AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 10, 2007 00:30:01

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2007 Fall Southeastern Meeting
Murfreesboro, TN, November 3-4, 2007 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1033

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

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Special Session on Physical Knots and Links

• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knots and Links, I
  Room S332, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    DNA Knotting: Occurrences, Consequences \& Resolution.
    Jennifer K Mann*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Richard W Deibler, Harvard Medical School
    Zhirong Liu, University of Toronto
    De Witt L Sumners, Florida State University
    Lynn Zechiedrich, Baylor College of Medicine
    Hue Sun Chan, University of Toronto
    (1033-92-255)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Polynomial invariants, knot distances and topoisomerase action.
    Hyeyoung Moon*, University of Iowa
    (1033-57-200)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tangle analysis of protein-DNA complexes.
    Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
    (1033-57-185)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modelling DNA unknotting by Type II Topoisomerases.
    Mariel Vazquez*, San Francisco State University
    (1033-92-161)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Intrinsic linking and knotting is arbitrarily complex.
    Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
    Blake Mellor, Loyola Marymount University
    Ramin Naimi, Occidental College
    (1033-57-32)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On certain vector field invariants in $R^3$.
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1033-53-244)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knots and Links, II
  Room S332, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Thin Position in KNots and Manifolds.
    Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University
    (1033-57-157)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cobordism of surface knots and iterated intersection theory.
    Kent E Orr*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Vladimir Turaev, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1033-57-131)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Using Tutte Polynomials of Tensor Products to find Jones Polynomials of Large Knots.
    Kenneth Edward Hinson*, UNC -Charlotte
    (1033-00-143)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tutte polynomials of tensor products of colored graphs.
    Yuanan Diao, UNC-Charlotte
    Gabor Hetyei*, UNC-Charlotte
    Kenneth Hinson, UNC-Charlotte
    (1033-05-133)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Entanglement Complexity of Systems of Self-Avoiding Walks in Lattice Tubes.
    Christine E Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1033-82-176)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Linking Probability for 2-Component Links which Span a Lattice Tube.
    Mahshid Atapour*, University of Saskatchewan
    Christine Soteros, University of Saskatchewan
    (1033-82-98)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knots and Links, III
  Room S332, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Tabulating Composite Knots and Links.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Eric Rawdon, St. Thomas University
    Tom Kephart, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-57-221)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Results and challenges in the analysis of ropelength.
    Joseph Fu*, University of Georgia
    (1033-49-208)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Further results on the ``Square Peg" problem.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Athens
    Elizabeth Denne*, Smith College
    John McCleary, Vassar College
    (1033-54-196)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Measuring tangling with the {\em average bridging number}.
    Jonathan K. Simon*, University of Iowa
    Robert G Scharein, Hypnagogic Software - Vancouver
    (1033-57-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asphericity of Random Equilateral Polygons.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne
    John C Kern, Duquesne University
    Michael Piatek, University of Washington
    Patrick Plunkett, University of California Santa Barbara
    Kenneth C Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1033-57-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Knotting in Stretched Lattice Polygons.
    Esaias J Janse van Rensburg*, Mathematics and Statistics/ York University
    (1033-82-182)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knots and Links, IV
  Room S332, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Higher Order Topological Invariants from the Chern-Simons Action.
    Roman V. Buniy*, Indiana University
    Thomas W. Kephart, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-81-150)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generalizing the Aharonov-Bohm Effect: Higher Order Topological Phases.
    Roman V. Buniy, Indiana University
    Thomas W. Kephart*, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-81-149)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An Algorithm for Generating 4-regular Hamiltonian Plane Graphs.
    O. Ascigil, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington
    Y. Diao, University of North Caroline at Charlotte
    C. Ernst, Western Kentucky University
    D. High, Western Kentucky University
    U. Ziegler*, Department of Computer Science, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101
    (1033-57-232)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The rope length of most knots grows at most linearly with crossing number.
    Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
    Yuanan Diao, UNCC
    Uta Ziegler, WKU
    (1033-57-246)

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