AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:33

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 11, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Biomolecular Mathematics, I
Room 12, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Thomas J. Head, Binghamton University tom@math.binghamton.edu
Dennis G. Pixton, Binghamton University dennis@math.binghamton.edu
Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Rochester
Carlos Martin-Vide, Universitat Rovira i Virgili cmv@correu.urv.es
- 8:00 a.m.
  Welcome introductions, and a statement of goals for the session.
- 8:30 a.m.
  Splicing to the Limit.
  Elizabeth Goode*, Towson University
  Dennis Pixton, Binghamton University
  (990-68-216)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Structural DNA Nanotechnology.
  Nadrian C Seeman*, New York University
  (990-00-14)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Topological questions related to DNA graph self assembly.
  Natasha Jonoska*, University of South Florida
  (990-92-93)

Saturday October 11, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Biomolecular Mathematics, II
Room 12, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Thomas J. Head, Binghamton University tom@math.binghamton.edu
Dennis G. Pixton, Binghamton University dennis@math.binghamton.edu
Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Rochester
Carlos Martin-Vide, Universitat Rovira i Virgili cmv@correu.urv.es
- 2:30 p.m.
  Solving the Fisher-Wright and coalescence problems with a discrete Markov chain analysis.
  Peter G Clote*, Boston College
  (990-92-220)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the construction and properties of bond-free DNA languages.
  Lila Kari, University of Western Ontario
  Petr Sosik*, University of Western Ontario
  Stavros Konstantinidis, Saint Mary's University
  (990-68-144)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Formal Models of DNA Test-tube Computing: Single and Multiple Tubes.
  P. Sullivan*, Binghamton University
  (990-68-166)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Computing with Cells.
  P. Andrei Paun*, Louisiana Tech University
  (990-92-167)

Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Biomolecular Mathematics, III
Room 12, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Thomas J. Head, Binghamton University tom@math.binghamton.edu
Dennis G. Pixton, Binghamton University dennis@math.binghamton.edu
Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Rochester
Carlos Martin-Vide, Universitat Rovira i Virgili cmv@correu.urv.es
- 8:00 a.m.
  DNA codes for biological computing and assays.
  Anthony J. Macula*, SUNY Geneseo
  Wendy Knapp Pogozelski, SUNY Geneseo
  Vyacheslav V. Rykov, University Nebraska Omaha
  (990-92-130)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Structure Free Sequences for Biomolecular Computing.
  Satoshi Kobayashi*, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Electro-Communications
  (990-68-125)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Genome Rearrangement, Random Walks on the Permutation Group, and Phase Transitions in Random Graphs.
  Nathanael Berestycki, Cornell U and U. Pierre and Marie Curie
  Rick Durrett*, Cornell U.
  (990-60-105)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Modelling Genetic Gymnastics: The mathematics of gene scrambling in ciliates.
  Mark Daley*, University of Saskatchewan
  (990-68-98)

Sunday October 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Biomolecular Mathematics, IV
Room 12, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Thomas J. Head, Binghamton University tom@math.binghamton.edu
Dennis G. Pixton, Binghamton University dennis@math.binghamton.edu
Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Rochester
Carlos Martin-Vide, Universitat Rovira i Virgili cmv@correu.urv.es
- 2:30 p.m.
  Mathematics of Giant Hexagonal Bilayer Hemoglobins.
  Leonid G. Hanin*, University of Rochester
  (990-92-51)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Biomolecular Computing To Solve Hard Problems.
  Rani Siromoney*, Chennai Mathematical Institute
  Bireswar Das, Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  (990-68-136)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Stem-Loop Rewrite Rules.
  Julia Khodor*, MIT
  (990-92-163)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Universality and Complexity Aspects in Networks of Evolutionary Processors.
  Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  Carlos Martin-Vide*, Rovira i Virgili University
  Victor Mitrana, Rovira i Virgili University
  (990-68-201)

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