Monday, 7 June |
14.00-17.30 |
Tom Kibble (Imperial College, London) | Welcome |
| Nicolas Rivier (Univ. L. Pasteur, Strasbourg) | Foaming and the formation of topological defects |
| Nicolas Pittet (Princeton Univ.) | Dynamical Percolation |
| Jacqueline Grant (Sussex Univ.) | CP-violation and sphalerons |
Tuesday, 8 June |
09.00-12.30 |
Matthew Lilley (DAMTP, Cambridge) |
Defect formation at first-order phase transitions |
| Feodor Kusmartsev (Loughborough Univ.) |
Creation of vortex loops at the fast-quenched
phase transitions and their influence on the
phase transition |
| Nuno Dias Antunes (Univ. de Geneve) |
Topological defect formation in temperature and
pressure quenches |
14.00-17.30 |
Uwe Fischer (ITP, Tuebingen) |
Geometry of vortex tunnelling |
| Hector De Vega (LPTHE, Paris VI) |
Non-equilibrium phase transitions in Minkowski
and FRW space-times: Dynamical scaling and
Bose-Einstein condensates |
Wednesday, 9 June |
09.00-12.30 |
Joao Magueijo (Imperial College, London) |
CMB and large scale structure with defects |
| Tanmay Vachaspati (Case Western Res. Univ., Cleveland) |
Cosmic microwave background anisotropy from
wiggly strings |
| Brandon Carter (Obs. de Paris, Meudon) |
Cosmological implications of chiral vorton
formation |
Afternoon free |
Thursday, 10 June |
09.00-12.30 |
Grigoriy Volovik (Helsinki Univ. of Tech.) |
Fermion zero modes on strings in condensed matter |
| Anne-Christine Davis (DAMTP, Cambridge) |
Cosmic strings in supersymmetric theories |
| Michiyasu Nagasawa (Kanagawa Univ.) |
Stabilization of embedded defects by finite
temperature plasma in early universe |
14.00-17.30 |
Grigoriy Volovik (Helsinki Univ. of Tech.) |
Forces acting on condensed matter vortices and their analogues in relativistic theories |
| Jacek Dziarmaga (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.) |
Antibaryons from the central rapidity region of
relativistic heavy-ion collisions |
Friday, 11 June |
09.00-12.30 |
Rob Blaauwgeers (Helsinki Univ. of Tech.) |
Singularity-free quantized vortex lines in 3He-A |
| Vladimir Eltsov (Helsinki Univ. of Tech.) |
Dynamics of vortex sheet in superfluid 3He-A |
| Adriaan Schakel (ITP, Free Univ. Berlin) |
Quantum numbers of vortices in superfluid 3He |
14.00-17.30 |
Daniele Steer (DAMTP, Cambridge) |
A well-defined effective action for hot
superconductors |
| Sergei Burylov (Transmag, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) |
Nematic liquid crystalline textures with line
topological defects: some new exact solutions |
Saturday, 12 June |
09.00-12.30 |
Henryk Arodz (Jagellonian Univ., Cracow) |
Evolution of global vortices and disclination
lines |
| Mark Hindmarsh (Sussex University, Brighton) |
Dynamics of cosmological defect networks |