CDSAGENDA V.5 Conference and School on Modelling Elastic Manifolds: from Soft Condensed Matter to Biomolecules (School: 24-25 July; Conference: 26-29 July)

Conference and School on Modelling Elastic Manifolds: from Soft Condensed Matter to Biomolecules (School: 24-25 July; Conference: 26-29 July)

Start Time:

24 July 2006 at 08:30

Ends On:

29 July 2006

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

AGH (Giambiagi LH)

Organizer(s):

Directors: L. Cugliandolo, S. Franz, M. Marsili, C. Micheletti, R. Zecchina

Description:

Web Page: http://users.ictp.it/~smr1762

Material:

Programme (PDF )
announcement
application_form (deadline for requesting participation: 28 February 2006)

Monday, 24 July 2006

08:15
09:20

Registration and Administrative Formalities

01h05'

09:20
09:30

Welcome

10'

09:30
11:00

Statistical physics of biopolymers (Part 1)

01h30'

lecture_notes

Henri ORLAND
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

11:00
12:30

Glassy phases of disordered elastic media (Part 1)

01h30'

lecture_notes

Thierry GIAMARCHI
University of Geneva, Switzerland

12:30
14:00

Lunch Break

01h30'

14:00
15:30

Conformational correlations in proteins (Part 1)

01h30'

lecture_notes

Burak ERMAN
Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

15:30
15:50

Coffee Break

20'

15:50
17:20

Introduction to glass physics (Part 1)

01h30'

Tomas GRIGERA
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

Tuesday, 25 July 2006

08:40
10:10

Introduction to glass physics (Part 2)

01h30'

Tomas GRIGERA

10:10
10:30

Coffee Break

20'

10:30
12:00

Conformational correlations in proteins (Part 2)

01h30'

Burak ERMAN

12:00
13:40

Lunch Break

01h40'

13:40
15:10

Glassy phases of disordered elastic media (Part 2)

01h30'

Thierry GIAMARCHI

15:10
15:30

Coffee Break

20'

15:30
17:00

Statistical physics of biopolymers (Part 2)

01h30'

Henri ORLAND

Wednesday, 26 July 2006

08:45
09:30

Modelling drops moving on chemically patterned and superhydrophobic surfaces

45'

Julia YEOMANS
University of Oxford, UK

09:30
10:15

Inertial effects in viscous and viscoelastic fluids

45'

Tanniemola LIVERPOOL
University of Leeds, UK

10:15
10:45

Coffee Break and Group Photograph on the Terrace

30'

10:45
11:30

Lines, interfaces and elastic media in random environments: exact ground state calculations

45'

Heiko RIEGER
University of Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany

11:30
12:15

Depinning of domain walls

45'

lecture_notes

Thierry GIAMARCHI

12:15
14:00

Lunch Break

01h45'

14:00
14:45

Markovian network models for exploring communication paths and allostery in complex biomolecular systems

45'

Ivet BAHAR
University of Pittsburgh, USA

14:45
15:30

Collapse transition of two-dimensional flexible and semiflexible polymers

45'

lecture_notes

Haijun ZHOU
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

15:30
16:00

Coffee Break

30'

16:00
16:45

To be announced

45'

Henri ORLAND

16:45
17:30

On the inverse random walk problem

45'

Remi MONASSON
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

18:30
20:30

Reception - Terrace, Adriatico Guesthouse

02h00'

Thursday, 27 July 2006

08:45
09:30

Oscillatory dynamics of flux lines in high Tc superconductors

45'

Victoria BEKERIS
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

09:30
10:15

Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of flux lines in superconductors with random pinning

45'

Daniel DOMINGUEZ
Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina

10:15
10:45

Coffee Break

30'

10:45
11:30

Natural classification of knots

45'

Andrzej STASIAK
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

11:30
12:15

Dynamics of fibers growing insider tethered vesicles

45'

Enzo ORLANDINI
University of Padova, Italy

12:15
14:00

Lunch Break

01h45'

14:00
17:00

Free Afternoon/Excursion

03h00'

Friday, 28 July 2006

08:45
09:30

Mechanical instabilities and the glass transition

45'

Tomas GRIGERA

09:30
10:15

Physics of genome management

45'

lecture_notes

Jane' KONDEV
Brandeis University, USA

10:15
10:45

Coffee Break

30'

10:45
11:30

To be announced

45'

Dave THIRUMALAI
University of Maryland, USA

11:30
12:15

Statistical mechanics of proteins in the denatured state

45'

Burak ERMAN

12:15
14:00

Lunch Break

01h45'

14:00
14:45

Fluctuations and their implications in random elastic media

45'

Paul GOLDBART
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

14:45
15:15

Coffee Break

30'

15:15
16:00

Dielectric and metallic manifolds

45'

Ramin GOLESTANIAN
Sheffield University, UK

16:00
16:45

Quantum creep and variable range hopping in 1D electron system

45'

lecture_notes

Thomas NATTERMANN
University of Koln, Germany

Saturday, 29 July 2006 (Saturday)

08:45
09:30

Single molecule force spectroscopy investigation of multimodular constructs

45'

Francesco VALLE
University of Bologna, Italy

09:30
10:15

Inference of DNA sequences from mechanical opening experiments

45'

Simona COCCO
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

10:15
10:45

Coffee Break

30'

10:45
11:30

DNA unzipping and helicase motion

45'

Somen BHATTACHARJEE
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India

11:30
12:15

Feeling force-force functional fixed points for pinned manifolds: why and how

45'

lecture_notes

Alan MIDDLETON
Syracuse University, USA