| Monday 03 December |
| 09:00-10:15 |
Registration |
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| 10:15-10:30 |
Opening remarks by Deputy Director, Christie Marr, and Keith Moffatt |
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| Chair: Keith Moffatt |
| Session: Topological evolution in quantum fluids |
| 10:30-11:10 |
Barenghi, CF (Newcastle University) |
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The properties of quantum turbulence: the homogeneous isotropic case | Sem 1 |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Kerr, RM (Warwick University) |
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Quantum and classical turbulence: Alike or different? | Sem 1 |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Morning Coffee |
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| 11:50-12:10 |
Sherwin, L (Newcastle University) |
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Thermally and mechanically driven quantum turbulence in helium II | Sem 1 |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Allen, J (Newcastle University) |
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Generating and Classifying Turbulence in Bose-Einstein condensates | Sem 1 |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch at Wolfson Court |
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| Chair: Roman Buniy |
| Session: Topological gauge theories and particle physics |
| 14:00-14:40 |
Kauffman, LH (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
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Topological Models for Elementary Particles | Sem 1 |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Kephart, TW (Vanderbilt University) |
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The spectrum of tightly knotted flux tubes in QCD | Sem 1 |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Afternoon Tea |
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| 15:20-16:00 |
Duff, M (Imperial College London) |
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Quantized black hole charges and the Freudenthal dual | Sem 1 |
| Chair: Mark Hindmarsh |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Päs, H (TU Dortmund) |
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Knotted strings and leptonic flavor structure | Sem 1 |
| 16:20-16:40 |
Dennis, M (University of Bristol) |
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Designing fibred knots in optical fields | Sem 1 |
| 17:00-18:00 |
Berry, M (H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol) |
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Rothschild lecture: Superoscillations and weak measurement | Sem 1 |
| 18:00-18:30 |
Welcome Wine Reception |
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| Tuesday 04 December |
| Chair: Tanmay Vachaspati |
| Session: Topological evolution in gauge theories and cosmology |
| 08:50-09:30 |
Achucarro, A (Leiden University) |
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Cosmic strings and other flux tubes | Sem 1 |
| 09:30-09:50 |
Shellard, P (University of Cambridge) |
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Cosmic Strings and our Cosmos? | Sem 1 |
| 09:50-10:30 |
Hindmarsh, M (Helsinki Institute of Physics/University of Sussex) |
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Cosmic strings - relativistic vortices in the early universe | Sem 1 |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Morning Coffee |
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| 10:50-11:10 |
Pogosian, L (Simon Fraser University) |
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Scaling configurations of cosmic superstring networks and their cosmological implications | Sem 1 |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Martins, C (CAUP) |
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Scaling properties of cosmic superstring networks | Sem 1 |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Steer, D (Université Paris 7 - Denis-Diderot) |
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String networks with junctions: evolution and kinks | Sem 1 |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Sakellariadou, M (King's College London) |
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Constraints on cosmic superstring formation and their decay mechanism | Sem 1 |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Urrestilla, J (University of the Basque Country) |
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Cosmic strings, effective number of neutrinos, gravity waves and the CMB | Sem 1 |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch at Wolfson Court |
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| Chair: Renzo Ricca |
| Session: Topology of condensed matter and quantum gas systems |
| 13:30-14:10 |
Fleischer, JW (Princeton University) |
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Superfluid and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless dynamics of light | Sem 1 |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Berloff, N (University of Cambridge) |
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Vortices in non-equilibrium condensates | Sem 1 |
| 14:30-14:50 |
Battye, R (University of Manchester) |
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Vorton solutions in 2D and 3D | Sem 1 |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Yahalom, A (Ariel University Center of Samaria) |
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Log-Analytic Uncertainty Relation | Sem 1 |
| 15:10-15:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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| 15:30-15:50 |
Volkov, MS (University of Tours) |
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Vortons and their stability | Sem 1 |
| 15:50-16:10 |
Pickett, G (Lancaster University) |
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Investigating Pure Quantum Turbulence in Superfluid 3He and a Means of Directly Inferring the Turbulent Energy Content | Sem 1 |
| 16:10-16:50 |
Couder, Y (Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes) |
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Wave/Particle Duality via Silicon Droplets? | Sem 1 |
| 16:50-17:10 |
Monastyrsky, M (ITEP (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics)) |
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Topology of Quantum Liquids | Sem 1 |
| Wednesday 05 December |
| Chair: Jason Cantarella |
| Session: Knots in mathematics: Knot energies |
| 09:00-09:40 |
von der Mosel, H (RWTH Aachen University) |
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Analytic and topological aspects of Menger curvatures for curves and submanifolds | Sem 1 |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Mastin, M (University of Georgia) |
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Symmetric Criticality for Ropelength | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Reiter, P (University of Duisburg-Essen) |
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Regularity theory for knot energies | Sem 1 |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Kusner, R (U Mass Amherst) |
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Critical Links and Unlinks | Sem 1 |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Morning Coffee |
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| 11:00-11:40 |
O'Hara, J (Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
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Renormalized potential energies and their asymptotics | Sem 1 |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Buniy, RV (Chapman University) |
