IMACS 2000 -- Rod/DNA/Knot Sessions

All talks in CO-16 (except for Benham plenary talk in CO-1/CO-2)

Note: Speaker change in session #152 at 16:30 PM

Note: Abstract and schedule for Benham plenary talk added

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Session #162 -- Continuum Mechanics of DNA Monday August 21 16:00-18:00, Tuesday August 22 10:00-13:00 Schedule (click for abstracts) Monday August 21: 16:00 Craig Benham, Topologically Driven Structural Transitions in DNA - Their Computational Analysis and Biological Functions 16:30 Patrick Furrer, Breaking the register symmetry in DNA minicircles 17:00 Alain Goriely, The dynamics of coiling in elastic filaments and its application to biology 17:30 Maher Moakher, On smoothing the DNA intrinsic shape Tuesday August 22: 10:00 E.L. Starostin, Closed loops of a thin elastic rod and its symmetric shapes with self-contacts 10:30 Daniel Genest, Correlated atomic motions in the structural fluctuations of nucleic acids 11:00 Robert Manning, Continuum modeling of the enhanced flexibility of the TATA-box sequence in DNA 11:30 Wilma Olson, DNA Base Sequence and Three-dimensional Structure 12:00 David Swigon, On solutions of the self-contact problem for elastic rods and applications to DNA supercoiling 12:30 Heinz Sklenar, Local and global description of nucleic acid structures

Session #152 -- Physical Knots Tuesday August 22 16:00-18:00, Wednesday August 23 10:00-13:00, 16:00-17:00 Schedule (click for abstracts) Tuesday August 22: 16:00 Jason Cantarella, Cone Surface Bounds for Ropelength 16:30 John Maddocks, Global Curvature, Thickness and Ideal Shapes 17:00 Kenneth Millett, A Monte Carlo Investigation of Polygonal Knot Spaces and Ideal Physical Knot Configurations 17:30 Antti Niemi, Knotted and linked solitons in field theory Wednesday August 23: 10:00 Jun O'Hara, Langevin's conformal invariant knot energy 10:30 Andrzej Stasiak, Ideal knots and physical knots 11:00 Tetsuo Deguchi, Size-Dependence of the Probability of Random Knots and Knotted dans 11:30 David Swigon, Minimum elastic energy configurations of DNA torus knots and catenanes 12:00 Giovanni Dietler, Localization of breakage points in knotted strings 12:30 Renzo Ricca , Relaxation of magnetic knots 14:30 Craig Benham plenary talk Mathematical Aspects of DNA Structure (not part of Session #152; this talk will take place in CO-1 & CO-2 rather than CO-16) 16:00 Piotr Pieranski , Gordian Unknots 16:30 Christian Micheletti , Optimal shapes of compact strings

Session #139 -- Writhing of Rods and Applications Wednesday August 23 17:00-18:00, Thursday August 24 10:00-13:00, 16:00-18:00 Schedule (click for abstracts) Wednesday August 23: 17:00 Bernard Coleman, CANCELLED 17:30 Kathleen Hoffman, Stability Results for Elastic Rods Thursday August 24: 10:00 Chris Wiggins, The Viscous Nonlinear Dynamics of Twist and Writhe 10:30 Gabor Domokos, Constrained and unconstrained Euler buckling 11:00 Barrie Fraser, An elastic rod model of two-strand yarn plying 11:30 Alain Goriely, Statics and dynamics of intrinsically curved filaments 12:00 Alan Champneys, The effects of gravity and intrinsic curvature on torsional localised buckling 12:30 G.H.M. van der Heijden, Spatially complex localisation in twisted elastic rods constrained to lie on a cylinder 16:00 John Maddocks, Effective properties of elastic rods with high intrinsic twist 16:30 Stephane Rey, Buckling of an Elastic Rod with a High Intrinsic Twist 17:00 H. von der Mosel, Self contact of nonlinearly elastic rods I. Existence 17:30 F. Schuricht, Self contact of nonlinearly elastic rods II. Regularity