1998 Nara Topology Project (Laminations on 3-manifolds)

Monday, January 5

1:00-2:00 Tsuyoshi Kobayashi (Nara Women's Univ.), Introduction to lamination, normal surface, and thin position.

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3:00-4:30 Saburo Matsumoto (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), Polyhedral Metrics and Immersed Surfaces in 3-Manifolds

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Tuesday, January 6

9:30-11:30 Masako Kobayashi (Assumption Juniour College), Algorithmic tabulation of incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds

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1:00-3:00 Mikami Hirasawa (Osaka Univ.), Thurston norm minimizing surface and essential laminations

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4:00-5:00 Makoto Ozawa (Waseda Univ.), Hiroshi Matsuda (Tokyo Univ.), Free genus one knots do not admit essential tangle decompositions

Wednesday, January 7

9:30-11:30 Chuichiro Hayashi (Gakushuin Univ.), Studying Dehn surgery via graphs derived from intersections of surfaces

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1:00-3:00 Koya Shimokawa (Tokyo Univ.), An introduction to the method of Menasco and Thistlethwaite

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4:00-5:00 Ichiro Torisu (Osaka Univ.), Heegaard splittings and contact structures

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Thursday, January 8

9:30-11:30 Mark Brittenham (Univ. of North Texas), When incompressible tori meet essential laminations

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (Notes prepared by Brittenham)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (Notes taken by T. Kobayashi)