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Algebraic Topology, Braids and Mapping Class Groups
(15 - 19 Dec 2008)

The Second East Asia Conference on Algebraic Topology

Venue: IMS Auditorium

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Monday, 15 Dec 2008
09:00am - 09:45am	Registration
09:45am - 10:00am	Opening remarks Chi Tat Chong, National University of Singapore
	Chair: Jon Berrick, National University of Singapore
10:00am - 10:30am	Toric cohomological rigidity of simple convex polytopes (PDF) Dong Youp Suh, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
10:30am - 11:00am	Group actions on 4-manifolds (PDF) Ximin Liu, South China University of Technology, China
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:30am - 12:00nn	On 3-manifolds with locally-standard (Z₂)³-actions (PDF) Zhi Lu, Fudan University, China
12:00nn - 12:30pm	Algebraic structures on n-fold loop spaces Kuerak Chung, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea
12:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
	Chair: Haibao Duan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
03:00pm - 03:30pm	On attractors derived from expanding maps (PDF) Jianzhong Pan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
03:30pm - 04:00pm	How to see the saddle sets of Smale flows in 3-manifolds (PDF) Xuezhi Zhao, Capital Normal University, China
04:00pm - 04:30pm	A model for the homotopy type of the complement (PDF) Nguyen Viet Dung, Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam
04:30pm - ∞	Reception Sponsored by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
	End of Day 1

Tuesday, 16 Dec 2008
09:45am - 10:00am	Registration
	Chair: Norio Iwase, Kyushu University, Japan
10:00am - 10:30am	On mapping class groups of non orientable-surfaces (PDF) Miguel Alejandro Xicotencatl Merino, Centrode Investigacion Estudios Avanzados, Mexico
10:30am - 11:00am	The homotopy groups related to L₂T(m)/(v₁) at an odd prime (PDF) Zihong Yuan, Nankai University, China
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:30am - 12:00nn	Linking in knot theory Chun-Chung Hsieh, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
12:00nn - 12:30pm	Parametrized Borsuk-Ulam problem for projective space bundles (PDF) Mahender Singh, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India
12:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
	Chair: Goro Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
03:00pm - 03:30pm	The L-infinity algebra of toric manifolds (PDF) Cheol Hyun Cho, Seoul National University, Korea
03:30pm - 04:00pm	The geometric analysis of the braiding in the mappping class group category Yongjin Song, Inha University, Korea
04:00pm - 04:30pm	--- Coffee Break ---
04:30pm - 05:00pm	Properties of Bott towers in toric topology (PDF) Suyoung Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
	End of Day 2

Wednesday, 17 Dec 2008
09:45am - 10:00am	Registration
	Chair: Yongjin Song, Inha University, Korea
10:00am - 10:30am	A curious subquotient of the divided power algebra (PDF) Le Minh Ha Vietnam National University, Vietnam
10:30am - 11:00am	Homotopy exponents of some homogeneous spaces (PDF) Hao Zhao, University of Manchester, UK
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:30am - 12:00nn	Noetherian loop spaces (PDF) Jerome Scherer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
12:00nn - 12:30pm	The dimension of the second bounded cohomology (PDF) Hee Sook Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
12:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
	End of Day 3

Thursday, 18 Dec 2008
09:45am - 10:00am	Registration
	Chair: Vladimir Vershinin, University of Monteplier II, France
10:00am - 10:30am	Strong torsion generators, braid groups and mapping class groups (PDF) Jon Berrick, National University of Singapore
10:30am - 11:00am	Homological representations of Artin groups of type B_n(C_n) and D_n (PDF) Zhi Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, China
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:30am - 12:00nn	Simplicial description of Artin's braid group representations (PDF) Fedor Duzhin, Nanyang Technological University
12:00nn - 03:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
	Chair: Nobuyuki Oda, Fukuoka University, Japan
03:00pm - 03:30pm	An open-closed cobordism category with background space Elizabeth Hanbury, National University of Singapore
03:30pm - 04:00pm	Characteristic classes of vector bundles over CP(j) x HP(k) Yanying Wang, Hebei Normal University, China
04:00pm - 04:30pm	--- Coffee Break ---
04:30pm - 05:00pm	A_n invariant for stably tangent bundles and the functional Steenrod square (PDF) Yang Hyun Byun, Hanyang University, Korea
07:00pm	Conference dinner Venue: Sun Asian Bistro, NUS Staff Club
	End of Day 4

Friday, 19 Dec 2008
09:45am - 10:00am	Registration
	Chair: Fengchun Lei, Dalian University of Technology, China
10:00am - 10:30am	On the levels of spaces over a formal space Katsuhiko Kuribayashi, Shinshu University, Japan
10:30am - 11:00am	Pre-cyclic sequences on the homotopy sequences and their applications Jae Ryong Kim, Kookmin University, Korea
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:30am - 12:00nn	An algebraic topological approach toward concrete Schubert calculus (PDF) Shizuo Kaji, Fukuoka University, Japan
12:00nn - 12:30pm	Homological functors with coefficients (PDF) E-Jay Ng, National University of Singapore
12:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
	Chair: Miguel Alejandro Xicotencatl Merino, Centrode Investigacion Estudios Avanzados, Mexico
03:00pm - 03:30pm	On certain 5-manifolds with fundamental group Z_2 (PDF) Yang Su, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
03:30pm - 04:00pm	Twisting segal's K-homology theory (PDF) Dai Tamaki, Shinshu University, Japan
04:00pm - 04:30pm	--- Coffee Break ---
04:30pm - 05:00pm	On the configuration space of a certain n-arms machine in the Euclidean space (PDF) Shuichi Tsukuda University of Ryukyus, Japan
	End of Day 5

Organizing Committee · Confirmed Visitors · Overview · Activities · Funding for Young Scientists

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