Program

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November 8, Monday

• 14:00 — 15:00   Mikio FURUTA  (University of Tokyo)
  On the 11/8-conjecture
  

• 15:20 — 16:00   Masaaki UE  (Kyoto University)
  Fukumoto-Furuta and other invariants and their applications to 4-manifolds with boundary

• 16:20 — 17:00   Osamu SAEKI  (Kyushu University)
  Topology of manifolds and singularities of differentiable maps

• 17:10 — 17:30   Kei-ichi SUZUOKA  (University of Tokyo)
  Spherical stable maps of 4-manifolds into a surface

• 17:40 — 18:20   Minoru YAMAMOTO  (Hokkaido University / JSPS PDF)
  On the space of fold maps of S² to R² with a connected singular set

November 9, Tuesday

•  9:30 — 10:30   Shigeru TAKAMURA  (Kyoto University)
  Degenerations of Riemann surfaces

• 10:50 — 11:10   Yuichi YAMADA  (University of Electro-Communications)
  Some Seifert surgeries along A'Campo's divide knots and 4-manifolds

• 11:30 — 12:30    Gerard A. VENEMA  (Calvin College / Michigan State University)
  Representing homology classes of 4-manifolds with topological 2-spheres

• 14:00 — 15:00   Seiichi KAMADA  (Hiroshima University)
  Studying monodromies of 4-dimensional topological objects via racks and charts

• 15:20 — 16:00   Akiko SHIMA  (Tokai University)
  Properties of minimal charts and its applications (with Teruo NAGASE)

• 16:20 — 17:00   Masahico SAITO  (University of South Florida)
  Cocycle invariants of knots, graphs and surfaces

• 17:20 — 17:40   Isao HASEGAWA  (University of Tokyo)
  Non-ribbon surface braids whose closures are ribbon

• 17:40 — 18:00   Kokoro TANAKA  (University of Tokyo)
  The braid index of surface-knots and quandle colorings

• 18:00 — 18:20   Kyohei YOSHIDA  (University of Tokyo)
  On Aiso's lemma about the projections of pseudo-ribbon 2-knots

November 10, Wednesday

•  9:30 — 10:10   Kazushi AHARA  (Meiji University)
  Monomie and the topology of the Fermat type surfaces

• 10:30 — 11:20   Hideaki AISO  (JAXA)
  Computational Fluid Dynamics, still a field where various kinds of mathematical researches are expected

• 11:30 — 12:30   Masayuki YAMASAKI  (Josai University)
  Surgery Theory and Geometry

21st Century COE Program Lecture
• 14:00 — 15:00   José María MONTESINOS-AMILIBIA  (Universidad Complutense)
  Open 3-manifolds, wild knots and branched coverings
  

• 15:20 — 16:20  Yukio MATSUMOTO  (University of Tokyo)
  On a fibering structure of the Fermat surface

November 11, Thursday

•  9:30 —  9:50   Kazumasa IKEDA
  Haefliger knots and the Smale invariant

• 10:00 — 11:00   Sadayoshi KOJIMA  (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Knowing the topology of 3-manifolds

• 11:10 — 11:50   Ken'ichi OHSHIKA  (Osaka University)
  Hyperbolic 3-manifolds and Kleinian groups at the crossroads

• 12:10 — 12:30   Hiroshi MATSUDA  (Hiroshima University)
  A characterization of braid foliations on Seifert surfaces of genus one

• 14:00 — 14:40   Ken'ichi KUGA  (Chiba University)
  Ricci flow in dimension 4

• 15:00 — 15:40   Tomotada OHTSUKI  (Kyoto University)
  On invariants of knots and 3-manifolds

• 16:00 — 16:20   Chuichiro HAYASHI  (Japan Women's University)
  A lower bound for the number of Reidemeister moves for unknotting

• 16:20 — 16:40   Toru IKEDA  (Kochi University)
  Finite group actions and 3-manifold topology

• 16:40 — 17:00   Kazuo HABIRO  (Kyoto University)
  A functor on the category of bottom tangles in homology handlebodies