| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 7/13, 10:30 a.m. |
All |
Open Questions |
| 7/13, 10:00 a.m. |
Petros Koumoutsakos
ETH Zürich |
Viscous Vortex Reconnections[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 7/12, 10:30 a.m. |
Slobodan Zumer
University of Ljubljana. Dept. Physics & KITP |
Bubble Gum or Double Q Tube |
| 7/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Alexander Taylor
Bristol & KITP |
Knots in Random Eigenfunctions - followed by general discussion[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 7/11, 10:30 a.m. |
Pawel Strzelecki
Univ. Warsaw & KITP |
On Some Knot Energies Involving Menger Curvature[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 7/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Igor Musevic
Jozef Stefan Institute |
Interactions and Topology of Nematic Colloids[Slides][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] |
| 7/06, 11:15 a.m. |
John Etnyre
Georgia Institute of Technology & KITP |
TBA[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 7/06, 10:00 a.m. |
Rafal Komendarczyk
Tulane University & KITP |
On Helicity and other Topological Invariants of Flows[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 |
| 7/03, 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] |
| 7/02, 2:00 p.m. |
Dorothy Buck
Imperial College & KITP |
Three-Manifolds for DNA |
| 7/02, 10:30 a.m. |
Randall Kamien
Univ. of Penn & KITP |
Some Thoughts on Non-abelian Defects[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/29, 11:15 a.m. |
Frederick Cohen
Univ. Rochester & KITP |
Braid Groups, their Applications and Connections[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/29, 11:15 a.m. |
Radmila Sazdanovic
Univ. of Penn & KITP |
Knot Software[Slides][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] |
| 6/27, 3:45 p.m. |
Mark Dennis
(Univ. Bristol & KITP)
Renzo Ricca
(University of Milano-Bicocca & KITP) |
Open Discussion: Calugareanu-White-Fuller[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/27, 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, 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, 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] |
| 6/26, 3:45 p.m. |
All |
Open Discussion |
| 6/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Miha Ravnik
University of Ljubljana & KITP |
Energetics of Entangled Nematic Colloids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Iwo Bialynicki-Birula
Polish Academy & KITP |
Knotted Wavefunctions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/25, 10:00 a.m. |
Paul Sutcliffe
Durham University & KITP |
Solitonic Knots[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/22, 11:15 a.m. |
Radmila Sazdanovic
Univ. of Penn & KITP |
Categorification in Knot Theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 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] |
| 6/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Mark Dennis
University of Bristol |
Knotting Nodes of Light[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Colloquium |
| 6/20, 10:00 a.m. |
William Irvine
James Franck Inst. & KITP |
Knots in (Physical) Fields[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/19, 3:45 p.m. |
All |
Open Discussion: Meeting Themes and Goals |
| 6/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Bryan Chen
Univ. of Penn & KITP |
Sculpting Nematic Textures[Slides][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] |
| 3/19, 2:30 p.m. |
Marty Einhorn
KITP Deputy Director |
What's a Wiki Good For?[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/18, 2:00 p.m. |
All |
Organizational Meeting |
| 6/18, 12:15 p.m. |
Randall Kamien
Univ. of Penn. & KITP |
How to Knot a Field[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch |
