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[Trieste School and Conference]

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

Organizer(s): Directors: L. Cugliandolo, S. Franz, M. Marsili, C. 
Micheletti, R. Zecchina

Trieste - Italy, 24 - 29 July 2006
AGH (Giambiagi LH)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic (ext. 226)

Programme

Monday, 24 July 2006

08:15 - 09:20 Registration and Administrative Formalities
09:20 - 09:30 Welcome
09:30 - 11:00 Henri ORLAND / CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Statistical physics of biopolymers (Part 1)
11:00 - 12:30 Thierry GIAMARCHI / University of Geneva, Switzerland
Glassy phases of disordered elastic media (Part 1)
12:30 - 13:40 --- Lunch Break ---
13:40 - 15:10 Burak ERMAN / Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
Conformational correlations in proteins (Part 1)
15:10 - 15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30 - 17:00 Tomas GRIGERA / Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 
Argentina
Introduction to glass physics (Part 1)


Tuesday, 25 July 2006

08:40 - 10:10 Tomas GRIGERA
Introduction to glass physics (Part 2)
10:10 - 10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 - 12:00 Burak ERMAN
Conformational correlations in proteins (Part 2)
12:00 - 13:40 --- Lunch Break ---
13:40 - 15:10 Thierry GIAMARCHI
Glassy phases of disordered elastic media (Part 2)
15:10 - 15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30 - 17:00 Henri ORLAND
Statistical physics of biopolymers (Part 2)


Wednesday, 26 July 2006

08:45 - 09:30 Julia YEOMANS / University of Oxford, UK
Modelling drops moving on chemically patterned and superhydrophobic 
surfaces
09:30 - 10:15 Tanniemola LIVERPOOL / University of Leeds, UK
Inertial effects in viscous and viscoelastic fluids
10:15 - 10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 - 11:30 Heiko RIEGER / University of Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, 
Germany
Lines, interfaces and elastic media in random environments: exact 
ground state calculations
11:30 - 12:15 Thierry GIAMARCHI
Depinning of domain walls
12:15 - 14:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00 - 14:45 Ivet BAHAR / University of Pittsburgh, USA
Markovian network models for exploring communication paths and 
allostery in complex biomolecular
systems
14:45 - 15:30 Haijun ZHOU / Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. 
China
Collapse transition of two-dimensional flexible and semiflexible 
polymers
15:30 - 16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 - 16:45 Henri ORLAND
To be announced
16:45 - 17:30 Remi MONASSON / Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
On the inverse random walk problem
18:30 - 20:30  Reception - Terrace, Adriatico Guesthouse


Thursday, 27 July 2006
08:45 - 09:30 Victoria BEKERIS / Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oscillatory dynamics of flux lines in high Tc superconductors
09:30 - 10:15 Daniel DOMINGUEZ / Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina
Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of flux lines in superconductors with 
random pinning
10:15 - 10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 - 11:30 Andrzej STASIAK / University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Natural classification of knots
11:30 - 12:15 Enzo ORLANDINI / University of Padova, Italy
Dynamics of fibers growing insider tethered vesicles
12:15 - 14:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00 - 17:00 --- Free Afternoon/Excursion ---
 

Friday, 28 July 2006

08:45 - 09:30 Tomas GRIGERA
Mechanical instabilities and the glass transition
09:30 - 10:15 Jane' KONDEV / Brandeis University, USA
Physics of genome management
10:15 - 10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 - 11:30 Dave THIRUMALAI / University of Maryland, USA
To be announced
11:30 - 12:15 Burak ERMAN
Statistical mechanics of proteins in the denatured state
12:15 - 14:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00 - 14:45 Paul GOLDBART / University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign, USA
Fluctuations and their implications in random elastic media
14:45 - 15:15 --- Coffee Break ---
15:15 - 16:00 Ramin GOLESTANIAN / Sheffield University, UK
Dielectric and metallic manifolds
16:00 - 16:45 Thomas NATTERMANN / University of Koln, Germany
Quantum creep and variable range hopping in 1D electron system

 
Saturday, 29 July 2006

08:45 - 09:30 Francesco VALLE / University of Bologna, Italy
Single molecule force spectroscopy investigation of multimodular 
constructs
09:30 - 10:15 Simona COCCO / Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Inference of DNA sequences from mechanical opening experiments
10:15 - 10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 - 11:30 Somen BHATTACHARJEE / Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, 
India
DNA unzipping and helicase motion
11:30 - 12:15 Alan MIDDLETON / Syracuse University, USA
Feeling force-force functional fixed points for pinned manifolds: why 
and how