Program
January 30 (Fri)
13:00--16:15 Teruhisa Kadokami (OCAMI, Osaka City University)
How to use the Reidemeister torsion Abstract
16:30--17:30 Nafaa Chbili (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Invariants of freely periodic knots
(under the joint auspices of OCAMI, room 3153)
17:45-- Teruhisa Kadokami (OCAMI, Osaka City University)
How to use the Reidemeister torsion Abstract

January 31 (Sat)
10:00--10:30 Kazuhiro Ichihara (Nara Women's University, JSPS Research Fellow)
Pseudo-Anosov braids on the 2-sphere Abstract
10:45--11:15 Naoko Tamura (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
On the A-polynomial of a knot
11:30--12:00 Ryosuke Yamamoto (Osaka University)
Legendrian curves on fiber surfaces
13:30--18:00 Tetsuhiro Moriyama (University of Tokyo, JSPS Research Fellow)
On the configuration space of points and the Casson invariant Abstract
18:30-- Party

February 1 (Sun)
10:00--10:30 Yukihiro Tsutsumi (Keio University, JSPS Research Fellow)
A surgery description of homology solid tori and its applications to the Casson invariant Abstract
10:45--11:15 Norihisa Teshigawara (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
On the Khovanov invariant for links Abstract
11:30--12:00 Eri Hatakenaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Invariants of 3-manifolds formulated on their presentations given by 3-fold branched covering spaces over the 3-sphere Abstract
13:30--18:00 Takahito Kuriya (Kyushu University)
TBA

February 2 (Mon)
10:00--10:30 Kokoro Tanaka (University of Tokyo)
Braid indices of surface-knots and colorings by quandles Abstract
10:45--11:15 Isao Hasegawa (University of Tokyo)
Monodromies on a punctured disk Abstract
11:30--12:00 Takashi Makino (Kobe University)
Delta-unknotting numbers and the Conway polynomials of knots
13:30--17:30 Ryo Nikkuni (Waseda University, JSPS Research Fellow)
Delta link-homotopy on spatial graphs Abstract