Workshop, May 2018
Geometry and Topology of 3-manifolds workshop
Date
May 25 - May 28, 2018
(arrival date 5/24; departure date 5/29)
Invited Speakers
Benjamin Burton, University of Queensland
Marc Culler, University of Illinois, Chicago
Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
David Gabai, Princeton University
Chuichiro Hayashi, Japan Women's University
Josh Howie, Monash
Autumn Kent, University of Wisconsin
Eiko Kin, Osaka University
Sadayoshi Kojima, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ana Lecuona, l'Universite d'Aix-Marseille
Yoav Moriah, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Tali Pinsky, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
Makoto Sakuma, Hiroshima University
Stephan Tillmann, University of Sydney
Abigail Thompson, University of California, Davis
Participants
Tentative list (pdf)
Accommodation and Local Information
The conference venue for May 25-28 is Seaside House, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan
The public lecture by Joel Hass on May 24th is held on the main OIST campus.
For other accommodation and local information, please refer to this page.
Schedule
Schedule with abstracts (pdf)
Thursday, May 24
There will be a special public lecture by Joel Hass on OIST campus followed by tea. The location will be at the room B250, Level B, Central Building.
16:00–17:00 Public lecture by Joel Hass (UC Davis)
Comparing shapes of genus zero
17:00–17:30 Tea time (Central Building, floor B, room B253)
Friday, May 25
10:00–10:50 Oliver Dasbach (Louisiana State University)
The Colored Jones Polynomial, q-series identities, and the hyperbolic volume
11:10–12:00 David Gabai (Princeton University)
Small cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds
12:00–13:20 Lunch
13:20–14:10 Eiko Kin (Osaka University)
A construction of pseudo-Anosov braids with small normalized entropies
14:30–15:20 Hyam Rubinstein (University of Melbourne)
Counting incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds
15:40–16:30 Tali Pinsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
An upper bound for volumes of geodesics
16:45–17:00 Robert Baughman (Executive Vice President, OIST )
17:00–Dinner
Saturday, May 26
9:30–10:20 Abigail Thompson (UC Davis)
Trisections and link surgeries
10:40–11:30 Chuichiro Hayashi (Japan Women's University)
2-spheres in Morse positions with respect to the open-book decomposition of the 3-sphere
11:30-12:15 lunch
12:15-17:30 excursion (or free time)
17:30– Dinner
Sunday, May 27
10:00–10:50 Sadayoshi Kojima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Quasi-Isometry of Invariants
11:10–12:00 Makoto Sakuma (Hiroshima University)
Kleinian groups generated by two parabolic transformations
12:00–13:20 Lunch
13:20–14:10 Stephan Tillmann (University of Sydney)
Structure of minimal triangulations
14:30–15:20 Benjamin Burton (University of Queensland)
From parameterised to non-parameterised algorithms in knot theory
15:40–16:30 Marc Culler (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Computation of Character Varieties
17:00–Banquet
Monday, May 28
9:00–9:50 Autumn Kent (University of Wisconsin)
Skinning maps along thick rays
10:10–11:00 Ana Lecuona (l'Universite d'Aix-Marseille)
The slope of a link: computation and applications.
11:20–12:10 Josh Howie (Monash University)
Geometry of alternating links on surfaces
12:10–13:10 Lunch
13:10–14:00 Yoav Moriah (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Diagram uniqueness for highly twisted knots
17:00– Dinner
Transportation Schedule
from Moon Beach Hotel (pdf)
from OIST campus and Peridot Smart Hotel (pdf)
from Seaside House (pdf)
Registration is closed.
Support
The conference is supported by NSF and OIST funding. Support can be provided for participants that are not based in Okinawa. Recent PhD's and graduate students with no external funding can be supported fully, while others can be supported partially. The preference is given to those applied by December 10, 2017. The registration form has more information.
Organizers
Joel Hass, University of California, Davis, USA
Jessica Purcell, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Anastasiia Tsvietkova, OIST, Japan/ Rutgers University, Newark, USA
Local Co-Organizers
Tirasan Khandhawit, OIST, Japan
Dale Koenig, OIST, Japan
Nicholas Owad, OIST, Japan
Robert Tang, OIST, Japan
