TITLE: Birkhoff conjecture about integrable billiards
QUESTION [8 upvotes]: There is a conjecture by Birkhoff which claims that for a simple closed $C^2$ plane curve $C$, if the billiard ball map is integrable then the curve is an ellipse. 
Integrability here might be formulated as follows: there exists a neighbourhood of $C$ in the interior $Int(C)$ that is foliated by caustics (caustics being curves that are everywhere tangent to a given trajectory of the billiard ball). 
I would be interested to know the current status (and progresses, if there are) of this conjecture.

REPLY [7 votes]: For a recent progress see http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.2853.pdf
a local version of this conjecture is proven.