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Knots in Washington XL in memory of Sergei Duzhin (1956-2015)
March 9-11, 2015
George Washington University and Georgetown University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Paul Kainen (Georgetown U.), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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On topology in biology
by
Paul C Kainen
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgetown University.

A brief history of the idea of topology in biology is given, including work of Needham and Rashevsky, Thom, Zeeman, and Arnold, Cozzarelli, White, and Sumners, and some recent developments.

Date received: February 17, 2015

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