Program on Braids

BRAIDS

(14 May - 13 Jul 2007)

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Confirmed Visitors

(as at 27 Jun 2007)

NAME & AFFILIATION	PERIOD OF VISIT	TENTATIVE TITLE OF TALK
OVERSEAS VISITORS
Alejandro Adem University of British Columbia, Canada adem@pims.math.ca	10 - 17 Jun 2007	Homotopy and cohomology of spaces of homomorphisms
Moghaddam Alizadeh Yasuj University, Iran aalizadeh@mail.yu.ac.ir	25 - 29 Jun 2007
Mitch A Berger University College London, UK m.berger@ucl.ac.uk	16 - 27 Jun 2007	Tutorial: Magnetohydrodynamics Braids, Twist, Writhe, and Solar Activity (PDF)
Joan S. Birman Columbia University, USA jb@math.columbia.edu	23 Jun - 2 Jul 2007	Lorenz links
Ryan Budney University of Victoria, Canada budney@ihes.fr	7 - 10 Jun 2007, 16 - 30 Jun 2007	De-looping embedding spaces (PDF)
Fred R. Cohen University of Rochester, USA cohf@math.rochester.edu	2 - 29 Jun 2007	Tutorial: Configuration spaces (PDF 1, PDF 2) On spaces of homomorphisms (PDF)
Nguyen Viet Dung Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam vietdung@math.ac.vn	7 Jun - 1 Jul 2007	On the configuration space of type B (PDF)
Jesper Grodal University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Olubunmi Abidemi Fadipe-Joseph University of Ilorin, Nigeria famelov@unilorin.edu.ng	4 - 28 Jun 2007	On global and braid index (PDF)
David Garber Holon Institute of Technology, Israel garber@hit.ac.il	18 - 28 Jun 2007	Tutorial: Braid groups cryptography (PDF 1) (PDF 2) Length-based cryptanalysis of the braid group and some applications (PDF)
Robert Ghrist University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA ghrist@math.uiuc.edu	17 - 27 Jun 2007	Tutorial: Configuration spaces and robotics (PDF) Braids and differential equations
Juan Gonzalez-Meneses Univ. de Seville, Spain meneses@us.es	18 - 30 Jun 2007	Towards a polynomial solution to the conjugacy problem in braid groups (PDF)
Jelena Grbic University of Manchester, UK Jelena.Grbic@manchester.ac.uk	27 May - 17 June 2007	The integral homology ring of the based loop space on a flag manifold
Vladimir Grujic Belgrade University, Serbia vgrujic@matf.bg.ac.yu	11 Jun - 1 Jul 2007
Ki Hyoung Ko Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea knot@knot.kaist.ac.kr	24 - 30 Jun 2007	A polynomial-time solution to the reducibility problem (PDF)
Toshitake Kohno University of Tokyo, Japan kohno@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp	23 - 30 Jun 2007	Representing braids by hypergeometric integrals (PDF)
Olamide Laleru Polytechnic of Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria close2franco@yahoo.com	25 - 29 Jun 2007
Jae-Eun Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea lee-jaeeun@kaist.ac.kr	18 - 29 Jun 2007
Hojoo Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea ultrametric@gmail.com	17 - 30 Jun 2007
Eon Kyung Lee Sejong University, Korea eonkyung@sejong.ac.kr	25 - 29 Jun 2007
Sang Jin Lee Konkuk University, Korea sangjin@konkuk.ac.kr	23 - 30 Jun 2007	Reduction systems and ultra summit sets of reducible braids (PDF)
Mihaela Lftime Boston University, USA miftime@bu.edu	18 - 29 Jun 2007
Keerti Vardhan Madahar Panjab University, India keerti1vardhan@gmail.com	3 - 17 Jun 2007
