Greg Buck research
complexity of physical entanglement
  • ropelength
  • 4/3 law
  • weaving and cabling
  • dynamic theory of entanglement
  • canonical forms
dynamics of filaments
  • charged filaments
  • filaments with mass and the n-body problem
  • equation of motion for filaments under any attractive force
  • gel-electrophoresis
accessibility, occlusion, radiation, and temperature of filamentary conformations
  • filament accessibility (enzymes)
  • radiation exposure
  • ray tracing and computation
random entanglement
  • local and global entanglement
  • finite volume entanglement
  • scaling arguments
  • connections to other physical measures
entanglement of DNA
  • topoisomerase II detangling
  • packing patterns and entanglement
  • ATP and charge roles
geometry of equilibria in mass and charge systems
  • clustering
  • symmetries
  • limiting distributions
protein folding
  • folding order
  • analytic theory relating structural measures
  • entanglement
computation -- entanglement as a model problem
  • generic energy surfaces
  • narrow escape routes
modeling evolution
  • fitness peaks and saddle equilibria
  • average number of variables
software development
  • visualization
  • discretization of forces and conformations