9:45-10:00                       WELCOME.

10:00-10:30      Andrzej Stasiak          Natural classification of knots.

10:30-11:00      Stephen Levene          The Lives of DNA Loops, Knots, and Catenanes in 2.5 Dimensions
                                                               as Revealed by Atomic-force Microscopy.

11:00-11:30      Bertrand Duplantier     Random linking numbers of curves or manifolds.

11:30-12:00      Giovanni Dietler          Numerical Simulation of Gel Electrophoresis of DNA Knots
                                                               in Weak and Strong Electric Fields.

12:00-12:30      Ralf Metzler                Localization of DNA Knots in the Dilute Phase and
                                                               Confined in Nanochannels.

12:30-14:00                                           LUNCH

14:00-14:30      Chris Soteros               Knotting probabilities for some constrained self-avoiding polygon models.

14:30-15:00      Maria Carla Tesi          Knots in semiflexible polygons.

15:00-15:30      Buks van Rensburg      Lattice models of vesicles.

15:30-16:00                                           COFFEE BREAK

16:00-16:30      Sergei Nechaev            Statistics of random walks on braid groups and growth of random heaps.

16:30-17:00      Olivier Pierre-Louis            Stiff knots.

17:00-17:30      Boris Marcone             Knot localization in compact and adsorbed polymers.

  9:00-9:30      Kenneth Millet               Scaling Behavior, Equilibrium Lengths, and Probabilities of Knotted Polymers.

9:30-10:00      Tetsuo Deguchi              Correlation and scattering functions of random knots.

10:00-10:30      Renzo Ricca              Twist and fold modelling of supercoiled filaments.

10:30-11:00                                           COFFEE BREAK

11:00-11:30      Klaus Ernst                   The Total Curvature of Thick Knots.

11:30-12:00      Yuanan Diao                The ropelengths of physical knots.

12:00-12:30      John Sullivan               Ropelength and Distortion of Knots using Essential Secants.

12:30-14:00                                           LUNCH

14:00-14:30      Eli Ben-Naim               Knots and Random Walks in Vibrated Granular Chains.

14:30-15:00      Gustavo Arteca           Configurational transitions during the mechanical stretching of
                                                               grafted homo- and heteropolymer single chains.

15:00-15:30      Carlo Vanderzande              The effect of knots on polymer dynamics.

15:30-16:00                                           COFFE BREAK

16:00-16:30      Alexander Grosberg     Results and insights from simulation of knots:
                                                                 from simple models to protein evolution.

16:30-17:00      Isabel Darcy                Modeling protein-DNA complexes in 3D with TopoICE:
                                                               Topological Interactive Construction Engine.
 

17:00-17:30      Erika Ercolini              Study of the Fractal Properties of DNA Knots by Atomic Force Microscopy.

  9:00-9:30        De Witt Sumners         DNA Knots Reveal Chiral Packing of DNA in Phage Capsids.

  9:30-10:00      Cristian Micheletti       Knotting of random ring polymers in confined spaces.

10:00-10:30      Marco Baiesi               Knot complexity in collapsed polymers.

10:30-11:00                                           COFFE BREAK

11:00-11:30      Francesco Zonta           Detecting knots in proteins.

11:30-12:00      Davide Marenduzzo     Probing the softness of a knot: measuring entropic forces acting
                                                               on a polymer close to a wall and between two approaching loops.