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2020-05-29
Math Seminar by Dr. Masaki Taniguchi
The iTHEMS Math seminar entitled "Knotted 2-spheres in the 4-space and Yang-Mills gauge theory," by Dr. Masaki Taniguchi, was held on 27 May. In the first part, the speaker reviewed that classical ...more
2020-05-28
Dr. Shigenori Otsuka received 11th annual RIKEN Research Incentive Award (Ohbu Award)
Shigenori Otsuka received "FY2019 Researcher Incentive Award (桜舞賞)" on March 10, 2020 for his achievements in the "Development of a novel three-dimensional precipitation nowcast method and its real-ti...more
2020-05-28
Week 5 of May
Title: Revisiting relativistic magnetohydrodynamics from quantum electrodynamics Author: Masaru Hongo, Koichi Hattori arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10239v1 Title: Obtaining the sphaleron field...more
2020-05-25
QFT-core seminar “Gradient Flow Equation and Its Applications” on May 15, 2020
The QFT-core seminar series has been started from this fiscal year. The seminar series is hold under the theme of the Quantum Field Theory including elementary particle theory, nuclear theory and Cond...more
2020-05-21
Week 4 of May
Title: Test of Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis Based on Local Random Matrix Theory Author: Shoki Sugimoto, Ryusuke Hamazaki, Masahito Ueda arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06379v1 Title: Bla...more
2020-05-20
First virtual Math Seminar on May 1, 2020
The first iTHEMS Math seminar of this academic year was held on May 1st on Zoom, inviting our colleague Keita Mikami. The title of the talk was “From Eigenvalues to Resonances”. The main topic was Re...more
2020-05-18
Mesoscopic spin transport between strongly interacting Fermi gases
Understanding of physical properties for quantum many-body systems with strong interparticle interactions is one of key issues common to various subfields of physics. Such systems range from high-Tc s...more
2020-05-15
Math Seminar by Dr. Yukimi Goto
Math seminar titled "How many electrons can atoms bind?" by Dr. Yukimi Goto was hold on 13 May. In the first part, the speaker started the talk by introducing many body Hamiltonian and Pauli principle...more
2020-05-14
Week 3 of May
Title: Cosmological Evolution of Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars based on the {\it Swift}/BAT 105-month Catalog and Their Contribution to the Cosmic MeV Gamma-ray Background Radiation Author: Koyo Toda, ...more
2020-05-13
Biology Seminar by Dr. Catherine Beauchemin on May 13, 2020
Catherine talked about her general approach for formalizing and quantifying the principle of virological dynamics, namely “virophysics.” She first presented compartmental models to generalize the prob...more
2020-05-12
Totani’s Equation: Abiogenesis probability in an inflationary universe
Abiogenesis is the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living matter. Understanding of abiogenesis can tell us one of the most fundamental questions in natural science: “Why are we here?...more
2020-05-08
Third virtual Biology Seminar on May 7, 2020
On 7 May, Dr. Tomohiko Sano, from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, gave a talk at the 3rd iTHEMS Biology Seminar. In this seminar, Dr. Sano talked about the results of his rese...more
2020-05-07
Week 1 & 2 of May
Title: How the deprecation of Java applets affected online visualization frameworks -- a case study Author: Martin Skrodzki arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13254v2 Title: Universal Error Bound f...more
2020-05-07
Second iTHEMS Biology Seminar on April 30, 2020
On 30 April, Euki Yazaki, who joined iTHEMS in April, gave a talk at the second iTHEMS Biology Seminar. Euki's main research motivation is to understand the diversity and evolution of eukaryotes, espe...more
2020-04-30
Week 5 of April
Title: Resummation for the Field-theoretical Derivation of the Negative Magnetoresistance Author: Kenji Fukushima, Yoshimasa Hidaka arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02683v2 Title: The Gromov-Laws...more
2020-04-30
Nerd Night Tokyo: public talk by Don Warren
At Nerd Night Tokyo on April 22, Don Warren gave a public talk on "First stars". You can watch his superb lecture from YouTube. Enjoy!
2020-04-30
Frontier Science Lecture by iTHEMS Researchers
Frontier Science Lecture by iTHEMS Researchers for undergraduate students in Univ. of Tokyo was started on April 22, 2020. This year, Yoshiyuki Inoue gave an online lecture on "the History of the Univ...more
2020-04-28
Searching the signature of the ultra-light axions using gravitational waves
As the first activity of the DM working group in the academic 2020, we have held an online seminar inviting Dr. Sylvia Zhu from DESY. She has introduced her recent work about the axion search using th...more
2020-04-23
First virtual Biology Seminar on April 22, 2020
Though this fiscal year started with the confusion for COVID-19, we launched virtual, iTHEMS Biology Seminar. As the first speaker of the seminar series, Asher Leeks, who is appointed with the Univers...more
2020-04-23
Week 4 of April
Title: Nonadiabatic Control of Geometric Pumping Author: Kazutaka Takahashi, Keisuke Fujii, Yuki Hino, Hisao Hayakawa arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02202v2 Title: EspressoDB: A scientific data...more