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Higher order topological invariants from the Chern-Simons action | Sem 1 |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Levina, G; Montgomery, M (Russian Academy of Sciences; NOAA/ Hurricane Research Division, Florida) |
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Helical Organization of Tropical Cyclones | Sem 1 |
| 12:20-12:35 |
Proment, D (University of East Anglia) |
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Vortex knots in a Bose-Einstein condensate | Sem 1 |
| 12:35-13:30 |
Lunch at Wolfson Court |
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| Chair: Clayton Shonkwiler |
| 13:30-13:50 |
Salman, H (University of East Anglia) |
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Solitons and Breathers on Quantized Superfluid Vortices | Sem 1 |
| 13:50-14:10 |
Haley, R (Lancaster University) |
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Branes, strings and boojums; topological defects in helium-3 and the cosmos | Sem 1 |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Jäykkä, J (Nordita) |
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Dynamics of Hopfions | Sem 1 |
| 14:30-17:00 |
Free Afternoon |
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| 19:30-22:00 |
Conference Dinner at Trinity Hall |
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| Thursday 06 December |
| Chair: Rob Kusner |
| Session: Knots in mathematics: Tight Knots, etc. |
| 09:00-09:20 |
Parsley, J (Wake Forest University) |
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Cohomology reveals when helicity is a diffeomorphism invariant | Sem 1 |
| 09:20-09:40 |
Shonkwiler, C (University of Georgia) |
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The geometry of random polygons | Sem 1 |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Cantarella, J (University of Georgia) |
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The Expected Total Curvature of Random Polygons | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Ricca, RL (Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca) |
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On the energy spectrum of magnetic knots and links | Sem 1 |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Sullivan, JM (Technische Universität Berlin) |
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Criticality theory for ropelength and related problems | Sem 1 |
| 10:40-11:10 |
Morning Coffee |
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| 11:10-11:30 |
Ernst, C (WKU) |
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Topological and Geometric Properties of tightly confined random polygons | Sem 1 |
| 11:30-11:45 |
Starostin, E (University College London) |
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Equilibrium configurations of elastic torus knots (n,2) | Sem 1 |
| 11:45-12:05 |
Blatt, S (University of Warwick) |
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The gradient flow of O'Hara's knot energies | Sem 1 |
| 12:05-12:25 |
Tanda, S (Hokkaido University) |
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Topological Crystals and the quantum effects | Sem 1 |
| 12:25-13:30 |
Lunch at Wolfson Court |
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| Chair: Robert Kerr |
| Session: Quantized flux tubes and vortices |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Bajer, K (Uniwersytet Warszawski) |
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Quantum vortex reconnections | Sem 1 |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Irvine, W (University of Chicago) |
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Knots in light and fluids | Sem 1 |
| 14:40-14:55 |
Proukakis, N (Newcastle University) |
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Vortex Dynamics and Turbulence in Confined Quantum Gases | Sem 1 |
| 14:55-15:10 |
Suramlishvilli, N (Newcastle University) |
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Interpretation of quasiparticle scattering measurements in $^3$He-B: a three dimensional numerical analysis | Sem 1 |
| 15:10-15:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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| 15:30-15:45 |
Wacks, D (Newcastle University) |
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Macroscopic bundles of vortex rings in superfluid helium | Sem 1 |
| 15:45-16:05 |
Tkalec, U (Jozef Stefan Institute) |
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Knots and links of disclination lines in chiral nematic colloids | Sem 1 |
| 16:05-16:25 |
Golov, A (University of Manchester) |
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Experiments with tangles of quantized vortex lines in superfluid 4He in the T=0 limit | Sem 1 |
| 16:25-16:45 |
Bohr, J (DTU) |
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Torus Knots and Links, Twist Neutrality and Biological Applications | Sem 1 |
| Friday 07 December |
| Chair: Levon Pogosian |
| Session: Linking in magnetic fields and other physical systems |
| 09:00-09:40 |
Vachaspati, T (ASU) |
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Magnetic Fields in the Early Universe -- Chiral Effects and Topology | Sem 1 |
| 09:40-10:20 |
Akhmet'ev, P (IZMIRAN) |
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Asymptotic higher ergodic invariants of magnetic lines | Sem 1 |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Morning Coffee |
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| 10:40-11:20 |
Dunajski, M (University of Cambridge) |
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Topological Solitons from Geometry | Sem 1 |
| Chair: Konrad Bajer |
| Session: Topological Solitons |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Nitta, M (Keio University) |
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Creating Vortons and Knot Solitons via Domain Wall Pair Annihilation in BEC and Field Theory | Sem 1 |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Tchrakian, T (DIAS) |
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Abelian and non-Abelian Hopfions in all odd dimensions | Sem 1 |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Babaev, E (UMass Amherst and KTH Stockholm) |
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Skyrmions and Hopfions in exotic superconductors | Sem 1 |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch at Wolfson Court |
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| Chair: Tom Kephart |
| Session: Topological Solitons continued |
| 13:30-13:50 |
Harland, D (Loughborough University) |
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Modelling Hopf solitons with elastic rods | Sem 1 |
| 13:50-14:10 |
Speight, M (University of Leeds) |
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Fermionic quantization of knot solitons | Sem 1 |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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| 14:30-14:50 |
Niemi, A (CNRS/Uppsala University) |
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Folding and collapse in string-like structures | Sem 1 |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Krusch, S (University of Kent) |
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Fermions coupled to Hopf Solitons | Sem 1 |
| 15:10-15:25 |
Garaud, J (UMass Amherst and KTH Stockholm ) |
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Topological solitons in multi-component superconductors : from baby-Skyrmions to vortex loops | Sem 1 |
| 15:25-15:40 |
Closing Remarks |
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