Talks+&+Discussions

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$5-10 per person for Yarn, max 10 people - please sign up on the wiki || ***Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room, PL=Porthole Lounge** // Magenta=Specific interest (Optional) // ⬆TOP
 * ~ **Week 1** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Jun 18 || 12:15 pm || Aud || **Randy Kamien** || //How to Knot a Field// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00 pm || SSR || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting// ||  ||
 * || 3:45 pm || Aud || **Slobodan Zumer** || //Defect structures in colloidal and chiral nematics: from braids to knots// ||  ||
 * Tue, Jun 19 || 2:15 pm || SSR || **Bryan Chen** || //Sculpting Nematic Textures// ||  ||
 * || 3:45 pm || SSR || **All** || //Open discussion on meeting themes and goals// || All "knotted fields" members ||
 * Wed, Jun 20 || 10:00 am || SSR || **William Irvine** || //Linked and Knotted Fields: Light and Hydrodynamics// || Abstract ||
 * || 2:00 pm || MSR || **Mark Dennis** || //Knotting Nodes of Light// || KITP Colloquium ||
 * Fri, Jun 22 || 10:00 am || SSR || **Ken Millett** || //An appreciation of the classical approach to knots from 1833 to 1990// ||  ||
 * || 11:15 am || SSR || **Radmila Sazdanovic** || //Categorification in Knot Theory// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 2** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Jun 25 || 12:15 pm || Aud || **TBA** || //TBA// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 10:00 am || SSR || **Paul Sutcliffe** || Solitonic knots ||  ||
 * || 2:00 pm || SSR || **Iwo Bialynicki-Birula** || //Knotted wavefunctions// ||  ||
 * Tue, Jun 26 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Miha Ravnik** || //Energetics of entangled nematic colloids// ||  ||
 * || 3:45 pm || SSR || **All** || //Open discussion on program// ||  ||
 * Wed, Jun 27 || 10:00 am || SSR || **Renzo Ricca** || //Recent progress in topological fluid dynamics: from helicity to Jones polynomials// ||  ||
 * || 11:15 am || SSR || **Daniel Peralta-Salas** || //Knots and links in steady solutions of the Euler equation// ||  ||
 * || 2:00 pm || SSR || ** Simon Copar ** || // Topological invariants of framed knots in nematics // || ~30 min + discussion ||
 * || 2:40 pm || SSR || **Many** || 2-5 Minute soundbites ||  ||
 * || 3:45 || SSR || ** Renzo Ricca, Mark Dennis ** || // Open discussion on Calugareanu-White-Fuller // || Discussion lead by Renzo Ricca and Mark Dennis ||
 * Fri, Jun 29 || 10:00 am || //SSR// || **Ryan Budney** || //Knots through the lens of 3-manifold topology// || Abstract ||
 * || 11:30 am || TBA || Radmila Sazdanovic || // Knot Software // || Radmilla kindly agreed to give a summary of software and websites that are available for looking up and computing knots and knot invariants ||
 * || //2:00// || //SSR// || **Frederick Cohen** || //TBA// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 3** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Jul 2 || 10:30 || SSR || **Randall Kamien** || //Some thoughts on non-abelian defects// ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || Aud || **Tom Lubensky** || //Critical States, Self-Stress, Surface Modes, and Conformal Invariance in Isotatic and Undercoordinated Lattices// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00 pm || SSR || **Dorothy Buck** || //Three-Manifolds for DNA// || Abstract ||
 * Tue, Jul 3 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Ivan Smalyukh** || //Interplay of defects in liquid crystals and phase singularities in beams of light// ||  ||
 * Thu, Jul 5 || 1:30-4:00 pm || Fishbowl (?) || Sabetta Matsumoto || // A hands on class on how to make crocheted hyperbolic planes properly // || A small class on how to make crocheted hyperbolic planes properly
 * || 12:15pm || Aud || **Tom Lubensky** || //Critical States, Self-Stress, Surface Modes, and Conformal Invariance in Isotatic and Undercoordinated Lattices// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 2:00 pm || SSR || **Dorothy Buck** || //Three-Manifolds for DNA// || Abstract ||
 * Tue, Jul 3 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Ivan Smalyukh** || //Interplay of defects in liquid crystals and phase singularities in beams of light// ||  ||
 * Thu, Jul 5 || 1:30-4:00 pm || Fishbowl (?) || Sabetta Matsumoto || // A hands on class on how to make crocheted hyperbolic planes properly // || A small class on how to make crocheted hyperbolic planes properly
 * Fri, Jul 6 || 10:00 am || SSR || Rafal Komendarczyk || //On helicity and other topological invariants of flows// ||  ||
 * || 11:15 am || SSR || John Etnyre || //TBA// ||  ||
 * || 2:00 pm || SSR? || J.E. R.K. R.K. and D.P.S. || Curl eigenfields etc ||  ||
 * || 2:00 pm? || TBA || M.R.D., S.C. R.D.K || Pinting director fields using light ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 4** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Jul 9 || 2:00 pm || SSR || Gareth Alexander || Defects and topology in liquid crystals: a perspective using Whitehead products ||  ||
 * Tue, Jul 10 || 2:00 pm || AUD || Igor Musevic || Interactions and topology of nematic colloids ||  ||
 * Wed Jul 11 || 10:30 || SSR || Pawel Strzelecki || On some knot energies involving Menger curvature ||  ||
 * || 2:00 pm || AUD || Sandy Taylor || Knots in random eigenfunctions, followed by general discussion ||  ||
 * Thu, Jul 12 || 10:30 am || SSR || Slobodan Zumer || Bubble Gum or Double Q ||  ||
 * Fri Jul 13 || 10:00 || SSR || Petros Koumoutsakos || Viscous vortex reconnections ||  ||
 * || 10:30 || SSR || The knot collective || Open questions ||  ||