The conference will take place at Georgetown University (Nov. 12-13) and George Washington University (Nov. 14).

You are cordially invited to participate in this and future meetings.

We will start on Friday November 12, 3:15pm with the talk by Peter F. Stadler (University Leipzig),
followed by Leon Glass (McGill University) and Natasha Jonoska (USF).
The Saturday session will start at 10:30am with the talk by Mariel Vazquez (U.C. Berkeley).

See Schedule at GU for detail.

If you plan to attend please contact one of the organizers. No registration fee! 

If you would like to give a talk please submit your abstract: The viewing page is at Abstracts -- Knots in Washington XIX
The submission of abstracts page is at SUBMISSION KinW XIX

Speakers include: Javier Arsuaga, Leon Glass, Laure Helme-Guizon, Patrick Hooper, Natasha Jonoska, Raja Jothi, Paul C. Kainen, Junalyn Navarra-Madsen, Jozef H.Przytycki, Yongwu Rong, Peter F. Stadler, Mariel Vazquez, Elena Zotenko..,

See directions to GU and GWU below

Schedule:

Friday, November 12:
All talks in Reiss 103 at Georgetown University.
3:15 -- 4:05 Peter F. Stadler,
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
The Topology of Evolutionary Biology
4:05 -- 4:30 coffee break
4:30 -- 5:20 Leon Glass,
Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Topological Approaches to the Analysis of Spatiotemporal Organization in Chemical and Biological Systems
5:20 -- 5:45 coffee break
5:45 -- 6:35 Natasha Jonoska,
Department of Mathematics, University of South Florida
Topological questions related to DNA self-assembly of graph structures

Saturday Nov. 13, 2004
All talks in Reiss 103 at Georgetown University.

Coffee from 10 am to 10:30 am
10:30 -- 11:20 Mariel Vazquez, Mathematics Department, U.C. Berkeley
Topological analysis of enzymatic actions: DNA link formation by Xer recombination and DNA unknotting by type II topoisomerase
11:25 -- 11.55 Javier Arsuaga, Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF
DNA knots reveal a chiral organization of DNA in phage capsids
12:00 -- 12:30 Junalyn Navarra-Madsen, Texas Woman's University
Analyzing Mu Transposase's Mechanism Using Tangle Coloring.

12:30 -- 2:00 pm LUNCH

2:00 -- 2:30 Raja Jothi, NCBI/NLM/NIH
The Effects of Topology of Evolutionary Tree on Predicting Protein Interaction Specificity
2:35 -- 3:05 Elena Zotenko,
NIH/NLM/NCBI and University of Maryland College Park
Knot Invariants in Protein Structure Comparison
3:10 -- 3:40 Paul Kainen, Georgetown University
Topological constancy in the perception of Lissajous figures

7:00pm A small party at Jozef's house