Site-Specific DNA Recombination and Fluid Vortex Reconnection
Higgs Centre colloquium
Site-Specific DNA Recombination and Fluid Vortex Reconnection
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 1st April 2016
- Speaker: De Witt Sumners (Florida State University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Reconnection is a fundamental event in many areas of science, including interaction of fluid vortices and flux tubes in fluid mechanics and magnetohydronamics, and site-specific recombination in DNA.
This talk will discuss the mathematical similarities between reconnection events in biology and physics, and the relationship between iterated reconnection and curve topology. In particular, the reconnection cascade from (2,2k+1) torus knots to (2,2k) torus links to the unlink of two unknotted circles observed in DNA is also observed in fluid vortex reconnections.
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