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2012 Spring Western Section Meeting
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
March 3-4, 2012 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1078
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on Knotting in Linear and Ring Polymer Models
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Saturday March 3, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knotting in Linear and Ring Polymer Models, I
Room A101, Business Administration Building
Organizers:
Tetsuo Deguchi, Ochanomizu University deguchi@phys.ocha.ac.jp
Kenneth Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ericrawdon@gmail.com
Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University arsuaga3@gmail.com
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8:00 a.m.
Topology of prion proteins.
Akio Kawauchi*, Osaka City Advanced Mathematical Institute, Osaka City University
(1078-57-94) -
8:30 a.m.
The role of DNA condensation on formation of minicircle networks in trypanosomes.
Javier Arsuaga*, San Francisco State University
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina
Kenneth Hinson, San Francisco State University
(1078-92-324) -
9:00 a.m.
Topological crystals as a new paradigm.
Satoshi Tanda*, Dept.of Appl. Physics, Center of Topological Science and Technology Hokkaido Univ.,Sapporo 060-8628 Japan
(1078-82-412) -
9:30 a.m.
Knotted open chains.
Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
(1078-57-356) -
10:00 a.m.
Folding mechanism of the smallest knotted protein.
Joanna I Sulkowska*, UCSD
Jeff K Noel, UCSD
Jose N Onuchic, UCSD
(1078-92-406) -
10:30 a.m.
Advances in using supercoiled minivector DNA for gene therapy.
Daniel J. Catanese, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Jonathan M. Fogg, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Milenka Arevalo-Soliz, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Erol Bakkalbasi, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Truston J. Bodine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Donald E. Schrock, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Brian E. Gilbert, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Lynn Zechiedrich*, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
(1078-92-184)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 3, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
Special Session on Knotting in Linear and Ring Polymer Models, II
Room A101, Business Administration Building
Organizers:
Tetsuo Deguchi, Ochanomizu University deguchi@phys.ocha.ac.jp
Kenneth Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ericrawdon@gmail.com
Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University arsuaga3@gmail.com
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3:15 p.m.
DNA unknotting and unlinking by XerCD-FtsK.
Mariel Vazquez*, Mathematics Department, San Francisco State University
Kai Ishihara, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London
Koya Shimokawa, Mathematics Department, Saitama University
(1078-92-338) -
3:45 p.m.
On shortest pathways of unlinking by XerCD-diff-FtsK.
Koya Shimokawa*, Saitama University
(1078-57-193) -
4:15 p.m.
Difference topology experiments and skein relations.
Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
Candice Price, University of Iowa
(1078-92-280) -
4:45 p.m.
On nullification distance.
Kai Ishihara*, Imperial College London
Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London
(1078-54-350) -
5:15 p.m.
Knot reduction for a lattice polygon model of local strand passage.
Chris Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
(1078-82-368) -
5:45 p.m.
Arc index of pretzel knots of type $(-p,q,r)$.
Hwa Jeong Lee, Chung-Ang University
Gyo Taek Jin*, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(1078-57-332) -
6:15 p.m.
Relative Tutte polynomials of tensor products of colored graphs.
Yuanan Diao*, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Gabor Hetyei, UNC Charlotte
(1078-57-300)
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3:15 p.m.
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Sunday March 4, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knotting in Linear and Ring Polymer Models, III
Room A101, Business Administration Building
Organizers:
Tetsuo Deguchi, Ochanomizu University deguchi@phys.ocha.ac.jp
Kenneth Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ericrawdon@gmail.com
Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University arsuaga3@gmail.com
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8:00 a.m.
Theta-temperature depression caused by topological effect in ring polymers.
Jiro Suzuki*, Computing Research Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
Atsushi Takano, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Yushu Matsushita, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
(1078-82-96) -
8:30 a.m.
Band surgery on knots with applications to other local moves.
Taizo Kanenobu*, Department of Mathematics, Osaka City University
(1078-57-122) -
9:00 a.m.
Chain dimension of knotted and unknotted ring polystyrenes.
Atsushi Takano*, Department of Applied Chemistry, Nagoya University
(1078-54-337) -
9:30 a.m.
General polygonal length dependence of the linking probability for ideal random polygons.
Kyoichi Tsurusaki*, Kanagawa Industrial Technology Center
(1078-82-206) -
10:00 a.m.
Averages of subsegment end to end distance and radius of gyration in ideal rings.
Laura K Zirbel*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(1078-54-203) -
10:30 a.m.
Universal curve for the distribution function of distance between two vertices with a given arc length of SAW.
Erica Uehara, Dept. Phys., Ochanomizu University
Tetsuo Deguchi*, Dept. Phys., Ochanomizu University
(1078-82-195)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday March 4, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Knotting in Linear and Ring Polymer Models, IV
Room A101, Business Administration Building
Organizers:
Tetsuo Deguchi, Ochanomizu University deguchi@phys.ocha.ac.jp
Kenneth Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ericrawdon@gmail.com
Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University arsuaga3@gmail.com
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3:15 p.m.
Region crossing change on link diagrams.
Ayaka Shimizu*, Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute
(1078-51-112) -
3:45 p.m.
Knotted lattice polygons.
E J Janse van Rensburg*, Mathematics&Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
(1078-82-139) -
4:15 p.m.
The writhe of a polygon on the hexagonal closed packing.
Christian Laing*, Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, Biology, Wilkes University
(1078-54-161) -
4:45 p.m.
Not quite universal.
Andrew Rechnitzer*, University of British Columbia
Buks van Rensburg, York University
(1078-54-210) -
5:15 p.m.
Generating random walks and polygons in spherical confinement.
Y. Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
C. Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
A. Montemayor, Western Kentucky University
U. Ziegler, Western Kentucky University
(1078-57-306) -
5:45 p.m.
Some geometric and topological properties of open polygonal chains.
Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(1078-57-183)
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3:15 p.m.
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