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Conferences |
| Monday 14 | ||
| 19h - 20h30 | Dinner | |
| 20h30 - 21h00 | John Maddocks | Welcome |
| 21h00 - 21h30 | Alain Goriely | Packing, twisting, writhing, and knotting in bacteria, plants, seashells, and umbilical Cords |
| Tuesday 15 | ||
| 08h30 - 10h00 Thickness & ideal shapes I |
Eric Rawdon | Polygonal Ropelength |
| Rob Kusner | On thickness, ropelength and packing density | |
| John Sullivan | The tight clasp | |
| 10h00 - 10h30 | Coffee break | |
| 10h30 - 12h00 Thickness & ideal shapes II | Gregory Buck | t.b.a. |
| Oguz Durumeric | Every ideal knot in R^3 must have a tight crossing | |
| Heiko von der Mosel | Necessary conditions for ideal knots | |
| 12h00 - 14h00 | Lunch | |
| 14h00 - 16h30 Thickness & ideal shapes III | Yuanan Diao | The spectrum of the minimum ropelengths of nontrivial knots |
| Jason Cantarella | The gradient flow for ropelength in theory and computation | |
| Jana Smutny | Computation of ideal shapes with Biarcs | |
| Ben Laurie | The Joy of Annealing | |
| Eugene Starostin | A constructive approach to modelling the ideal shapes of some linked structures | |
| 16h30 - 17h00 | Coffee break | |
| 17h00 - 19h00 Physical characterization of knots |
Andrew Belmonte | Self-knotting and unknotting of a shaken hanging chain |
| Jorge Schvartzman | Knotting of DNA Replication intermediates in vivo | |
| Giovanni Dietler | Numerical simulation of gel electrophoresis of DNA knots | |
| Oscar Gonzalez | Sedimentation dynamics of rigid, knotted filaments | |
| 19h15 - 21h00 | Dinner | |
| 21h00 - 21h45 Special Lecture |
Alexander Grosberg | Knots and Scaling: recent and not-so-recent results |
| Wednesday 16 | ||
| 08h30 - 10h30 Scaling of random walks and random knots | Corinne Cerf | Linear relations between writhe and minimal crossing number in Conway families of ideal knots and links |
| Tetsuo Deguchi | Entropic expansion of random links | |
| Akos Dobay | The Average Crossing Number of Equilateral Random Polygons | |
| Kenneth Millett | Local Scaling Transitions near Equilateral Knots | |
| 10h30 - 11h00 | Coffee break | |
| 11h00 - 12h00 DNA knotting and packing in phage heads |
Steve Harvey | Packaging Dynamics and Knotting in Double-Stranded Phage DNA |
| Cristian Micheletti | Thermodynamics of DNA packaging inside a viral capsid: the role of DNA intrinsic thickness | |
| 12h00 - ??h | Excursion | Glacier 3000 |
| 19h00-21h00 | Dinner | |
| Thursday 17 | ||
| 08h30 - 10h00 Proteins' packing and knotting |
Amos Maritan | What determines the native state folds of proteins ? |
| Gustavo Arteca | Polymer shape dynamics during folding-unfolding transitions | |
| William Taylor | Protein folds, knots and tangles | |
| 10h00 - 10h30 | Coffee break | |
| 10h30 - 12h00 Random and non-random DNA knotting |
Francesco Valle | Atomic Force Microscopy of complex DNA knots |
| Robert Bao | Behaviour of complex knots in single DNA molecules | |
| Andrzej Stasiak | Topisomerase-inspired approach explains why distinct types of random knots with similar complexity form with different probability. | |
| 12h00 - 12h30 Closing talk |
John Maddocks | Real knots | <
| 12h30 - 13h00 | Concluding discussion | |
| 13h00 - 14h00 | Lunch | |