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Speaker: Professor Asuka Takatsu, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Title: Curvature and Optimal transport
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In this series of lectures, I first review the notion of curvature (Gaussian curvature and Ricci curvature).
In particular, I recall some comparison theorems (Toponogov's triangle comparison theorem, Bishop--Gromov volume comparison theorem etc).
Then I introduce a generalized notion of curvature in non-smooth spaces.
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Speaker: Professor Jun Kitagawa, Michigan State University
Title: A brief introduction to branched optimal transport
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The optimal transport (also known as Monge-Kantorovich) problem is a classical optimization problem which has recently become the focus of much research with connections to various fields such as PDEs, geometry, and applications. In particular, it provides an effective way to metrize the space of probability measures on a given metric space. However, there is an alternate approach to metrizing such spaces using so called branched optimal transport. Branched optimal transport is based on the classical Gilbert-Steiner problem, later adapted by Qinglan Xia, and in contrast to the Monge-Kantorovich approach tends to yield branching structures. In this series of lectures I will introduce the basics of branched optimal transport and discuss some of the known results in the literature.
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Statistical Mechanics, Critical Phenomena and Renorm
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Speaker: Dr. Arang Rhie, Genome Informatics Section at NIH/NHGRI, USA
Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/84967336568?pwd=ZkhVWlRCdzBjM3VDSWRneDVXaUhVUT09
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With deep apologies, this talk will once again be postponed until further notice!
Professor Sara Solla will speak to us, live from Chicago, on Low Dimensional Manifolds for Neural Dynamics.
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RAM 2021 Guest Speaker: Dr. Joseph E. LeDoux, PhD. Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University; Director of the Emotional Brain Institute. Tuesday, July 13 at 21:30 JST. Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/89512617921?pwd=MEpXTVgrKzZjSFhnNEE4WUw5QnVEZz09 / Passcode: 991202
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Join us for the first of the RAM 2021 Invited Guest speaker sessions!
NOTE: This talk has been moved to Tuesday, 9AM July 13th. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Live from Brazil, Professor Miguel Nicolelis;
A View of the Future for BMI Basic Research and Clinical Applications
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The OIST Astronomy Club will host a discussion session on exoplanets presented by Florian Lalande.
We will cover the 2019 Nobel Prize of Physics (detection of the first exoplanet around Sun-like star), planet detection methods, current exoplanet knowledge.
Everyone is welcome to join!
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The World Quantum Day is obviously celebrated on April 14, as 4.14 are the rounded first digits of Planck’s constant (in units of eV.s). It aims at engaging the general public in the understanding and discussion of Quantum Science and Technology around the world.This year’s launch event is a presentation by Prof. Alain Aspect (Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Université Paris-Saclay) on one of the fundamental mysteries of quantum mechanics: the duality between waves and particles.
We invite you to watch Prof. Aspect’s presentation (and join a discussion) on Thursday, April 15th at 1pm in B250 (new normal rules and regulations apply).
Language: English
Audience: General public
Title: From Einstein to Wheeler: Wave-Particle duality of a single photon
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PhD Public Presentation
Mr. Mathias Mikkelsen
Busch Unit