Invited Speaker
Christine Soteros
Entanglement Complexity of lattice models of polymers: knotting and linking probabilities.
Using self-avoiding walk and polygon models on the simple cubic lattice, we have been investigating questions about the entanglement complexity of polymer systems. In this talk, I will review recent theoretical results (obtained in collaboration with M. Atapour) on the entanglement complexity of systems of self-avoiding walks in lattice tubes. This has applications to the study of dense polymer systems. I will also review numerical results (obtained in collaboration with M. Szafron) on knot probabilities after a local strand passage in a self-avoiding polygon. The latter work is motivated by understanding enzyme action on DNA.