Topology of polymers and related topics
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Time Table


Aug 26, Tuesday

9:30-9:40 Opening
9:40-10:20 Stu G. Whittington (Canada)
 "Counting almost unknotted embeddings of graphs and surfaces"
coffee break 30 min
10:50-11:30 Akio Kawauchi (Osaka City Univ.)
 ``On a complexity of a spatial graph''
11:30-12:10 Yuanan Diao (USA)
 ``Jones Polynomials of Knots Formed by Repeated Tangle Replacement Operations''
Lunch 90 min
13:40-14:20 Chris Soteros (Canada)
 ``THE LINKING PROBABILITY FOR 2-COMPONENT LINKS WHICH SPAN A LATTICE TUBE''
14:20-15:00 Jason Cantarella (USA)
 "A new proof that every tight knotted tube (other than the unknot) has a self-contact"
coffee break 30 min
15:30-16:10 Claus Ernst (USA)
 ``The Linearity of the Ropelengths of Conway Algebraic Knots in Terms of Their Crossing Numbers''
16:10-16.50 Eric Rawdon (USA)
 ``The Effect of Knotting on the Size and Shape of Polymers''
16:50-17:30 Cristian Micheletti (Italy)
 "Simulations of knotting in confined circular DNA"





Aug 27, Wednesday
9:00-9:40 Mitchell Berger (UK) ``Magnetic Writhe and Braiding''
9:40-10:20 S. Yamazaki (Okayama Univ.)
 ``Topological mechanism of nucleation of cyclic polyethylene''
coffee break 30 min
10:50-11:30 T. Okui (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) ``Topological Effect on Polymer Crystallization - Linear and Ring Polymers -''
11:30-12:10 Atsushi Takano (Nagoya Univ.)
 ``Chain dimension of ring polystyrenes in solutions''
Lunch 90 min
13:40-14:20 A. Ikai (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
 "Stabilization of a protein structure by pseudo-knot formation"
14:20-15:00 Peter Virnau (Germany)
 ``Knots in globular polymers and proteins''
coffee break 30 min
15:30-16:10 Todd O Yeates (USA)
 TBA
16:10-16.50 Joanna I. Sulkowska (USA)
 TBA
16:50-17:30 Poster session
Aug 28, Thursday


9:00-9:40 K. Yoshikawa (Kyoto Univ.) ``Packing a semi-flexible molecular chain''
9:40-10:20 Giovanni Dietler (Switzerland)
 "Single Molecule Imaging Study of the Effects of Topology on the Statistical Properties of DNA"
coffee break 30 min
10:50-11:30 Stephen Levene (USA) TBA
11:30-12:10 Lynn Zechiedrich (USA)
 TBA
Lunch 90 min
13:40-14:20 Andrzej Stasiak (Switzerland)
 ``DNA supercoiling inhibits DNA knotting''
14:20-15:00 Koya Shimokawa (Saitama Univ.)
 ``Tangle analysis of DNA catenane unlinking by the Xer/FtsK system''
coffee break 30 min
15:30-16:10 Julia Yeomans (UK)
 ``Polymer dynamics in confined spaces''
16:10-16:40 Takeaki Araki (Kyoto Univ.)
 ``Monte Carlo simulation of nematic liquid crystal in porous media: The topological constraint and surface anchoring effect''
16:40-17:00 S. Saka (Keio Univ.)
 ``Average Structure of a Single Knotted Ring Polymer''
17:00-17:20 Naoko Kanaeda (Ochanomizu Univ.)
 ``Intrinsic viscosity of knots in solution evaluated through the Brownian Dynamics''
17:20-17:30 Naomi Hirayama (Ochanomizu Univ.)
 ``Linking probabilities of self-avoiding polygons''
18:00 -- banquet
Aug 29, Friday


9:00-9:40 Tom Kephart (USA) "Knots and Links in Semi-classical Systems"
9:40-10:20 Olivier Pierre-Louis (UK)
 ``Knots in stiff strings''
coffee break 30 min
10:50-11:30 Attilio Stella (Italy) ``Topological signatures of the thermodynamics of swollen and globular polymer rings''
11:30-12:10 Kyoichi Tsurusaki (Kanagawa Industrial Tech. Inst.)
``Analysis on topological effects of polymer systems using link and knot invariants''
Lunch 90 min
13:40-14:20 Jun O'Hara (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
 ``Configuration space of small equilateral and equiangular polygons (tentative)''
14:20-15:00 K. Taniyama (Waseda Univ.)
 ``Unknotting numbers of diagrams of a given nontrivial knot are unbounded''
coffee break 30 min
15:30-16:00 K. Ishihara (Saitama Univ.)
 ``Minimal step number of knots with small crossing number''
16:00-16:20 S. Araki (Kyoto Univ.)
 hThe hierarchical structure of chromatinh
(by S. Araki, K. Hizume, K. Takeyasu, and K. Yoshikawa)
16:20-16:50 T. Deguchi (Ochanomizu Univ.)
 ``Novel criticality of random knots at the theta temperature and the two-point correlation functions''
16:50-17:00 Closing
Poster Session


Makoto Ozawa (Komazawa Univ.) ``Rational structure on algebraic tangles and closed incompressible surfaces in the complements of algebraically alternating knots and links''
Shinya Saka (Keio Univ.) ``Relaxation of a Single Knotted Ring Polymer''
Ryo Hanaki (Waseda Univ.) ``On Psuedo Diagrams of Knots, Links and Spatial Graphs''
Jiro Suzuki (J-PARC Center) ``Topological effect in ring polymers studied by Monte Carlo Simulation''
Shugo Yasuda (Kyoto Univ.) ``Multi-scale hybrid simulation for softmatters''
Naoko Kanaeda (Ochanomizu Univ.) ``Diffusion of a circular DNA in solution by the Brownian Dynamics''
Naoko Kanaeda (Ochanomizu Univ.) ``Diffusion of a supercoiled DNA and the effect of base flipping by the Brownian dynamics''
Naomi Hirayama (Ochanomizu Univ.) ``Linking probabilities of self-avoiding polygons ''
Yoko Akita (Ochanomizu Univ.) ``Distance distribution of random knots ''