On Heegaard Splittings and Dehn surgeries of 3-manifolds,
and topics related to them
June 11 - June 15, 2001
(last update: June 11, 2001)
This conference is a part of the research project "Low-Dimensional Topology in the Twenty-First Century", and organize by Tsuyoshi Kobayashi.
Schedule
June 11
1:00 p.m. -- 3:00 p.m. Prof. Ichiro Torisu (Akita Univ):
"On the additivity of the Thurston-Bennequin invariant of Legendrian knots"
3:30 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m. Prof. Kimihiko Motegi (Nihon Univ.)
"Seifert fibered surgery and primitive/Seifert-fibered constructions"
June 12
9:00 a.m. -- 9:40 a.m. Prof. Sang Yop Lee (KAIST):
"Dehn fillings and small surfaces, I"
10:10 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m. Prof. Seungsang Oh (CheonBuk National Univ.):
"Dehn fillings and small surfaces, II"
1:00 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m. Prof. Yo'av Rieck (Univ. of Arkansas, Nara Women's Univ.):
"Heegaard splittings of manifolds with involutions"
2:30 p.m. -- 3:30 p.m. Prof. Eric Sedgwick (DePaul Univ.):
"Heegaard surfaces and Dehn surgery - joint w/ Yo'av Rieck"
4:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m. Prof. Eric Sedgwick (DePaul Univ.):
"Genus two 3-Manifolds are built from handle number one pieces"
June 13
10:00 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m. Prof. Doo Ho Choi (KAIST):
"Parametrizations of 1-bridge torus knots"
1:00 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. Prof. Chuichiro Hayashi (Japan Women's Univ.):
"A survey of known
results on 1-genus 1-bridge knots"
3:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m. Prof. Hiroshi Goda (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology):
"Genus two Heegaard
splittings of exteriors of 1-genus 1-bridge knots（joint with Chuichiro Hayashi)"
June 14
9:00 a.m. -- 10:00 a.m. Prof. Marty Scharlemann （U.C. Santa Barbara):
" There are no unexpected genus one tunnel number 1 knots "
10:30 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m. Prof. Jennifer Schultens (Emory University):
" Additivity of Bridge
Numbers of Knots "
1:00 p.m. -- 3:00 p.m. Prof. Kanji Morimoto (Konan Univ.):
"On the smallness and the 1-bridge genus of knots"
3:30 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m. Prof. Dave Bachman (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago):
"Critical Heegaard Surfaces"
Note: Possibly a seminar on this talk will be held from 6:00 p.m. There is a reference on this talk at web page:
http://www.math.uic.edu/~bachman/
June 15
9:00 a.m. -- 10:00 a.m. Prof. Eiko Kin (Kyoto Univ.):
" On positivity and universality of templates induced from diffeomorphisms of the disk "
10:30 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m. Prof. Mikami Hirasawa (Gakushuin Univ.):
" On the positivity of
braids associated to indexed plane curves "
1:00 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m. Problem Session
NOTE: There will be a seminar on Lackenby's paper:
Classification of Alternating Knots with tunnel number one
by Masako Kobayashi at Room 202 of RIMS from 10:00 a.m. June 16.