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Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS) is an international research program at RIKEN. It facilitates close collaborations among researchers from different disciplines in theoretical, mathematical and computational sciences. The ultimate goal of iTHEMS is to unravel the mystery of the Universe, matter, and life, as well as to solve key problems in modern society through interdisciplinary approaches.
Upcoming Events
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Seminar
Lectures on Black Holes, Holography and Quantum Gravity
July 29 (Mon) - August 1 (Thu), 2024
Yasunori Nomura (Director, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
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Special Lecture
RIKEN iTHEMS & AIPmath Special Lecture: Contact geometry in 3-dimensional space and higher
July 29 (Mon) at 15:30 - 16:30, 2024
Emmy Murphy (Professor, Princeton University, USA)
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Seminar
Algebraic curves and parametric resurgence
July 29 (Mon) at 16:30 - 17:45, 2024
Samuel Crew (Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College London, UK)
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Seminar
Social behavior and social engineering in bacteria
August 1 (Thu) at 16:00 - 17:00, 2024
Ashleigh Griffin (Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, UK)
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Others
What will Happen to iTHEMS⊗Masason Foundation Members?
August 2 (Fri) at 13:30 - 17:30, 2024
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Workshop
NCTS-iTHEMS Joint Workshop on Matters to Spacetime: Symmetries and Geometry
August 26 (Mon) - 29 (Thu), 2024
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Workshop
RIKEN - LBNL Workshop on Quantum Information Science
September 3 (Tue) - 6 (Fri), 2024
Opportunities
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Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers or Research Scientists (W24096)
Deadline: Open until filled
Postdoctoral Researchers or Research Scientists, a few positions. iTHEMS is seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers or Research Scientists working in the Mathematical Genomics RIKEN ECL Research Unit(tentative name) with Dr. Leo Speidel.
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Seeking Research Scientists and concurrently appointed Research Administrative Support Staffs (W24060)
Deadline: Open until filled
Research Scientist, and concurrently Research Administrative Support Staff, about a few positions.
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Seeking a few Assistants (W24079)
Deadline: Open until filled
Assistants, a few positions. iTHEMS is seeking Assistants to handle administrative tasks (contracts, accounting, human resources, etc.) and to support research activities such as academic meetings and collaborations.
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Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers (W24022)
Deadline: Open until filled
Postdoctoral Researcher, a few positions. iTHEMS is seeking postdoctoral researcher(s) in ecology, evolutionary biology, and biodviersity.
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Seeking a few Research Scientists or Senior Research Scientists (W23336)
Deadline: Open until filled
Research Scientist or Senior Research Scientist, a few positions. iTHEMS is seeking research scientist(s) or senior research scientist(s) in mathematical sciences including pure mathematics, applied and industrial mathematics.
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Seeking Research Scientists or Senior Research Scientists (W23178)
Deadline: Open until filled
Research Scientist or Senior Research Scientist, a few positions. iTHEMS is seeking research scientist(s) or senior research scientist(s) as part of its "Mathematical Sciences and Medicine" initiative.
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Seeking Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist (W23143)
Deadline: Open until filled
Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Scientist or Senior Research Scientist, about 10 positions. This call is open to researchers in any field who wish to participate in RIKEN Quantum.
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Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers (RIKEN-Berkeley Fellow associated with N3AS) (W22284)
Deadline: Open until filled
Postdoctoral Researcher (RIKEN-Berkeley Fellow associated with N3AS), a few positions. Theoretical works associated with neutrino physics, nucleosynthesis, dense matter and neutron stars, dark matter, astrophysical simulations, lattice QCD simulations and related fields. Successful applicants will work and spend the first three months at the RIKEN Wako campus, and the remainder of the years at the RIKEN Berkeley Center at the University of California, Berkeley on a long term business trip. The appointments of the RIKEN Berkeley Fellow are made through RIKEN iTHEMS.
