8:30-9:10 Registration/Breakfast (B227)
9:10-10:00 Michael Landry (Washington University)
Flows, surfaces, and the Thurston norm
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-11:10 Rachel Skipper (Ohio State)
Finiteness Properties for Simple Groups
11:10-11:40 Industry Guest Speaker - Diane Vavrichek
11:40-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:50 Claire Merriman (Ohio State)
Coding geodesic flows and various continued fractions
2:50-3:10 Coffee/Cookie Break
3:10-4:00 Yu-Chan Chang (UW Madison)
Dehn functions of subgroups of Right-angled Artin groups
4:00-4:10 Mini Break
4:10-5:00 Chandrika Sadanand (UIUC)
You can `hear' the shape of a polygonal billiard table