Tresses in Pau 2009

5-8th october 2009

3 lectures (4 times 1 hour)
Jose IGNACIO COGOLLUDO	Braid monodromy and plane Algebraic curves
Gwenael MASSUYEAU	3-dimensional manifolds and abelian Reidemeister torsion
Juan GONZALES-MENESES	Algebraic and geometric aspects of braid groups and Artin groups
Contributed talks 30 mn
Arkadius KALKA	Subgroup conjugacy problem for parabolic subgroups of the braid group
Khaled AL-SHARO	Some characterisation of finite groups in which semipermutability is a transitive relation
Jon BERRICK	Brunnian braid and mapping class groups for surfaces
Lluis BACARDIT	A new proof of a theorem of Dehornoy
Fabrice CASTEL	Reduction curves associated to morphisms from braid groups in mapping class groups
Alessia CATTABRIGA	Hilden braid groups
Joel HADDLEY	Symmetric singularities and complex hyperbolic reflection groups
Arye JUHASZ	The twisted conjugacy problem in certain Artin groups
Ivan MARIN	Closure of the Braid groups inside the BMW algebra
Daniel MATEI	Artin groups, Algebraic curves and Alexander polynomials
Mineko MATSUMOTO	A partial order on the set of prime knots with up to 11 crossings
Andres NAVAS	Hecke groups and Dehornoy like orderings
Stepan OREVKOV	On the slice genus of $\sigma_1^{-k}\Delta^n$ and related topics
Anne-Laure THIEL	Categorification of the singular braid monoids and of the virtual braid groups