Topics: geometry/topology of manifolds, symplectic geometry, complex algebraic geometry AW=Alan Weinstein MH=Michael Hutchings RK=Rob Kirby RL=Robert Littlejohn (physics) AW: Can you compute morse the Morse homology of some space? (I did a round 2-sphere). What about one with a nontrivial differential? How do you compute the signs? MH: Can I get a (not-necessarily invariant) homology in this manner for any generic Morse-Smale vector field? RK: What's Gromov's compactness theorem say? AW: We're not at that section yet. RK: Ok. AW: How do you show Morse homology is isomorphic to singular homology? How do you show it's invariant without reference to singular homology? MH: How do you know the index 1 moduli space is compact? RK: What's Gromov's compactness theorem say? AW: We're not there yet. Why don't you ask him a topology question? RK: How do you define the Chern classes of a complex vector bundle? What if it's not over a compact manifold? How do you compute the 2nd Chern class of the K3 surface? How do you define the Chern classes inductively using the Euler class? RK: What's Gromov's compactness theorem say? AW: Do the loops that get pinched have to bound disks? RL: Do you know what the Hamilton-Jacobi equations are? (No; he defines them). For the phase space R^2, can you always find the S that solves them? What about globally? Now for R^n. What condition on dS/dx_i are needed so that you can find S? What kind of manifold is the graph of a closed 1-form on R^n? MH: Do you know Riemann-Roch? Me: No. MH: Say something about divisors and line bundles. AW: What does it mean that the quotient of local defining functions for an irreducible divisor is holomorphic and gives you a line bundle, given that you're dividing by a function with zeros?