On Friday, 10/23 there will be two colloquia sponsored
by the Departments of Mathematics and Biology, followed
by a reception.
Saturday's program will contain the more technical
talks
aimed at topologists.
All talks will be held in Reiss 103 (but there will
be
an "early-bird" session, before the colloquia, Friday
in Reiss 281 from 2:15 to 3:05). No registration
fee!
The reception is next to Reiss 103.
FRIDAY Oct. 23
3:15 Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, Dept. of
Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California at Berkeley - Reiss 103
``Mathematical methods for studying DNA conformation and replication''
4:30 De Witt L. Sumners, Dept. of Mathematics,
Florida State U.,
Tallahassee, FL - Reiss 103 (http://www.math.fsu.edu/~sumners/)
``Topological models for DNA''
5:30 Reception - outside Reiss 103
SATURDAY Oct. 24
10:00 - 10:30am Coffee and refreshments
10:30 - 11:30 Samuel J. Lomonaco, University of Maryland B.C.,
( Reiss 103)
Quantum computation from the perspective of knot theory
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee
11:45-12:30
Doug Bullock (UMD)
The Yang-Mills measure in the Kauffman bracket skein module
(Joint with C. Frohman and J.Kania-Bartoszynska)
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:20
Ilya Kofman,
Vassiliev invariants and the cohomology of Lin's knot complex
2:30-3:00
Paul Kainen (kainen@cs.umd.edu)
Topological graph invariants and knots
3:10-3:30
Mark Kidwell,
Bridges and Tangles,
(with Tad Stanford)
3:40-4:00
Jozef H.Przytycki,
Torsion in skein modules
4:10-4:30
Maxim Sokolov,
Calculating MOO invariants from an arbitrary description of 3-manifold
4:40-5:00
Tatsuya Tsukamoto,
On Habiro's C_n-moves and Vassiliev invariants,
(joint work with Yoshiyuki Ohyama)
5:10-5:30
Mike Veve,
Knotted periodic orbits in the regular tetrahedron.
5:40 - 6:00
Yongwu Rong,
Billiard links in the 3-ball.