Thursday, 4/10/2003, Morning session
| 9:00-9:20 Registration and welcome |
| 9:20-10:20 Andrew Casson: The Andrews-Curtis and the Poincare Conjectures 1. |
| 10:20-10:40 Coffee |
| 10:40-11:30 Danny Calegari: Circular groups and planar groups. |
| 11:40-12:00 Sergio Fenley: 3-manifolds, laminations and group actions. |
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Thursday, 4/10/2003, Afternoon session
| 1:30-2:30 Andrew Casson: The Andrews-Curtis and the Poincare Conjectures 2. |
| 2:40-3:00 Ben Klaff: Boundary slopes of knots in closed 3-manifolds with cyclic fundamental group. |
| 3:00-3:30 Coffee |
| 3:30-4:20 Cameron Gordon: Surface subgroups of Coxeter groups. |
| 4:30-4:50 Ian Agol: Marden's conjecture and exceptional Dehn fillings |
| 5:00-5:20 Roman Mikhailov: Augmentation powers, group homologies and localizations. |
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Thursday, 4/10/2003, Evening
| 7:00-- Jeff Weeks: The Shape of Space |
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Friday, 4/11/2003, Morning seesion
| 8:30 Coffee |
| 9:00-10:00 Andrew Casson: The Andrews-Curtis and the Poincare Conjectures 3. |
| 10:10-10:30 Jason Manning: Quasi-actions on trees and the geometry of pseudocharacters. |
| 10:30-10:50 Coffee |
| 10:50-11:40 Stephen Bigelow: Representations of the symmetric group. |
| 11:50-12:10 Hiroshi Goda: Heegaard splitting for sutured manifolds and Circle valued Morse theory for knots and links. |
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Friday, 4/11/2003, Afternoon session
| 1:30-2:30 Andrew Casson: The Andrews-Curtis and the Poincare Conjectures 4. |
| 2:40-3:00 Mark Brittenham: Knots with unique minimal genus Seifert surface. |
| 3:00-3:30 Coffee |
| 3:30-4:20 Nathan Dunfield: Laminations of 3-manifolds and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle. |
| 4:30-5:20 Zlil Sela: Low dimensional topology and aspects of the first order theory of a free group. |
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Friday, 4/11/2003, Evening
| 7:00 -- Banquet (Ozark Smoke House) |
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Saturday, 4/12/2003, Morning session
| 8:30 Coffee. |
| 9:00-10:00 Andrew Casson: The Andrews-Curtis and the Poincare Conjectures 5. |
| 10:10-10:30 Shelly Harvey: Some remarks on the Virtual Betti Number of a 3-manifold. |
| 10:20-10:50 Coffee |
| 10:50-11:40 Alan Reid: Arithmetic rational homology spheres. |
| 11:50-12:20 Jennifer Schultens: Some topology and algebra of graph manifolds. |
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Saturday, 4/12/2003, Afternoon session
| 1:30-2:20 Martin Scharlemann: There are no unexpected tunnel number one knots of genus one. |
| 2:30-3:20 Martin Bridson: Curvature, complexity and subgroups. |
| 3:20-4:00 Coffee |
| 4:00-4:50 Peter Shalen: Smallish knots. |
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