AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Monday, October 30, 2006 00:36:37
2006 Fall Central Section Meeting
Cincinnati, OH, October 21-22, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1020
Associate secretaries: Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking
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Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking, I
Room 326, Braunstein Hall
Organizers:
Eric J. Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa jsimon@math.uiowa.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Knotting and Linking for self-avoiding polygons in sublattices of $\mathbb{Z}^3$.
Chris Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
(1020-05-251) -
9:00 a.m.
Counting almost unknotted embeddings of graphs in the cubic lattice.
S G Whittington*, University of Toronto
(1020-57-27) -
9:30 a.m.
Knotting frequency and knot spectrum of globular polymer rings.
Enzo Orlandini*, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Padova, Padova, Italy.
Marco Baiesi, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
Attilio Stella, Dipartimento di Fisica, Padova
(1020-60-145) -
10:00 a.m.
Correlation functions of random knots and some physical applications.
Tetsuo Deguchi*, Department of Physics, Ochanomizu University
(1020-82-188) -
10:30 a.m.
Protein-induced Local DNA Bends Regulate Global Topology of Recombination Products.
Alexander Vologodskii*, New York University
(1020-92-78) -
11:00 a.m.
A few more puzzles surrounding random knots.
Alexander Y Grosberg*, University of Minnesota, Physics Department
(1020-60-79)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking, II
Room 326, Braunstein Hall
Organizers:
Eric J. Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa jsimon@math.uiowa.edu
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3:00 p.m.
New Results on the ``Square Peg'' problem.
Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
Elizabeth Denne, Harvard University
John McCleary, Vassar College
(1020-54-119) -
3:30 p.m.
Convergence and isotopy type for graphs of finite total curvature.
Elizabeth Denne*, Harvard University
John M Sullivan, Technische Universitat, Berlin
(1020-57-59) -
4:00 p.m.
How can we measure tangling?
Jonathan Simon*, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Rob Scharein, Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
(1020-57-111) -
4:30 p.m.
Protein Similarity from Line Weavings.
Michael Erdmann*, Computer Science Department and Robotics Institute/Carnegie Mellon University
(1020-92-89) -
5:00 p.m.
Mathematical challenges in description and classification of protein structures.
Peter R{\o}gen*, Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark
(1020-92-62)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday October 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking, III
Room 326, Braunstein Hall
Organizers:
Eric J. Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa jsimon@math.uiowa.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Solving n-string tangle equations modeling protein-DNA complexes.
Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
(1020-57-232) -
8:30 a.m.
Linking of chromosomes during interphase.
Javier Arsuaga*, Mathematics Department, San Francisco State University
Trevor Blackstone, San Francisco State University
Mariel Vazquez, Mathematics Department, San Francisco State University
(1020-92-187) -
9:00 a.m.
Efficient DNA decatenation by Xer system of recombination.
Mariel Vazquez*, San Francisco State University
David J Sherratt, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford
(1020-92-157) -
9:30 a.m.
A Model of DNA Knotting and Linking: Part I.
Dorothy Buck*, Imperial College London
Erica Flapan,
(1020-92-46) -
10:00 a.m.
A Model of DNA Knotting and Linking: Part II.
Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London
(1020-57-53) -
10:30 a.m.
Understanding Gene-regulatory Mechanisms in vivo: Lessons from the Mechanics of Protein-DNA Complexes.
Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
Abbye E McEwen, University of Texas at Dallas
Yongli Zhang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(1020-92-110) -
11:00 a.m.
Spiral Waves in Excitable Media.
Irma Cruz-White, Chipola College
De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
(1020-57-150)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking, IV
Room 326, Braunstein Hall
Organizers:
Eric J. Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa jsimon@math.uiowa.edu
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2:00 p.m.
A Partial Ordering of Knots Through Diagrammatic Unknotting.
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne
(1020-57-154) -
2:30 p.m.
Tutte Polynomials of Signed Graphs and Jones Polynomials of Some Large Knots.
Yuanan Diao*, UNC Charlotte
Gabor Hetyei, UNC Charlotte
Kenneth E Hinson, UNC Charlotte
(1020-57-57) -
3:00 p.m.
"Physical systems with tight knots, links and braids".
Thomas W. Kephart*, Physics Dept., Vanderbilt Univ.
Roman V, Buniy, University of Oregon
(1020-55-261) -
3:30 p.m.
Explorations in Knot Self-Repulsion.
Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dan Sandin, University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert Kooima, University of Illinois at Chicago
(1020-57-80) -
4:00 p.m.
Discussion -
4:30 p.m.
M\"obius Energy of smooth knots inscribed in polygons.
Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
(1020-57-192)
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2:00 p.m.