Dates: May 20, 2015 (Wed) - May 22, 2015 (Fri)
Place: Rm 420, RIMS, Kyoto University
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Problems on Low-dimensional Topology 2015 (tentative version)
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13:20--14:10 Kazuhiro Ichihara (College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University)
On partitions of components for closed random braids
(slide)
14:30--15:20 Keiji Tagami (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Fibered knots with the same 0-surgery and the slice-ribbon conjecture
(slide)
15:40--16:30 Keiko Kawamuro (University of Iowa)
Removing local extrema of surfaces in open book decompositions
10:00--10:50 Yuya Koda (Department of Mathematics, Hiroshima University)
The Goeritz groups of Heegaard splittings for 3-manifolds
11:10--12:00 Ken'ichi Yoshida (Graduate School of Mathematical Science, University of Tokyo)
Stable presentation length of 3-manifold groups
13:20--14:10 Sergei Matveev (Chelyabinsk State University and Russian Academy of Sciences)
Prime decompositions of geometric objects
(slide)
14:30--15:20 Patrick Dehornoy (University of Caen)
Braid order: History and connection with knots
(slide)
15:40-- Problem Session
10:00--10:50 Toshie Takata (Kyushu University)
On the Kashaev invariant and the twisted Reidemeister torsion of two-bridge knots
11:10--12:00 Tetsuya Ito (RIMS, Kyoto University)
Ordering of groups as a tool to understand random 3-manifolds and knots
13:20--14:10 Noboru Ito (Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)
Strong and weak (1, 3) homotopies on spherical curves and related topics
(joint work with Y. Takimura and K. Taniyama)
14:30--15:20 Yasutaka Nakanishi (Graduate School of Science, Kobe University)
A survey: From a surgical view of Alexander invariants
Scientific Committee:
Akio Kawauchi, Toshitake Kohno, Taizo Kanenobu, Seiichi Kamada, Tomotada Ohtsuki
Organizers:
Tomotada Ohtsuki (RIMS, Kyoto University),
Takahiro Kitayama (Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Institute of Technology)