Exceptional Topology of Non-Hermitian Systems: from Theoretical Foundations to Novel Quantum Sensors
March 3 at 17:00 - 18:15, 2021
Prof. Jan Budich (Professor, Quantum Many-Body Physics, TU Dresden, Germany)
CET: 9:00a.m. - 10:15a.m. on March 3, 2021 JST: 5:00p.m. - 6:15p.m. on March 3, 2021 EST: 3:00a.m. - 4:15a.m. on March 3, 2021 In a broad variety of physical scenarios ranging from classical meta...more
Venue: via Zoom
Event Official Language: English
The 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (APFB2020)
March 1 - 5, 2021
The next Asia-Pacific conference on few-body problems in physics (APFB2020) will be held at KANAZAWA BUNKA HALL, Kanazawa, Japan, from 1 to 5 March 2021. RIKEN iTHEMS is a co-host of this conference ...more
Venue: KANAZAWA BUNKA HALL (In Japanese)
Event Official Language: English
Origin of non-linearity of large deformation on DNA stretched
February 25 at 10:00 - 11:00, 2021
Dr. Hiroshi Yokota (Postdoctoral Researcher, iTHEMS)
Since DNA in a cell is mechanically stretched or rotated by many proteins, the mechanical response of DNA in vitro is expected to be basic point for understanding its behavior. When DNA is stretched b...more
Venue: via Zoom
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The Evolution of Primordial Neutrino Helicities under Gravitational and Magnetic Fields and Implications for their Detection
February 22 at 10:00 - 11:30, 2021
Prof. Gordon Baym (Senior Visiting Scientist, iTHEMS)
Feb.22 (Mon) 10:00am-11:30am (JST) Primordial neutrinos decoupled in the early universe in helicity eigenstates. As I will discuss, two effects -- dependent on neutrinos having a non-zero mass -- ...more
Venue: via Online
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High-throughput laboratory evolution with machine learning reveals constraints for drug resistance evolution
February 18 at 10:00 - 11:00, 2021
Mr. Junichiro Iwasawa (Doctoral course, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)
The understanding of evolution is crucial to tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance which is a growing health concern. Although the lack of sufficient data has long hindered the mechanism of evol...more
Venue: via Zoom
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The 14th MACS colloquium
February 17 at 15:00 - 17:30, 2021
Dr. Yoshihiro Kaneko (Associate Professor, Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
プログラム 15:00〜16:00 「数値シミュレーションで地震現象の謎に迫る」 金子 善宏 博士（京都大学理学研究科 地球惑星科学専攻 地球物理学教室 准教授） 16:05〜16:30 各スタディグループのフラッシュトーク 16:30〜17:30 各スタディグループの意見交換（Zoomブレイクアウトルーム）
Venue: via Online
Event Official Language: Japanese
Large deviation statistics of Markovian quantum systems
February 17 at 13:00 - 14:30, 2021
Dr. Ryusuke Hamazaki (Senior Research Scientist, iTHEMS)
Large deviation is a mathematical framework to treat “rare events” in random processes [1]. In this journal club, I talk about recent development of large deviation analysis in open Markovian quantum ...more
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Event Official Language: English
Blockchain in Kyoto 2021
February 17 - 18, 2021
Language: Some parts will be in Japanese. The International Conference on Blockchains and their Applications aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from various communities of scie...more
Venue: partly online
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Public Lecture for Darwin Day
February 17 at 9:00 - 10:00, 2021
Prof. Catherine Beauchemin (Deputy Program Director, iTHEMS)
Japan, February 17, 2021, 09:00 AM JST Canada/USA, Feb 16, 2021, 07:00 PM Eastern Time Through mutations and genetic reassortment, a virus can mutate and the resulting virus variants can evade our...more
Venue: via Zoom
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Mapping the Milky Way by VLBI Astrometry
February 16 at 13:30 - 15:00, 2021
Dr. Nobuyuki Sakai (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI))
Astrometry is the only way to obtain 6D (position-velocity) phase space information for astronomical objects. The unique capability allows us to examine the past, present, and future of the Milky Way....more
Venue: via Zoom
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Quantum mechanical description of energy dissipation and application to heavy-ion fusion reactions
February 16 at 13:00 - 14:30, 2021
Mr. Masaaki Tokieda (Graduate students, Department of Physics, Tohoku University)
For theoretical description of heavy-ion fusion reactions, two different models have been used depending on the incident energy. At energies above the Coulomb barrier, importance of energy dissipation...more
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A machine learning approach for prediction of mitochondrial proteins in non-model organisms
February 12 at 10:00 - 11:00, 2021
Dr. Keitaro Kume (Assistant professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba)
The evolution of the repertoire of proteins localized to organelles is important for understanding the evolutionary process of organelles. However, experimental methods for identifying organelle-local...more
Venue: via Zoom
Event Official Language: English
The 12th RIKEN-Kyoto University Joint Data Assimilation Workshop
February 10 at 13:30 - 16:30, 2021
Language: Japanese/English Participation deadline: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Venue: via Online
