| SCHEDULE OF TALKS |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| FRIDAY, 5/17 | ||
| [coffee and refreshments 10:00-10:30] | ||
| 10:30-11:20 | Jozef Przytycki | Burnside groups in Knot Theory |
| [lunch 11:30-1:00] | ||
| 1:00-2:00 | Selman Akbulut | Topology of Stein Manifolds |
| 2:45-3:15 | Dubravko Ivansic | Hyperbolic structure on a complement of tori in the 4-sphere |
| 3:30-4:00 | Yongwu Rong | |
| 4:20-4:50 | Paul Kainen | Recent Results on Book Thickness of Graphs |
| 5:00-5:30 | Laure Helme-Guizon | Approximating the coefficients of the HOMFLY polynomial by Vassiliev invariants |