Name: EUTOPIA-1: First meeting of the European Topology interdisciplinary Initiative
Start: 2019-02-05T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2019-02-08T14:00:00+01:00
Location: ECT* - Villa Tambosi

EUTOPIA-1: First meeting of the European Topology interdisciplinary Initiative

from Tuesday, 5 February 2019 (08:30) to Friday, 8 February 2019 (14:00)

Monday, 4 February 2019
Tuesday, 5 February 2019

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Hall

09:00 Part I.
Part I.
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Meeting room

10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Meeting room

11:00 Part II.
Part II.
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Meeting room

12:00

12:00 - 12:30
Room: Meeting room

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Meeting room

14:00 presentation and description of the event
presentation and description of the event
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Meeting room

14:30 WG 1 introduction
WG 1 introduction
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Meeting room

15:00 WG 2 introduction
WG 2 introduction
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Meeting room

15:30 coffee break
coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Meeting room

16:00 WG 3 introduction
WG 3 introduction
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Meeting room

16:30 WG 4 introduction
WG 4 introduction
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Meeting room

17:00 WG 5 introduction
WG 5 introduction
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Meeting room

17:30 poster session
poster session
17:30 - 19:30
Room: Meeting room

19:30 Social dinner
Social dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Meeting room
Wednesday, 6 February 2019
09:00 Part I.
Part I.
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Meeting room
Contributions

09:00 General introduction to topology, strings, knots - Alexei Morozov

09:40 Hopfions in superconductors - Egor Babaev

10:00 Topological aspects of protein folding - Nevena Ilieva
10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Meeting room
11:00 Part II.
Part II.
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Meeting room
Contributions

11:00 Knots, knot invariants and knots in proteins - Piotr Sulkowski

11:30 The analytical approach to topological structures in nature: challenges and new perspectives - Franco Ferrari

12:00 Round table - forward look for WG 1
12:30 lunch
lunch
12:30 - 14:30
Room: Meeting room
14:30 Part I. Topological effects in generic polymer systems, CG polymer models, Active polymers.
Part I. Topological effects in generic polymer systems, CG polymer models, Active polymers.
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Meeting room
Contributions

14:30 Polymer systems under topological constraints - Andrey Milchev

14:45 Random knotting and linking - Enzo Orlandini

15:00 5x5 minutes talks

15:30 Round table - forward look for WG 2
16:00 coffee break
coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Meeting room
16:30 Part II. Polymeric gels, Characterization of biopolymer topological properties (linking number, torsion, writhe, etc...)
Part II. Polymeric gels, Characterization of biopolymer topological properties (linking number, torsion, writhe, etc...)
16:30 - 18:15
Room: Meeting room
Contributions

16:30 Patchy polymers: A bridge between synthetic polymers and biopolymers - Ivan Coluzza

16:45 Experimental polymer design for drug delivery - Kalina Peneva

17:05 4x5 minutes talks

17:30 Round table - forward look for WG 2
Thursday, 7 February 2019
09:00 Part I.
Part I.
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Meeting room
Contributions

09:00 WG 3 overview - Joanna Sulkowska

09:30 Knotoids and Protein Structure: A primer on the mathematical theory and the available computational tools. - Dimos Goundaroulis

09:50 Knots in intrinsically disordered proteins Discussion - Marek Cieplak

10:10 Transferable coarsegrained potential for de novo protein folding and design - Ivan Coluzza
10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Meeting room
11:00 Part II.
Part II.
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Meeting room
Contributions

11:00 Deterministic Knots in proteins - Pawel Dabrowski-Tumanski

11:20 Nontrivial lasso in proteins and polymers Discussion - Bartosz Greń

11:40 Round table - forward look for WG 3
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
Room: Meeting room
14:30 Part I.
Part I.
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Meeting room
Contributions

14:30 TBA - Eoin Hurley

14:40 DNA braids - Giada Forte

14:50 DNA Unknotting via Topoisomerase - Agnese Barbensi

15:00 Chromatin unknotting - Andrzej Stasiak

15:10 Chromatin & TADs - Dusan Racko

15:20 TBA - Cristian Micheletti

15:30 Nonlinear dynamics of DNA and microtubules - Slobodan Zdravkovic

15:40 TBA - Bojana Lucic

15:50 TBA - Noan Kaplan
16:00 coffee break
coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Meeting room

16:30 Part II. Round table: forward look for WG 4
Part II. Round table: forward look for WG 4
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Meeting room
Friday, 8 February 2019

09:00 Part I.
Part I.
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Meeting room

10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Meeting room

11:00 Part II.
Part II.
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Meeting room

12:30

12:30 - 13:00
Room: Meeting room

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Meeting room