TOD
16 July 2012 to 21 December 2012
The programme is intended to stimulate interaction between applied mathematicians, biologists and physicists who frequently encounter dynamical problems that have some explicit or implicit topological content. We use the term 'topological' to convey the idea of structures, e.g. knots, links or braids in 3D, that exhibit some measure of invariance under continuous deformation. Dynamical evolution is then subject to the topological constraints that express this invariance. A basic common problem is to determine minimum energy structures (and routes towards these structures) permitted by such constraints; and to explore mechanisms, e.g.diffusive, by which such constraints may be broken.
When formulated in terms of the mathematical objects and issues, the current view of the common topological denominator is summarised below. We expect to add to this list during the Programme.
Tubes in R3
Surfaces in R3
Lines in R3
Lines on manifolds
Singularities
Click here to download the programme's final scientific report
Title | Year | Programme | |
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Finite type invariants of magnetic linesAuthors: Petr Akhmet'ev |
2012 | TOD | 2 March 2017 |
Relativistic helicity and link in Minkowski space-timeAuthors: Y. Kawazura, T. Yokoyama, Zensho Yoshida |
2012 | TOD | 2 March 2017 |
Topological constraints and their breakdown in dynamical evolutionAuthors: RE Goldstein, Keith Moffatt, Adriana Pesci |
2012 | TOD | 21 October 2016 |
The expected total curvature of random polygonsAuthors: Jason Cantarella, AY Grosberg, Rob Kusner, Clayton Shonkwiler |
2012 | TOD | 21 October 2016 |
The fluid dynamics of James Clerk MaxwellAuthors: Keith Moffatt |
2012 | TOD | 21 October 2016 |
The tight knot spectrum in QCDAuthors: R V Buniy, Jason Cantarella, T W Kephart, Eric Rawdon |
2012 | TOD | 21 October 2016 |
Applications of Lagrangian reduction to condensed matterAuthors: F Gay-balmaz, Michael Monastyrsky, Tudor Ratiu |
2012 | TOD | 21 October 2016 |
Helical organization of tropical cyclonesAuthors: Galina Levina |
2012 | TOD | 21 October 2016 |
Generalized helicity and Beltrami fieldsAuthors: Roman Buniy, Thomas Kephart |
2012 | TOD | 21 October 2016 |
Discrete groups and internal symmetries of icosahedral viral capsidsAuthors: Richard Kerner |
2012 | TOD | 21 October 2016 |
The symplectic geometry of closed equilateral random walks in 3-SpaceAuthors: Jason Cantarella, Clayton Shonkwiler |
2012 | TOD | 21 October 2016 |
Reconnection of skewed vorticesAuthors: Yoshifumi Kimura, Keith Moffatt |
2012 | TOD | 21 October 2016 |
23 July 2012 to 27 July 2012
3 September 2012 to 7 September 2012
14 October 2012 to 20 October 2012
3 December 2012 to 7 December 2012
9 September 2013 to 10 September 2013
The Organisers would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the event:
Thursday 19th July 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Phil Boyland University of Florida |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 2nd August 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
John Gibbon Imperial College London |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 7th August 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Konrad Bajer Uniwersytet Warszawski |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 9th August 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Andrzej Herczynski Boston College |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 14th August 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Gunnar Hornig University of Dundee |
Room 1 | |
Wednesday 15th August 2012 | |||
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12:00 to 17:00 | Discussion Room |
Thursday 16th August 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Roman Buniy Chapman University |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 21st August 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Piotr Szymczak Uniwersytet Warszawski |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 23rd August 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Giovanni Dietler Centre de Physique Théorique de l’Ecole Polytechnique (CPHT) |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 28th August 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Alexander Shnirelman Concordia University |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 30th August 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Tomasz Lipniacki Polish Academy of Sciences |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 11th September 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
William Irvine University of Chicago |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 13th September 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Marek Cieplak Polish Academy of Sciences |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 18th September 2012 | |||
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14:30 to 15:00 | No Room Required | ||
15:00 to 15:30 |
Dorothy Buck Imperial College London |
Room 1 | |
15:30 to 16:00 |
Lynn Zechiedrich Baylor College of Medicine |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:30 | No Room Required | ||
16:30 to 17:05 |
New approaches to understanding and treating neurodegenerative diseases |
Room 1 | |
17:05 to 17:15 | Room 1 | |
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17:15 to 18:00 |
The business of science; building therapeutic drugs based on proteins |
Room 1 | |
18:00 to 19:00 | No Room Required |
Thursday 20th September 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Jason Cantarella University of Georgia |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 25th September 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Shigeo Kida Kyoto University |
Room 2 | |
Wednesday 26th September 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Tony Leonard CALTECH (California Institute of Technology) |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 27th September 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Kenneth Millett University of California, Santa Barbara |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 2nd October 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Clayton Shonkwiler University of Georgia |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 4th October 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Clare Parnell University of St Andrews |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 9th October 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Tomoo Yokoyama Hokkaido University |
Room 1 | |
Wednesday 10th October 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Denis Weaire Trinity College Dublin |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 11th October 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Asher Yahalom Ariel University Center of Samaria |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 25th October 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Jason Parsley Wake Forest University |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 30th October 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Francesca Maggioni Università degli studi di Bergamo |
Room 1 | |
Wednesday 31st October 2012 | |||
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14:00 to 16:00 | Discussion Room |
Thursday 1st November 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Xin Liu University of Sydney |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 6th November 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Tom Kephart Vanderbilt University |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 8th November 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Louis Kauffman University of Illinois at Chicago |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 13th November 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Eleni Panagiotou National Technical University of Athens |
Room 1 | |
Wednesday 14th November 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Efim Kats L.D.Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow |
Room 1 | |
16:30 to 17:30 |
Victor Buchstaber Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 15th November 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Richard Kerner Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 20th November 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Rob Kusner University of Massachusetts |
Room 1 | |
Wednesday 21st November 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Fermi surface topology and topological numbers in conductivity of normal metals |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 22nd November 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Shahin Rouhani Sharif University of Technology |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 29th November 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Tudor Ratiu Centre de Physique Théorique de l’Ecole Polytechnique (CPHT) |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 11th December 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Jens Eggers University of Bristol |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 13th December 2012 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Surfaces and curvature in Euler and Navier-Stokes simulations. Where next? |
Discussion Room | |
11:30 to 12:30 |
Michael Proctor University of Cambridge |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 18th December 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Mark Dennis University of Bristol |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 20th December 2012 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Sergey Nazarenko University of Warwick |
Room 1 | |
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