Overview
In this workshop we would like to understand various invariants in low-dimensional topology and their applications. In particular, we will focus on the following invariants:

 - Geometric representatives of 3-manifolds and knot groups
 - Polynomial invariants of knots
 - Heegaard Floer and Khovanov homology invariants of knots and manifolds
 - Gauge theoretic invariants of manifolds

Also, there will be two lecture series for 2 days (May 8-9, 2017) right before our workshop at KIAS.
Francesco Lin  and Mark Powell will give lectures about 'An introduction to monopole Floer homology' and 'Topological 4-manifolds and the disc embedding theorem', respectively.

Invited Speakers
Paolo Aceto (Alfred Renyi Institute)
Jae Choon Cha (POSTECH)
Marco Golla (Uppsala University)
Se-Goo Kim (Kyung Hee University)
Taehee Kim (Konkuk University)
Teruaki Kitano (Soka University)
Takahiro Kitayama (Tokyo University)
Francesco Lin (IAS, Princeton University)
Mark Powell (UQAM)
Tatsuro Shimizu (RIMS, Kyoto University)
Zhongtao Wu (CUHK)
Ki-Heon Yun (Sungshin University) 

Organizers
JongHae Keum (KIAS)
Min Hoon Kim (KIAS)
Kyungyong Lee (University of Nebraska-Lincoln / KIAS)
Kyungbae Park (KIAS)

Supported by
NRF (National Researcher Program 2007-0093858)