Shira Tanny

Weizmann Institute of Science

E-mail: "my last name"."my first name" at gmail

About me

My research mainly concerns symplectic/contact topology and Hamiltonian dynamics. I'm especially interested in applications of Floer-type theories and pseudoholomorphic curves to dynamical questions.

I did my postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. My host was Prof. Helmut Hofer.

I did my Ph.D. at Tel Aviv university, under the supervision of Prof. Lev Buhovski and Prof. Leonid Polterovich.

I completed my master's degree at Weizmann Institute. My advisor was Prof. Sergei Yakovenko.

My CV can be found Here.

Papers and Preprints

On the (dis)connection between growth and primitive periodic points. Joint with Adi Glücksam.
PREPRINT (2025).
Ergodic closing lemmas and invariant Lagrangians. Joint with Erman Çinely and Sobhan Seyfaddini.
PREPRINT (2025).
Properties of contact toric structures and concave boundaries of linear plumbings. Joint with Aleksandra Marinković, Jo Nelson, Ana Rechtman, Laura Starkston and Luya Wang.
PREPRINT (2025).
Elementary SFT Spectral Gaps And The Strong Closing Property. Joint with Julian Chaidez.
PREPRINT (2023).
A local-to-global inequality for spectral invariants and an energy dichotomy for Floer trajectories. Joint with Lev Buhovski.
Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (2025).
Contact homology and higher dimensional closing lemmas. Joint with Julian Chaidez, Ipsita Datta and Rohil Prasad.
Journal of Modern Dynamics (2022).
A max inequality for spectral invariants of disjointly supported Hamiltonians.
Journal of Symplectic Geometry (2021).
Floer theory of disjointly supported Hamiltonians on symplectically aspherical manifolds. Joint with Yaniv Ganor.
Journal of Algebraic and Geometric Topology (2021).
Applications of Grothendieck`s inequality to linear symplectic geometry. Joint with Efim Gluskin.
Ann. Math. Québec (2020).
Poisson Brackets of Partitions of Unity on Surfaces. Joint with Lev Buhovski and Aleksandr Logunov.
Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, Volume 95, Issue 2 (2020): 247-278.
On Local Weyl Equivalence of Higher Order Fuchsian Equations. Joint with Sergei Yakovenko.
Arnold Mathematical Journal 1.2 (2015): 141-170.
Algebraic geometry of Abel differential equation. Joint with Yonathan Shelah, Clara Shikhelman and Yosef Yomdin.
Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Serie A. Matematicas 108.1 (2014): 193-210.

Teaching

I am currently teaching an introduction to symplectic geometry course (spring 2025), materials are available at Weizmann's moodle system.

Other Stuff

A sphere helping a Floer trajectory cross a barricade (or, why my project with Yaniv Ganor is restricted to aspherical manifolds):