Time	Speaker	Title
THURSDAY, 5/10
[coffee and refreshments 3:15-3:45]
3:45-4:45	William Goldman	The topology of curves on surfaces (an exposition)
5:00-6:00	Uwe Kaiser	Skein modules, quantum deformations and string topology
6:15-6:45	Sara Faridi	Rees algebras
7:00-7:30	Makoto Ozawa	Impossibility of obtaining split links from split links via twistings
FRIDAY, 5/11
[coffee and refreshments 10:00-10:30]
10:30-11:30	Thomas Kerler	Skein theory for Alexander polynomial of 3-manifolds via Hopf algebras
[lunch]
1:00-2:00	Jan Dymara	Survey of Tits buildings
2:30-3:00	Thomas Mattman	Seifert surgeries and the (-3,3,5) pretzel knot
3:10-3:40	Kasia Dymara	Legendrian knots in overtwisted contact structures
3:50-4:20	Lowell Abrams	Frobenius algebras, 2-dimensional surfaces...and knot theory?
4:30-4:50	Makiko Ishiwata	A surgery description of an integral homology three-sphere respecting the Casson invariant
5:00-5:30	Dan Slilaty	Homological characterizations of planar and projective planar graphs
SATURDAY, 5/12
[coffee and refreshments 10:00-10:30]
10:30-11:30	Lou Kauffman	Infinite number of nontrivial links with trivial Jones polynomial
11:40- 12:00	Mike Veve	The cubic skein module, Fox 7-colorings and unknotting number
12:10-1:10	Sam Lomonaco	Invariants of quantum entanglement
[lunch]
3:00-3:40	Akira Yasuhara	Ck-moves on spatial theta-curves and Vassiliev invariants
3:50-4:30	Adam Sikora	Interactions between quantum topology and number theory
4:40-5:00	Jozef Przytycki	Lagrangian approximation of local moves on links