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Hiroshima Topology Conference
Four Dimensional Topology
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Japan
February 5 -- February 7, 2008
Speakers include
Ronald Fintushel（Michigan State University）
Tsuyoshi Kato (Kyoto University)
Akio Kawauchi (Osaka City University)
Masaaki Ue (Kyoto University)
Schedule
Program (in Japanese)
Program (in English)
Abstracts of talks (in
English)
February 5 (Tue)
14：00--14：40
Takashi Nishimura (Yokohama National University)
Singularity theory and fundamental moves on surface-link diagrams, I
14：50--15：30
Takashi Nishimura (Yokohama National University)
Singularity theory and fundamental moves on surface-link diagrams, II
15：50--16：30
Boldizsar Kalmar (Kyushu University)
Cobordisms of singular maps from 4-manifolds
16：40--17：20
Shin Satoh (Kobe University)
No knotted projective plane has triple point number two
February 6 (Wed)
10：00--10：50
Ronald Fintushel（Michigan State University）
Reverse engineering
11：00--11：40
Tsuyoshi Kato (Kyoto University)
Yang-Mills gauge theory over Casson handles and its application
13：10--13：50
Akio Kawauchi (Osaka City University)
Alternation number and link concordance
14：00--14：40
Susumu Hirose (Saga University)
Periodic maps on surfaces and examples of Lefschetz fibrations
14：50--15：30
Toshifumi Tanaka (OCAMI, Osaka City University)
Knots and embedded minimal surfaces in 4-space
15：50--16：30
Kokoro Tanaka (Gakushuin University)
A categorification of the one-variable Kamada-Miyazawa polynomial
(joint work with Atsushi Ishii(RIMS, Kyoto University)
16：40--17：20
Akiko Shima (Tokai University)
Charts with two crossings
(joint work with Teruo Nagase (Tokai University))
17：30--18：10
Akira Yasuhara (Tokyo Gakugei University)
Classification of string links up to self delta-moves and concordance
February 7 (Thu)
10：00--10：40
Takao Matumoto (Hiroshima University)
On the smooth unknotting conjecture in dimension four
10：50--11：30
Yuichi Yamada (Univ. of Electro-Communications)
Torus knots, generalized rational blow-down, and lens space surgery of
Type 7, 8
11：40--12：20
Masaaki Ue (Kyoto University)
The Ozsvath-Szabo and the Neumann-Siebenmann invariants for certain
plumbed 3-manifolds
Organizers: Takao Matumoto and Seiichi Kamada (Hiroshima University)