Scientific program
Monday, February 21st

    * 9:45   Opening
    * 10:00-10:50   V. Vassiliev: On the cohomology of spaces of self-intersecting curves
    * 11:00-11:50   V. Vershinin: Presentations of generalizations of braids
    * Coffee break
    * 12:30-13:20   A. Sossinsky: Weavings: simple results and hard problems
    * Lunch
    * 15:00-15:50   G. Oshanin: Random walk generated by random permutations
    * 16:00-16:50   S. Natanzon: Klein topological field theories

Tuesday, February 22nd

    * 10:00-10:50   M. Kazaryan: Hodge integrals and the tautological ring of the moduli space of curves
    * 11:00-11:50   S. Lando: Cohomology of Hurwitz spaces
    * Coffee break
    * 12:30-13:20   D. Zvonkine: Models of 2-dimensional gravity and enumeration of ramified coverings of the sphere
    * Lunch
    * 15:00-15:50   G. Koshevoy: Combinatorics of Young tableaux and octahedral recurrence
    * 16:00-16:50   G. Duchamp: On some interactions between Combinatorics, Computer Science and Physics

Wednesday, February 23rd

    * 10:00-10:50   I. Dynnikov: On the complexity of braids
    * 11:00-11:50   O. Viro: TBA
    * Coffee break
    * 12:30-13:20   Y. Drobotukhina: TBA
    * Free afternoon
    * evening   Conference dinner

Thursday, February 24th

    * 10:00-10:50   J. Mairesse: Randomly Growing Braid on Three Strands
    * 11:00-11:50   S. Nechaev: From anisotropic ballistic growth to the search of the longest common subsequence: exact asymptotic results
    * Coffee break
    * 12:30-13:20   M. Tamm: Clover-leaf structures in associating polymers: a toy model for RNA folding
    * Lunch
    * 14:45-15:30   O. Karpenkov: Energies of knots and of certain graphs

Friday, February 25th

    * 10:00-10:50   L. Chekhov: Multicut solutions to matrix models in genus expansions
    * 11:00-11:50   J.-B. Zuber: Matrix integrals and knot theory
    * Coffee break
    * 12:30-13:20   J. Jacobsen: Fields, trees and forests
    * Lunch
    * 15:00-15:50   P. Zinn-Justin: Combinatorics of the Brauer loop scheme