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Grnsight: A Web Application And Service For Visualizing Models Of Small- To Medium-Scale Gene Regulatory Networks, Kam D. Dahlquist, John David N. Dionisio, Ben G. Fitzpatrick, Nicole A. Anguiano, Anindita Varshneya, Britain J. Southwick, Mihir Samdarshi Sep 2016

Grnsight: A Web Application And Service For Visualizing Models Of Small- To Medium-Scale Gene Regulatory Networks, Kam D. Dahlquist, John David N. Dionisio, Ben G. Fitzpatrick, Nicole A. Anguiano, Anindita Varshneya, Britain J. Southwick, Mihir Samdarshi

Biology Faculty Works

GRNsight is a web application and service for visualizing models of gene regulatory networks (GRNs). A gene regulatory network (GRN) consists of genes, transcription factors, and the regulatory connections between them which govern the level of expression of mRNA and protein from genes. The original motivation came from our efforts to perform parameter estimation and forward simulation of the dynamics of a differential equations model of a small GRN with 21 nodes and 31 edges. We wanted a quick and easy way to visualize the weight parameters from the model which represent the direction and magnitude of the influence of …


Topological Symmetry Groups Of Complete Bipartite Graphs, Kathleen Hake, Blake Mellor, Matthew Pittluck Jun 2016

Topological Symmetry Groups Of Complete Bipartite Graphs, Kathleen Hake, Blake Mellor, Matthew Pittluck

Mathematics Faculty Works

The symmetries of complex molecular structures can be modeled by the {\em topological symmetry group} of the underlying embedded graph. It is therefore important to understand which topological symmetry groups can be realized by particular abstract graphs. This question has been answered for complete graphs [7]; it is natural next to consider complete bipartite graphs. In previous work we classified the complete bipartite graphs that can realize topological symmetry groups isomorphic to A4 , S4 or A5 [12]; in this paper we determine which complete bipartite graphs have an embedding in S 3 whose topological symmetry group …


The Development Of Notation In Mathematical Analysis, Alyssa Venezia May 2016

The Development Of Notation In Mathematical Analysis, Alyssa Venezia

Honors Thesis

The field of analysis is a newer subject in mathematics, as it only came into existence in the last 400 years. With a new field comes new notation, and in the era of universalism, analysis becomes key to understanding how centuries of mathematics were unified into a finite set of symbols, precise definitions, and rigorous proofs that would allow for the rapid development of modern mathematics. This paper traces the introduction of subjects and the development of new notations in mathematics from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century that allowed analysis to flourish. In following the development of analysis, we …


Solving The Ko Labyrinth, Alissa S. Crans Apr 2016

Solving The Ko Labyrinth, Alissa S. Crans

Faculty Pub Night

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Alexander And Writhe Polynomials For Virtual Knots, Blake Mellor Jan 2016

Alexander And Writhe Polynomials For Virtual Knots, Blake Mellor

Mathematics Faculty Works

We give a new interpretation of the Alexander polynomial Δ0 for virtual knots due to Sawollek and Silver and Williams, and use it to show that, for any virtual knot, Δ0 determines the writhe polynomial of Cheng and Gao (equivalently, Kauffman's affine index polynomial). We also use it to define a second-order writhe polynomial, and give some applications.


The Segal–Shale–Weil Representation, The Indices Of Kashiwara And Maslov, And Quantum Mechanics, Michael C. Berg Jan 2016

The Segal–Shale–Weil Representation, The Indices Of Kashiwara And Maslov, And Quantum Mechanics, Michael C. Berg

Mathematics Faculty Works

We produce a connection between the Weil 2-cocycles defining the local and adèlic metaplectic groups defined over a global field, i.e. the double covers of the attendant local and adèlic symplectic groups, and local and adèlic Maslov indices of the type considered by Souriau and Leray. With the latter tied to phase integrals occurring in quantum mechanics, we provide a formulation of quadratic reciprocity for the underlying field, first in terms of an adèlic phase integral, and then in terms of generalized time evolution unitary operators.


Colorings, Determinants And Alexander Polynomials For Spatial Graphs, Terry Kong, Alec Lewald, Blake Mellor, Vadim Pigrish Jan 2016

Colorings, Determinants And Alexander Polynomials For Spatial Graphs, Terry Kong, Alec Lewald, Blake Mellor, Vadim Pigrish

Mathematics Faculty Works

A {\em balanced} spatial graph has an integer weight on each edge, so that the directed sum of the weights at each vertex is zero. We describe the Alexander module and polynomial for balanced spatial graphs (originally due to Kinoshita \cite{ki}), and examine their behavior under some common operations on the graph. We use the Alexander module to define the determinant and p-colorings of a balanced spatial graph, and provide examples. We show that the determinant of a spatial graph determines for which p the graph is p-colorable, and that a p-coloring of a graph corresponds to a representation of …


The Regularity Of The Boundary Of A Multidimensional Aggregation Patch, Andrea L. Bertozzi, John B. Garnett, Thomas Laurent, Joan Verdera Jan 2016

The Regularity Of The Boundary Of A Multidimensional Aggregation Patch, Andrea L. Bertozzi, John B. Garnett, Thomas Laurent, Joan Verdera

Mathematics Faculty Works

We consider solutions to the aggregation equation with Newtonian potential where the initial data are the characteristic function of a domain with boundary of class $C^{1+\gamma}$ ,$0<\gamma<1$. Such initial data are known to yield a solution that, going forward in time, retains a patch-like structure with a constant time-dependent density inside an evolving region, which collapses on itself in a finite time, and which, going backward in time, converges in an $L^1$ sense to a self-similar expanding ball solution. In this work, we prove $C^{1+\gamma}$ regularity of the domain's boundary on the time interval on which the solution exists as an $L^\infty$ patch, up to the collapse time going forward in time and for all finite times going backward in time.


Involutory Quandles Of (2,2,R)-Montesinos Links, Jim Hoste, Patrick D. Shanahan Jan 2016

Involutory Quandles Of (2,2,R)-Montesinos Links, Jim Hoste, Patrick D. Shanahan

Mathematics Faculty Works

In this paper we show that Montesinos links of the form L(1/2, 1/2, p/q;e), which we call (2,2,r)-Montesinos links, have finite involutory quandles. This generalizes an observation of Winker regarding the (2, 2, q)-pretzel links. We also describe some properties of these quandles.


Links With Finite N-Quandles, Jim Hoste, Patrick D. Shanahan Jan 2016

Links With Finite N-Quandles, Jim Hoste, Patrick D. Shanahan

Mathematics Faculty Works

We prove a conjecture of Przytycki which asserts that the n-quandle of a link L in the 3-sphere is finite if and only if the fundamental group of the n-fold cyclic branched cover of the 3-sphere, branched over L, is finite.


Generalized Local And Nonlocal Master Equations For Some Stochastic Processes, Yanping Ma Jan 2016

Generalized Local And Nonlocal Master Equations For Some Stochastic Processes, Yanping Ma

Mathematics Faculty Works

In this paper, we present a study on generalized local and nonlocal equations for some stochastic processes. By considering the net flux change in a region determined by the transition probability, we derive the master equation to describe the evolution of the probability density function. Some examples, such as classical Fokker-Planck equations, models for Lévy process, and stochastic coagulation equations, are provided as illustrations. A particular application is a consistent derivation of coupled dynamical systems for spatially inhomogeneous stochastic coagulation processes.