| Friday, November 10 | ||
| 3:30--4:30pm | Check-in, registration, and coffee | |
| 4:30--5:20 | Jongil Park | A note on simply-connected 4-manifolds with b2+ = 1 |
| 5:45--6:35 | Elisenda Grigsby | A combinatorial description of knot Floer homology in cyclic branched covers |
| Saturday, November 11 | ||
| 8:45am | Coffee/tea and pastries | |
| 9:15--10:05 | Clifford Taubes | A Seiberg-Witten proof of the dimension three Weinstein conjecture |
| 10:30--11:20 | Yakov Eliashberg | Madsen-Weiss theorem for 4-dimensional and other geometrically minded topologists |
| 11:20am--1:15pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15--2:05 | Denis Auroux | Lefschetz pencils and the symplectic topology of complex surfaces |
| 2:30--3:20 | Peter Ozsvath | On knot Floer homology |
| 3:20--4:00 | Coffee/tea and cookies | |
| 4:00--4:50 | Ronald Stern | Curing irregularity |
| 6:30--7:00 | Cash bar at Bon Ton Cafe | |
| 7:00pm | Banquet at Bon Ton Cafe | |
Sunday, November 12
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| 8:00--8:45am | Coffee/tea and pastries | |
| 8:45--9:35 | Peter Kronheimer | Families of 4-manifolds |
| 9:50--10:40 | Margaret Symington | Toric geometry on near-symplectic manifolds |
| 10:55--11:45 | Andras Stipsicz | Exotic 4-manifolds and rational blow-downs |