8:00 a.m. Upper Bounds on Linking Numbers of Thick Links. Yuanan Diao*, UNC Charlotte
Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky Univ.
Jance Van E Rensburg, York University
(965-57-33)
8:30 a.m. On the gyration radius of random knots and its critical exponent. Tetsuo Deguchi*, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, and Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University
Miyuki K Shimamura, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, and Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University
(965-65-68)
9:00 a.m. Optimal shapes of elastic filaments with finite thickness. Oscar Gonzalez*, University of Texas, Austin
(965-74-167)
9:30 a.m. Localization of breakage points in knotted strings. Piotr Pieranski, Poznan University of Technology
Sandor Kasas, University of Lausanne
Giovanni Dietler*, University of Lausanne
Jacques Dubochet, University of Lausanne
Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne
(965-74-67)
10:00 a.m. Predicting Optimal Lengths of Random Knots. Akos Dobay, University of Lausanne/Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis
Pierre-Edouard Sottas, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/Center for Neuromimetic Systems
Jacques Dubochet, University of Lausanne/Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis
Andrzej Stasiak*, University of Lausanne/Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis
(965-92-101)
10:30 a.m. Ideal trefoil knot. Piotr Pieranski*, Poznan University of Technology
Sylwester Przybyl, Poznan University of Technology
(965-51-177)
3:00 p.m. Infinitesimally Locked Linkages with Applications to Locked Trees. Robert Connelly, Cornell University
Erik D Demaine*, University of Waterloo
G\"unter Rote, Freie Universit\"at Berlin
(965-51-168)
3:30 p.m. Two recent results on flipping and flipturns. Pat Morin*, McGill University
(965-51-183)
4:00 p.m. Convexifying Polygons in 3D: A Survey. Michael Soss, McGill University
Godfried T Toussaint*, McGill University
(965-51-108)
4:30 p.m. Knotting in Adsorbing Lattice polygons. Buks Janse van Rensburg*, Mathematics and Statistics, York University
(965-82-118)
5:00 p.m. Examples of Lattice Links and Knots. Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
Marnie Phipps, University of Northern Colorado
Jance Van E Rensburg, York University
(965-54-52)
5:30 p.m. On the classification of rational knots. Sofia Lambropoulou*, National Technical University of Athens
Louis H Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
(965-57-176)
6:00 p.m. Biologic, Tangles and DNA. Louis H. Kauffman*, UIC
Sofia Lambropoulou, National Techinical University at Athens, Greece
(965-57-96)
8:00 a.m. Untangling some spheres in $R^4$ by energy minimizing flow. Dennis M Roseman*, University of Iowa
(965-58-200)
8:30 a.m. The Second Hull of a Knotted Curve. John M Sullivan*, Univ of Illinois
Jason Cantarella, Univ of Georgia
Rob Kusner, UMass/Amherst
Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis
(965-51-49)
9:00 a.m. Energy of knots and the infinitesimal cross-ratio. Jun O'Hara*, Dept. of Maht., Tokyo Metropolitan University
(965-57-137)
9:30 a.m. Most knot energies are minimized by circles. Aaron Abrams, University of Georgia
Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
Joe Fu, University of Georgia
Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina
Ralph Howard, University of South Carolina
(965-53-181)
10:00 a.m. On ropelength, thickness and conformal moduli of knots and links. Robert B Kusner*, University of Massachusetts
(965-57-90)
10:30 a.m. Characterizing Polygons with a Small Number of Edges in $ \mathbb{R}^3 $. Jorge Alberto Calvo*, North Dakota State University
(965-57-140)
3:00 p.m. Calculating in the space of knots or links. Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
(965-57-135)
3:30 p.m. Investigations of Polygonal Knot Space and Ideal Physical Knot Configurations. Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(965-57-203)
4:00 p.m. A spectrum for natural knotting? Gregory R Buck*, Saint Anselm College
Robert G Scharein, University of British Columbia
(965-82-166)
4:30 p.m. Hyperbolic reflections of polygonal knots. Richard Randell, University of Iowa
Jonathan Simon*, University of Iowa
Joshua Tokle, University of Iowa
(965-57-186)
5:00 p.m. Inscribing Smooth Knots in Polygonal Knots to Determine Minimal Ropelength. Eric J Rawdon*, Chatham College
(965-57-159)