Event Official Language: Japanese
Quantum kinetic theory for chiral and spin transport in relativistic heavy ion collisions and core-collapse supernovae
February 4 at 13:00 - 14:30, 2021
Dr. Di-Lun Yang (Assistant professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University)
Recently, the anomalous transport phenomena of relativistic fermions associated with chirality and spin induced by external fields have been greatly explored in different areas of physics. Notably, su...more
Venue: via Zoom
Event Official Language: English
System identification of mechano-chemical epithelial sheet dynamics
February 4 at 10:00 - 11:00, 2021
Mr. Yoshifumi Asakura (3rd year doctoral program, Graduate School of BIOSTUDIES, Kyoto University)
Collective migration of epithelial cells is a fundamental process of multi-cellular organisms. Our recent study using live imaging with FRET-based biosensor discovered that cell migration within an ep...more
Venue: via Zoom
Event Official Language: English
Mathematics of magic angles for bilayer graphene
February 3 at 20:00 - 21:15, 2021
Mr. Simon Becker (PhD Student, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge)
20:00pm ~ 21:15pm on Feb. 03th, 2021 (JST) 11:00am ~ 12:15am on Feb. 03th, 2021 (UK) Magic angles are a hot topic in condensed matter physics: when two sheets of graphene are twisted by those angl...more
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Many body problems from quarks to stellar evolutions
January 28 at 13:30 - 15:00, 2021
Prof. Nobutoshi Yasutake (Associate Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology)
The many-body problems are major problems that need to be clarified not only in nuclear physics, but also in astronomy. In this seminar, I introduce stellar evolutions as gravitational many-body probl...more
Venue: via Zoom
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Numerical inference of the molecular origin of the cyanobacterial circadian rhythm
January 28 at 10:00 - 11:00, 2021
Dr. Shin-ichi Koda (Assistant professor, Institute for Molecular Science)
The cyanobacterial clock proteins, KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC, are known as the simplest biological clock; Just by mixing them with ATP in a test tube, self-sustaining oscillation with a nearly 24h temperat...more
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Sampling the stable structures based on replica-permutation method
January 27 at 13:00 - 14:30, 2021
Dr. Hiroshi Yokota (Postdoctoral Researcher, iTHEMS)
When we want to search the (meta)stable structures of the macromolecules such as protein, the combination of molecular dynamics simulation and replica exchange method (REM) is useful. In REM, sampling...more
Event Official Language: English
Introduction to Boolean modeling and Boolean networks as information processing units
January 21 at 10:00 - 11:00, 2021
Dr. Takashi Okada (Senior Research Scientist, iTHEMS)
Boolean networks are widely used in physics, biology, social science, and computer science. In this talk, I will introduce the basics of Boolean networks and give an overview of Biological application...more
Venue: via Zoom
Event Official Language: English
Information theory in ecology: Markov chain, Venn diagram, Kronecker (and Cartesian graph) products, and Tsallis entropy
January 20 at 13:00 - 14:00, 2021
Dr. Ryosuke Iritani (Research Scientist, iTHEMS)
This is more like an introductory talk on how I was motivated to work with information theory, and include unpublished data. Ecologists have been long interested in understanding diversity (diverge...more
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Time-dependent driven quantum critical systems in (1+1) dimension
January 18 at 10:00 - 11:15, 2021
Dr. Xueda Wen (Postdocs, Physics Department, Harvard University, USA)
10:00am ~ 11:15am on Jan. 18th, 2021 (JST) 8:00pm ~ 9:15pm on Jan. 17th, 2021 (EST) I will introduce an analytically solvable setup for time-dependent driven quantum critical systems in (1+1)D, wh...more
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What are genes and how can we find them?
January 14 at 10:00 - 11:00, 2021
Dr. Jeffrey Fawcett (Senior Research Scientist, iTHEMS)
Although 'gene' is a word that is used frequently in the society, most people probably do not know what genes actually are. In fact, its definition is not so straightforward. In this talk, I will firs...more
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Accelerated equilibration in classical stochastic systems
January 13 at 13:00 - 14:00, 2021
Dr. Kyosuke Adachi (Special Postdoctoral Researcher, iTHEMS)
Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) [1] are processes that make a given quantum state evolve into a target state in a fast manner, which can be useful to avoid decoherence in quantum experiments. In this ...more
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From local resynchronization to global pattern recovery in the zebrafish segmentation clock
January 7 at 10:00 - 11:00, 2021
Dr. Koichiro Uriu (Assistant Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University)
Tissue-scale developmental patterns are often generated by local cellular interactions and global tissue deformation. An example is gene expression rhythms in vertebrate, termed the segmentation clock...more
Venue: via Zoom
Event Official Language: English