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SEMINAR: Self-avoiding walks�rigorous and non-rigorous results

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Today's date is Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Self-avoiding walks (SAWs) are widely studied as a problem in algebraic combinatorics by mathematicians, as a problem in algorithm design by computer scientists, as a model of phase transitions by mathematical physicists and as a model of polymers in dilute solution by chemists.

More recently biologists have used them as models of DNA folding, and to model experiments in which biological molecules are pulled from a surface. I will describe the rather short list of rigorous results, the longer list of what we "know" to be true but can't prove, and describe some numerical results that are of interest in applications. No prior knowledge is assumed.
Speaker(s) Professor Tony Guttmann
Location Science Library Access Grid Room
Contact Paul Abbott <[email protected]> : 0413818348
URL http://www.amsi.org.au/index.php/events-mainmenu/agr-events/1192-amsi-anzamp-agr-national-seminar-self-avoiding-walks-rigorous-and-non-rigorous-results
Start Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:00
End Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:00
Submitted by Paul Abbott <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:53
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