Topology and Geometry of Biopolymers

Topology and Geometry of Biopolymers
Author: Erica Flapan
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470448408

This book contains the proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Topology of Biopolymers, held from April 21–22, 2018, at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. The papers cover recent results on the topology and geometry of DNA and protein knotting using techniques from knot theory, spatial graph theory, differential geometry, molecular simulations, and laboratory experimentation. They include current work on the following topics: the density and supercoiling of DNA minicircles; the dependence of DNA geometry on its amino acid sequence; random models of DNA knotting; topological models of DNA replication and recombination; theories of how and why proteins knot; topological and geometric approaches to identifying entanglements in proteins; and topological and geometric techniques to predict protein folding rates. All of the articles are written as surveys intended for a broad interdisciplinary audience with a minimum of prerequisites. In addition to being a useful reference for experts, this book also provides an excellent introduction to the fast-moving field of topology and geometry of biopolymers.

Topology and Geometry of Biopolymers

Topology and Geometry of Biopolymers
Author: Erica Flapan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020
Genre: Biopolymers
ISBN: 9781470454562

This book contains the proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Topology of Biopolymers, held from April 21-22, 2018, at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. The papers cover recent results on the topology and geometry of DNA and protein knotting using techniques from knot theory, spatial graph theory, differential geometry, molecular simulations, and laboratory experimentation. They include current work on the following topics: the density and supercoiling of DNA minicircles; the dependence of DNA geometry on its amino acid sequence; random models of DNA knotting; topological models of DNA r.

Mathematical Approaches to Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Mathematical Approaches to Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
Author: Jill P. Mesirov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461240662

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications MATHEMATICAL APPROACHES TO BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS is one of the two volumes based on the proceedings of the 1994 IMA Sum mer Program on "Molecular Biology" and comprises Weeks 3 and 4 of the four-week program. Weeks 1 and 2 appeared as Volume 81: Genetic Mapping and DNA Sequencing. We thank Jill P. Mesirov, Klaus Schulten, and De Witt Sumners for organizing Weeks 3 and 4 of the workshop and for editing the proceedings. We also take this opportunity to thank the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (National Center for Human Genome Research), the National Science Foundation (NSF) (Biological Instrumen tation and Resources), and the Department of Energy (DOE), whose fi nancial support made the summer program possible. A vner Friedman Robert Gulliver v PREFACE The revolutionary progress in molecular biology within the last 30 years opens the way to full understanding of the molecular structures and mech anisms of living organisms. Interdisciplinary research in mathematics and molecular biology is driven by ever growing experimental, theoretical and computational power. The mathematical sciences accompany and support much of the progress achieved by experiment and computation as well as provide insight into geometric and topological properties of biomolecular structure and processes. This volume consists of a representative sample of the papers presented during the last two weeks of the month-long Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications Summer 1994 Program in Molecular Biology.

Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories and Related Topics

Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories and Related Topics
Author: Nicolás Andruskiewitsch
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470456249

The articles highlight the latest advances and further research directions in a variety of subjects related to tensor categories and Hopf algebras. Primary topics discussed in the text include the classification of Hopf algebras, structures and actions of Hopf algebras, algebraic supergroups, representations of quantum groups, quasi-quantum groups, algebras in tensor categories, and the construction method of fusion categories.

Representation Theory and Beyond

Representation Theory and Beyond
Author: Jan Šťovíček
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-11-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 147045131X

This volume contains the proceedings of the Workshop and 18th International Conference on Representations of Algebras (ICRA 2018) held from August 8–17, 2018, in Prague, Czech Republic. It presents several themes of contemporary representation theory together with some new tools, such as stable ∞ ∞-categories, stable derivators, and contramodules. In the first part, expanded lecture notes of four courses delivered at the workshop are presented, covering the representation theory of finite sets with correspondences, geometric theory of quiver Grassmannians, recent applications of contramodules to tilting theory, as well as symmetries in the representation theory over an abstract stable homotopy theory. The second part consists of six more-advanced papers based on plenary talks of the conference, presenting selected topics from contemporary representation theory: recollements and purity, maximal green sequences, cohomological Hall algebras, Hochschild cohomology of associative algebras, cohomology of local selfinjective algebras, and the higher Auslander–Reiten theory studied via homotopy theory.

