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Knots and Applications

In collaboration with INdAM and the Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Milano Bicocca

1 May 2011 - 31 July 2011

Timetable

Weeks: [Mon 2 May - Fri 6 May] [Mon 9 May - Fri 13 May] [Mon 16 May - Thu 19 May] [Wed 25 May - Thu 26 May] [Wed 8 Jun - Thu 9 Jun] [Wed 15 Jun - Thu 16 Jun] [Wed 22 Jun - Thu 23 Jun] [Tue 28 Jun - Wed 29 Jun] [Tue 12 Jul - Wed 13 Jul]

Date	Time	Speaker	Room

Wed 8 Jun	9:00- 10:00	Theodorou, Doros "Searching for entanglements in atomistic simulations of polymer melts"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:15	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	10:15- 11:15	Vazquez, Mariel "Random knots and confinement considerations"	Aula Dini
	11:30- 12:30	Rawdon, Eric "Knotted Arcs in Polymer Models"	Aula Dini
	14:30- 15:30	Micheletti, Cristian "DNA knotting inside viral capsids: a computational approach"	Aula Dini
	15:45- 16:45	Virnau, Peter "Searching for entanglements in atomistic simulations of polymer melts"	Aula Dini
	16:45- 17:00	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	17:00- 18:00	Scharein, Rob "Computational Knot Theory with KnotPlot"	Aula Dini
	18:15- 18:45	Tzoumanekas, Christos "From rods to random walks: Onset of entanglements in linear polymer melts. Topological and dynamical aspects"	Aula Dini
	18:45- 19:15	Tubiana, Luca "Probing the entanglement and locating knots in ring polymers: a comparative study of different arc closure schemes"	Aula Dini

Thu 9 Jun	9:00- 10:00	Orlandini, Enzo "Polymers with spatial and geometrical constraints: theoretical and computational results"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:15	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	10:15- 11:15	Soteros, Chris "Knotting probabilities after a local strand passage in unknotted self-avoiding polygons"	Aula Dini
	11:30- 12:30	Rechnitzer, Andrew "Counting polygons and knots"	Aula Dini
	14:30- 15:00	Panagiotou, Eleni "A study of the linking number in systems with periodic boundary conditions"	Aula Dini
	15:00- 15:30	Structure and dynamics of supercoiled knots and catenanes	Aula Dini
	15:00- 15:30	Witz, Guillaume "Structure and dynamics of supercoiled knots and catenanes"	Aula Dini
	15:45- 16:45	Millett, Kenneth C. "Generation of Equilateral Polygonal Knots"	Aula Dini
	16:45- 17:00	Coffee break	Sala Riunioni del Centro De Giorgi
	17:00- 19:30	Poster Session/Discussion	Sala Riunioni del Centro De Giorgi