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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 15 Jun 8:15- 8:45 Registration Aula Dini
8:45- 9:00 Introduction and Welcome Aula Dini
9:00- 10:00 Buck, Dorothy
"The Classification of Rational Subtangle Replacements, with Applications to Complex Nucleoprotein Assemblies" 		Aula Dini
10:00- 10:15 Coffee break Aula Dini
10:15- 11:15 Baker, Ken
"Sites of Rational Tangle Replacements" 		Aula Dini
11:30- 12:30 Stasiak, Andrzej
"Recognition of DNA knots by type II DNA topoisomerases is facilitated by DNA supercoiling" 		Aula Dini
14:30- 15:30 Darcy, Isabel
"DNA knot distances" 		Aula Dini
15:30- 16:00 Coffee break Aula Dini
16:00- 17:00 Soteros, Chris
"Knot reduction for a lattice polygon model of local strand passage" 		Aula Dini
17:00- 17:45 Mauricio, Mauro
"The tangle model for composite knots, with applications to DNA recombination" 		Aula Dini
17:45- 18:30 Valencia, Karin
"Topological characterization of knots and links arising from site-specific recombination on twist knot substrates" 		Aula Dini
20:30- 22:30 Informal Poster Session Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
Thu 16 Jun 9:00- 10:00 Micheletti, Cristian
"DNA knotting inside viral capsids: a computational approach" 		Aula Dini
10:00- 10:15 Coffee break Aula Dini
10:15- 11:15 Arsuaga, Javier
"Understanding the formation of minicircle networks on trypanosomatida" 		Aula Dini
11:30- 12:30 Sumners, De Witt
"The Writhe—A Macromolecular Shape Descriptor; Applications to DNA Structure" 		Aula Dini
14:30- 15:30 Vazquez, Mariel
"TBA" 		Aula Dini
15:30- 16:00 Coffee break Aula Dini
16:00- 16:45 Rosa, Angelo
"Structure and dynamics of knotted ring polymers with non-trivial topologies: transition to chain overlap in semi-dilute solutions" 		Aula Dini
16:45- 17:30 Tubiana, Luca
"Multiscale entanglement in ring polymers under spherical confinement" 		Aula Dini