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SIG IX (Solitons @ Work workshop)

21 June - 02 July 2021

Solitons in interactions

Lectures on topological solitons, their mathematical properties and physical applications.

As always, the aim of this informal workshop is to increase interactions (and possible future collaboration) between topological solitons oriented physicists and mathematicians. So, we are mainly focused on discussion. Therefore, we plan to have only 2 talks every day followed by rather informal discussion sessions.

This year we want to discuss problems and open questions related to dynamical aspects of topological solitons, their interactions and quantization.

Unfortunately, due to the COVID situation, the workshop will be held online. However, we do our best to keep the informal spirit of the workshop where the stress is put on the discussion rather than talks. The participation is free and open to everyone. To join the workshop and the workshop mailing list please e-mail Kasia Oles at katarzyna.slawinska [at] uj.edu.pl

This edition is organized within the framework Soliton at Work S@W .

We acknowledge financial support from the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University .

Talks

We divide talks into four groups

General Ideas

  • Nick Manton (Cambridge, UK), "Wormholes and Solitons", Closing remarks
  • Luiz Ferreira (Sao Carlos, Brasil), "Self-Duality: applications of Skyrme theory to nuclear matter"

    Kinks

  • Kasia Oles/Tom Romanczukiewicz/Andrzej Wereszczynski (Krakow, Poland), "Collective coordinate model of kink-antikink collisions in \phi^4 theory"

    Planar Solitons

  • Bjarke Gudnason (Henan, China), "Near-BPS (baby) Skyrmions as an approach to nuclear physics"
  • Bernd Schroers (Edinburgh, UK), "The geometry of chiral skyrmion dynamics"
  • Martin Speight (Leeds, UK), "Topological Defects in Multicomponent Ginzburg Landau Theory"
  • Herbert Weigel (Stellenbosch, South Africa), "Quantum corrections to theANO vortex"

    Skyrmions

  • Josh Cork (Hannover, Germany)/Chris Halcrow/Derek Harland/Tom Winyard (Leeds, UK), "Skyrmions from Instantons"
  • Alberto Garcia Martin-Caro/Miguel Huidobro (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Skyrme crystals - nuclear matter and neutron stars

    After each talk there will be an informal (unlimited) discussion session. There will be speacial rooms devoted for the discussion, which can be freely enterd and left: one room devoted for the topic of the talk, three tooms devoted for general topics of the workshop (kinks / planar solitons / Skyrmions), and finally, a room without any specific topic. If it will be needed we will created more rooms. A cartoon explaining how to use the breakout rooms will be sent to all participants.

    Short talks session

    There will be a session devoted for short talks (20 min.)

  • Yasha Shnir (Dubna, Russia), "Spinning Q-balls and boson stars"
  • Carlos Naya (Stockholm, Sweden), "Skyrmion tubes in liquid crystals"
  • Andy Royston (Penn State U., US), "Simulating magnetic monopole-defect dynamics"
  • Andreas Fring (London, UK), "Degenerate and nonlocal soliton solutions from PT-symmetry"
  • Paul Leask (Leeds, UK), "The baby Skyrme crystal"

    Program 28 June - 02 July

    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
    10.50 AW, KO - KRK
    11.00 N. Manton KO, TR,AW M. Speight JC, CH, DH, TW B. Gudnason
    15.00 L. Ferreira Short Talks B.Schroers AGMC, MH H. Weigel
    16.30 NM - closing remarks

    The hours are given for the European time zone. For UK -1 (10 am/14 pm). For China + 6 (5 pm/9 pm). For Brazil -5 (6 am/10 am))

    Participants (77)

  • Christoph Adam (Santiago de Compostela)
  • Alberto Alonso Izquierdo (Madrid)
  • Anxo Biasi (Krakow)
  • Bruno Barton-Singer (Edinburgh)
  • Piotr Bizon (Krakow)
  • James Bradshaw (Canterbury)
  • Joao G. F. Campos (Pernambuco)
  • Jorge Castelo (Santiago de Compostela)
  • Dominik Ciurla (Krakow)
  • Josh Cork (Hannover)
  • Brad Cowden (Krakow)
  • Marcos Lima Dias (Maranhao)
  • Tomasz Dobrowolski (Krakow)
  • Jarek Duda (Krakow)
  • Maciej Dunajski (Cambridge)
  • Jarah Evslin (Lanzhou, Beijing)
  • Luiz Ferreira (Sao Carlos)
  • Forgacs Peter (Budapest)
  • Dave Foster
  • Andreas Fring (London)
  • Vakhid Gani (Moscow)
  • Alberto Garcia Martin-Caro (Santiago de Compostela)
  • Rene Garcia-Lara (Leeds)
  • Jacek Gatlik (Krakow)
  • Bjarke Gudnason (Hennan)
  • Chris Halcrow (Leeds)
  • Derek Harland (Leeds)
  • Miguel Huidobro (Santiago de Compostela)
  • Marco Kneipp (Florianopolis, Brazil)
  • Steffen Krusch (Canterbury)
  • Chris Lau (Taiwan)
  • Paul Leask (Leeds)
  • Leandro Roza Livramento (Sao Carlos)
  • Yizhuang Liu (Krakow)
  • Gabriel Luccini (Espirito Santo, Brazil)
  • Arpad Lucacs (Budapest)
  • Jack McKenna (Canterbury)
  • Henrique Malavazzi
  • Nick Manton (Cambridge)
  • Azadeh Mohammadi (Pernambuco)
  • Aliakbar Moradi (Quchan, Iran)
  • Carlos Naya (Stockholm)
  • Maciek Nowak (Krakow)
  • Thomas Galvin (Leeds)
  • Kasia Oles (Krakow)
  • Jose Queiruga (Bilbao)
  • Tomek Romanczukiewicz (Krakow)
  • Morgan Rees (Canterbury)
  • Calum Ross (Keio)
  • Andy Royston (Penn State U.)
  • Raul Sanchez Galan
  • Bernd Schroers (Edinburgh)
  • Yasha Shnir (Minsk)
  • Fabiano de Carvalho Simas (Maranhao)
  • Martin Speight (Leeds)
  • Lukasz Stepien (Krakow)
  • Paul Sutcliffe (Durham)
  • Taira Takanobu (London)
  • Ricardo Vazquez (Santiago de Compostela)
  • Mateusz Wachla (Krakow)
  • Stephen Watson (Glasgow)
  • Herbert Weigel (Stellenbosch)
  • Andrzej Wereszczynski (Krakow)
  • Tom Winyard (Leeds)
  • Wojtek Zakrzewski (Durham)

    Advisory board

  • Christoph Adam (Santiago de Compostela)
  • Bjarke Gudnason (Henan)
  • Chris Halcrow (Leeds)
  • Steffen Krush (Canterbury)

    Local organizing committee

  • A. Wereszczynski (Krakow)
  • T. Romanczukiewicz (Krakow)
  • K. Oles (Krakow)

    Online room details

    This woskshop will be held on-line using the Zoom platform. We encourage the participants to use the newest Zoom version. Here are details of the meeting platform are:
  • Meeting ID: 210 089 8623
  • Passcode: 123456

    Contact

    katarzyna.slawinska [at] uj.edu.pl, andrzej.wereszczynski [at] uj.edu.pl