Western Spring Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

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Western Spring Sectional Meeting
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
April 4-6, 2014 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1099

Associate secretaries:

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

Please note room assignments are subject to change right up until the meeting occurs. The program published here is continually updated and may be more current than the printed program. The following material has been posted without being proofread in order to provide you with the most current information.

Special Session on Physical Knots, honoring the retirement of Jonathan K. Simon

Saturday April 5, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knots, honoring the retirement of Jonathan K. Simon, I
Room 211, Mitchell Hall
Organizers:
Greg Buck, St. Anselm College
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Role of Curvature in Entanglement, or, What Jon Simon Taught Me.
  Gregory Buck*, Saint Anselm College
  (1099-57-393)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Distance Functions and Cut-locus: From Riemannian Geometry to Thickness and Shape Collapsing in Image Deformations.
  Oguz C. Durumeric*, Dept of Math, University of Iowa
  Gary Christensen, Dept of Elect & Comp Eng, University of Iowa
  (1099-53-399)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Minimum Distance Energy Function and Knots with Dihedral Symmetry.
  William G. Hager*, Texas Lutheran University
  (1099-51-251)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Sequence Dependent Denaturation in Small DNA Circles: A Multi-scale Approach.
  Sarah A Harris*, University of Leeds
  Thana Sutthibuttpong, University of Leeds
  Agnes Noy, University of Leeds
  Charles Laughton, University of Nottingham
  (1099-92-357)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Knots in bacteriophages.
  Mariel Vazquez*, Mathematics Department, San Francisco State University
  Javier Arsuaga, Mathematics Department, San Francisco State University
  Brian Cruz, Mathematics Department, UC Berkeley
  (1099-92-296)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Knot Your Average Guy: a Tribute to Jon Simon and his Contributions to the Energetics of Physical Knots.
  Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
  (1099-82-259)

Saturday April 5, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knots, honoring the retirement of Jonathan K. Simon, II
Room 211, Mitchell Hall
Organizers:
Greg Buck, St. Anselm College
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Minimal Flat Folded Knotted Ribbons.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1099-57-110)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Entanglement complexity of closed 2-manifolds in tubes in $Z^3$ and $Z^4$.
  Stu Whittington*, University of Toronto
  (1099-57-39)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Conservation of Writhe and Helicity Under Reconnection.
  De Witt L Sumners*, Florida State University
  (1099-76-135)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Knotted DNA: Mathematical Models and Biological Consequences.
  Dorothy Buck*, Imperial College London
  (1099-57-139)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Knots connected by wide ribbons.
  Susan C. Brooks, Western Illinois University
  Oguz Durumeric, University of Iowa
  Jonathan K. Simon*, University of Iowa
  (1099-57-323)

Sunday April 6, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knots, honoring the retirement of Jonathan K. Simon, III
Room 211, Mitchell Hall
Organizers:
Greg Buck, St. Anselm College
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  How linking number affects the structure and reactivity of DNA.
  Rossitza N. Irobalieva, Inter-institutional Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine
  Jonathan M. Fogg, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
  Daniel J. Catanese, Jr., Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
  Anna K. Barker, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
  Michael F. Schmid, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
  Wah Chiu, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
  Lynn Zechiedrich*, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
  (1099-92-164)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Topological analysis of chromosome conformation capture data.
  Javier Arsuaga*, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
  (1099-92-250)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Chirality for knots and fields.
  Robet B. Kusner*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (1099-53-40)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Reduced Wu and generalized Simon invariants for spatial graphs.
  Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
  Will Fletcher, Stanford University
  Ryo Nikkuni, Tokyo Women's Christian University
  (1099-57-37)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Statistics and physics of knots in lattice tubes.
  Christine Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
  (1099-82-268)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Modelling the Entropic Pressure near a Knotted Ring Polymer.
  Esaias J Janse van Rensburg*, York University, Toronto, Ontario
  (1099-82-67)

Sunday April 6, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knots, honoring the retirement of Jonathan K. Simon, IV
Room 211, Mitchell Hall
Organizers:
Greg Buck, St. Anselm College
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  New possibilities for computational experiments with physical knots.
  Rob Scharein*, Hypnagogic Software
  (1099-55-392)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Topological Distances on DNA Knots and Links.
  Isabel K Darcy*, University of Iowa
  Annette Honken, University of Iowa
  (1099-92-201)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Symplectic Geometry of Random Polygonal Knots.
  Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
  Clayton Shonkwiler, University of Georgia
  (1099-53-265)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Linking Problem of Random Polygons.
  Yuanan Diao*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNC Charlotte
  (1099-60-170)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Generating Stiff Random Walks and Polygons in Spherical Confinement.
  Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
  (1099-57-160)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Subknotting in closed chains.
  Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
  (1099-57-126)

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