Koya ShimokawaProfessor, Department of Mathematics, Saitama University |
Research
Knot theory, 3-manifold topology and their applications to DNA topology.
Dehn surgery on knots, boundary slopes, character variety, tangle analysis of site-specific recombinations, lattice knots, etc.
My google scholar author page
Recent Activities
2012.3.16:
Invited talk "Tangle analysis of "Tangle analysis of site-specific recombination", Colloquim, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
2012.3.13:
Invited talk "Tangle analysis of unlinking by XerCD-dif-FtsK system", International conference "Discrete and Topological Models in Molecular Biology" (University of South Florida).
2012.3.3:
Invited talk "On shortest pathways of unlinking by XerCD-dif-FtsK", AMS 2012 Spring Western Section Meeting "Special Session on Knotting in Linear and Ring Polymer Models" (University of Hawaii)
2012.2.3:
"Rational tangle surgery and Xer recombination on catenanes" is accepted by Algebraic and Geometric Topology.
2012.1.26:
"Bounds for the minimum step number of knots confined to slabs in the simple cubic lattice" is published in J. Phys A: Math. Theor.(IF 1.641 (2010)).
2012.2.2:
The paper is selected as the featured article of the issue.
2011.11.30:
Proceeding of the international conference "Statistical Physics and Topology of Polymers with Ramifications to Structure and Function of DNA and Proteins"
Kyoto, August 2--6, 2010 is published in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement link.
2011.4.1-2012.3.31:
Sabbatical year at San Francisco State University.
Contact
Department of Mathematics, Saitama University255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku
Saitama, 380-8570, Japan
e-mail : kshimoka (-at-) rimath.saitama-u.ac.jp
