Publications:
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Recent preprints:

Detangling of DNA by type-2 topoisomerases, (G. Buck and E. Lynn Zechiedrich), submitted 2002

The dimension of DNA, preprint 2002

Weaving and cabling, the patterns of knotting and linking, preprint 2002

A dynamic theory of entanglement, preprint 2002

Accessibility, occlusion, and radiation of filaments, G. Buck, J. Simon, R. Scharein, R. Schnick, submitted 2002

Total curvature and packing of knots, G. Buck and J. Simon, preprint 2002

Evolution as a gradient-like flow on the adaptive landscape, preprint, 2002

The dynamics of attractive filaments, preprint, 2002

The spectrum of natural knotting and linking: classifying the topology arising in filament models in biology and physics, G. Buck, preprint 2002

Finite volume entanglement, G. Buck, R. Scharein, preprint 2002

Differential equation models of competing standards, preprint 2002



Appeared:

Algorithms of boundless beauty, Science, 20 April 2001; 292: 445-446 (book review)

Why not knot right?, Nature, 27 January 2000 (book review) pdf

Thickness and crossing number of knots (G. Buck and J. Simon), Topology and its Applications 91 (1999) 245-257

Most smooth closed space curves contain an approximate solution to the N-body problem,
Nature 395 (3 September 1998), 51-53 (Cover article) pdf

Four-thirds power law for knots and links, Nature 392 (19 March 1998), 238-239 pdf

Energy and length of knots, (G. Buck and J. Simon), Lectures at Knots ‘96, S. Suzuki, ed. World Scientific 1997, pp 219-235, lectures delivered to the International Conference on Knot Theory, Tokyo, 1996

A simple energy function for knots, (G. Buck and J. Orloff), Topology and its Applications 61 (1995), 205-214

Random knots and energy, Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, Vol.3 No. 3, (1994) 355-363, reprinted in Random Knotting and Linking, K.C. Millett and D.W. Sumners eds, World Scientific, 1994

Knots as dynamical systems, (G. Buck and J. Simon), Topology and its Applications 51 (1993) 229-246

Computing canonical conformations for knots, (G. Buck and J. Orloff), Topology and its Applications 51 (1993) 247-253

Mass distributions in collinear central configurations, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy Vol. 51, 1991, pp 305 – 317

On clustering in central configurations, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 108,#3,1990, pp 801- 810

Mass distributions in central configurations, Ph.D. thesis, Glen Richard Hall, advisor, Boston University, 1988


General Interest:

Why knot? Odyssey (young adult science magazine), cover story, October 1997.

Physical knot theory, (G Buck, J. Simon and R. Scharein), accepted, Scientific American

Articles discussing Buck’s research have appeared in Nature (Orbits of all sorts, by Donald Saari, 3 September 1998), The New York Times (Science squints at a future fogged by chaotic uncertainty, by Malcolm W. Browne, 22 September 1998), Science News (Following gravity’s loops and knots, by Ivars Peterson, 5 September 1998), The Boston Globe (Conferees tie one on, by David Arnold, 3 August 1997 -- included a photograph of Buck on the front page of Sunday Globe)