All plenary talks in Lecture Hall on the second floor, Shiing-Shen
Building. Three parallel sessions of contributed talks in Seminar
Room 212, Seminar Room 214 and Seminar Room 216.
Jan. 25
8:10-8:30
Opening session
8:30-9:20
Hao Zheng (SUN YAT-SEN Univ.)
Categoriˉcation of representations of quantum groups
Chair: Ki Hyoung Ko (KAIST)
9:30-10:20
Shin Satoh (Kobe Univ.)
Application of length of quandle 3-cocycle to surface-knot theory
Chair: Zhi Lu (Fudan Univ.)
10:20-10:40
Photo
Chair: Changhai LU (CIM)
10:40-11:30
Taehee Kim (Konkuk Univ.)
The cobordism on homology cylinders and torsions
Chair: Seiichi Kamada (Hiroshima Univ.)
Seminar Room 212
14:00-14:25
Byung Hee An(KAIST)
A family of braids with large conjugacy invariant sets
14:25-14:50
Masahide Iwakiri (Osaka City Univ.)
Invariants of conjugacy classes of surface braids derived from Fox n-colorings
Chair: Hao Zheng (SUN YAT-SEN Univ.)
14:50-15:10 Tea time
15:10-15:35
Youngsik Huh (Hanyang Univ.)
Heptagonal ˉgure-8 knots
15:35-16:00
Ayumu Inoue (Tokyo Institute of Technology )
A complex volume formula via quandle shadow coloring (joint work with Yuichi
Kabaya)
Chair: Hongzhu Gao (Beijing Normal Univ.)
16:10-16:35
Ayako Ido (Nara Woman's Univ.)
An estimation of Heegaard distance by using Reeb graph
16:35-17:00
Fengling Li (Herbin Institute Of Tech.)
Additivity of Heegaard genera under annulus sum
Chair: Sangyop Lee (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Seminar Room 214
14:00-14:25
Kanji Morimoto (Konan University)
Characterization of composite twisted torus knots
14:25-14:50
Jiming Ma (Fudan Univ.)
Hyperbolicity of genus two Hatcher-Thiurston complex
Chair: Seungsang Oh (Korea Univ.)
15:10-15:35
Jinseok Cho (Waseda Univ.)
The complex volumes of twist knots
15:35-16:00
In Dae Jong (Osaka City Univ.)
"Gromov hyperbolicity of a variation of the Gordian complex (joint work with
Kazuhiro Ichihara)"
Chair: Ying Zhang (Soochow Univ.)
16:10-16:35
Yuki Okada (Kobe Univ.)
"The differences of Alexander polynomials caused by a single crossing change"
16:35-17:00
Hanchul Park (KAIST)
Khovanov homology and its torsion
Chair: Teruaki Kitano (Soka Univ.)
Seminar Room 216
14:00-14:25
Yongju Bae (Kyungpook National Univ.)
On the Bollob?as-Riordan polynomials
14:25-14:50
Zhiyun Cheng (Peking Univ.)
An invariant for knot
Chair:Taizo Kanenobu (Osaka City Univ.)
15:10-15:35
Toshifumi Tanaka (POSTECH)
Knot Floer homology and Alexander modules of symmetric unions
15:35-16:00
Zhixiong Tao (Zhejiang Univ. of Science and Technology)
2-Adjacent knot
Chair: Shin Satoh (Kobe Univ.)
16:10-16:35
Teruhisa Kadokami (Dalian Univ. of Tech.)
Lens space surgeries along certain 2-component links and Reidemeister-Turaev
torsion (joint work with Yuichi Yamada)
16:35-17:00
Takuji Nakamura (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ. )
Notes on virtual knots with trivial polynomial invariants
Chair: Taehee Kim (Konkuk Univ.)
Jan. 26
8:30-9:20
Ki Hyoung Ko (KAIST)
How to tell reducible braids among rigid braids.
Chair: Boju Jiang (Peking Univ.)
9:30-10:20
Taizo Kanenobu (Osaka City Univ.)
H(2)-Gordian Distance of Knots
Chair: Gyo Taek Jin (KAIST)
10:20-10:40: Tea time
10:40-11:30
Ying Zhang (Soochow Univ.)
Geometry and topology of the SL(2,C) character variety of the once-punctured
torus group
Chair: Makoto Sakuma (Hiroshima Univ.)
Seminar Room 212
14:00-14:25
Atsushi Ishii (Univ. of Tsukuba )
Normalizations for the Yamada polynomial
14:25-14:50
Tetsuya Ito (The University of Tokyo )
Bi-invariant orderings of groups and ˉnite type invariants
Chair: Fan Ding (Peking Univ.)
14:50-15:10 Tea time
15:10-15:35
Zhiqing Yang (Dalian Univ. of Tech.)
A new knot polynomial
15:35-16:00
Yumi Tomiyama (Kobe Univ.)
Diagrammatic invariants and Miyazawa polynomials for virtual knots
Chair: Yongju Bae (Kyungpook National Univ.)
16:10-16:35
Ayaka Shimizu (Osaka City Univ.)
The warping degree of a link diagram
16:35-17:00
Seung Yeop Yang (Kyungpook National Univ.)
Skein polynomial of a link with local symmetry
Chair: Youfa Han (Liaoning Normal Univ.)
Seminar Room 214
14:00-14:25
Teruaki Kitano (Soka Univ.)
