Workshop on the Dynamics & Statistics of Chiral Topological Matter
Location:
Building 2
Lecture Hall 2-190
Date/Time: Saturday, October 21, 2023 @ 9 AM EST
Invited Speakers:
Akio Kimura (Hiroshima U & WPI-SKCM²)
Eleni Panagiotou (Arizona State U)
Elisabetta Matsumoto (Georgia Tech & WPI-SKCM²)
Ivan Smalyukh (U of Colorado & WPI-SKCM²)
Jason Cantarella (U of Georgia)
Louis Kauffman (U of Illinois at Chicago)
Nikta Fakhri (MIT)
William Irvine (U of Chicago)
Saad Bhamla (Georgia Tech)
Vishal Patil (Stanford U)
Yuka Kotorii (Hiroshima U & WPI-SKCM²)
Who: All are welcome, free of charge
Workshop Program
Session 1
9.00 Welcome
9.15 William Irvine (Chicago) Weaving tangled vortex webs: vortex knots, conservation of helicity and turbulent blobs
9.45 Louis Kauffman (Illinois at Chicago) Topology of Vortex Reconnection
10.15 Elisabetta Matsumoto (Georgia Tech & WPI-SKCM2) Twisted topological tangles or: the knot theory of knitting
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
Session 2
11.15 Eleni Panagiotou (Arizona State) Novel topological metrics of entanglement in filamentous matter
11.45 Akio Kimura (Hiroshima & WPI-SKCM2) Lightwave-driven electron dynamics in topological materials
12.15 Jason Cantarella (Georgia) Sampling configuration spaces of polymer networks
12.45 Flash talks: Prathyusha Kokkoorakunnel Ramankutty and Kasturi Barkataki
13.00-14.15 Lunch Break
Session 3
14.15 Angel Martinez (Northern Arizona) Soft Knots
14.45 Yuka Kotorii (Hiroshima & WPI-SKCM2) Link-homotopy of links, colored links and spacial graphs
15.15 Nikta Fakhri (MIT) The many faces of living chiral crystals
15.45-16.15 Coffee Break
Session 4
Workshop_Program
16.15 Saad Bhamla (Georgia Tech) Worm Blobs: Living Tangled Matter
16.45 Vishal Patil (Stanford)Topological dynamics of knotted and tangled matter
17.15 Ivan Smalyukh (Colorado & WPI-SKCM2) Geometric reconfiguration and collective motion of topological solitons
17.45 Closing
Workshop_Program
Speaker Dinner, 7.30 p at PAGU