Latest News
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2024-07-26
Hot TopicSLMath Summer Graduate School "h-principle" on July 1, 2024
The SLMath Summer Graduate School "h-principle" Sendai 2024 was held from July 1 to July 12, 2024 at TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity (Chi no Yakata) in Katahira Campus of Tohoku University. This two weeks lomg summer graduate school was organized by Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) and RIKEN iTHEMS, and coorganized by Mathematical Science Center for Co-creative Society (MathCCS) and Tohoku Forum for Creativity (TFC) of Tohoku University. There were 18 graduate students from the supporting institutions of SLMath and 12 graduate students from Japanese universities. There were four courses consisting of five 90 mintes lectures given by Emmy Murphy (Toront University), Dominik Inauen (Leipzig University) and Takashi Tsuboi (RIKEN iTHEMS / Tohoku University). The titles of lectures were "h-principles in smooth topology" by Emmy Murphy and "Riemannian geometry and applications to fluid dynamics" by Dominik Inauen in the first week, and "Contact and symplectic flexibility" by Emmy Murphy and "Foliation theory and diffeomorphism groups" by Takashi Tsuboi in the second week. We took video of the lectures and it can be seen later from the website of SLMath. There were 4 teaching assistants, Toru Yoshiyasu (Kyoto University of Education), Noboru Ogawa (Tokai University), Masato Ogawa (Tohoku University) and Sonia Mahmoudi (SUURI-COOL Sendai, Tohoku University) who took care of the 30 graduate students. Some details can be seen at SLMath website. The staffs of RIKEN iTHEMS, SUURI-COOL Sendai and MathCCS supported this summer graduate school for all the time, and all the participants are realy grateful for their help. TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity is really a nice place for the discussions in front of blackboards, and the house was filled with the discussions among the participants for 9:00 - 17:30 and some of the discussions continued in the meeting room in the hotel. The welcome party and the farewell party of Summer Graduate School were held jointy with the participants of G-RIPS Sendai 2024 which went on at MathCCS and which iTHEMS is cohosting. Reported by Takashi Tsuboi
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2024-07-25
Paper of the WeekWeek 4, July 2024
Title: Restricted Boltzmann Machines Propagators for Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo Author: Jordan M. R. Fox, Alessandro Lovato, Alessandro Roggero, Ermal Rrapaj arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14632v1
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2024-07-24
Press ReleaseDecoding Protein Condensation - Predicting Condensation of Proteins from Amino Acid Sequences -
The research team of Kyosuke Adachi (Research Scientist, iTHEMS / Research Scientist, Nonequilibrium Physics of Living Matter RIKEN Hakubi Research Team, RIKEN BDR) and Kyogo Kawaguchi (Team Leader, Nonequilibrium Physics of Living Matter RIKEN Hakubi Research Team, RIKEN BDR / Associate Professor, Institute for Physics of Intelligence, The University of Tokyo) has proposed a theory that predicts the condensation of protein molecules and demixing of condensates based on amino acid sequences. This research is expected to contribute to elucidating the mechanisms for the formation of membraneless organelles in cells and, in the future, to develop into a theory that predicts the effect of mutations in proteins sequences on cellular functions. For more details, please refer to the related link.
Upcoming Visitors
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Visiting
Samuel Crew
Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College London, UKTerm: July 16 (Tue) - 31 (Wed), 2024Visiting Place: RIKEN Wako Campus -
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Wei-Hsiang Shao
Ph.D. Student, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, TaiwanTerm: July 25 (Thu) - August 1 (Thu), 2024Visiting Place: RIKEN Wako Campus -
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Ashleigh Griffin
Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, UKTerm: July 26 (Fri) - August 3 (Sat), 2024Visiting Place: RIKEN Wako Campus -
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Stuart West
Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, UKTerm: July 26 (Fri) - August 3 (Sat), 2024Visiting Place: RIKEN Wako Campus