Coordinatizing symmetry and biological applications of groups

Speaker: Attila Egri-Nagy

Affiliation: University of Western Sydney

Time: Monday 26/08/2013 from 14:40 to 15:00

Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).

Abstract: Motivated by computational issues in algebraic automata in my talk I will present a generalized hierarchical product of groups. This cascade product can be thought as a "user interface" we put on the group structure to enable distributed calculations in many different fields of science where group theoretical models are used. For instance in Biology, genomic rearrangements have been studied for many years from a combinatorial/algorithmic perspective, but now it is becoming more obvious that group theoretical knowledge can be applied to these biological problems. The talk will also summarize these new applications.

Biography: Attila Egri-Nagy is a postdoctoral research fellow of CRM working on the applications of abstract algebra in biological problems.