C'est un travail en collaboration avec André Joyal. Le résultat fondamental est que la catégorie des dg-coalgèbres est monoïdale fermée et que la catégorie des dg-algèbres est enrichie, bicomplète et monoïdale sur celle des dg-coalgèbres. Cette structure produit six opérations sur les algèbres et coalgèbres qui peuvent être utilisées pour construire plusieurs type d'adjonctions entre les catégories d'algèbres et de coalgèbres. Nous retrouvons ainsi nombre d'adjonctions déjà connues (algèbres de jets, dualité algèbre-cogèbre...) en particulier nous retrouvons un nouveau point de vue sur l'adjonction bar-cobar.

Joint work with Peter Albers and Urs Fuchs. In 2000 Eliashberg-Polterovich introduced the natural notion of orderability of contact manifolds; that is, the (non)existence of positive loops of contactomorphisms. I will explain how one can study orderability questions using the machinery of Rabinowitz Floer homology. We establish a link between orderable and hypertight contact manifolds, and show that the Weinstein Conjecture holds (i.e. there exists a closed Reeb orbit) whenever there exists a positive (not necessarily contractible) loop of contactomorphisms.

This talk will introduce a new invariant of tangles derived from Khovanov homology. As application, this may be used to construct an invariant of strong inversions of knots in the three-sphere and, in turn, produces an object that is quite sensitive to non-amphicheirality. Surprisingly, this new invariant picks up information that is not detected by the Jones polynomial or, more generally, Khovanov homology.

Non-displaceability of certain Lagrangian submanfolds is a rigidity phenomenon in symplectic geometry. There are well-known sufficient conditions for non-displaceability. One is non-vanishing of Lagrangian intersection Floer cohomology. The other is (super)heaviness due to Entov and Polterovich. (Note that the latter is defined for any subsets, which are not necessarily Lagrangian submanifolds.) I will explain the relation between these conditions and present some examples based on joint work with Fukaya, Oh and Ohta. If time allows, I will discuss another argument for superheaviness of certain subsets.