Master's Project Defense: "Protein Modeling via Clifford Algebras" | Department of Mathematics

Master's Project Defense: "Protein Modeling via Clifford Algebras"

Event Information
Event Location: 
LANG 323
Event Date: 
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 10:00am

Professor Anghel invites you to attend the PhD dissertation defense of Bobby Barnes

"Protein Modeling via Clifford Algebras"

Abstract:

Protein modeling is of significance due to the fact that proteins are often the root cause of diseases and disorders. Knowing the structure of a protein makes developing effective treatments cheaper and less time consuming. Proteins are often thousands of amino acids in length, so methods that allow for both fast and accurate modeling are needed. Clifford Algebras easily describe rotations, reflections, and translations of vectors. For this reason, they can elegantly and effectively model the conformations of a protein due to conformations being rotations about axes that keep parts of the molecule in place. A spinor, which is our way of representing rotations in Clifford Algebras, results in a smaller computational cost and turns out to be slightly faster than current alternatives. In this talk, we will discuss how this model is setup.

Cookies and coffee will be served in GAB 472 following the event.