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Time | Speaker | Title |
6/18, 12:15 p.m. | Randall Kamien Univ. of Penn. & KITP |
How to Knot a Field[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Blackboard Lunch |
6/18, 2:00 p.m. | All | Organizational Meeting |
3/19, 2:30 p.m. | Marty Einhorn KITP Deputy Director |
What's a Wiki Good For?[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/18, 3:45 p.m. | Slobodan Zumer University of Ljubljana. Dept. Physics & KITP |
Defect Structures in Colloidal and Chiral Nematics: From Braids to Knots[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/19, 2:00 p.m. | Bryan Chen Univ. of Penn & KITP |
Sculpting Nematic Textures[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/19, 3:45 p.m. | All | Open Discussion: Meeting Themes and Goals |
6/20, 10:00 a.m. | William Irvine James Franck Inst. & KITP |
Knots in (Physical) Fields[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/20, 2:00 p.m. | Mark Dennis University of Bristol |
Knotting Nodes of Light[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Colloquium |
6/22, 10:00 a.m. | Kenneth Millett UC Santa Barbara |
An Appreciation of the Classical Approach to Knots From the 1833 to 1990[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/22, 11:15 a.m. | Radmila Sazdanovic Univ. of Penn & KITP |
Categorification in Knot Theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/25, 10:00 a.m. | Paul Sutcliffe Durham University & KITP |
Solitonic Knots[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
6/25, 2:00 p.m. | Iwo Bialynicki-Birula Polish Academy & KITP |
Knotted Wavefunctions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/26, 2:00 p.m. | Miha Ravnik University of Ljubljana & KITP |
Energetics of Entangled Nematic Colloids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/26, 3:45 p.m. | All | Open Discussion |
6/27, 10:00 a.m. | Renzo Ricca University of Milano-Bicocca & KITP |
Recent Progress in Topological Fluid Dynamics: From Helicity to Jones Polynomials[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/27, 11:15 a.m. | Daniel Peralta-Salas Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas & KITP |
Knots and Links in Steady Solutions of the Euler Equation[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/27, 2:00 p.m. | Simon Čopar University of Ljubljana & KITP + Short Talks |
Topological Invariants of Framed Knots in Nematics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/27, 3:45 p.m. | Mark Dennis (Univ. Bristol & KITP) Renzo Ricca (University of Milano-Bicocca & KITP) |
Open Discussion: Calugareanu-White-Fuller[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/29, 10:00 a.m. | Ryan Budney University of Victoria & KITP |
Knots Through the Lens of 3-manifold Topology[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/29, 11:15 a.m. | Radmila Sazdanovic Univ. of Penn & KITP |
Knot Software[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
6/29, 11:15 a.m. | Frederick Cohen Univ. Rochester & KITP |
Braid Groups, their Applications and Connections[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
7/02, 10:30 a.m. | Randall Kamien Univ. of Penn & KITP |
Some Thoughts on Non-abelian Defects[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
7/02, 2:00 p.m. | Dorothy Buck Imperial College & KITP |
Three-Manifolds for DNA |
7/03, 2:00 p.m. | Ivan Smalyukh Univ. of Colorado |
Interplay of Defects in Liquid Crystals and Phase Singularities in Beams of Light[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
7/05, 1:30 p.m. | Elisabetta Matsumoto Princeton & KITP |
A Hands-on Class on How to Make Crocheted Hyperbolic Planes Properly |
7/06, 10:00 a.m. | Rafal Komendarczyk Tulane University & KITP |
On Helicity and other Topological Invariants of Flows[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
7/06, 11:15 a.m. | John Etnyre Georgia Institute of Technology & KITP |
TBA[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
7/09, 2:00 p.m. | Gareth Alexander Univ. Warwick & KITP |
Defects and Topology in Liquid Crystals: A Perspective Using Whitehead Products[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
7/10, 2:00 p.m. | Igor Musevic Jozef Stefan Institute |
Interactions and Topology of Nematic Colloids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
7/11, 10:30 a.m. | Pawel Strzelecki Univ. Warsaw & KITP |
On Some Knot Energies Involving Menger Curvature[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
7/11, 2:00 p.m. | Alexander Taylor Bristol & KITP |
Knots in Random Eigenfunctions - followed by general discussion[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
7/12, 10:30 a.m. | Slobodan Zumer University of Ljubljana. Dept. Physics & KITP |
Bubble Gum or Double Q Tube |
7/13, 10:00 a.m. | Petros Koumoutsakos ETH Zürich |
Viscous Vortex Reconnections[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
7/13, 10:30 a.m. | All | Open Questions |
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