AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Thursday, September 20, 2018 03:30:05

Fall Western Sectional Meeting

• San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
• October 27-28, 2018 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1144

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.

• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods for the study of the Three Dimensional Structure of Biopolymers, I
  Room 217, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, University of California Davis, Davis jarsuaga@ucdavis.edu
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis, Davis
  Robin Wilson, Cal Poly Pomona
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Interplay between supercoiling-induced localized denaturation and DNA dynamics.
    Jonathan M. Fogg, Baylor College of Medicine
    Erik Stricker, Baylor College of Medicine
    E. Lynn Zechiedrich*, Baylor College of Medicine
    (1144-92-347)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Kinetic Pathways of Topology Simplification by Type-II Topoisomerases in Knotted Supercoiled DNA.
    Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
    Riccardo Ziraldo, University of Texas at Dallas
    Andreas Hanke, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1144-82-266)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topologically Driven DNA Structural Transitions.
    Craig J Benham*, Mathematics Department, University of California - Davis
    (1144-92-187)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Knots where the braid index equals the bridge index.
    Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
    (1144-57-274)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A new topological theory of protein knot folding.
    Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
    Adam He, Cornell University
    Helen Wong, Claremont McKenna College
    (1144-92-36)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A topological model for protein folding kinetics.
    Eleni Panagiotou*, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Kevin Plaxco, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center of Bioengineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1144-92-269)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods for the study of the Three Dimensional Structure of Biopolymers, II
  Room 217, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, University of California Davis, Davis jarsuaga@ucdavis.edu
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis, Davis
  Robin Wilson, Cal Poly Pomona
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Sequence-Dependent RNA Branching and Compactness.
    William M. Gelbart*, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles 90095
    (1144-82-180)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The average geometric entanglement of confined random polygons.
    Uta Ziegler*, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
    Y. Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
    C. Ernst, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
    E Rawdon, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
    (1144-57-272)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Knots in extreme confinement.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    (1144-57-176)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Local Entanglement in Macromolecules.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1144-57-38)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Knotting statistics for polygons in lattice tubes.
    Chris Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1144-82-317)
• Sunday October 28, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods for the study of the Three Dimensional Structure of Biopolymers, III
  Room 217, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, University of California Davis, Davis jarsuaga@ucdavis.edu
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis, Davis
  Robin Wilson, Cal Poly Pomona
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vertex distortion of knots in the cubic lattice.
    Marion Campisi*, San Jose State University
    Nicholas Cazet, San Jose State University
    (1144-57-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Random Knots are Knotted -- A New Approach.
    Chaim Even-Zohar*, UC Davis
    (1144-92-119)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Markov chain sampler for knot diagrams.
    Harrison Chapman*, Colorado State University
    Andrew Rechnitzer, University of British Columbia
    (1144-57-291)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the number of unknot diagrams.
    Carolina Medina Graciano*, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi
    Gelasio Salazar, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi
    (1144-05-340)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Knots, links and spatial graphs in the simple cubic lattice.
    Koya Shimokawa*, Saitama University
    (1144-57-311)
• Sunday October 28, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods for the study of the Three Dimensional Structure of Biopolymers, IV
  Room 217, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, University of California Davis, Davis jarsuaga@ucdavis.edu
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis, Davis
  Robin Wilson, Cal Poly Pomona
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Detecting complexities in a scrambled genome through spacial graphs.
    Nataša Jonoska*, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (1144-92-333)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Affairs of the Heart: How Circular-DNA-mediated Scars in the Titin Gene May Contribute to Cardiac Diversity.
    Massa Shoura*, Stanford University
    Victoria Parikh, Stanford University
    Alex Dainis, Stanford University
    Euan Ashley, Stanford University
    Stephen Levene, University of Texas at Dallas
    Andrew Fire, Stanford University
    (1144-92-268)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Site-specific recombination and the band surgery model.
    Allison H Moore*, University of California, Davis
    (1144-92-99)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Can Chromosome Conformation Capture Data reveal the topology of the genome?
    Kai Ishihara, Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, 753-8511, Japan
    Kevin Lamb, Department of Mathematics, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211, USA
    Georgina Gonzalez*, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    Mariel Vazquez, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    Koya Shimokawa, Department of Mathematics, Saitama University, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan
    Javier Arsuaga, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    (1144-92-337)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Molecular modeling of DNA packing in bacterial viruses.
    Javier Arsuaga*, Davis
    Brian Cruz, University of California Berkeley
    Mariel Vazquez, Davis
    (1144-92-345)