Seminar Programme


The programme is continously updated during the time of the seminar and the workshops.
This programme below was last updated on June 28, 2002.


Monday, May 13  
11:00 - 11:10 Opening
11:10 - 12:00 Introductory talk
  M. Monastyrsky
  Topology and Physics
14:30 - 15:30 R. Kerner
  A model of fullerene nucleation and growth
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 18:30 MPIPKS Colloquium: G. Casati
  Efficient quantum computing of complex dynamics
18:30 - Evening welcome party
Tuesday, May 14  
11:00 - 12:00 Mini-course in topology
  V. Buchstaber
  1st lecture
14:30 - 15:30 R. Kerner
  Topology of local configurations and thermodynamical properties of
  covalent glasses
Wednesday, May 15  
11:00 - 12:00 B. Zhilinskii
  Qualitative theory of highly excited quantum systems: Quantum,
  semi-quantum, classical models
14:30 - 15:30 A. Joets
  Topology of caustics
Thursday, May 16  
11:00 - 12:00 Mini-course in topology
  V. Buchstaber
  2nd lecture
14:30 - 15:30 S. Nikitenkova
  Comparison Korteweg-de Vries and Boussinesq theory for description soliton
  transformation on steps of various topologies in inhomogeneous media
Friday, May 17  
11:00 - 12:00 A. Kosevich
  1st lecture: Topology of characteristic surfaces in dynamics and thermodynamics
  of quasiparticles in crystals
Monday, May 20  
  Public holiday
Tuesday, May 21  
11:00 - 12:00 Mini-course in topology
  L. Alania
  1st lecture
Wednesday, May 22  
11:00 - 12:00 O. Bogoyavlensky
  Infinite-dimensional Lie group of symmetries of the ideal MHD equilibrium
  equations
Thursday, May 23  
11:00 - 12:00 A. Kovalev
  Topology, semi-topology and discrete topology in magnetically-ordered media
Friday, May 24  
11:00 - 12:00 A. Khomenko
  Study of phase-plane portraits of self-organizing systems at plastic deformation
Monday, May 27  
11:00 - 12:00 B. Zhilinskii
  Chern numbers in quantum molecular systems
Tuesday, May 28  
11:00 - 12:00 Mini-course in topology
  L. Alania
  2nd lecture
Wednesday, May 29  
11:00 - 12:00 D. Millionschikov
  Morse-Novikov-Theory
Thursday, May 30  
11:00 - 12:00 A. Kosevich
  Topology of Fermi-Surfaces
Friday, May 31  
11:00 - 12:00 D. Chillingworth
  Pattern formation for planar liquid crystals
Monday, June 3  
11:00 - 12:00 V. Dmitrienko
  Difraction in crystals and a topological invariant
Tuesday, June 4  
11:00 - 12:00 I. Bogolubsky
  Localized solutions in Heisenberg anisotropic models
Wednesday, June 5  
11:00 - 12:00 A. Kosevich
  Berry phase in metals
Thursday, June 6  
11:00 - 12:00 Mini-course in topology
  M. Monastyrsky
  The Hopf fibration and its applications
Friday, June 7  
11:00 - 12:00 J. Navarra-Madsen
  Colorability, tangles and protein action
Monday, June 10  
16:30 - 17:30 TOPCON02 Colloquium: Robert Brooks
  Spectral properties of Riemann surfaces
Tuesday, June 11  
11:00 - 12:00 Maxim Pavlov
  Reciprocal transformation approach and liquid crystals
Wednesday, June 12  
11:00 - 12:00 Boris Zhilinskii
  Defects of crystal lattice and Hamiltonian monodromy
Thursday, June 13  
11:00 - 12:00 Vladimir Osipov
  Electronic structure of curved carbon nanostructures
Friday, June 14  
11:00 - 12:00 Sergey Krasavin
  Thermal transport in materials with topological defects like disclination
  dipoles and disclination loops
Monday, June 24  
11:00 - 12:00 Alexander Talis
  The determined diamond-like structures within the framework of applied algebraic geometry
16:30 - 17:30 TOPCON02 Colloquium
  Isabel Darcy
  Tied in Knots: Applications of knot theory to the study of protein mechanism
Tuesday, June 25  
11:00 - 12:00 Nicolas Rivier
  The structure of collagen
Wednesday, June 26  
11:00 - 11:30 Alexander Moskvin
  Unconventional topological defects in S=1 (pseudo)spin systems
11:45 - 12:15 Dmitrii Churochkin
  Topological defects in rotationally disordered materials: disclination-induced
  contribution to internal friction and heat capacity
Thursday, June 27  
11:00 - 12:00 Christophe Blanc
  Topologic and geometric features related to the confinement of smectic materials
Friday, June 28  
11:00 - 12:00 Paul Wiegmann
  Theta terms in nonlinear sigma models



topcon02 2002-06-28