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Biology Seminar by Dr. Hiroshi Yokota on June 3, 2020
2020-06-05
In the 6th biology seminar, Hiroshi Yokota (iTHEMS fellow at Kyoto University) talked about his theoretical work on the energy of chromosome loop structure (collaborative work with Masashi Tachikawa). Through the modeling, he talked about the possibility that the chromosome loop structure may occur due to ATP hydrolysis. His work will stimulate future debate over the source of the energy needed for chromosome loops to occur. Great talk, Hiroshi!
-Ryosuke Iritani
Quantification model of energy of loop structure on biopolymer
June 3 (Wed) at 10:00 - 10:45, 2020
Upcoming Events
Seminar
iTHEMS Theoretical Physics Seminar
Field theoretical approach to relativistic hydrodynamics
June 12 (Fri) at 13:00 - 14:30, 2020
Masaru Hongo (Visiting Scientist, iTHEMS / Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics Department, The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA)
Hydrodynamics is a low-energy effective theory of a conserved charge density, which describes a long-distance and long-time behavior of many-body systems. It is applicable not only to a non-relativistic weakly-interacting dilute gas but also a relativistic strongly-interacting dense liquid like a quark-gluon plasma. The main purpose of this seminar is to explain how we can derive the hydrodynamic equation from the underlying field-theoretical description of systems [1-3]. Our derivation is based on the recent development of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and we show that the procedure to derive hydrodynamic equations is similar to the so-called renormalized/optimized perturbation theory. Also, to describe transport phenomena in local thermal equilibrium, we give a path-integral formula for a thermodynamic functional, which results in the emergence of thermally induced curved spacetime [2]. These results enable us to derive hydrodynamic equation based on quantum field theories.
References
- T. Hayata, Y. Hidaka, M. Hongo, and T. Noumi, Phys. Rev. D 92, 065008 (2015).
- M. Hongo, Annals of Physics, 383, 1 (2017).
- M. Hongo, K. Hattori, arXiv: 2005.10239 [hep-th].
Event Official Language: English
Seminar
iTHEMS Math Seminar
Information geometry of operator scaling
June 17 (Wed) at 16:00 - 18:10, 2020
Tasuku Soma (Research Associate, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
Matrix scaling is a classical problem with a wide range of applications. It is known that the Sinkhorn algorithm for matrix scaling is interpreted as alternating e-projections from the viewpoint of classical information geometry.
Recently, a generalization of matrix scaling to completely positive maps called operator scaling has been found to appear in various fields of mathematics and computer science, and the Sinkhorn algorithm has been extended to operator scaling.
In this study, the operator Sinkhorn algorithm is studied from the viewpoint of quantum information geometry through the Choi representation of completely positive maps. The operator Sinkhorn algorithm is shown to coincide with alternating e-projections with respect to the symmetric logarithmic derivative metric, which is a Riemannian metric on the space of quantum states relevant to quantum estimation theory. This talk is based on joint work with Takeru Matsuda.
Venue: via Zoom
Event Official Language: English
Seminar
DMWG Seminar
Dark Matter Heating vs. Rotochemical Heating in Old Neutron Stars
June 22 (Mon) at 16:00 - 17:00, 2020
Koichi Hamaguchi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)
*Detailed information about the seminar refer to the email
Venue: via Zoom
Event Official Language: English
Paper of the Week
Week 2 of June
2020-06-11
Title: d∗(2380) dibaryon from lattice QCD
Author: Shinya Gongyo, Kenji Sasaki, Takaya Miyamoto, Sinya Aoki, Takumi Doi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Yoichi Ikeda, Takashi Inoue, Noriyoshi Ishii
arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00856v1
Title: Universality classes of non-Hermitian random matrices
Author: Ryusuke Hamazaki, Kohei Kawabata, Naoto Kura, Masahito Ueda
arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.13082v7
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