Sumnersfest - Program

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Conference on Low-Dimensional Topology and Applications to Molecular Biology and Biomedical Mathematics
May 4 - 5, 2007

All seminars will be held in room 101 of the Love Building, Florida State University.

9:15 - 9:30
Welcome, Joseph Travis, Dean
College of Arts and Sciences, Florida State University
9:30 - 10:30
The unknotting number of a knot
Cameron Gordon, The University of Texas at Austin
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
How many knots are enough?
Ken Millett, University of California at Santa Barbara
11:35 - 12:05
S¹-category of three manifolds
José Carlos Gómez Larrañaga, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas
12:10 - 12:40
Nanotechnology in dimension 4
Ronald Fintushel, Michigan State University

14:00 - 15:00
Arithmetic for Topologists
Stu Whittington, University of Toronto
15:15 - 15:35
Generating 4-regular Hamiltonian Plane Graphs
Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
15:40 - 16:00
Tutte Polynomials of Tensor Products of Signed Graphs and their Applications in Knot Theory
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

16:00 - 16:15
Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:35
Modeling protein-DNA complexes using tangles
Isabel Darcy, University of Iowa
16:40 - 17:00
KNOTS: Knowledge-based, Neuroimaging, Optimality, Topology & Statistics
Ivo D. Dinov, University of California at Los Angeles

9:15 - 10:15
DNA Entanglement and Resolution: A Matter of Life, Death, and Evolution
Lynn Zechiedrich, Baylor College of Medicine
10:15 - 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
Entanglement Complexity of Self-Avoiding Walk Systems
Chris Soteros, University of Saskatchewan
11:15 - 11:45
Densely Ordered Braid Subgroups
Dale Rolfsen, The University of British Columbia
11:50 - 12:20
Measurement of Cortical Thickness
David Rottenberg, University of Minnesota

12:20 - 14:10
Lunch
14:10 - 14:30
Gin enzyme mechanism and rational 3-tangles
Hugo Cabrera Ibarra, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
14:35 - 14:55
DNA knots from bacteriophage P4 suggest a chromosomal organization with high writhe values
Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University
15:00 - 15:20
Topological analysis of enzymatic actions
Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University

15:20 - 15:40
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:00
Topology of Spiral Waves in Excitable Media
Irma Cruz-White, Chipola College
16:05 - 16:25
DNA Knotting: Biological Consequences and Resolution
Jennifer Mann, Florida State University
16:30 - 16:50
The writhe of polygonal open curves and its application as an RNA shape descriptor
Christian Laing, Florida State University