To celebrate the 70th birthday of Fico González Acuña
December 17-20, 2012
Cimat, Guanajuato, México.
PROGRAM:
MONDAY
9:10 - 9:25: Inauguration.9:30 - 10:20: Wolfgang Heil. Fico's cats. Abstract.
10:30 - 11:20: Ken Baker. Open books and contact structures on 3-manifolds I: Contact Structures from Open Books. Abstract.
11:30 - 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 - 12:50: Scott Taylor. Exceptional Surgeries & Bridge Distance I: The role of thin position. Abstract.
13:00 - 13:50: Cameron Gordon. L-spaces and left-orderability. Abstract.
14:00 - 16:00: Lunch
16:00 - 16:50: Luis Valdez. Reducible Dehn fillings of 3-manifolds. Abstract.17:00 - 17:30: Coffee break
17:30 - 17:50: Brandy Doleshal. On knots with three cyclic surgeries. Abstract.
18:00 - 18:20: Luis Chan. Reducible and Toroidal Handle Additions. Abstract.
18:30 - 18:50: Carlos Barrera. A collection of multicurve complexes. Abstract.
TUESDAY
9:30 - 10:20: Wolfgang Heil. Fico's amenable cats. Abstract.10:30 - 11:20: Ken Baker. Open Books and Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds II: Contact Cell Decompositions. Abstract.
11:30 - 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 - 12:50 Scott Taylor. Exceptional Surgeries & Bridge Distance II: The genus of an alternately sloped essential surface bounds distance. Abstract.
13:00 - 13:50: Mariel Vázquez. DNA unknotting and unlinking. Abstract.
14:00 - 16:00: Lunch
16:00 - 16:50: Luis Valdez. Toroidal Dehn fillings of 3-manifolds. Abstract.17:00 - 17:30: Coffee break
17:30 - 17:50: Oyuki Hermosillo. The group of permutations of 3-cucas, some properties. Abstract.
18:00 - 18:20: Erik López. Knots with infinitely many closed essential surfaces. Abstract.
18:30 - 19:20: Juan Pablo Díaz. The figure-eight knot complement. Abstract.
WEDNESDAY
9:30 - 10:20: Michel Boileau. Commensurability classes of hyperbolic knot complements and hidden symmetries I. Abstract.10:30 - 11:20: Ken Baker. Open Books and Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds III: Dehn Surgery and Open Books. Abstract.
11:30 - 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 - 12:50: Scott Taylor. Exceptional Surgeries & Bridge Distance III: The genus of an alternately sloped bridge surface bounds distance. Abstract.
13:00 - 14:30 Collective. About Fico and his work.
14:45 - ∞ : Banquet
THURSDAY
9:30 - 10:20: Michel Boileau. Commensurability classes of hyperbolic knot complements and hidden symmetries II. Abstract.10:30 - 11:20: Mariel Vázquez. DNA unknotting, topoisomerases and bacteriophages. Abstract.
11:30 - 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 - 12:50: Makoto Ozawa. Coexistence of coiled surfaces and spanning surfaces for knots and links. Abstract.
13:00 - 13:50: Fabiola Manjarrez. Non-fibered free genus one knots are almost fibered. Abstract.
14:00 - 16:00: Lunch
16:00 - 16:50: Hamish Short. The homeomorphism problem for hyperbolic 3 manifolds. Abstract.17:00 - 17:30: Coffee break
17:30 - 18:20: Cameron Gordon. Decision problems about higher-dimensional knot groups. Abstract.
Contact:
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regarding the conference to
mailto: Mario Eudave-Muñoz