Hiroshima University Topology-Geometry Seminar Information
Topology-Geometry Seminar is held on every Tuesday. 
The talks are given mainly in Japanese. 
Topology-Geometry Seminar 2002 started on April 16, 2002. 
The seminar on December 6 was a Topology-Geometry & Algebraic Geometry
joint seminar.
Japanese
version is here. 
Speakers and Titles of Talks
    - 28/1 Norihiko Minami
    (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
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    - 14/1 Masaaki Suzuki
(Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo)
        On the Magnus representation of the mapping class group
         
    - 10/12 Katsumi Shimomura
(Faculty of Science Kochi University)
        On the homotopy groups of spheres
         
    - 6/12 Richard Hain
(Duke University)
        The cohomology of the moduli space of abelian 3-folds
         
    - 3/12 Yoshihiko Suyama
(Department of Applied Mathematics, Fukuoka University)
        New examples of conformally flat hypersurface in Euclidean 4-space
         
    - 26/11 Yasuhiro NAKAGAWA
(Mathematical Institute Tohoku University)
        A remark on Tian's notions of stability for Fano manifolds
         
    - 19/11 Hirotaka Akiyoshi
(Graduate School of Science, Osaka University)
        McShane's identity and its variations
         
    - 12/11 Takao Matumoto
(Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University)
        Deformation of chart diagrams of singular
2-dimensional braids and its applications
         
    - 29/10 Regidor Garcia Antonio
(Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University)
        Some results on a conjecture of Eilenberg-Maclane
         
    - 22/10 Akio Kawauchi
(Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University)
        The classification problem of closed orientable 3-manifolds
         
    - 15/10 Makoto Matsumoto
(Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University)
        Relations between Dehn twists arising from
        deformation of singularity
         
    - 1/10 Seiichi Kamada
    (Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University)
        Quandle homology and its application to knot theory
         
    - 16/07 Yukio Matsumoto
(Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo)
        Survey of codimension 2 surgery (canceled)
         
    - 9/07 Shin Satoh
(Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University)
        Positive, alternating, or simple surface-knots
         
    - 4/07 Hiroyasu Izeki
    (Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University)
        Combinatrial harmonic maps and superrigidity
         
    - 25/06 Nobuyoshi Takahashi
(Graduate school of Science, Hiroshima University)
        Introduction to mirror symmetry
         
    - 11/06 Yoshio Agaoka
(Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University)
        Projective codimension of Lie groups
         
    - 4/06 Masakazu Teragaito
        (Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University)
        Crosscap numbers of torus knots
         
    - 28/05 Toshiyuki Sugawa
        (Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University)
        On the bottom of spectrum of a 2-dimensional hyperbolic manifold
         
    - 21/05 Masaaki Umehara
        (Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University) 
        Flat surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space 
    - 14/05 Takeshi Kura
        (Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University) 
        A Laplacian comparison theorem 
    - 07/05 Nobuhiro Honda
        (Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University) 
        Non-Moishezon twistor spaces of 4CP^2 
    - 23/04 Seiichi Kamada
        (Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University) 
        On generalization of braids 
    - 16/04 Taro Asuke
        (Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University) 
        The Bott class as a Chern-Simons invariant 
The seminars held in the past (academic) years
Topology
group 
Seiichi Kamada kamada@math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Nobuhiro Honda honda@math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp