Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications

April 09, 2010

Content

Overview

Organizers:

Dorothy Buck	Imperial College London
Isabel Darcy	The University of Iowa
Kenneth Millett	University of California
Eric Rawdon	University of St. Thomas

Entanglement is prevalent at many different scales in the natural sciences. The mathematical modeling of entanglement in DNA and proteins, for example, provide insights into their structure and properties. However, many fundamental questions are still unanswered and draw interest from both theoreticians and experimentalists across many disciplines. This session will draw a wide range of researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of physical knotting and linking together with students and post-docs to share their progress and their challenges for the future.

Schedule

Friday, April 09, 2010

1:15 pm - 1:45 pm	Registration and coffee	Lind 400
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm	Welcome and introduction Fadil Santosa	Lind 305
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Using topology to understand chromosome organization across organisms F. Javier Arsuaga (San Francisco State University)	Lind 305
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Biological applications that utilize DNA Topology  Lynn Zechiedrich (Baylor College of Medicine)	Lind 305
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm	Group Photo
4:10 pm - 6:10 pm	Poster Session and Refreshments	Lind 400

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
F. Javier Arsuaga	Department of Mathematics	San Francisco State University
Lauren Beaumont		The University of Iowa
Michael Berglund	Department of Mathematics	University of Georgia
Anusha Bharadwaj	Molecular and Cell Biology	University of Texas at Dallas
Susan Brooks	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Dorothy Buck	Department of Mathematics	Imperial College London
Jason Cantarella	Department of Mathematics	University of Georgia
John Collins	Department of Computer Science	San Francisco State University
Isabel Darcy	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Elizabeth Denne	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Smith College
Yuanan Diao	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of North Carolina
Michael Dupuis	Department of Mathematics	University of St. Thomas
Claus Ernst	Department of Mathematics	Western Kentucky University
John Froehlig	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Stefan Giovan		University of Texas at Dallas
Kenneth Hinson	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of North Carolina
Jeffrey Hunt		The University of Iowa
Garrett Jones	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Markus Keel	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Thomas Kephart	Physics and Astro.	Vanderbilt University
Stephen Levene	Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology	University of Texas at Dallas
Matt Mastin	Department of Mathematics	University of Georgia
Kenneth Millett	Department of Mathematics	University of California
Carolyn Otto	Department of Mathematics	Rice University
Mary Padberg	Department of Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences	The University of Iowa
Jason Parsley	Department of Mathematics	Wake Forest University
Juliet Portillo		San Francisco State University
Candice Price	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Teresita Ramirez-Rosas	Departmemt of Mathematics	Grand Valley State University
Eric Rawdon	Department of Mathematics	University of St. Thomas
Robert Scharein	Department of Mathematics	San Francisco State University
Dianne Smith		The University of Iowa
Christine Soteros	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of Saskatchewan
De Witt Sumners		Florida State University
Vy Tran	Department of Mathematics	University of St. Thomas
Rolland Trapp	Department of Mathematics	California State University
Mariel Vazquez	Department of Mathematics	San Francisco State University
Guanyu Wang	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Danielle Washburn		The University of Iowa
Stuart Whittington	Department of Chemistry	University of Toronto
Gregory Witt	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Lynn Zechiedrich	Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Baylor College of Medicine
Laura Zirbel	Department of Mathematics	University of California