A partial order on the set of prime knots
14:25-14:50
Hwa Jeong Lee (KAIST )
Prime knots with the arc index smaller than the minimal crossing number
Chair: Naoko Kamada (Nagoya City Univ.)
15:10-15:35
Tetsuya Abe (Osaka City Univ.)
On crossing changes and band-surgeries
15:35-16:00
HyoWon Park (KAIST )
Torsions in homologies of graph braid groups
Chair: Xiaobo Liu (AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
16:10-16:35
Shinya Okazaki (Osaka City Univ.)
On the bridge genus and the braid genus for a lens space
16:35-17:00
Jifu Xiao (Dalian University of Tech.)
A generalization of the Kau?man 2 varibale poloynomial
Chair: Jin Hong Kim (KAIST)
Seminar Room 216
14:00-14:25
Boju Jiang (Peking Univ.)
TAB
14:25-14:50
Kanako Oshiro (Hiroshima Univ.)
Extensions of odd order dihedral quandles and an application for surface-links
Chair: Yasutaka Nakanishi (Kobe Univ.)
15:10-15:35
Sangyop Lee (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Satellite twisted torus knots
15:35-16:00
Naoyuki Monden (Osaka Univ.)
On roots of Dehn twists
Chair: Takuji Nakamura (Osaka City Univ.)
16:10-16:35
Seiichi Kamada (Hiroshima Univ.)
On symmetric quandle presentations and surface-knots
16:35-17:00
Daniel Moskovich (Kyoto Univ.)
Symmetric surgery presentations for symmetric manifolds
Chair: Ximin Liu (South China Univ. of Tech. )
Jan. 27
8:30-9:20
Makoto Sakuma (Hiroshima Univ.)
The Cannon-Thurston map, fractal tessellations and degeneration of circle chains
Chair: Shicheng Wang (Peking Univ.)
9:30-10:20
Jiajun Wang (Caltech)
TAB
Chair: Kanji Morimoto (Konan Univ.)
10:20-10:40: Tea time
10:40-11:30
Jae Choon Cha (POSTECH )
Homology and L2-signatures from amenable groups
Chair: Fengchun Lei
Seminar Room 212
14:00-14:25
Dongseok Kim (Kyonggi Univ.)
sl(1j1) Combinatorial webs and its weight systems
14:25-14:50
Fumikazu Nagasato (Meijo Univ.)
A topological aspect of the Chebyshev polynomials
Chair: Yinghua Ai (Tsinghua University)
15:10-15:35
Kengo Kishimoto (Osaka City Univ.)
A table of pseudo-prime genus two handlebody-knots with up to six crossings
15:35-16:00
Yu Bin (Tongji Univ. )
Lyapunov graphs of nonsingular Smale °ows on S1 ￡ S2
Chair: Jiming Ma (Fudan Univ.)
Seminar Room 214
14:00-14:25
Ximin Liu (South China Institute of Tech.)
Nonsmoothable involutions on elliptic surfaces
14:25-14:50
Takahiro Kitayama (The Univ. of Tokyo )
On metabelian Reidemeister torsion
Chair: Yuichi Yamada (Univ. of Electro-communications )
14:50-15:10 Tea time
15:10-15:35
Jin Hong Kim (KAIST)
Symplectic circle actions and isolated ˉxed points of symplectic manifolds
15:35-16:00
Yoshiro Yaguchi (Hiroshima Univ.)
On BC-equivalence between two tuples of the standard generators of an Artin
group of ˉnite type.
Chair: Youlin Li (Sahnghai Jiaotong Univ.)
16:10-16:35
Yeonhee Jang (Hiroshima univ.)
Symmetric quandle colorings for handlebody-links
16:35-17:00
Hiromasa Moriuchi (Osaka City Univ. )
An enumeration of non-prime theta-curves and handcu? graphs with up to seven
crossings
Chair: Teruhisa Kadokami (Dalian Univ. of Tech.)
Seminar Room 216
14:00-14:25
Akio Kawauchi (Osaka City Univ.)
Applying spatial graph imitations
14:25-14:50
Xuezhi Zhao (Capital Normal Univ.)
Non-singular Smale °ows and torsions of 3-manifolds
Chair: Youngsik Huh (Hanyang Univ. )
14:50-15:10 Tea time
15:10-15:35
Naoko Kamada (Nagoya City Univ.)
Quandle of twisted links
15:35-16:00
Joon Hyun La (KAIST )
Graphs whose 3,4-graph braid groups are right-angled Artin groups
Chair: Masahide Iwakiri (Osaka City Univ.)
16:10-16:35
Yasutaka Nakanishi (Kobe Univ.)
Alexander polynomials of knots which are transformed into the trefoil knot by
a single crossing change
16:35-17:00
Jung Hoon Lee (KIAS)
Tunnel number one, locally unknotted theta curves are prime
Chair: Xiangjun Wang (Nankai Univ.)
Jan. 28
8:30-9:20
Yuichi YAMADA (Univ. of Electro-communications )
Every Berge's knot of lens space surgery is a divide knot.
Chair: Jae Choon Cha (POSTECH)
9:30-10:20
Takefumi Nosaka (Kyoto Univ.)
On quandle homology groups of Alexander quandles of prime order
Chair: Xuezhi Zhao (Capital Normal Univ..)
10:20-10:40: Tea time
10:40-11:30
Shicheng Wang (Peking Univ. )
Graph manifolds have virtually positive Seifert volume
Chair: Akio Kawauchi (Osaka City Univ.)