Participants:
Mariano Cadoni (Physics and INFN, Cagliari)
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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
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)