PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE ACTUAL PANDEMIC CONTEXT IN PORTUGAL THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD REMOTELY

About the Meeting

The last decade witnessed remarkable advances in computational and experimental methodologies that  keep disclosing an ever growing importance of topology across several areas of condensed matter physics and molecular biology.

A better understanding of the interplay between a system’s topological state, its three-dimensional structure, and its overall characteristics paves the way to an improved control of relevant natural molecules or human-made materials, with remarkable impact on fundamental science as well as high-tech applications.

This meeting will discuss recent advances in the topics that are currently being investigated in the context of EUTOPIA by its five working groups (WG), namely: 

  • Theory of topological entanglement in polymers and fibres (WG1)
  • Polymeric and fibrous topological materials (WG2)
  • Entangled and self-entangled proteins (WG3)
  • DNA, chromosomes, and other entangled genetic material (WG4)
  • Topologically complex fluids (WG5)