Mathematical Models for DNA Dynamics

Cagliari, 20-22 September 2006



A meeting on Mathematical Models for DNA Dynamics will take place in Cagliari on 20-22 September 2006. The meeting is organized by the PRIN of the same name (MMxDD, funded by MIUR under COFIN 2004) and by the Department of Physics, Universita' di Cagliari.
 
 
Participants:

Mariano Cadoni (Physics and INFN, Cagliari) 
Roberto De Leo (Physics and INFN, Cagliari)
Sergio Demelio (Physics and INFN, Cagliari)
Giuseppe Gaeta (Mathematics, Milano)
Todor Gramchev (Mathematics, Cagliari)
Marc Joyeux (LSP, Grenoble)
Piero Olla (CNR Cagliari)
Giuseppe Saccomandi (Engineering, Lecce)
Matteo Serra (Physics and INFN, Cagliari)
Ivonne Sgura (Mathematics, Lecce)
Sebastian Walcher (RWTH, Aachen)

If you are interested in taking part in the meeting and obtaining practical informations
about travel and lodging, please contact Giuseppe Gaeta.

The conference will take place in the Department of Mathematics of Cagliari University
(in the central building of Via Ospedale, 72 - 09124 Cagliari).
Participants can lodge in any of the many hotel in central Cagliari, but we suggest to make
use of the reduced rates granted by Hotel Italia (please mention "DNA meeting").

Mariano Cadoni, Giuseppe Gaeta and Todor Gramchev





 

Mathematical Models for DNA Dynamics

Cagliari, 20-22 September 2006

Department of Mathematics and Informatics
University of Cagliari, 20-22 September 2006

PROGRAM
(all talks 60' + 15' discussion)

Wednesday 20

15.30 Giuseppe Gaeta (Milano)
  Solitons and DNA

16.45 Coffee break

17.00 Giuseppe Saccomandi (Lecce)
  Worm-like-chain (WLC) formulas for
  modelling of DNA stretching

18.15  General discussion

Thursday 21

15.30 Roberto De Leo (Cagliari)
  Composite models for DNA torsional dynamics

16.45 Coffee break

17.00 Ivonne Sgura (Lecce)
  The relevance of nonlinear stacking interactions in
  simple models of double-stranded DNA

18.15  General discussion

Friday 22

15.30 Marc Joyeux (Grenoble)
  Dynamical DNA models based on site-specific
  stacking interactions: theory vs. experiment

16.45 Coffee break

17.00 Mariano Cadoni (Cagliari)
  Solitons in a double pendulum chain model

18.15  General discussion

21.00  Conference dinner

Meeting supported by MIUR under the PRIN-COFIN2004 program

Organized by:
M. Cadoni (Cagliari-Physics)
G. Gaeta (Milano-Mathematics)
T. Gramchev (Cagliari-Mathematics)