Workshop programme



Thursday 27-th November


10:00-10:40

M. Volkov

Research project `Knots and Vortons' - goals and results

10:40-11:20

E. Radu

Stationary spinning solitons: Q-balls, vortons and sphalerons

11:20-11:40

coffee

11:40-12:20

P. Sutcliffe

Kinky vortons

12:20-13:00

R. Battye

3D vortons

13:00-14:30

lunch

14:30-15:10

B. Carter

Vortons in the thin ring limit

15:10-15:50

M. Ansorg

Numerical calculation of Ginzburg-Landau vortonic ring solutions

15:50-16:10

J. Garaud

Superconducting strings in electroweak theory

16:10-16:40

coffee

16:40-17:20

D. Petroff

Rings in Newtonian Gravity

17:20-18:00

H. Verschelde

A geometric theory for scroll wave  
filaments and wavefronts in anisotropic excitable media


Friday 28-th November


10:00-10:40

J. Ruostekoski

Particle-like solitons in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

10:40-11:20

A. Niemi

Separation between spin and charge

11:20-11:40

coffee

11:40-12:20

M. Speight

Supercurrent coupling in the abstract Faddeev-Skyrme model

12:20-13:00

M. Van Putten

Non-axisymmetric tori around black holes

13:00-14:30

lunch

14:30-15:10

M.Chernodub

Monopole-vortex chains in quark-gluon plasma

15:10-15:50

P. Grandclement

Spectral methods as a tool for theoretical physics

15:50-16:10

Y. Shnir

Abelian and non-Abelian hopfions through the eyes of projective spaces

16:10-16:40

coffee

16:40-17:20

T. Tchrakian

Abelian Hopfions in R^{2n+1}: The n=2 (D=5) case

17:20-18:00

L. Faddeev

Applications of the knot-like solitons