Title	Entanglements in self-avoiding walks: Old wine in new bottles
Creator	Whittington, Stuart
Publisher	Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery
Date Issued	2013-11-18
Description	Although it is straightforward to define knotting in simple closed curves, this is not so easy in open curves. What do we mean by self-entanglements in linear polymers? We shall describe some of the ideas that have been used to capture these entanglements, compare their relative advantages and disadvantages, and show that different approaches can give very different results. Finally we shall argue that, if the curve is badly entangled, all of the approaches work reasonably well.
Extent	30 minutes
Subject	Mathematics; Biology and other natural sciences; Manifolds and cell complexes; Mathematical biology
Type	Moving Image
File Format	video/mp4
Language	eng
Notes	Author affiliation: University of Toronto
Series	BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos (Banff, Alta)
Date Available	2014-08-07
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
DOI	10.14288/1.0043779
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/49730
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
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