BACKGROUND:
How many unit bialies can touch a unit ball?
Recent
meetings:
6th European
Solid Mechanics Conference, 28 August –
Workshop on Biopolymers: Thermodynamics, Kinetics and
Mechanics of DNA, RNA and Proteins, 30 May –
30. Süddeutsches
Differentialgeometrie-Kolloquium, 27. Mai 2005 in Dresden. Program.
Poster AKB 100.61. TOROIDS VERSUS RACQUETS: THE COLLAPSE OF SEMIFLEXIBLE
POLYMERS OF FINITE THICKNESS by E.Starostin & R.Everaers.
Sächsischer Geometrietag 2005, 7.-8.
Januar in Dresden. Program.
Jülich Soft Matter Days 2004 (16-19.11.04).
Poster
ON THE PERFECT HEXAGONAL PACKING OF TUBES (based on Preprint mpi-pks/0410005)
Recent
publications:
On the perfect hexagonal packing of rods.
On the writhing number of a non-closed curve. Chapter 26 in Volume 36: Physical and Numerical Models in Knot Theory
Including Applications to the Life Sciences edited by Jorge A Calvo, Kenneth C Millett, Eric J Rawdon & Andrzej Stasiak
On
the number of tubes touching a sphere or a tube. Preprint mpi-pks/0408004.
A constructive approach to modelling
the tight shapes of some linked structures
Symmetric equilibria of a thin
elastic rod with self-contacts