Final Announcement

The First East Asian School of Knots, Links
and Related Topics

Feb. 16 ~ Feb. 20, 2004

Kyoyuk Munhwa Hoekwan, Seoul, Korea

Sponsored by
Korea Research Foundation
Information Center for Mathematical Sciences
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

The first school has been closed with great success,
thanks to cooperation from all participants.

Proceedings (Final Version)

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How to prepare your presentation
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Scope

The purpose of the conference is to help promoting the academic exchange and the friendship among researchers of three East Asian countries in the area of knots, links and related topics and encouraging graduate students of the three countries to study in this fascinating area of mathematics.

Program Committee

Seong Bok Hong, Boju Jiang, Gyo Taek Jin, Mituyoshi Kato, Akio Kawauchi, Ki Hyoung Ko, Toshitake Kohno, Xiao song Lin, Yukio Matsumoto, Ruifeng Qiu

Local Organizing Committee

Jae Choon Cha, Seong Bok Hong, Ki Hyoung Ko, Sang Jin Lee, Seung Sang Oh, Won Taek Song (Secretary)
Email:2004@knot.kaist.ac.kr

Programs

Monday, February 16 is the arrival day and Friday, February 20 is the departure day. The scientific program will begin on Tuesday, February 17 and end on Thursday, February 19. The program will consist of nine 50-minute plenary talks, twelve 30-minute contributed talks and thirty 20-minute contributed talks. Some of plenary speakers will be invited from the West. On each of Tuesday and Wednesday, there will be three plenary talks in the morning, six 30-minute contributed talks on two parallel sessions and fifteen 20-minute contributed talks on three parallel sessions in the afternoon. On Thursday, there will be three plenary talks in the morning and a guided tour in the afternoon.

Proceedings

We will collect drafts of all talks given in the school and publish them in the electronic form of non-refereed proceedings that may serve two purposes, namely, to supply participants with information for missed parallel talks and to please our sponsors by providing them with more faithful reports. All speakers are expected to submit drafts of their talk in any TeX format via email before the school begin.

Scale

We expect 50 persons from Japan, 20 persons from China, 4 persons from the West and 30 persons from Korea. Roughly half of participants are graduate students.

Support

Room and board will be provided to all foreign participants. Basic expenses for Thursday? guided tour will also be covered.

Travel

The gateway to Seoul is Incheon international airport. Please make a flight reservation according to the program above and let us know your reservation by sending an email to 2004@knot.kaist.ac.kr. We recommend you take a limousine bus (No. 609) from the Incheon airport to Yangjae subway station that takes about an hour. Please see English version, Japanese Version or Chinese Version for the details. Participants who stay at Kyoyuk Munhwa Hoekwan ride a shuttle bus near the station and participants who stay at Core Hotel walk to the hotel for about 10 minutes. Graduate student volunteers will guide you at the airport and the station. Those of you who arrive directly at either Gimpo airport or Seoul train station may take either taxi or subway(Line 5 + 3 from Gimpo airport and Line 4 + 3 from Seoul train station) to get to Yangae subway station. The taxi fare would not exceed 20,000 Won from Gimpo airport, 15,000 Won from Seoul train station under the normal traffic condition. If you use taxi and stay at Kyoyuk Munhwa Hoekwan, you may directly go to the hotel.

Venue

For more information on Seoul for visitors, the following can be the starting link of your own language:
English Version, Japanese Version or Chinese Version.

Time Table