| Monday, July 1 |
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| 08:00 - 10:00 |
Registration |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Opening |
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Chairman: Sergey Novikov |
| 10:30 - 11:15 |
Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii |
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DNA topology and topological nanostructures |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Andrzej Stasiak |
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Putting random knots in order |
| 12:15 - 12:45 |
Maher Moakher |
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A double-strand elastic rod theory with applications to DNA
modelling |
| 13:00 - 14:30 |
LUNCH |
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Chairwoman: Isabel Darcy |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Israel Michael Sigal |
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Effective dynamics of magnetic vortices |
| 15:15 - 15:45 |
Corinne Cerf |
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Linear behavior of the writhe versus the number of crossings in |
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rational knots and links |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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Chairman: Michael Monastyrsky |
| 16:30 - 17:30 |
TOPCON02 Colloquium |
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Sergey Novikov |
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Topological phenomena in normal metals |
| 19:00 - |
Welcome Party |
| Tuesday, July 2 |
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| 10:00 - 10:45 |
Stephen Levene |
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Experimental and computational studies of DNA minicircles |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Alexander Vologodskii |
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Distributions of topological states in circular DNA: Simulation, |
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measuring and applications |
| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Alexander Grosberg |
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Scaling of polymer knots |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Alexander Kister |
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Combinatories and topology of the  -sandwich proteins |
| 13:00 - 14:30 |
LUNCH |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Françoise Livolant |
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Chirality in columnar phases of nucleosome core particles |
| 15:15 - 15:45 |
Gregory Buck |
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Entanglement complexity of DNA |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Jonathan Simon |
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Mobius energy of thick knots |
| 19:00 - |
SUPPER |
| Wednesday, July 3 |
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| 10:00 - 10:45 |
John H. Maddocks |
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DNA, symmetry breaking, and mini-circles |
| 10:55 - 11:25 |
Isabel Darcy |
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Tangle analysis of protein mechanisms |
| 11:35 - 12:05 |
Oscar Gonzalez |
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Hydrodynamic properties of rigid, knotted filaments |
| 12:15 - 12:45 |
Mitchell Berger |
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Minimizing the energy and topological complexity of braids |
| 12:45 - 13:30 |
LUNCH |
| 14:00 - |
Excursion to Pillnitz |
| Thursday, July 4 |
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| 10:00 - 10:45 |
Udo Seifert |
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Dynamics of biomolecules |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
John Sullivan |
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Numerical simulation of tight knots and links |
| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Alexander Gabibov |
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Molecular recognition in modern biology |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Marcelo Magnasco |
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Proofreading knots: some conjectures on how topoisomerases disentangle
DNA |
| 13:00 - 14:30 |
LUNCH |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Michel L. Lapidus |
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Vibrations of fractal shapes |
| 15:15 - 15:45 |
Akos Dobay |
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Scaling behaviour of random polymeric knots |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:30 - 17:15 |
Renzo Ricca |
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Measures of structural complexity for vortex flows |
| 19:00 - |
CONFERENCE DINNER AT ``SCHLOSS ECKBERG'' |
| Friday, July 5 |
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| 10:00 - 10:45 |
Rob Kusner |
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Thickness, ropelength and packing density of linked and knotted
tubes |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Bernard D. Coleman |
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Topology and micromechanics of DNA |
| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Javier Arsuaga |
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Chromosome organization in E.Coli |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Mariel Vazquez |
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Mathematical analysis of DNA changes resulting from double-stranded
breaks |
| 13:00 - 14:30 |
LUNCH |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Eugene Starostin |
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On the writhe of non-closed curves |
| 15:15 - 15:45 |
Seth Fraden |
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The baffling role of ionic strength in chiral colloidal liquid
crystals |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Tod Schneider |
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Tactoidal (lemon-shaped) droplets in lyotropic chromonic liquid |
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crystalline sytems |
| 19:00 - |
SUPPER |