Mark McLean

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Floer Cohomology and Birational Geometry (ICM talk, July 2022). Video.
Complex cobordism, Hamiltonian loops and global Kuranishi charts.
Floer Cohomology and Arc Spaces
Computing Symplectic Homology of Affine Varieties in Workshop on Symplectic Field Theory VIII Aug16 (1.98MB) (Shorter version also involving symplectic cohomology instead of homology).
Minimal Log Discrepancy of Isolated Singularities and Reeb Orbits in Singular Landscapes, In honor of Bernard Teissier's 70th birthday Jun15 (733k)
Symplectic homology introduction at MSRI Aug09 (273k)
Exotic Stein manifolds at MIT May08 (394k). Notes by Denis Auroux.
The symplectic geometry of cotangent bundles and smooth affine varieties at Stony Brook (Feb 2013). Video (671k)

Some Animations

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multiple beads on a wire

Invited Lectures

International Congress of Mathematicians, July 2022.
Stony Brook Colloquium, April 2022.
Differential Geometry and Symplectic Topology Seminar, University of Minnesota, April 2022.
Oberwolfach Workshop 2139, Singularities, September 2021.
Stony Brook Algebraic Geometry Seminar, September 2021.
IBS-CGP weekly zoom seminar, April 2021.
Stony Brook Colloquium, February 2021.
Homological Mirror Symmetry and Applications Conference, January 2021.
Freemath Seminar, November 2020.
Symplectic Zoominar (CRM-Montreal, Princeton/IAS, Tel Aviv, and Paris), June 2020.
Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror Symmetry Annual Meeting, November 2019.
VIII Workshop on Conservative Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry, August 2019.
Geometry/Topology Seminar, University of Western Ontario, March 2019.
Conference: Fukaya 60, Geometry and Everything. February 2019.
Geometry seminar, University of Georgia, October 2018.
British Isles Graduate Workshop 2018, Jersey UK, July 2018. Notes
IAS / PU symplectic seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, April 2018.
Columbia Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar, Columbia University, January 2018.
Workshop: Holomorphic curves and symplectic topology at Institut Mittag-Leffler, Uppsala, August 2017
Conference: Interactions of Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry, Warwick University, UK, August 2017.
Workshop: Quantitative Symplectic Geometry, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, May 2017
Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar, December 2016
Algebraic and Symplectic Geometry Seminar, Oxford University UK, November 2016
Geometry and Analysis Seminar, Oxford University UK, November 2016
Illinois Symplectic & Poisson geometry seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2016
Workshop on Symplectic Field Theory VIII, Berlin, August 2016 (this was a series of 4 lectures. Notes.).
Conference in Honor of Dusa McDuff, University of Edinburgh, UK, July 2016.
Georgia University Topology Seminar, April 2016
Conference: Topological and Quantitative Aspects of Symplectic Manifolds, Columbia University, March 2016
Conference: ”Singular Landscapes”, Centre Paul-Langevin Aussois, France, June 2015
Georgia Topology Conference, University of Georgia, June 2015
FRG Conference on Symplectic Birational Geometry and its Connection to Algebraic Geometry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 2014
Clay Research Conference in Symplectic Topology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, October 2014
Moduli Spaces Program Seminar (3 lectures), Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, February 2014
Topology seminar, Stony Brook, September 2013.
British Topology Meeting Aberdeen University, September 2013
UCL/KCL Geometry Seminar UCL, March 2013
Stony Brook Colloquium Stony Brook, February 2013
Riemannian and Contact dynamics: cross views on periodic orbits Nantes, February 2013
IAS/Princeton symplectic geometry seminar, Princeton, October 2012
Members seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, October 2012
Workshop and Conference on Holomorphic Curves and Low Dimensional Topology, Stanford University, August 2012
Conservative Dynamics to Symplectic and Contact Topology, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Holland, July 2012
Shanks Workshop: Hamiltonian Dynamics and Symplectic Topology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, February 2012
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar, Berkeley, December 2011
Workshop on Conservative Dynamics, IMPA, August 2011.
Georgia Topology Conference, May 2011.
Symplectic Topology seminar, University of Montreal, March 2011.
Workshop on Symplectic Geometry and Topology, Kyoto, February 2011.
Gauge Theory & Topology seminar, Harvard, October 2010.
Symplectic Geometry and Topology Seminar, Purdue, October 2010.
Topology seminar, Stony Brook, September 2010.
MSRI Research Seminar, March 2010.
Workshop on cyclic homology and symplectic topology, American Institute of Mathematics, November 2009.
Columbia Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory Seminar, November 2009.
4th Illinois Indiana Symplectic Geometry Conference, Purdue, October 2009.
Geometry seminar, MIT, October 2009.
MSRI Introductory Workshop, August 2009.
Sixteenth Gökova Geometry and Topology Conference, May 2009.
Symplectic geometry Seminar,ETH Zürich, March 2009.
SFB Colloquium, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, October 2008.
Conference on Holomorphic curves: algebraic structures and geometric applications, Stanford, August 2008
Workshop on symplectic geometry and mirror symmetry, MIT, May 2008.
Symplectic Geometry Seminar, ETH Zürich, April 2008.
Geometry Seminar, Cambridge University, March 2008.
Workshop on Symplectic Geometry, Contact Geometry and Interactions, Brussels, February 2008.