The 21st East Asian Conference on Geometric Topology

February 2–5, 2026

Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

The purpose of the conference is to facilitate academic exchange and foster friendship among researchers in geometric topology from the three East Asian countries, as well as to encourage graduate students from these countries to pursue studies in this fascinating area of mathematics.

Plenary Speakers

Katsumi Ishikawa

RIMS

Teruaki Kitano

Soka Univ.

Sanghoon Kwak

Seoul National Univ.

Jiming Ma

Fudan Univ.

Makoto Ozawa

Komazawa Univ.

JungHwan Park

KAIST

Fan Ye

Harvard Univ.

Program Committee

Hyungryul Baik

KAIST, Korea

Jae Choon Cha

POSTECH, Korea

Seiichi Kamada

Osaka University, Japan

Sang-hyun Kim

KIAS, Korea

Toshitake Kohno

Meiji University, Japan

Yi Liu

Peking University, China

Tomotada Ohtsuki

RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan

Ruifeng Qiu

East China Normal University, China

Takuya Sakasai

University of Tokyo, Japan

Jiajun Wang

Peking University, China

Ying Zhang

Soochow University, China

Founding Members

Boju Jiang

Peking University, China

Gyo Taek Jin

KAIST, Korea

Mitsuyoshi Kato

Kyushu University, Japan

Akio Kawauchi

Osaka City University, Japan

Ki Hyoung Ko

KAIST, Korea

Yukio Matsumoto

Gakushuin University, Japan

Shicheng Wang

Peking University, China

Local Organizing Committee

Hyungryul Baik

KAIST, Korea

Jae Choon Cha

POSTECH, Korea

Min Hoon Kim

Ewha Womans University, Korea

Sang-hyun Kim

KIAS, Korea

Sanghoon Kwak

Seoul National University, Korea

JungHwan Park

KAIST, Korea

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