The molecular basis of life rests on the activity of biological macro-molecules, mostly nucleic acids and proteins. A perhaps surprising finding that crystallized over the last handful of decades is that geometric reasoning plays a major role in our attempt to understand these activities. In this workshop, we will explore the connection between the biological activities of proteins and mathematics. We will focus on geometry and topology. More specifically we will cover the importance of shape, how to generate measures or features that describe protein structures, and how these measures can be used to classify protein structures and to model their energetics of proteins. In addition, we will describe recent input from Mathematics into fundamental problems in the structural biology of proteins, focusing on protein folding and protein-protein interactions.
| Name | Department | Affiliation |
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| Douglas N. Arnold | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Daniel J. Bates | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| John Baxter | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Yermal Sujeet Bhat | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Jamie Blundell | Department of Physics | University of Cambridge |
| Maria-Carme T. Calderer | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Hannah Callender | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Larry Carson | | 3M |
| Alessandro Cembran | Department of Chemistry | University of Minnesota |
| Patrick L Coleman | Department of Biotechnology | 3M |
| Ludovica Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Isabel K. Darcy | Department of Mathematics | University of Iowa |
| Yuanan Diao | Department of Mathematics and Statistics | University of North Carolina - Charlotte |
| Oguz C. Durumeric | Department of Mathematics | University of Iowa |
| Christodoulos A. Floudas | Department of Chemical Engineering | Princeton University |
| Ece Cazibe Gaffarogullari | Department of Chemistry | University of Minnesota |
| Andrew Gillette | Department of Mathematics | University of Texas |
| Laura Rocio Gonzalez-Ramirez | Department of Mathematics | CINVESTAV |
| Jason E. Gower | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Esfandiar Haghverdi | School of Informatics | Indiana University |
| Omar Haq | Computational Biology and Molecular Biopphysics | Rutgers University |
| Milena Hering | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Peter Hinow | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Kimberly Jean Huerter | Department of Mathematics | University of Iowa |
| Filip Jagodzinski | Department of Computer Science | University of Massachusetts |
| Tiefeng Jiang | Department of Statistics | University of Minnesota |
| Abdul Qayyum Masud Khaliq | Department of Mathematical Sciences | Middle Tennessee State University |
| Soojeong Kim | Department of Mathematics | University of Iowa |
| Debra Knisley | Department of Mathematics | East Tennessee State University |
| Patrice Koehl | Department of Computer Science
Genome Center | University of California, Davis |
| Peter R. Kramer | Department of Mathematical Sciences | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Christian E. Laing | Department of Mathematics, Chemistry | New York University |
| Juan C. Latorre | Department of Mathematical Sciences | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Audrey Lee | Computer Science Department | University of Massachusetts |
| Michael Levitt | Department of Cell Biology | Stanford University |
| Robert Michael Lewis | Department of Mathematics | College of William and Mary |
| Anton Leykin | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Roger Lui | Department of Mathematical Sciences | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Laura Lurati | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Ezra Miller | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Kenneth C. Millett | Department of Mathematics | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Alejandro Morales Valencia | Department of Computational Sciences | University of Guadalajara |
| Naoto Morikawa | | GENOCRIPT |
| Antonio Mucherino | Departimento di Matematica | Seconda Università di Napoli |
| Junalyn Navarra-Madsen | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science | Texas Woman's University |
| Timothy Newman | Department of Physics | Arizona State University |
| Duane Nykamp | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| David J. Odde | Department of Biomedical Engineering | University of Minnesota |
| Hans G. Othmer | Department of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Bobby Philip | Computer and Computational Sciences Division | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Candice Price | Department of Mathematics | University of Iowa |
| Rahul Ravindrudu | Department of Computer Science | Iowa State University |
| Eric J. Rawdon | Department of Mathematics | University of St. Thomas |
| Shantanu Roy | Institute of Physics | Universität Basel |
| Deena Schmidt | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Tamara Schmidt-Hegge | | University of Minnesota |
| Brigitte Servatius | Department of Mathematics | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Chehrzad Shakiban | Institute of Mathematics and its Application | University of Minnesota |
| Atilla Sit | Department of Mathematics | Iowa State University |
| Daniel B. Smith | Department of Mathematics | University of Pittsburgh |
| Andrew M. Stein | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Ileana Streinu | Department of Computer Science | Smith College |
| Vlad Sukhoy | Department of Mathematics | Iowa State University |
| Weitao Sun | Department of Computer Science | New Mexico State University |
| Vladimir Sverak | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Michael Tomasini | | Rutgers University |
| Alex Tropsha | School of Pharmacy | University of North Carolina |
| Erkan Tüzel | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Zhian Wang | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Steven Wojtkiewicz | Department of Civil Engineering | University of Minnesota |
| Di Wu | Department of Mathematics | Western Kentucky University |
| Zhijun Wu | Department of Mathematics | Iowa State University |
| Chuan Xue | Department of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Ya-xiang Yuan | Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Hongchao Zhang | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Likun Zheng | Mathematics Department | University of Minnesota |
