Renzo L. Ricca

Knots and Applications

Intensive research programme on Knots and Applications, "Ennio De Giorgi" Mathematical Research Center (CRM), May-July 2011.

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In 2011 I organize a 3-month intensive research programme on Knots and Applications at the Ennio De Giorgi Mathematical Research Center of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. The programme includes a two-week long pedagogical school, that hosts 10 internationally reknown lecturers, 9 two-day workshops led by leading experts on different emerging topics, and an international conference, that I have the privilege to chair, under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, the European Mathematical Society and INdAM, the Italian National Institute for Higher Mathematics. The whole programme sees the participation of more than 150 specialists from all over the world. For this it is a pleasure to acknowledge the active collaboration and expertise of my friends and collaborators, members of the the international scientific committee, including L.H. Kauffman (U. Chicago), K.C. Millett (U. California at Santa Barbara), C. Petronio (U. Pisa), D. Rolfsen (U. Vancouver) and De W. Sumners (Florida State U.).

Planned acitivities

• 2-13 May, 2011: Pedagogical school: Knots and Links: from Theory to Applications
• 16-17 May, 2011: Workshop: Topological Quantum Information
• 18-19 May, 2011: Workshop: Entanglement and Linking
• 25-26 May, 2011: Workshop: Geometric Topology of Knots
• 8-9 June, 2011: Workshop: Numerical Knots: Models & Simulations
• 15-16 June, 2011: Workshop: DNA Knots
• 22-23 June, 2011: Workshop: Braids and Applications
• 24 June, 2011: Workshop: Topological Methods in Flow Visualization
• 28-29 June, 2011: Workshop: Differential Geometry and Parametrization of 3D Knots
• 2-8 July, 2011: ESF-ERCOM conference: Knots and Links: from Form to Function
• 12-13 July, 2011: Workshop: Topological Dynamics in Physics and Biology

Topological Fluid Mechanics

CIME Summer School on Topological Fluid Mechanics, June 2001.

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Under the auspices of INdAM, the Italian National Institute for Higher Mathematics, and UMI, the Italian Mathematical Society, in 2001 I organize a CIME Summer School on Topological Fluid Mechanics. M.A. Berger, L.H. Kauffman, B. Khesin, H.K. Moffatt, De W. Sumners and many others give a series of lectures of high quality. The school is held on the coast of Cetraro (Italy) in stunningly beautiful surroundings on the rugged coastline of the Mediterranean sea.

Geometry and Topology of Fluid Flows

Intensive research programme on Geometry and Topology of Fluid Flows, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INIMS), September-December, 2000.

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In the year 2000, declared by UNESCO the Year of Mathematics, I co-organize in collaboration with H. Aref, T. Kambe and R.B. Pelz a 4-month intensive research programme on Geometry and Topology of Fluid Flows. The programme is held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge (UK) and it hosts several major events, including a NATO Advanced Study Institute pedagogical workshop, a satellite workshop on singularities at MIR@W (Warwick U.) and a Royal Society Discussion Meeting in London, plus innumerable seminars and one-day workshops. Themes ranged from issues in topological dynamics, geometric mechanics and dynamical systems theory to knot theory and singularities in fluid flows.