APPLIED KNOT THEORY WORKSHOP 2020
October 09, 10am-1pm EST
9am-12pm CST
2pm-5pm GMT/UTC
Description
The presence of entanglement in physical systems affects dramatically their mechanical properties and their function. It is therefore of great interest to quantify entanglement complexity in these contexts. However, knots and links in these systems do not always satisfy the strict mathematical definitions of knottedness, giving rise to a new area of study called Applied Knot Theory, that bridges pure and applied mathematics. In this virtual Workshop we bring together pure and applied mathematicians as well as engineers and biologists, to discuss the advances in the topology of materials.
Organizers
Eleni Panagiotou
Department of Mathematics and SimCenter
University of Tennessee Chattanooga
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Jason Cantarella
Department of Mathematics
University of Georgia
Eric Rawdon
Department of Mathematics
University of St Thomas
Presenters
Chris Soteros
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Saskatchewan
Kumar Rajeev
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratories
Sofia Lambropoulou
School of Applied Mathematical
and Physical Sciences
National Technical University of Athens
Eleni Panagiotou
Department of Mathematics and SimCenter
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Dawn Ray
Department of Mathematics University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Quenisha Baldwin
Department of Biology
Tuskegee University
Program
1. Chris Soteros, (Characterizing the entanglements in lattice models of ring polymers in nanochannels)
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2. Kumar Rajeev, (Topological effects in polymers)
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3. Dawn Ray, (The number of oriented rational links with given deficiency number)
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4. Sofia Lambropoulou, (Finite type invariants for knotoids)
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5. Eleni Panagiotou, (Knot polynomials of open and closed curves)
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6. Quenisha Baldwin, (The topological free energy of viral glycoproteins)
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