Date

Thursday, February 26, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

Speaker: Cindy Poo,  a senior scientist with the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington

Date

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 11:00

QG Seminar

Speaker: Martin Cederwall (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)


Title: Review of Extended Geometry

Date

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00

Lecture title:  Early life sleep shapes brain development and social behavior in the socially monogamous prairie vole

Speaker: Miranda M. Lim, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. 

Date

Monday, January 26, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

[Speaker] Prof. Jeff Morris, Professor, CUNY City College of New York, Director, Levich Institute and Department of Chemical Engineering

Date

Friday, January 23, 2026 - 16:30 to 17:30

Join us for a special seminar at OIST, part of the A3 Foresight Meeting, presented by Prof. Ohtani and Prof. Takahashi.

Prof. Naoko Ohtani, Osaka Metropolitan University

Prof. Akiko Takahashi, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Date

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 - 11:00

Speaker: Sylvester Eriksson-Bique, University of Jyv¨askyl¨a

 

Title: P-Dirichlet spaces and the resolution of the resistance and energy image density conjectures

 

Abstract: I will describe the resolution of two conjectures related to Dirichlet forms. In both cases a conceptually simple solution arises by stepping away from the p=2 regime. This leads to a new definition of a p-Dirichlet space, which unifies three quite different areas: Dirichlet form theory, Analysis on fractals and Analysis on metric spaces. The talk includes joint work with Mathav Murugan

Date

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 15:00

Speaker:Julius Lohmann JSPS International Research Fellow, Institute of Science Tokyo

Title: Dynamic inverse problems regularized with Wasserstein-1 transport Julius Lohmann JSPS International Research Fellow, Institute of Science Tokyo

Abstract: The (classical, balanced) Wasserstein-p distance can be used as a measure of how close a source and sink mass distribution (with equal mass) are. In recent years, the Wasserstein-2 distance has been employed in the temporal regularization of dynamic inverse problems. The so-called Benamou–Brenier formula states that it can be written as the square root of the performed physical work through the transport from the source to the sink. In my talk, I will instead focus on dynamic inverse problems regularized with Wasserstein-1 transport. The Wasserstein-1 distance can be interpreted as the optimal transport cost with respect to the Euclidean distance: it equals infπ R |x−y|dπ(x, y), where measure element dπ(x, y) indicates the (infinitesimal) amount of mass moving from location x to y. I will explain a novel dynamic inverse problem on time-parameterized curves in the induced Wasserstein-1 (metric) space. It is a natural extension of static sparse optimization problems such as lasso or TV regularization. One essential difference to classical regularization with Wasserstein-2 transport is that it allows for discontinuous decision variables (realized as BV curves). Despite this weak regularity requirement and the non-differentiability of the cost function (x, y) 7→ |x − y|, it is possible to prove the existence of a sparse solution and its characterization. I will present this result. Further, I will detail an adaption of the fully-corrective generalized conditional gradient method to the problem and highlight a natural discretization approach. Finally, I will show some numerical examples. Joint work with: Marcello Carioni

 

Zoom Registration

Date

Monday, January 19, 2026 - 15:15 to 16:15

Speaker: Professor, Deputy Director Yeong-Cherng Liang, Department of Physics | QFort, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Date

Monday, February 2, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00 @L5D23, Lab5

Title: "Looking at neurodevelopmental disorders through the lens of evolution: a role for the autolysosomal pathway"

Speaker: Prof. Nael Nadif Kasri, Radboud University

Date

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:30 to 11:30

Prof. Marina Freitag, Professor of Energy/Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF), School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University

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