Lie Groups, Number Theory, and Vertex Algebras

Lie Groups, Number Theory, and Vertex Algebras
Author: Dražen Adamović
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2021-05-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470453517

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference Representation Theory XVI, held from June 25–29, 2019, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The articles in the volume address selected aspects of representation theory of reductive Lie groups and vertex algebras, and are written by prominent experts in the field as well as junior researchers. The three main topics of these articles are Lie theory, number theory, and vertex algebras.

Identification and Control: Some New Challenges

Identification and Control: Some New Challenges
Author: Kaïs Ammari
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470455471

This volume contains the proceedings of the Summer School on Identification and Control: some challenges, held from June 18–20, 2019, in Monastir, Tunisia. The articles cover new developments in control theory and inverse problems. First, the problem of Calderón, which consists of determining a conductivity appearing in an elliptic equation from excitation and measurements on a part of the boundary of the domain, is studied. Second, an introduction to the mathematical analysis of inverse spectral problems of Borg-Levinson type is presented. Third, the control of multi-component systems of wave equations, focusing on the notion of simultaneous control (using the same control scheme in all components of the system at hand) and indirect control (using a single control for a system consisting of two components), is presented. Last, the study of the cost of control for parabolic systems, the finite time stabilization of hyperbolic control systems by boundary feedback laws, and image reconstruction by data assimilation are addressed.

Singularities, Mirror Symmetry, and the Gauged Linear Sigma Model

Singularities, Mirror Symmetry, and the Gauged Linear Sigma Model
Author: Tyler J. Jarvis
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-02-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470457008

This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop Crossing the Walls in Enumerative Geometry, held in May 2018 at Snowbird, Utah. It features a collection of both expository and research articles about mirror symmetry, quantized singularity theory (FJRW theory), and the gauged linear sigma model. Most of the expository works are based on introductory lecture series given at the workshop and provide an approachable introduction for graduate students to some fundamental topics in mirror symmetry and singularity theory, including quasimaps, localization, the gauged linear sigma model (GLSM), virtual classes, cosection localization, $p$-fields, and Saito's primitive forms. These articles help readers bridge the gap from the standard graduate curriculum in algebraic geometry to exciting cutting-edge research in the field. The volume also contains several research articles by leading researchers, showcasing new developments in the field.

Abelian Varieties and Number Theory

Abelian Varieties and Number Theory
Author: Moshe Jarden
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2021-05-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470452073

This book is a collection of articles on Abelian varieties and number theory dedicated to Gerhard Frey's 75th birthday. It contains original articles by experts in the area of arithmetic and algebraic geometry. The articles cover topics on Abelian varieties and finitely generated Galois groups, ranks of Abelian varieties and Mordell-Lang conjecture, Tate-Shafarevich group and isogeny volcanoes, endomorphisms of superelliptic Jacobians, obstructions to local-global principles over semi-global fields, Drinfeld modular varieties, representations of etale fundamental groups and specialization of algebraic cycles, Deuring's theory of constant reductions, etc. The book will be a valuable resource to graduate students and experts working on Abelian varieties and related areas.

75 Years of Mathematics of Computation

75 Years of Mathematics of Computation
Author: Susanne C. Brenner
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2020-07-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470451638

The year 2018 marked the 75th anniversary of the founding of Mathematics of Computation, one of the four primary research journals published by the American Mathematical Society and the oldest research journal devoted to computational mathematics. To celebrate this milestone, the symposium “Celebrating 75 Years of Mathematics of Computation” was held from November 1–3, 2018, at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Providence, Rhode Island. The sixteen papers in this volume, written by the symposium speakers and editors of the journal, include both survey articles and new contributions. On the discrete side, there are four papers covering topics in computational number theory and computational algebra. On the continuous side, there are twelve papers covering topics in machine learning, high dimensional approximations, nonlocal and fractional elliptic problems, gradient flows, hyperbolic conservation laws, Maxwell's equations, Stokes's equations, a posteriori error estimation, and iterative methods. Together they provide a snapshot of significant achievements in the past quarter century in computational mathematics and also in important current trends.