AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:29

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Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday March 22, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knot Theory, I
Room 346, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Jonathan K. Simon, University of Iowa
Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm's College
- 8:30 a.m.
  Informal discussion
- 9:00 a.m.
  DNA base sequence and long-range three-dimensional structure.
  Wilma Olson*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (909-57-256)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Buckling transitions in superhelical DNA: Dependence on the elastic constants and DNA size.
  Gomathi Ramachandran, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  Tamar Schlick*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (909-35-189)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Conformational variability of kilobase-sized DNA molecules.
  Nancy C. Stellwagen*, University of Iowa
  Kurt Strutz, University of Iowa
  (909-92-257)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Control of DNA structure and topology.
  Nadrian C. Seeman*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (909-57-64)

Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knot Theory, II
Room 346, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Jonathan K. Simon, University of Iowa
Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm's College
- 3:00 p.m.
  Informal discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  DNA knots.
  Andrzej Stasiak*, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  Didier Michoud, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  (909-57-55)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Equilibrium topological links of closed polymer chains.
  Alexander Vologodskii*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (909-57-39)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Entanglement complexity of lattice ribbons.
  Stuart G. Whittington*, University of Toronto
  (909-57-12)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Random knotting in uniform embeddings of graphs in $Z^3$.
  Christine E. Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
  (909-57-84)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A strand passage metric for topoisomerase action.
  Isabel K. Dazey*, Florida State University
  De Witt L. Sumners, Florida State University
  (909-57-206)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Informal discussion

Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knot Theory, III
Room 346, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Jonathan K. Simon, University of Iowa
Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm's College
- 8:00 a.m.
  Knot energies by ropes.
  Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
  Yuanan Diao, Kennesaw State College
  Esaias J. Janse van Rensburg, York University
  (909-57-65)
- 8:30 a.m.
  In search of a good polygonal knot energy function.
  Yuanan Diao*, Kennesaw State College
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
  Esaias J. Janse van Rensburg, York University
  (909-57-87)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Energies for polygonal knots.
  Yuanan Diao, Kennesaw State College
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
  Esaias J. Janse van Rensburg*, York University
  (909-65-101)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Equilateral polygonal knots.
  Kenneth C. Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (909-57-247)
- 10:00 a.m.
  M\"obius energy of Hopf links and the Morse theory of electrons on $S^2$.
  Robert Barnard Kusner*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  John M. Sullivan, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  James Lawrence, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Nick Schmitt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (909-57-255)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discretizations of M\"obius knot energies.
  John M. Sullivan*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (909-57-254)

Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knot Theory, IV
Room 346, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Jonathan K. Simon, University of Iowa
Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm's College
- 3:00 p.m.
  Energy minimizing knots in $S^3$ and $H^3$.
  Jun O'Hara*, Tokyo Metropolitan University,
  (909-57-253)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the energy and length of a knot.
  Gregory Buck*, Saint Anselm's College
  (909-57-224)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Magnetic flux tubes, elastic rods and uniformly charged loops.
  Atta Y.K Chui*, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  H. K. Moffatt, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  (909-57-267)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Cutting the knot: Reconnection in superfluids, dislocations, and flood plains.
  Klaus Schwarz*, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
  (909-57-221)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Knotted and linked periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations.
  Robert W. Ghrist*, Cornell University
  (909-57-228)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Results on harmonic knots.
  Aaron Keith Trautwein*, Carthage College
  (909-57-152)
- 6:00 p.m.
  The thickness of knots.
  Rick Litherland*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Oguz C. Durumeric, University of Iowa
  Jonathan K. Simon, University of Iowa
  (909-57-269)

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