Knots in Washington XIX: Topology in Biology II
November 12-14, 2004
Georgetown University (Nov. 12-13) and George Washington University (Nov. 14)
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Paul Kainen (Georgetown U.), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU) and Yongwu Rong (GWU)

List of Talks

Javier Arsuaga DNA knots reveal a chiral organization of DNA in phage capsids
Leon Glass Topological Approaches to the Analysis of Spatiotemporal Organization in Chemical and Biological Systems
Laure Helme-Guizon A Khovanov-type homology theory for graphs
Patrick Hooper Does every triangle admit a periodic billiard path?
Natasha Jonoska Topological questions related to DNA self-assembly of graph structures
Raja Jothi The Effects of Topology of Evolutionary Tree on Predicting Protein Interaction Specificity
Paul C. Kainen Topological constancy in the perception of Lissajous figures
Junalyn Navarra-Madsen Analyzing Mu Transposase's Mechanism Using Tangle Coloring
Jozef H. Przytycki An introduction to Khovanov homology categorification of skein modules
Yongwu Rong A configuration space approach to the chromatic polynomial, after Eastwood and Huggett
Peter F. Stadler The Topology of Evolutionary Biology
Mariel Vazquez Topological analysis of enzymatic actions: DNA link formation by Xer recombination and DNA unknotting by type II topoisomerase.
Elena Zotenko Knot Invariants in Protein Structure Comparison