Proceedings of the First East Asian School of Knots, Links, and Related Topics

Preface
Braids, knots and contact structures Joan Birman	1
Concordance of knots in rational homology spheres Jae Choon Cha	11
The HOMFLY polynomial of knots with free periods Nafaa Chbili	17
On braids, representations, and homotopy theory Frederick Cohen	21
Diagrams colourings and applications Patrick Dehornoy	37
On diffeomorphisms over surfaces in the complex projective plane Susumu Hirose	65
The smale conjecture for lens spaces Sung Bok Hong, Darryl McCullough, and J. H. Rubinstein	69
Skein relations of the Links-Gould invariant and their applications Atsushi Ishii	75
Dihedral cocycle invariants of twist-spun 2-bridge knots Masahide Iwakiri	85
Reidemeister torsion of homology lens spaces Teruhisa Kadokami	95
Virtual knots and virtual crossings Naoko Kamada	103
Knot mutation: 4-genus of knots and algebraic concordance Se-Goo Kim and Charles Livingston	111
Braids, hypergeometric integrals and conformal field theory Toshitake Kohno	127
Two tunnels of a tunnel number one link Jung Hoon Lee and Gyo Taek Jin	151
Conjugacy classes of reducible braids Sang Jin Lee	135
Reducing and annular Dehn fillings Sang Yop Lee	131
4-dimensional surgery on a "pochette" Zjunici Iwase and Yukio Matsumoto	161
On the Jones polynomials of ribbon knots of 1-fusion Yoko Mizuma	167
An enumeration of theta-curves with up to seven crossings Hiromasa Moriuchi	171
A combinatorial calculus for $\mathcal{A}$-spaces Daniel Moskovich	187
The minimal relation in the Kauffman bracket skein module of the $m$-twist knot Razvan Gelca and Fumikaza Nagasato	199
On the crossing number of knot and the canonical genus of its Whitehead double Takuji Nakamura	211
Delta unknotting operation and Vassiliev invariants Yasutaka Nakanishi and Yoshiyuki Ohyama	221
Sharp edge-homotopy on spatial graphs Ryo Nikkuni	227
Dehn fillings and small surfaces Sangyop Lee, Seungsang Oh, and Masakazu Teragaito	235
Braids and singular braids on surfaces Luis Paris	247
The reducibilities of Heegaard splittings Ruifeng Qiu	257
Complexity of Heegaard splittings Toshio Saito	265
A variation of McShane's identity for punctured surface bundles Hirotaka Akiyoshi, Hideki Miyachi and Makoto Sakuma	269
An approach to weak hyperbolization conjecture via automatic groups Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Makoto Tamura, and Yasushi Yamashita	283
Braid indices of surface-knots and colorings by quandles Kokoro Tanaka	289
On the colored Jones polynomial of links Toshifumi Tanaka	299
Enumerating the prime knots and links by a canonical order Akio Kawauchi and Ikuo Tayama	307
Toroidal surgery on hyperbolic knots Masakazu Teragaito	317
Strongly n-trivial 2-bridge knots and links Ichiro Torisu	325
On Conway polynomials of strongly $n$-trivial knots and knots obtained from Brunnian links Yukihiro Tsutsumi	327
Covering space of $S^3$ branched over pretzel knot Yoshiaki Uchida	333
Clasper moves among ribbon 2-knots characterizing their finite type invariants Tadayuki Watanabe	335
Plane curves of a certain type which gives Berge's knots yielding lens spaces Yuichi Yamada	339
A construction of classifying spaces for $p$-adic group actions Zhiqing Yang	345
On triple point numbers of surface-knots Tsukasa Yashiro	355
Fixed points of some homeomorphisms on 3-dimensional reducible manifolds Xuezhi Zhao	363