Appears in collection : Summer School 2012 - FEUILLETAGES, COURBES PSEUDOHOLOMORPHES, APPLICATIONS

We will focus in our lectures on the following : 1. J-complex discs in almost complex manifolds : general properties. Linearization and compactness. Gromov’s method : the Fredholm alternative for the d-bar operator. Attaching a complex disc to a Lagrangian manifold. Application : exotic symplectic structures. Hulls of totally real manifolds : Alexander’s theorem. 2. Real surfaces in (almost) complex surfaces. Filling real 2-spheres by a Levi-flat hypersurface (Bedford -Gaveau-Gromov theorem). Some applications. Symplectic and contact structures. Reeb foliation and the Weinsten conjecture. Hofer’s proof of the Weinstein conjecture. 3. J-complex lines and hyperbolicity. The KAM theory and Moser’s stability theorem for entire J-complex curves in tori. Global deformation and Bangert’s theorem.