Workshop on Topological Defects in Cosmology, Particle Physics and Condensed Matter

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, 7-12 June 1999



PROGRAMME












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