Monday, June 17 | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Opening |
10:30 - 11:15 | Ted Janssen |
Topological excitations in crystals | |
11:30 - 12:00 | Franz Gähler |
Cohomology of quasiperiodic tilings | |
12:15 - 12:45 | Serguei Brazovskii |
Topological exitations in quasi one dimensional electronic systems | |
13:00 - 14:30 | LUNCH |
14:30 - 15:00 | Natalia Kirova |
Topological coupling of dislocations and magnetization vorticity in spin density waves | |
15:15 - 15:45 | Yuriy Nastyshyn |
Defects in TGBA phase: Theoretical approach and experimental observations | |
16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
16:30 - 17:30 | TOPCON02-Colloquium |
Louis Kauffman | |
Knots and physics | |
19:00 - | Welcome Party |
Tuesday, June 18 | |
10:00 - 10:45 | Mark Bowick |
Order on curved surfaces | |
11:00 - 11:30 | John Hunton |
Commutative and noncommutative topological approaches to quasicrystals | |
11:45 - 12:15 | Robert Holyst |
Topology in phase transitions | |
12:30 - 13:00 | Andrey Maltsev |
The magnetoresistance of normal metals in the case of chaotic electron | |
trajectories on the complex Fermi-surface | |
13:00 - 14:30 | LUNCH |
14:30 - 15:00 | Oleg Vasilyev |
Topological correlations in trivial knots: new arguments in support of | |
the crumple polymer globule | |
15:15 - 15:45 | Phoebe Hoidn |
Quantization of energy and writhe in self-repelling knots | |
16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
16:30 - 17:00 | Piotr Garstecki |
The scattering patterns of bicontinuous cubic phases | |
Wednesday, June 19 | |
10:00 - 10:45 | Hans-Rainer Trebin |
Phasons, dislocations and cracks in quasicrystals | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Rémy Mosseri |
Entanglement, Bloch spheres and Hopf fibrations | |
11:45 - 12:15 | Lorenzo Sadun |
When size matters: the roles of geometry vs. combinatorics in tiling | |
dynamical systems | |
12:30 - 13:00 | Nicolas Rivier |
Continuum elasticity with topological defects, including dislocations and extra-matter | |
13:00 - 14:30 | LUNCH |
14:30 - | Excursion |
Thursday, June 20 | |
10:00 - 10:45 | Yves Bouligand |
Dynamical series of topological events in liquid crystals | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Didier Roux |
Defects in lyotropic lamellar phase | |
11:45 - 12:15 | Gunnar Hornig |
Higher order topological invariants of divergence-free fields | |
12:30 - 13:00 | Frederick Wooten |
The topology of disorder: An algorithm for finding the topological | |
defects in a continuous random network and to compute the topological entropy | |
13:00 - 14:30 | LUNCH |
14:30 - 15:00 | Sofia Lambropoulou |
Combinatorial classification of rational tangles and rational knots | |
15:15 - 15:45 | Oleg Lavrentovich |
3D imaging of defects in liquid crystals by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy; | |
defects and anchoring in cholesteric liquid crystals | |
16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
16:30 - 17:00 | Sofian Teber |
Statistical physics of charged topological defects | |
19:30 - | Conference Dinner at ``Am Glacis'' |
Friday, June 21 | |
10:00 - 10:45 | Jiri Patera |
Classification of distinct Voronoi and Delone tiles in two-dimensional quasicrystals | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Leonid Falkovsky |
Localized phonon states on defects of various geometry | |
11:45 - 12:15 | Maurizio Nobili |
Anchoring screening of defects interaction in a nematic liquid crystal | |
12:30 - 13:00 | Ulrich Rössler |
Theory of spherulitic domains in liquid crystals | |
13:00 - 14:30 | LUNCH |
14:30 - 15:00 | Malgorzata Graca |
Morphology of long-living non-equilibrium states | |
15:15 - 15:45 | Marcin Fialkowski |
Morphology from the maximum entropy principle: domains in the phase | |
16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
16:30 - 17:00 | Valentine Peschansky |
Fermi surface topology and investigation of high-frequency phenomena in conductors |