| 6-7:45pm | Complimentary Buffet | Herman Brown Commons Room (438) | |
| 8-9pm | Ko Honda (USC) | Reeb vector fields and open book decompositions | Anderson Biological Labs, M.D. 131 |
| 8:30-9:30am | Bagels and Coffee | Herman Brown 438 | |
| 9:30-10:30am | Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University) | Braid cobordisms and triangulated categories | Keck Hall 100 |
| 11am-12pm | Elisenda Grigsby (Columbia University) | A combinatorial description of the knot Floer homology of cyclic branched covers | Keck Hall 100 |
| 12-2pm | Break for Lunch | Rice Village | |
| 2-3pm | Feng Luo (Rutgers University) | Volume and angle structures on 3-manifolds | Keck Hall 100 |
| 3:30-4:30pm | Eleny
Ionel (Stanford University) |
Singular spaces and Gromov-Witten invariants | Keck Hall 100 |
| 5-6pm | Richard Hain (Duke University) | Relative weight filtrations on completions of mapping class groups | Keck Hall 100 |
| 8:30-9:30am | Bagels and Coffee | Herman Brown 438 | |
| 9:30-10:30am | Daniel Ruberman (Brandeis University) | Periodic Dirac operators and positive scalar curvature on 4-manifolds | Keck Hall 100 |
| 11am-12pm | Joan Birman (Columbia University) | Lorenz Links | Keck Hall 100 |
Please send comments to Shelly Harvey - shelly at math.rice.edu.