| 9-10am | Coffee and Bagels | Herman Brown Commons Room (438) | |
| 10-10:50am | Cameron Gordon (UT Austin) | Heegaard genus and Dehn filling | Herman Brown 227 |
| 11:10am-12pm | Maggy Tomova (Rice) | C-incompressible planar surfaces in knot complements | Herman Brown 227 |
| 12-2pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:10-3pm | Peter Horn (Rice) | Higher-order Genera of Knots and the Grope Filtration of the Knot Concordance Group | Herman Brown 227 |
| 3-4:10pm | Coffee/Tea + Discussion | Herman Brown Commons Room (438) | |
| 4:10-5pm | Hee Jung Kim (LSU) | Smooth Surfaces with Non-Simply-Connected Complements | Herman Brown 227 |
| 6:30pm + | Party (email shelly if you will attend) | ||
| 9:30-10:10am | Coffee and Bagels | Herman Brown Commons Room (438) | |
| 10:10-11am | Eric Chesebro (Rice) | A family of virtually special links | Herman Brown 227 |
| 11:20am-12:10pm | Oliver Dasbach (LSU) | On a dimer model for the Alexander polynomial of a knot | Herman Brown 227 |
Please send comments to Shelly Harvey - shelly at rice.edu.