4 September to 17 December 2000
Organisers: H Aref (Urbana-Champaign), T Kambe (Tokyo), RB Pelz (Rutgers), RL Ricca (UCL)
Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences
Seminar Room 1, 20 Clarkson
Road, Cambridge
IN SEARCH OF THE IDEAL KNOT
Organiser: Renzo L Ricca (UCL)
Programme Theme:
Six
world specialists will present results and latest discoveries on mathematical
and physical knots. From soliton knots to electromagnetic knots, from elastic
knots to chemical and biological knots, we shall follow our experts in a
fascinating search for the ideal knot.
|
09.30
– 10.00 |
Coffee
& Registration
|
|
10.00
– 11.00 |
Dr Andrzej Stasiak
(Lausanne) Ideal knots and physical knots |
|
11.00
– 12.00 |
Professor
Antti Niemi (Uppsala) Field theory realizations of knots and
links
|
|
12.00
– 13.00 |
Professor
Art Winfree (Arizona) Knotted phase singularities in motionless
media
|
|
13.00
– 14.00 |
Lunch
at the Institute
|
|
14.00
– 15.00 |
Professor
Antonio Fernandez-Ranada (Complutense) Electromagnetic knots
|
|
15.00
– 16.00 |
Professor
John Maddocks (EPFL) Global curvature, thickness, ideal shapes
and self-contact
|
|
16.00
– 16.30 |
Tea
|
|
16.30
– 17.30 |
Professor
De Witt Sumners (Florida State) Knots in DNA
|
|
17.30
– 18.00 |
Wine
Reception |
Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Lunch will be provided at a nominal charge; please let Tracey Andrew at the Institute know by 22 September 2000 if you intend to come, to help us plan for lunch: telephone: (01223) 335984; fax: (01223) 330508. There are limited funds available to assist research students to attend: please apply by 22 September 2000 to Tracey Andrew at the Institute. Scientific enquiries may be addressed to Dr Renzo L Ricca, Isaac Newton Institute, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH.