09:45 welcome
10:00 opening
10:10 Jordi Fortuny (Groningen), The nesting machine
10:50 Jan-Wouter Zwart (Groningen), Prospects for top-down derivation
11:30 Cristiano Chesi (Siena) Minimalist merge, destructive feature-checking, and sequential unification
12:10 lunch break
14:00 Ian Roberts (Cambridge), A phase-based approach to the cross-linguistic distribution of "mixed" word-order types
14:40 Ángel Gallego (UA Barcelona/Cambridge), Label-free bare phrase structure
15:20 Aritz Irurtzun (U Basque Country), Merge and asymmetric structure building
16:00 break
16:20 Barbara Citko (U Washington) Symmetry in syntax? Symmetric merge and symmetric move.
17:00 Robert Truswell (Tufts), Order but no structure in Bonobo English
17:40 closing