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Differential Geometry and Parametrization of 3D Knots

28 June 2011 - 29 June 2011

Timetable

Date Time Speaker Room
Tue 28 Jun 9:15- 9:30 Ricca, Renzo L.
"Opening"
Aula Dini
9:30- 10:30 Kusner, Robert
"Survey of open problems"
Aula Dini
10:30- 11:00 Coffee break Aula Dini
11:00- 12:00 O'Hara, Jun
"Renormalization of \(r^{\bullet}\)-potentials and generalized centers"
Aula Dini
14:30- 15:30 von der Mosel, Heiko
"Tangent Point Self-Avoidance Energies for Curves"
Aula Dini
15:30- 16:00 Coffee break Aula Dini
16:00- 17:00 Strzelecki, Pawel
"Tangent-point repulsive potentials for a general class of m-dimensional compact sets"
Aula Dini
Wed 29 Jun 9:30- 10:30 Budney, Ryan
"Ideal Configurations of Knots from Geometrization and Operads"
Aula Dini
10:30- 11:00 Coffee break Aula Dini
11:00- 12:00 Diao, Yuanan
"The Ropelengths of Knots"
Aula Dini
14:30- 15:30 Sullivan, John M.
"Ropelength criticality"
Aula Dini
15:30- 16:00 Coffee break Aula Dini
16:00- 17:00 Cantarella, Jason
"Symmetric criticality for ropelength"
Aula Dini