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