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BACKGROUND: How many unit bialies can touch a unit ball?

UCL Eprints

 

Recent meetings:

 

*     6th European Solid Mechanics Conference, 28 August – 1 September 2006, Budapest, Hungary. Extended abstract.

*     Workshop on Biopolymers: Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Mechanics of DNA, RNA and Proteins, 30 May – 3 June 2005, Trieste, Italy

*     30. Süddeutsches Differentialgeometrie-Kolloquium, 27. Mai 2005 in Dresden. Program.

Proceedings.

*     Die Frühjahrstagung 2005 veranstaltet von der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, 4.-9. März in Berlin.

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.

Slides.

*     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