Hour/Day	Monday 21	Tuesday 22	Wednesday 23	Thursday 24	Friday 25
	9:00 9:50	Registration and coffee	Bjorner	Suciu	Varchenko	Procesi
	9:50 10:30		Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
	10:30 11:20	Yuzvinski	Boileau	Porti	Kohno	Perron
	11:40 12:30	Gordon	Feichtner	Budney	Hodgson	F. Cohen
	12:50 14:00	Lunch at Palazzone
	15:00 15:50	Randell	Dehornoy	Free afternoon	Paris	Luo
	15:50 16:30	Coffee break	Coffee break		Coffee break	Coffee break
Parallel Sessions	16:30 17:20	Dimca	Henderson		Terao	Sinha
	16:30 17:20	Choi	Pervova		Bromberg	Mednykh
Parallel Sessions	17:40 18:30	Papadima	Denham		D. Cohen	Callegaro
	17:40 18:30	Canary	Martelli		Blanchet	Cattabriga
					Social Dinner

Monday 21

9:00 - 10:30: Registration and coffee.

10:30-11:20: S. Yuzvinski (University of Oregon) Completely reducible hypersurfaces in a pencil

11:40 -12:30 C. Gordon (University of Texas) Heegaard genus and Dehn filling

Lunch

15:00 -15:50 R. Randell (University of Iowa) Re-presenting and Representing the Pure Braid Groups

15:50-16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:20 (parallel session)
A. Dimca (Universite de Nice- Sophia Antipolis) Characteristic varieties and constructible sheaves
Y-E. Choi (Penn State Altoona) Comparison of Teichmueller geodesics and lines of minima

17:40 - 18:30 (parallel session)
S. Papadima (Institute of Mathematics, Bucharest) Cohomology jumping loci of algebraic varieties
D. Canary (University of Michigan) Introductory Bumponomics: Untouchable points in boundaries of deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds


Tuesday 22

9:00 - 9:50: A. Bjorner (KTH Stockholm) On the shape of Bruhat intervals

9:50 - 10:30: Coffee break

10:30-11:20: M. Boileau (Universite de Toulouse III) Tits alternative and PD(3) groups

11:40 -12:30 E. Feichtner (University of Stuttgart) Nested set complexes in geometric combinatorics and beyond

Lunch

15:00 -15:50 P. Dehornoy (Universite de Caen) The alternating normal form for positive braids

15:50-16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:20 (parallel session)
A. Henderson (University of Sydney) The cohomology of real De Concini-Procesi models of Coxeter type
K. Pervova (Universita di Pisa) Link invariants from Turaev-Viro state sums

17:40 - 18:30 (parallel session)
G. Denham (University of Western Ontario) Right-angled Artin groups and monomial ideals
B. Martelli (Universita di Pisa) Complexity and decompositions of PL-manifolds


Wednesday 23

9:00 - 9:50: A. Suciu (Northeastern University) Quasi-projective Bestvina-Brady groups

9:50 - 10:30: Coffee break

10:30-11:20: J. Porti (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Collapsing three manifolds

11:40 -12:30 R. Budney (University of Victoria) De-looping embedding spaces

Lunch

Free afternoon.

Thursday 24

9:00 - 9:50: A. Varchenko (University of North Carolina) Representation theory and differential equations with polynomial solutions only

9:50 - 10:30: Coffee break

10:30-11:20: T. Khono (University of Tokyo) Hyperbolic volumes, configuration spaces and iterated integrals

11:40 -12:30: C. Hodgson (University of Melbourne) Enumeration and classification of knotted graphs using hyperbolic invariants

Lunch

15:00 -15:50 L. Paris (Universite de Bourgogne) Singular Hecke algebras, Markov traces, and link invariants

15:50-16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:20 (parallel session)
H. Terao (Hokkaido University) Chambers of Arrangements of Hyperplanes and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
K. Bromberg (University of Utah) Combinatorial distance and hyperbolic distance between simple closed geodesics

17:40 - 18:30 (parallel session)
D. Cohen (Louisiana State University) Motion planning in tori
C. Blanchet (Universite de Bretagne-Sud) sl(N) link homology from trivalent TQFT

Social Dinner.

Friday 25

9:00 - 9:50: C. Procesi (Universita di Roma I) From hyperplane arrangements to numerical analysis

9:50 - 10:30: Coffee break

10:30-11:20: B. Perron (Universite de Bourgogne) A new necessary and sufficient condition for the faithfulness of the Burau representation for B(4) (the braid group with 4 strings)

11:40 -12:30 F. Cohen (University of Rochester) On spaces of representations

Lunch

14:30 -15:20 F. Luo (Rutgers University) Rigidity of Polyhedral surfaces

15:20-16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:50 (parallel session)
D. Sinha (University of Oregon) From the cohomology of the pure braid group to Hopf invariants
A. Mednykh (Novosibirsk State University) Volumes of Polyhedra and their applications to Knot Theory

17:10 - 18:00 (parallel session)
F. Callegaro (Universita di Pisa) The K(\pi, 1) problem for the affine Artin group of type Bn and its cohomology
A. Cattabriga (Universita di Bologna) Extending homeomorphisms from punctured surfaces to handlebodies