To celebrate the 70th birthday of Fico González Acuña


December 17-20, 2012
Cimat, Guanajuato, México.





Invited Speakers (expanded talks):





Ken Baker,

University of Miami

"Open Books and Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds"




Michel Boileau,

Université Paul Sabatier

"Commensurability classes of hyperbolic knot complements and hidden symmetries"




Cameron Gordon,

University of Texas at Austin

"L-spaces and left-orderability"
"Decision problems about higher-dimensional knot groups"




Wolfgang Heil,

Florida State University

"Fico's cats"
"Fico's amenable cats"




Fabiola Manjarrez,

Cimat

"Non-fibered free genus one knots are almost fibered"




Makoto Ozawa,

Komazawa University

"Coexistence of coiled surfaces and spanning surfaces for knots and links"




Hamish Short,

Université de Provence

"The homeomorphism problem for hyperbolic 3 manifolds"



Scott Taylor,

Colby College


"Exceptional Surgeries & Bridge Distance"




Luis Valdez-Sánchez,

University of Texas at El Paso

"Reducible Dehn fillings of 3-manifolds"
"Toroidal Dehn fillings of 3-manifolds"




Mariel Vázquez,

San Francisco State University

"DNA unknotting and unlinking"
"DNA unknotting, topoisomerases and bacteriophages"




Invited Speakers (shorter talks):




Carlos Barrera,

University of California at Davis

"A collection of multicurve complexes"



Luis Chan,

Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

"Reducible and Toroidal Handle Additions"



Juan Pablo Díaz,

IMATE-UNAM

"The figure-eight knot complement"



Brandy Doleshal,

Sam Houston State University

"On knots with three cyclic surgeries"



Oyuki Hermosillo,

Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit

"The group of permutations of 3-cucas, some properties"



Erik López,

IMATE-UNAM

"Knots with infinitely many closed essential surfaces"





Contact: Please address all the correspondence regarding the conference to
mailto: Mario Eudave-Muñoz.








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