Rhoslyn Coles

About

I am a doctoral student at the Technische Universität Berlin working under the supervision of Prof. Myfanwy Evans of Universität Potsdam.

My work investigates energetically favourable embeddings of open, knotted or linked curves. The perspective here is that such a curve models a real entangled material, who's three dimensional structure is shaped from the pairing of energetic gains and tangle constraints. Very generally, I am interesed in geometric modeling problems which consider the correspondence of the form and functioning of materials.

I am a reasearch associate of the weaving group within the cluster of excellence Matters of Activity.

Fields of interest:

Geometry, differential geometry, mathematical visualization, low dimensional topology

Recent conferences, workshops and summer schools attended:

• The Interdisciplinary World of Tangling, Potsdam, September 12-16
• Summer school on surface energies, Bavaria, August 28-September 2
• European women in mathematics general meeting '22, Espoo, August 22-26
• Interdisciplinary Workshop: Visualization and Ideal Embeddings of Entangled Structures (Math-Materials), online, July 6-7
• Structures on surfaces, CIRM, May 2-6