Dan Margalit University of Utah, USA margalit@math.utah.edu	23 - 30 Jun 2007	Dimension of the Torelli groups (PDF)
Urtzi Buijs Martin Universidad de Malaga, Spain urtzibuijs@hotmail.com	23 Jun - 1 Jul 2007	Rational homotopy of the mapping space
Tetsuhiro Moriyama University of Tokyo, Japan tetsuhir@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp	10 - 30 Jun 2007
Aniceto Murillo Mas Universidad De Malaga, Spain aniceto@agt.cie.uma.es	19 Jun - 1 Jul 2007	Topological complexity of formal spaces
Junalyn Navarra-Madsen Texas Woman's University, USA JNavarraMadsen@mail.twu.edu	17 - 30 Jun 2007	Coloring n-string braids and tangles and its application to molecular biology (PDF)
Luis Paris Université de Bourgogne, France lparis@u-bourgogne.fr	24 - 29 Jun 2007	Singular Hecke algebras, Markov traces, and link invariants (PDF)
Dale Rolfsen University of British Columbia, Canada rolfsen@math.ubc.ca	3 Jun - 29 Jun 2007	Tutorial: Braids - definitions and braid groups (PDF) Densely ordered braid subgroups (PDF)
Keiichi Sakai University of Tokyo, Japan ksakai63@hotmail.com	21 - 30 Jun 2007
Yongjin Song Inha University, Korea yjsong@inha.ac.kr	25 - 29 Jun 2007
Masaaki Suzuki Akita University, Japan macky@math.akita-u.ac.jp	25 - 29 Jun 2007
Dai Tamaki Shinshu University, Japan rivulus@math.shinshu-u.ac.jp	25 - 30 Jun 2007
Stephen Theriault University of Aberdeen, UK stephen@maths.abdn.ac.uk	1 - 17 Jun 2007	A new construction of Anick's fibration
Volodia Vershinin Universite Montpellier II, France vershini@math.univ-montp2.fr	10 Jun - 2 Jul 2007	On the inverse braid monoid
Huynh Quang Vu Vietnam National University, Vietnam huynhqvu@yahoo.com	2 - 29 Jun 2007	Twisted Reidemeister torsion for twist knots (PDF)
Nathalie Wahl University of Chicago, USA wahl@math.uchicago.edu	24 - 30 Jun 2007	Stabilizing braid groups and mapping class groups of 3-manifolds (PDF)
Miguel Xicotencatl Merino Centrode Investigacion Estudios Avanzados, Mexico xico@math.cinvestav.mx	16 May - 13 Jul 2007	Batalin -- Vilkovisky algebras, braid groups and free loop spaces Orbit configuration spaces and surface braid groups The loop orbifold of the symmetric product
Bert Wiest Université de Rennes 1, France	17 - 29 Jun 2007	On the genericity of pseudo-Anosov elements of mapping class groups
Qibing Zheng Nankai University, China zhengqb@nankai.edu.cn	10 - 16 Jun 2007	The cohomology and homology of a lie algebra
LOCAL VISITORS
Jon Berrick National University of Singapore matberic@nus.edu.sg	14 May - 13 Jul 2007
Hua-Shu Dou Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore tsldh@nus.edu.sg	18 - 22, 25 - 29 Jun 2007	Patterns generated during the transition to turbulence
Fedor Duzhin Nanyang Technological University, Singapore fduzhin@ntu.edu.sg	14 May - 13 Jul 2007
Andrew Kricker Nanyang Technological University, Singapore AJKricker@ntu.edu.sg	14 May - 13 Jul 2007
Dimitri Pasechnik Nanyang Technological University, Singapore dimpase@gmail.com	14 May - 13 Jul 2007
Yan-Loi Wong National University of Singapore matwyl@nus.edu.sg	14 May - 13 Jul 2007
Jie Wu National University of Singapore matwuj@nus.edu.sg	14 May - 13 Jul 2007	Simplicial objects and homotopy groups (PDF)
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Byung Hee An Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea anbyhee@knot.kaist.ac.kr	17 - 30 Jun 2007
