Nha Trang, 13 - 17/5/2013
Trang web của Hội nghị: http://vietnam2013.gatech.edu
The Quantum Topology and Hyperbolic Geometry Conference will take place in Nha Trang, Vietnam during May 13-17, 2013. The conference is hosted by Nha Trang College of Education and Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi.
ORGANIZERS: Anna Beliakova (Universitat Zurich), Stavros Garoufalidis (Georgia Institute of Technology), Thang T. Q. Le (Georgia Institute of Technology)
LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Phung Ho Hai, Vu The Khoi (Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi), Chu Dinh Loc, Phan Phien (Nha Trang College of Education)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University) and Vladimir Turaev (Indiana University)
TOPICS: Quantum Invariants; Hyperbolic Geometry; Khovanov and Heegaard Floer Homology; Volume and AJ Conjectures; Chern-Simons Theory; TQFT and representations of mapping class groups.
Before the conference during May 6-10, 2013, Dave Futer, Kazuo Habiro, and Gregor Masbaum will each give a 5-lecture mini-course at the Institute of Mathematics in Hanoi.
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David Futer (Temple Univ., USA): Hyperbolic knot theory
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Kazuo Habiro (RIMS, Japan): Category-theoretic structures in 3-dimensional topology
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Gregor Masbaum (Univ. Paris 6, France): Skein-theoretic construction of TQFT and Integral TQFT
For more information, please visit http://vietnam2013.gatech.edu |
