AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:45

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

Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, I
Room 722, Benedum Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne University rawdon@mathcs.duq.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Linear random knots and their scaling behaviour.
  Akos Dobay*, University of Lausanne, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis
  Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
  Jacques Dubochet, University of Lausanne, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis
  Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis
  (1002-92-196)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Counting almost unknotted embeddings.
  De Witt Sumners, Florida State University
  Stu Whittington*, University of Toronto
  (1002-57-67)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Probability distribution of distance between two given nodes of a random knot.
  Tetsuo Deguchi*, Department of Physics, Ochanomizu University
  (1002-82-120)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Topological Properties of Polymer Chains: The Influence of Model.
  Alex Vologodskii*, New York University
  (1002-82-132)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the analogy between trivial knots and self-avoiding walks.
  Nathan T. Moore, Physics Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  Rhonald C. Lua, Physics Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  Alexander Y. Grosberg*, Physics Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  (1002-82-169)

Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, II
Room 722, Benedum Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne University rawdon@mathcs.duq.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Identifying Those Links in Solid Tori Which are Braids Made of Braids.
  J. R. Bozeman*, Lyndon State College
  (1002-57-45)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Local versus global structure in knot space.
  Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1002-57-117)
- 4:00 p.m.
  $C^2$ Smooth Knots of Constant Curvature.
  Jenelle Marie McAtee*, University of Iowa
  (1002-54-98)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Braid Index, Genus and Crossing Number of Links.
  Yuanan Diao*, UNC Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
  Morwen Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee
  (1002-57-64)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Geometry and physics of proteins.
  Jayanth R Banavar*, Penn State
  Amos Maritan, University of Padova
  (1002-82-89)

Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, III
Room 722, Benedum Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne University rawdon@mathcs.duq.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The shape of DNA bound by Mu transposase.
  Isabel K Darcy*, University of Iowa
  John Luecke, UT Austin
  Mariel Vazquez, UC Berkeley
  (1002-92-213)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Classification of Tangle Solutions for Integrases.
  Dorothy Buck*, UC Davis and Imperial College, UK
  Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte, St Edwards University
  (1002-92-192)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Packing, curvature, and tangling of filaments.
  Jonathan K. Simon*, University of Iowa
  Gregory R. Buck, St. Anselm College
  (1002-53-216)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Periodic table of knots.
  Alessandro Flammini, School of Informatics, Indiana University
  Andrzej Stasiak*, Universit� de Lausanne
  (1002-54-143)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tight knots and links: a universal energy spectrum for physical systems.
  Thomas W Kephart*, TN
  Roman V. Buniy, U. of Oregon
  (1002-70-178)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On pearl-number and ropelength of knots and links.
  Rob Kusner*, Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics (GANG)
  W\"oden Kusner, Haverford College
  (1002-52-228)

Sunday November 7, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, IV
Room 722, Benedum Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne University rawdon@mathcs.duq.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Numeric results on upper bounds of rope length.
  Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  Uta Ziegler, Western Kentucky University
  (1002-57-206)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Numerics issues in ropelength minimization.
  Michael Piatek*, Duquesne University
  Eric Rawdon, Duquesne University
  Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Athens
  (1002-65-182)
- 4:00 p.m.
  What do we know about kinked tubes? On shortest curves of constrained curvature.
  Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
  Joseph Fu, University of Georgia
  Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts
  John Sullivan, Technische Univeristat Berlin
  Nancy Wrinkle, Northern Illinois University
  (1002-53-208)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Upper Bounds for the Minimum Ropelength of Knots.
  Justyna Baranska, Poznan Technical University
  Piotr Pieranski, Poznan Technical University
  Sylwester Przybyl, Poznan Technical University
  Eric J Rawdon*, Duquesne University
  (1002-57-180)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion.

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