Jianxia Bai Nankai University, China bjx@mail.nankai.edu.cn	1- 30 Jun 2007
Maria Guadalupe Castillo Perez Bonn Universität, Germany castillo@math.uni-bonn.de	31 May - 30 Jun 2007	On hopf algebras associated to groups and quandles
Wei Dong Chen National University of Singapore u0304506@nus.edu.sg	14 May - 13 Jul 2007
Julia Collins University of Edinburgh, UK s0681349@sms.ed.ac.uk	3 - 30 Jun 2007	An algorithm to compute Seifert Matrices from Braids
Torres Giese Enrique The University of British Columbia, Canada enrique@math.ubc.ca	19 - 30 Jun 2007	Spaces of group homomorphisms and group cohomology
Timothy Foo Rutgers University - Newark, US tfoo@andromeda.rutgers.edu	11 - 29 Jun 2007
Pritha Guha National University of Singapore g0600459@nus.edu.sg	14 May - 13 Jul 2007
Cristhian Emmanuel Garay López Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto, Mexico cgaray@math.cinvestav.mx	16 May - 13 Jul 2007	The Leray spectral sequence and the cohomology of configuration spaces
Laura Rocio González Ramírez Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto, Mexico lrgr@math.cinvestav.mx	16 May - 13 Jul 2007	The braid groups of the projective plane
Tetsuya Ito The University of Tokyo, Japan tetitoh@gmail.com	3 - 23 Jun 2007
Jingyan Li Hebei Normal University, China yanjinglee@163.com	3 - 30 Jun 2007
Zhi Yuan Lim National University of Singapore g0306244@nus.edu.sg	4 - 8, 11 - 15, 18 - 22 Jun 2007
Minghui Liu Dalian University of Technology, China matliumh@gmail.com	1 - 30 Jun 2007
E-Jay Ng National University of Singapore g0403235@nus.edu.sg	14 May - 13 Jul 2007	Tutorial: Preliminaries in topology and algebra (PDF)
Kiat Tat Qua University Malaya, Malaysia qkt84@yahoo.com	2 - 29 Jun 2007
Keefe Sanagustin Brandeis University, USA syzygy@brandeis.edu	1 - 29 Jun 2007
Qiang Sun University of Rochester, USA sunqiang@math.rochester.edu	2 - 25 Jun 2007
Yuyu Wang Nankai University, China wangboyu@gmail.com	3 - 23 Jun 2007	Some nontrivial elements in the stable homotopy groups of sphere
Wen Weng South China Normal University, China wengwen229@tom.com	1 - 30 Jun 2007
Zihong Yuan Nankai University, China maths@mail.nankai.edu.cn	1 - 30 Jun 2007
Ekaterina Yurasovskaya The University of British Columbia, Canada yurasoe@math.ubc.ca	3 Jun - 1 Jul 2007	String links and orderability
Wenbin Zhang Dalian University of Technology, China wbzhang1984@yahoo.com.cn	3 - 23 Jun 2007
Hao Zhao Nankai University, China zhaohao120@mail.nankai.edu.cn	1 - 30 Jun 2007	Combinatorial description of homotpy groups of wedge of spheres
Xiaoying Zhou Nankai University, China zhouxiaoying@mail.nankai.edu.cn	1 - 30 Jun 2007
Peng Zheng Zhejiang University, China howtofly@gmail.com	2 - 29 Jun 2007	Free differential calculus and representations
Zhixian Zhu Zhejiang University, China zhuzhixian34@gmail.com	2 - 29 Jun 2007	Orderability of braids
REGISTERED LOCAL PARTICIPANTS
Sangjib Kim National University of Singapore matks@nus.edu.sg	4 - 8 Jun 2007
Wayne Lawton National University of Singapore matwml@nus.edu.sg
Aditya Liviandi Insitute of Infocomm Research, Singapore adityal@i2r.a-star.edu.sg	4 - 29 Jun 2007
Gary Yeh garyyehyl@gmail.com	4 - 29 Jun 2007

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