Subject: Re: two short questions From: "Son Nguyen" Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:01:43 -0500 Dear Dr. Jim Lin, Last Summer, I attended a Summer school for graduate students in Mississippi. Professor John Harer from Duke university had interesting lectures in one week about applications of topology to Biology, in particular, protein-protein docking problem. His website is here http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/faculty/john.harer He also has some computer program and some demos on this. Sincerely, Son Nguyen > From: Jim Lin > Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:06:24 -0800 > > A student of mine asked me if there are interesting applications of homotopy theory besides knot theory to biology. Is anyone familiar with the literature on this? Jim > __________________________________________________________________ Subject: Re: two short questions From: "Peter Bubenik" Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:20:06 -0500 This past fall there was a program at MSRI on Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology organized by Gunnar Carlsson, Persi Diaconis, Susan Holmes, Rick Jardine, Günter M. Ziegler. A look at the talks in the workshops should reveal many interesting applications. My personal interests are in persistent homology, which has an expanding list of applications, and "directed homotopy theory", which has applications to the study of concurrent systems. For abstracts and video of the talks, follow the link: http://www.msri.org/calendar/programs/ProgramInfo/243/show_program Of course, there are also many applications of homotopy theory in geometry and algebra, but perhaps this is not what your student was asking for. Peter Bubenik