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Hiroshima Topology Conference
Four Dimensional Topology
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Japan
November 15 -- November 17, 2010
Speakers include
Daniel Ruberman (Brandeis University)
Refik Inanc Baykur (Brandeis University)
Akio Kawauchi (Osaka City University)
Osamu Saeki (Kyushu University)
Program
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Abstracts (pdf
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November 15 (Mon)
14:00--14:40 Takao Matumoto (Hiroshima University)
On the unknotting conjecture in dimension four VI
14:50--15:30 Toshifumi Tanaka (Gifu University)
On the Jones polynomial of ribbon knots
16:00--16:40 Refik Inanc Baykur (Brandeis University)
Broken Lefschetz fibrations and pencils
16:50--17:30 Susumu Hirose (Saga University)
On diffeomorphisms over non-orientable surfaces standardly embedded in
the 4-sphere and the level-2 mapping class group
17:40--18:20 Nobuhiro Nakamura (University of Tokyo)
Seiberg-Witten theory and intersection forms with local coefficients
November 16 (Tue)
09:00--09:50 Daniel Ruberman (Brandeis University)
Periodic-end Dirac operators and Seiberg-Witten theory
10:00--10:40 Refik Inanc Baykur (Brandeis University)
Round handles, logarithmic transforms, and smooth four-manifolds
11:00--11:40 Osamu Saeki (Kyushu University)
Elimination of definite fold and broken Lefschetz fibrations
11:50--12:30 Naoyuki Monden (Osaka University)
Lefschetz fibrations over a torus admitting a section of square 0
14:00--14:40 Kouichi Yasui (Kyoto University)
Cork twisting exotic Stein 4-manifolds
14:50--15:30 Takefumi Nosaka (RIMS, Kyoto University)
4-fold symmetric quandle invariants of 3-manifolds (joint work with Eri
Hatakenaka)
16:00--16:40 Inasa Nakamura (RIMS, Kyoto University)
Quandle cocycle invariant of a certain T^2-link
16:50--17:30 Yoshiro Yaguchi (Hiroshima University)
Hurwitz equivalence in braid systems and its applications to surface
braids
17:40--18:20 Kentaro Saji (Gifu university)
Recognition criteria for singularities of fronts and their applications
November 17 (Wed)
09:00--09:40 Hirofumi Sasahira (Nagoya university)
Instanton Floer homology for lens spaces
09:50--10:30 Motoo Tange (RIMS, Kyoto University)
Knot surgery on $S^2\times S^2$
10:50--11:30 Shohei Yamada (Osaka University)
On Cappell-Shaneson homotopy spheres
11:40--12:20 Akio Kawauchi (Osaka City University)
Immersed link cobordism and multi-variable Alexander polynomial
Organizers: Seiichi Kamada and Takao Matumoto (Hiroshima
University)