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Entanglement and Linking

18 May 2011 - 19 May 2011

Timetable

Date Time Speaker Room
Wed 18 May 8:30- 9:15 Registration Aula Dini
9:20- 9:30 Opening address Aula Dini
9:30- 10:15 Akhmet'ev, Petr
"Asymptotic Invariants of Links and Applications in MHD"
Aula Dini
10:20- 11:05 Lefranc, Marc
"Stretching, squeezing and linking in chaotic dynamical systems and experiments"
Aula Dini
11:10- 11:35 Coffee break Aula Dini
11:40- 12:25 Kauffman, Louis H.
"Vassiliev Invariants and Witten's Integral"
Aula Dini
15:00- 15:45 Parsley, Jason
"Cohomology Reveals When Helicity is a Diffeomorphism Invariant"
Aula Dini
15:50- 16:20 Shonkwiler, Clayton
"Higher Helicities, Geometric Linking Integrals, and Koschorke's Conjecture"
Aula Dini
16:25- 16:40 Coffee break Aula Dini
16:45- 17:30 Hornig, Gunnar
"Entanglement and Linking in Divergence-free Vector Fields"
Aula Dini
17:35- 18:00 Free discussion Aula Dini
Thu 19 May 9:30- 10:15 Ricca, Renzo L.
"From Gauss' derivation of linking number to its role in modern topological dynamics"
Aula Dini
10:20- 11:05 Spera, Mauro
"Differential Geometric Aspects of higher order linking numbers"
Aula Dini
11:10- 11:35 Coffee break Aula Dini
11:40- 12:25 Komendarczyk, Rafal
"Higher Order Helicities Via Link Maps"
Aula Dini
15:00- 15:45 Hsieh, Chun-Chung
"High Linking Theory"
Aula Dini
15:50- 16:20 Maggioni, Francesca
"Linking Numbers in Vortex and Magnetic Knots"
Aula Dini
16:25- 16:40 Coffee break Aula Dini
16:45- 17:15 Benvegnù, Alberto
"Low-Dimensional Pure Braid Group Representations Via Nilpotent Flat Connections"
Aula Dini
17:20- 18:00 Final discussion Aula Dini