearly all Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes at the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen teaching is done in English.

**Call for expression of interest ** (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. Rome Tor Vergata)

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata invites expressions of interest for Senior (Tenure-Track) Assistant Professor (‘RTD-B’) and Tenured Associate Professor positions in the following area of Pure and Applied Mathematics:
a) Data Analysis, Statistics and Machine Learning;
b) Historical and pedagogical aspects of mathematics;
c) Numerical optimization with special focus on big data and machine learning applications.

Opening for a 1-year postdoctoral position at University of Rome Tor Vergata on “Variational and PDE methods for the study of Hamiltonian systems and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation”.

All info: pica.cineca.it/uniroma2/f3-2021-0012

Deadline: 24th June 2021

For further information contact: sorrentino@mat.uniroma2.it.

The school

“Modern Aspects of Dynamical Systems”

organized by Fondazione CIME to be held in Cetraro (Cosenza, Italy) at Grand Hotel San Michele, (see the first announcement here) has now been officially postponed to next year.

The new dates are August 2-7, 2021. Procedures for the applications will be decided and communicated by Fondazione CIME.

For more information please contact one of the directors: Claudio Bonanno (Università di Pisa), Alfonso Sorrentino (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) and Corinna Ulcigrai (Universität Zürich).