MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
DRESDEN, GERMANY


International Workshop and Seminar on

TOPOLOGY IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

May 13 - July 31, 2002


Scientific coordinators:
M. Kleman M. Monastyrsky S. Novikov
Université Paris VI ITEP Moscow University of Maryland & Landau Institute
Paris, France Moscow, Russia College Park, USA & Moscow, Russia

Organisation: K. Lantsch, MPIPKS Dresden


The central scientific theme of our program is the recent development of applications of topology to several areas in condensed matter physics and related fields in biology. The seminar will provide a unique opportunity to bring together researchers from the three fields of mathematics, biology, and physics, experimentalists as well as theoreticians. The two one-week workshops will consist of a program of invited talks, and are devoted to applications of topology to physics and to biology. The first one will be held from June 17 to June 21, the second one from July 1 to July 5. The topics which we expect to discuss are

liquid crystals and superfluid liquids, Fermi surfaces, membranes, quasicrystals,
the general theory of defects, biopolymers and polymers,
DNA, proteins, apoptosis and molecular recognition
.

This is not a limiting list of topics and the seminar will largely be the result of the actual activity of the participants. From May 13 to June 7 we organize mini-courses on topology for physicists. The seminar program will be organized in a way to optimize interactions between participants of different communities.


Preliminary list of invited participants:
Joseph Avron, Jean Bellissard, Mitchell A. Berger, Joseph L. Birman, Yves Bouligand, Mark Bowick, Serguei Brazovskii, Robert Brooks, David Chillingworth, Bernard D. Coleman, Isabel K. Darcy, Seth Fraden, Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii, Alexander G. Gabibov, Franz Gähler, Alexander Golovin, Alexander Grosberg, Robert Holyst, Ted Janssen, Alain Joets, Louis H. Kauffman, Richard Kerner, Natalia Kirova, Alexander Kister, Arnold Kosevich, Rob B. Kusner, Sofia Lambropoulou, Michel L. Lapidus, Oleg Lavrentovich, Stephen D. Levene, Francoise Livolant, John H. Maddocks, Marcelo O. Magnasco, Remy Mosseri, Yuriy Nastishyn, Alexander Nepomnyashchy, Yves Pomeau, Renzo Ricca, Nicolas Rivier, Didier Roux, Lorenzo Sadun, Udo Seifert, Israel Michael Sigal, Eric Siggia, Tim Sluckin, Andrzej Stasiak, David Swigon, Hans-Rainer Trebin, Alexander Vologodskii, Paul B. Wiegmann, Boris Zhilinskii, Primoz Ziherl

Application forms can be filled in online. The deadline for applications is February 20, 2002. The workshop registration fee is 100 Euro. Costs for accommodation and meals will be covered by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. In exceptional cases, limited funding is available to partly cover travel expenses.


For further information and application forms please contact:
Visitors Program
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme,
Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden
Tel.: +49-351-871-2107 / Fax: +49-351-871-2199
topcon02@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~topcon02

topcon02 2002-04-04