AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session
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Fall Western Sectional Meeting
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
October 25-26, 2014 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1104
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers I
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Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers I
Room 543, Hensill Hall
Organizers:
Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
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8:00 a.m.
DNA topology confers sequence specificity to non-specific architectural proteins.
Wilma K. Olson*, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Juan Wei, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Luke Czapla, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Michael A. Grosner, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
David Swigon, University of Pittsburgh
(1104-92-100) -
9:00 a.m.
Multidisciplinary approaches to study the topological complexity in kinetoplast DNA.
Michele M Klingbeil*, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003
Yuanan Diao, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
Javier Arsuaga, Department of Mathematics and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA USA
(1104-92-329) -
9:30 a.m.
Nullification of torus knots and links.
Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
(1104-57-270) -
10:00 a.m.
Structural diversity of positively and negatively supercoiled DNA revealed by electron cryo-tomography.
Rossitza N. Irobalieva, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Jonathan M. Fogg, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Daniel J. Catanese, Jr., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Thana Sutthibutpong, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
Steven J. Ludtke, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Sarah A. Harris, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
Michael F. Schmid, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Lynn Zechiedrich*, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
(1104-92-293) -
10:30 a.m.
Lattice Polygon Models of Polymer and Biopolymer Entanglements.
Christine Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
(1104-82-263)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers II
Room 543, Hensill Hall
Organizers:
Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
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3:00 p.m.
Folding RNA by a Hierarchical Graph Sampling Approach.
Tamar Schlick*, New York University
Namhee Kim, New York University
Mai Zahran, New York University
Shereef Elmetwaly, New York University
(1104-92-105) -
4:00 p.m.
The effect of confinement conditions on topological and geometric properties of random polygons.
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota
U Ziegler*, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky
(1104-57-318) -
4:30 p.m.
Application of a Skein Relation to Difference Topology Experiments.
Candice R Price*, United States Military Academy, West Point
Isabel K Darcy, University of Iowa
(1104-57-252) -
5:00 p.m.
DNA looping and knotting in the wormlike limit: normal modes and the harmonic approximation.
Stefan M Giovan, University of Texas at Dallas
Andreas Hanke, University of Texas at Brownsville
Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
(1104-82-251)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers III
Room 543, Hensill Hall
Organizers:
Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
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8:00 a.m.
DNA Recombination Through Spatial Graphs.
Nataša Jonoska*, Tampa
Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
(1104-92-130) -
9:00 a.m.
Knots in thick, self avoiding random walks in 3-space.
Laura Plunkett*, Holy Names University
(1104-54-70) -
9:30 a.m.
What knots lurk inside other knots?
Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
(1104-57-139) -
10:00 a.m.
Knot complexity: an analysis of subknots.
Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(1104-57-148) -
10:30 a.m.
New Algorithms for Sampling Closed Equilateral Random Walks in $\mathbb{R}^3$ based on Symplectic Geometry.
Jason H Cantarella*, University of Georgia
Clayton Shonkwiler, Colorado State University
(1104-53-98)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers IV
Room 543, Hensill Hall
Organizers:
Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
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3:00 p.m.
Site-specific recombination modeled as a band surgery.
Koya Shimokawa*, Department of Mathematics, Saitama University
Kai Ishihara, Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University
Mariel Vazquez, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
(1104-57-198) -
4:00 p.m.
Beyond Crystal Structure- Picture Perfect: The mechanics of DNA shape and flexibility in site-specific recombination.
Massa Shoura*, The University of Texas at Dallas
Stephen Levene, The University of Texas at Dallas
(1104-92-231) -
4:30 p.m.
Further adventures in Hopfs.
Andrew Rechnitzer*, UBC
(1104-82-267) -
5:00 p.m.
Writhe and mutual entanglement combine to give the entanglement length.
Eleni Panagiotou*, University of California Santa Barbara
Martin Kroeger, ETH Zurich
Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
(1104-92-160) -
5:30 p.m.
A Metric on the Space of Framed Curves.
Tom R Needham*, University of Georgia
(1104-53-271) -
6:00 p.m.
Topological friction strongly affects viral DNA ejection.
De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
(1104-92-166)
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3:00 p.m.
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