1st workshop's programme





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


topcon02 2002-06-14