Renaissance of the h-principle in symplectic topology

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Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University

Flexible and rigid methods coexisted in Symplectic Topology since its inception. The developmnet during last 20 years was dominated by rigid results, with accidental flexible breakthroughs (such as Donaldson's theory of almost holomorphic sections). In the talk I will discuss some recently found new remarkable examples of symplectic flexibility.