Dates: May 30, 2018 (Wed) - Jun 1, 2018 (Fri)
Place: Room 420, RIMS, Kyoto University
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(update: May 24)
Problems on Low-dimensional Topology 2018 (pdf file)
13:20--14:10 Kazuhiro Ichihara (Nihon University, College of Humanities and Sciences)
Minimal coloring numbers of $\mathbb{Z}$-colorable links
14:30--15:20 Naoki Kimura (Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
A generalization of the Dijkgraaf-Witten invariant
15:40--16:30 Neil Hoffman (Oklahoma State University)
The 3D index as a sum over surfaces
10:00--10:50 Kouichi Yasui (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University)
Nonexistence of twists and surgeries generating exotic 4-manifolds
11:10--12:00 Tsukasa Ishibashi
(Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo / JSPS research fellow DC)
Cluster Dehn twists in cluster modular groups
13:20--14:10 Osamu Saeki (Kyushu University)
Simplified broken Lefschetz fibrations and trisections of 4-manifolds
14:30--15:20 Oliver Dasbach (Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University)
Turaev surfaces and invariants of links
15:40-- Problem Session
10:00--10:50 Naohiko Kasuya (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Knots and links of complex tangents
11:10--12:00 Kodai Wada
(Waseda University / JSPS Research Fellow PD)
An obstruction to trivializing links by $n$-moves
13:20--14:10 Takuya Katayama (Hiroshima University)
Virtual embeddability between surface mapping class group
14:30--15:20 Kazuto Takao (Kyoto University)
Singularities of product maps for low-dimensional topology
Scientific Committee:
Akio Kawauchi, Toshitake Kohno, Taizo Kanenobu, Seiichi Kamada, Tomotada Ohtsuki
Organizers:
Tomotada Ohtsuki (RIMS, Kyoto University),
Tetsuya Ito (Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University)