AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

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2009 Spring Western Section Meeting
San Francisco, CA, April 25-26, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1049

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers

• Saturday April 25, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers, I
  Room 210, Science Building
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
  Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University mariel@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Knot Theoretic Analysis of Difference Topology Experiments on a Protein-DNA complex.
    Isabel Darcy, University of Iowa
    John Luecke*, University of Texas at Austin
    Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
    (1049-57-85)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analyzing DNA Transposition and Recombination by Difference Topology.
    Makkuni Jayaram*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1049-03-41)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tangle analysis of protein-DNA complexes.
    Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
    (1049-57-53)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New Mechanistic Insights into Flp and Cre Recombination from DNA Loop-closure Kinetics.
    Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
    (1049-92-150)
• Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers, II
  Room 210, Science Building
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
  Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University mariel@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Size and Shape of Knotted Polymers.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    (1049-57-52)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Knots, Ephmeral Knots and Slipknots in Random Walks and Equilateral Polygons.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1049-57-62)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Writhe of Oriented Polygonal Graphs.
    Christian Laing, New York University
    De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
    (1049-57-121)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers, III
  Room 210, Science Building
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
  Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University mariel@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Self-avoiding knots.
    Alexander Y Grosberg*, Department of Physics and Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University
    (1049-54-83)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Ropelengths of Knots Are Almost Linear in Terms of Their Crossing Numbers: Part 1.
    Yuanan Diao*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNC Charlotte
    Ernst Claus, Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University
    Attila Por, Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University
    Uta Ziegler, Department of Computer Science, Western Kentucky University
    (1049-57-76)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Ropelengths of Knots Are Almost Linear in Terms of Their Crossing Numbers: Part 2.
    Yuanan Diao, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNC Charlotte
    Ernst Claus*, Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University
    Attila Por, Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University
    Uta Ziegler, Department of Computer Science, Western Kentucky University
    (1049-57-77)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A chain of linked ring polymers in solution via Brownian dynamics.
    Tetsuo Deguchi*, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University
    Naoko Kanaeda, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University
    (1049-82-82)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers, IV
  Room 210, Science Building
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
  Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University mariel@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    '4-string tangle analysis of DNA-protein complexes'.
    soojeong kim*, university of iowa
    isabel darcy, university of iowa
    (1049-57-208)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exponential Growth of the Number of $n$-edge Linked Clusters in $\mathbb{Z}^3$ and the Consequences in Entanglement Percolation.
    Mahshid Atapour*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University
    (1049-05-187)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Upper Bound for the Ropelength of a Trefoil Knot.
    Teresita Ramirez-Rosas*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1049-54-192)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A fast ergodic algorithm for generating ensembles of equilateral random polygons.
    R Varela*, Department of Computer Science, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
    K Hinson, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
    J Arsuaga, Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
    Y Diao, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
    (1049-54-125)

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