AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:32

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Thursday October 2, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Computational and Mathematical Biology, I
Room 108 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Harvey J. Greenberg, University of Colorado at Denver hgreenbe@carbon.cudenver.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Sausages, Steiner Trees, Proteins and Rho.
  J. MacGregor Smith*, University of Massachusetts
  (989-92-109)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Haplotyping and Minimum Diversity Graphs.
  Allen G Holder*, Trinity University Mathematics
  Courtney Davis, University of Utah
  (989-90-73)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Thursday October 2, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational and Mathematical Biology, II
Room 108 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Harvey J. Greenberg, University of Colorado at Denver hgreenbe@carbon.cudenver.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Genomes to Life: An Opportunity for Mathematics to Advance Biology.
  Gary M Johnson*, Office of Science, DOE
  (989-92-86)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Using graph extended-degree sequence to characterize molecular graphs and biological networks.
  Jean-Loup Faulon*, Sandia National Laboratories
  Shawn Martin, Sandia National Laboratories
  (989-92-70)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Prediction of protein function and pathway at the genome scale: from noisy data to biological knowledge.
  Dong Xu*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  Trupti S Joshi, University of Missouri-Columbia
  Yu Chen, University of Missouri-Columbia / University of Te
  (989-92-66)

Friday October 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Computational and Mathematical Biology, III
Room 108 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Harvey J. Greenberg, University of Colorado at Denver hgreenbe@carbon.cudenver.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A graph-theoretic approach to separation of y- and b-ions from tandem mass spectrometry data and applications to de novo sequencing.
  Chongle Pan, University of Tennessee
  Bo Yan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Victor Olman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Ying Xu*, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  (989-68-80)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Topology of DNA.
  De Witt L Sumners*, Florida State University
  (989-92-27)

Friday October 3, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational and Mathematical Biology, IV
Room 108 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Harvey J. Greenberg, University of Colorado at Denver hgreenbe@carbon.cudenver.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Finding the abundance of functional RNA molecules in the space of all possible sequences.
  Rob Knight*, MCD Biology, CU Boulder
  (989-92-90)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Searching for Sequence Motifs with Single Molecules.
  Thomas T. Perkins*, CU Boulder-NIST
  (989-92-118)
- 4:10 p.m.
  A motor that makes its own track: helicase opening of DNA.
  M D Betterton*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (989-92-145)

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