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Fall Central Sectional Meeting
University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis campus), Minneapolis, MN
October 28-30, 2016 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1123
Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Special Session on Knotting in Physical Systems, in celebration of Kenneth C. Millett's 75th birthday
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Friday October 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knotting in Physical Systems, in celebration of Kenneth C. Millett's 75th birthday, I
MOH 450, Opus Hall
Organizers:
Jorge Alberto Calvo, Ave Maria University
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Unconcatenated unknots and their minimal surfaces.
Alexander Y Grosberg*, Department of Physics and Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University, New York, NY 10003
(1123-54-37) -
3:00 p.m.
Linking polymer entanglements with the viscoelastic mechanics of polymeric materials using topological analysis and computational simulations.
Eleni Panagiotou*, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kenneth C Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul J Atzberger, University of California, Santa Barbara
(1123-92-363) -
3:30 p.m.
Randomly Generating Self Avoiding Polygons Off Lattice.
Kyle Leland Chapman*, University of Georgia
(1123-52-245) -
4:00 p.m.
The braid index of homogeneous braids.
Yuanan Diao, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNC Charlotte
Pengyu Liu*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNC Charlotte
Gabor Hetyei, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNC Charlotte
(1123-57-218) -
4:30 p.m.
Lee-Yang and Fishers zeros in Adsorbing Self-Avoiding Walks.
E. J. Janse van Rensburg*, Mathematics & Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
(1123-82-78)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 29, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knotting in Physical Systems, in celebration of Kenneth C. Millett's 75th birthday, II
MOH 450, Opus Hall
Organizers:
Jorge Alberto Calvo, Ave Maria University
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Talk Cancelled: Counting self-entangled surfaces.
Stu Whittington*, University of Toronto
(1123-57-158) -
8:30 a.m.
Critical Configurations of Hard Disks on $S^2$.
Rob Kusner*, Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics & Graphics, University of Massachusetts
(1123-49-280) -
9:00 a.m.
Polygonal Knot Space and Symplectic Geometry.
Kathleen Hake*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(1123-54-378) -
9:30 a.m.
Quantifying the Complexity of Ideal Knots.
David A. B. Hyde*, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
(1123-54-189) -
10:00 a.m.
Application of a skein relation to difference topology experiments.
Candice R Price, University of San Diego
Isabel K Darcy*, University of Iowa
(1123-57-87) -
10:30 a.m.
Enhanced understanding of protein-mediated DNA looping, cyclization, and DNA topology through free-energy landscapes.
Stephen D Levene*, Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas
Andreas Hanke, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Texas Rio Grande Valley
(1123-82-406)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Special Session on Knotting in Physical Systems, in celebration of Kenneth C. Millett's 75th birthday, III
MOH 450, Opus Hall
Organizers:
Jorge Alberto Calvo, Ave Maria University
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
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2:30 p.m.
KnotPlot after 25 (or so) years.
Rob Scharein*, Hypnagogic Software, Vancouver BC, Canada
(1123-68-413) -
3:00 p.m.
Size and knotting results for open chains, generated ergodically, with arbitrarily large excluded volume.
Laura K. Plunkett*, Holy Names University
(1123-54-54) -
3:30 p.m.
More knots in knots: a study of classical knot diagrams.
Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(1123-57-42)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 30, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knotting in Physical Systems, in celebration of Kenneth C. Millett's 75th birthday, IV
MOH 450, Opus Hall
Organizers:
Jorge Alberto Calvo, Ave Maria University
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Sampling equilateral space polygons.
Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
Bertrand Duplantier, IPhT Saclay
Clayton Shonkwiler, Colorado State University
Erica Uehara, Ochanomizu University
(1123-53-120) -
8:30 a.m.
Geometric Properties of Knotted Random Polygons in Confinement.
Uta Ziegler*, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Y Diao, UNC - Charlotte, NC
C. Ernst, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
E. Rawdon, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
(1123-57-298) -
9:00 a.m.
Petal Links.
Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
Hao Chen, Wake Forest University
(1123-57-334) -
9:30 a.m.
What's the probability that a random triangle is obtuse? or: What the heck is a "random triangle", anyway?
Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
Thomas Needham, The Ohio State University
Clayton Shonkwiler*, Colorado State University
Gavin Stewart, New York University
(1123-53-286) -
10:00 a.m.
Local and Non-local Knotting in Lattice Models of Confined Polymers.
Christine Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
(1123-82-161) -
10:30 a.m.
Coherent and incoherent nullification of torus knots.
Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
(1123-57-340) -
11:00 a.m.
Topological measures of financial network complexity.
Mark D Flood, Office of Financial Research, Washington D.C.
Jonathan Simon*, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa; and Office of Financial Research
Mathew Timm, Department of Mathematics, Bradley University
(1123-91-146) -
11:30 a.m.
Supercoiling can help type II topoisomerases to unknot and unlink DNA.
Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
(1123-57-68)
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8:00 a.m.
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