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Fall Southeastern Section Meeting
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
September 24-25, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1073

Associate secretaries:

Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

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Special Session on Geometric Knot Theory and its Applications

• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Knot Theory and its Applications, I
  Room 104, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University parslerj@wfu.edu
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Convex Brunnian links in higher dimensions.
    Bob Davis, WFU Alumnus
    Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University
    Jonathan Newman, WFU Alumnus
    Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University
    (1073-57-211)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Relative Tutte Polynomials for Colored Graphs and Virtual Knot Theory.
    Yuanan Diao*, UNC Charlotte
    Gabor Hetyei, UNC Charlotte
    (1073-57-137)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generating Random Polygons in Spherical Confinement I.
    Y. Diao, UNCC
    C. Ernst*, WKU
    A. Montemayor, WKU
    U. Ziegler, WKU
    (1073-57-158)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generating Random Polygons in Spherical Confinement II.
    Y. Diao, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
    C. Ernst, Western Kentucky University
    A. Montemayor, Western Kentucky University
    U. Ziegler*, Western Kentucky University
    (1073-57-166)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generating Random Polygons in Spherical Confinement III.
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
    Anthony G Montemayor*, Western Kentucky University
    Uta Ziegler, Western Kentucky University
    (1073-60-159)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Knotted strings and leptonic flavor structure.
    Thomas W Kephart*, Vanderbilt University
    Philipp Leser, Technische Universität Dortmund
    Heinrich Päs, Technische Universität Dortmund
    (1073-54-54)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Knot Theory and its Applications, II
  Room 104, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University parslerj@wfu.edu
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Squarepegs and Inscribed Polygons.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Athens
    Elizabeth Denne*, Smith College
    John McCleary, Vassar College
    (1073-57-114)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A discussion on the knot Floer homology of $(2,p)$-torus links and clasp knots.
    Candice R Price*, University of Iowa
    (1073-55-161)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sites of Rational Tangle Replacements.
    Kenneth L Baker*, University of Miami
    Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London
    (1073-57-173)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Template guided DNA recombination model via spatial graphs.
    Angela Angeleska, University of Tampa
    Natasa Jonoska, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (1073-57-122)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    DNA knot distances.
    Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
    (1073-92-91)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exploring the Conformation of DNA: Adding Geometry to Known Topology.
    Mary Therese Padberg*, The University of Iowa
    Isabel Darcy, The University of Iowa
    Stephen Levene, The University of Texas at Dallas
    Rob Scharein, San Francisco State University
    (1073-92-155)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Knot Theory and its Applications, III
  Room 104, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University parslerj@wfu.edu
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Understanding the formation of kinetoplast minicircle networks in trypanosomes.
    Javier Arsuaga*, San Francisco State University
    Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
    Ken Hinson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    (1073-92-140)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The effect of angle restriction on the formation of minicircle networks.
    Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Kenneth Hinson*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    (1073-92-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Knotted Arcs.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    (1073-57-76)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Grassmannians, polygons and curves in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{R}^3$.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    (1073-53-222)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometric and Topological Properties of Open and Close Polygons.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1073-57-182)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Symmetries of Composite Knots and Links.
    Matt Mastin*, University of Georgia
    (1073-57-216)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Knot Theory and its Applications, IV
  Room 104, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University parslerj@wfu.edu
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Knots and Links as Conformal Bands.
    Rob Kusner*, G.A.N.G. & Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1073-30-82)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Homotopy periods of link maps and Milnor's invariants.
    Frederick R. Cohen, University of Rochester
    Rafal Komendarczyk, Tulane University
    Clayton Shonkwiler*, University of Georgia
    (1073-57-220)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Higher order helicities via link maps.
    Rafal Komendarczyk*, Tulane University
    (1073-51-09)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The geometry of the Taylor problem in plasma physics.
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1073-53-253)

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