Conference

 
ADVANCED SCHOOL AND DISCUSSION MEETING
ON KNOT THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS 
 
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Department of mathematics of IIT Ropar in collaboration with IISER Mohali and IISER Pune, Organized ICTS program "Advanced School and Discussion Meeting On Knot Theory and its Applications" during December 10-20,2013 at IISER Mohali.A total of 67 participants including 25 speakers from abroad participated this program.
Speakers were from the USA, Japan, France, Greece, Serbia, Russia,UAE and India. The advanced school was mainly for graduate students and young researchers who are either working or wants to work in Knot theory and related areas. The topics included: Combinatorial Knot theory,Knot Quandles,Knot homologies,Surface knots,Knot theory and 3-manifolds,Knot invariants.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Akio Kawauchi (Osaka City University, Japan)
Kapil Paranjape (IISER Mohali, India)
Louis Kauffman (University of Illinois, USA)
Rama Mishra (IISER Pune, India)
Seiichi Kamada (Osaka City University, Japan)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
K. Gongopadhyay (IISER Mohali, India)
M. Prabhakar (IIT Ropar, India)
Rama Mishra (IISER Pune, India)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
  • Abhijit Champanerkar (College of Staten Island, CUNY, USA)
  • Akio Kawauchi (Osaka City University, Japan)
  • Andrei Vesnin (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia)
  • Ayaka Shimizu (Gunma National College of Technology, Japan)
  • Hideki Miyachi (Osaka University, Japan)
  • Jozef Przytycki (The George Washington University, USA)
  • Kanako Oshiro (Sophia University, Japan)
  • Kenichi Ohshika (Osaka University, Japan)
  • Sofia Lambropoulou (National Technical University, Greece)
  • Sree Krishna P.A.S ( IIT Guwahati, India)
  • Srikanth (IIT Guwahati, India)
  • Takefumi Nosaka (Kyushu University, Japan)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
  • Kanji Morimoto (Konan University, Japan)
  • Kapil Paranjape (IISER Mohali, India)
  • Louis Kauffman (University of Illinois, USA)
  • Makoto Sakuma (Hiroshima University, Japan)
  • Mikami Hirasawa (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Naoko Kamada (Nagoya City University, Japan)
  • Ramadevi (IIT Bombay, India)
  • Seiichi Kamada (Osaka City University, Japan)
  • Thomas Koberda (Yale university, USA)
  • Valeriy G. Bardakov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia)
  • Yeonhee Jang (Nara Women's University, Japan)
  • Yoshiro Yaguchi (Gunma National College of Technology, Japan)