International Workshop on

"Knots and Macromolecules"

March 16-18, 2006

"Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Campo S. Stefano 2945 Venice




Invited speakers



Gustavo Arteca
 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road Sudbury,
 Ontario P3E2C6, CANADA. gustavo@laurentian.ca
Configurational transitions during the mechanical stretching of grafted homo- and heteropolymer single chains.

Marco Baiesi
Inst. for Theor. Physics,K.U. Leuven
B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM. baiesi@pd.infn.it
Knot complexity in collapsed polymers.

Eli Ben-Naim
Center for NonLinear Studies,  Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. ebn@lanl.gov
Knots and Random Walks in Vibrated Granular Chains

Gregory R. Buck
Department of Mathematics, St. Anselm College 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester New Hampshire 03102-1310. gbuck@anselm.edu
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Jason Cantarella
 Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia,
jason@math.uga.edu
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Isabel K Darcy
Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa 14,MLH Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. idarcy@math.uiowa.edu
Modeling protein-DNA complexes in 3D with TopoICE: Topological Interactive Construction Engine.

Tetsuo Deguchi
Department of Physics, Ochanomizu University, Otsuka 2-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8610, Japan, deguchi@phys.ocha.ac.jp
Correlation and scattering functions of random knots.

Yuanan Diao
Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
9201 University City Blvd.  Charlotte, NC 28223-0001. ydiao@uncc.edu
The ropelengths of physical knots.

Giovanni Dietler
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiere Vivante Institut de Physique de la Matiere Complexe
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, BSP CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland Giovanni.Dietler@epfl.ch
Numerical Simulation of Gel Electrophoresis of DNA Knots in Weak and Strong Electric Fields.

Bertrand Duplantier
SPHT, Saclay, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. bertrand@spht.saclay.cea.fr
Random linking numbers of curves or manifolds

Erika Ercolini
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiere Vivante Institut de Physique de la Matiere Complexe
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, BSP CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland erika.ercolini@epfl.ch
Study of the Fractal Properties of DNA Knots by Atomic Force Microscopy.

Claus Ernst
 Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101. claus.ernst@wku.edu
The Total Curvature of Thick Knots.

Alexander Y. Grosberg
Physics Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. grosberg@physics.umn.edu
Results and insights from simulation of knots: from simple models to protein evolution.

E.J. Janse van Rensburg 
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Ontario, Canada M3J1P3. rensburg@mathstat.yorku.ca
Lattice models of vesicles.

Stephen Levene
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of Texas at Dallas. stephen.levene@utdallas.edu
The Lives of DNA Loops, Knots, and Catenanes in 2.5 Dimensions as Revealed by Atomic-force Microscopy

Boris Marcone
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Padova via Marzolo 8 Padova 35121, Italy. marcone@pd.infn.it
Knot localization in compact and adsorbed polymers.

Davide Marenduzzo
Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL UK. davide@maths.warwick.ac.uk
Probing the softness of a knot: measuring entropic forces acting on a polymer close to a wall and between two approaching loops.

Ralf Metzler
NORDITA ,Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark. metz@nordita.dk
Localization of DNA Knots in the Dilute Phase and Confined in Nanochannels.

Cristian Micheletti
SISSA, Trieste, Italy. michelet@sissa.it
Knotting of random ring polymers in confined spaces.

Kenneth C. Millett
Department of Mathematics,University of California Santa Barbara. millett@math.ucsb.edu
Scaling Behavior, Equilibrium Lengths, and Probabilities of Knotted Polymers.

S. Nechaev
LPTMS, Universite Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France. nechaev@ipno.in2p3.fr
Statistics of random walks on braid groups and growth of random heaps.

Olivier Pierre-Louis
Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' Milano-Bicocca, Milano Italy. olivier.pierre-louis@ujf-grenoble.fr
Stiff knots.

Renzo Ricca
Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' Milano-Bicocca, Milano Italy. renzo.ricca@unimib.it
Twist and fold modelling of supercoiled filaments.

Chris Soteros
Mathematical Science Group, University of Saskatchewan, 106 Wiggins Road,
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E6 , Canada. soteros@math.usask.ca  
Knotting probabilities for some constrained self-avoiding polygon models.

Andrzej Stasiak
University of Lausanne, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis, Lausanne. Andrzej.Stasiak@unil.ch
Natural classification of knots.

John Sullivan
Inst. f. Mathematik, MA 3-2, TU Berlin,Str. des 17. Juni 136,
10623 Berlin, Germany. Sullivan@Math.TU-Berlin.DE
Ropelength and Distortion of Knots using Essential Secants.

Maria Carla Tesi
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. tesi@dm.unibo.it
Knots in semiflexible polygons.

De Witt Sumners
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University. sumners@math.fsu.edu
DNA Knots Reveal Chiral Packing of DNA in Phage Capsids.

Carlo Vanderzande
 Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium. carlo.vanderzande@luc.ac.be
The effect of knots on polymer dynamics.

Francesco Zonta
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Padova via Marzolo 8 Padova 35121, Italy. zonta@pd.infn.it
Size of knots in collapse polymers.