Moscow Russian-French conference
"Around Braids"

Moscow, 17-22 November 2002

List of Participants

David BESSIS (Moscow, LIFR)

david-bessis AT wanadoo.fr

Patrick DEHORNOY (Caen Univ.)

dehornoy AT math.unicaen.fr

Ivan DYNNIKOV (Moscow, MSU)

dynnikov AT mech.math.msu.su

Alexandr GAIFULLIN (Moscow, MSU, IUM)

gaifull AT mccme.ru

Jerome LOS (Marseille, CMI)

los AT cmi.univ-mrs.fr

Serguei LANDO (LIFR, IUM, Org. Committee)

lando AT mccme.ru

Vassily MANTUROV (MSU, IUM)

vassily AT manturov.mccme.ru

Jean MICHEL (Paris, Jussieu)

jmichel AT math.jussieu.fr

Andrey MALYUTIN (Saint-Petersburg, POMI)

aasdff AT yandex.ru

Stepan OREVKOV (Toulouse Univ., MIAS)

orevkov AT picard.ups-tlse.fr

Alexei SOSSINSKI (LIFR, Org. Committee)

abs AT mccme.ru

Hervé SIBERT (Caen Univ.)

herve.sibert AT m4x.org

Vladimir VERSHININ (Montpellier Univ.)

vershini AT darboux.math.univ-montp2.fr

Mikhail VYALYI (UIM, MIAS, Org. Committee)

vyalyi AT mccme.ru

Adresses

Independent University of Moscow

B.Vlasevskii per.11, tel.: 241 0500 Metro "Kropotkinskaya" or "Smolenskaya"

MIAS (Steklov Institute)

Ul. Vavilova 40 Metro "Universitet" + tram No 14,39 "Ul. Gubkina"

Ambassade de France

Bolshaya Yakimanka 43,

Scientific program

Sunday November 17

• 11:00 D.Bessis. Presentations for exceptional braid groups
• 12:00 J.Michel. Programming with braids: the VKcurve and CHEVIE packages of GAP
• 13:00 Lunch
• 14:30 V.Manturov. New invariants of virtual knots

Monday November 18

• 11:00 P.Dehornoy. Braid-based cryptography
• 12:00 H.Sibert. Attacks and proofs in braid cryptography
• 13:00 Lunch
• 14:30 A.Maluytin. Dehornoy's ordering and Markov-Birman-Menasco operations

Tuesday November 19

• 11:00 I.Dynnikov. Algorithm of monotone simplification of the unknot
• 12:00 V.Vershinin. Dynnikov 3-page embeddings of singular knots
• 13:00 Lunch
• 14:30 J.Los. Some automata generating all pseudo-Anosov braids

Wednesday November 20

• 11:00 S.Orevkov. On singular braids
• 12:00 N.Netsetaev. Braids and presentations of 3- and 4-manifolds
• 13:00 Lunch
• 14:30 S.Lando. Towards a complexification of Vassiliev invariants of knots (and braids?)

Thursday November 21

Free day (no talks)

• 10:00-12:00 Inauguration of the French-Russian Math Lab LIFR MI^2 P

Friday November 22nd

• 11:00-13:00 Additional (short) talks and problem session