JSPS Visiting Fellow Professor Jingbo Wang from the University of Western Australia gives a series of lectures on Quantum Computation.

Lecture 2: Physical Implementation of Quantum Gates and Circuits (evolving the quantum computer governed by Schrödinger’s equation)

JSPS Visiting Fellow Professor Jingbo Wang from the University of Western Australia gives a series of lectures on Quantum Computation.

Lecture 1: Quantum Computing Fundamentals (postulates of quantum mechanics; quantum bits, gates, and circuits)

Speaker: Professor Asuka Takatsu, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Title: Curvature and Optimal transport

Abstract

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.

Speaker: Professor Jun Kitagawa, Michigan State University

Title: A brief introduction to branched optimal transport

Abstract:

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.

Statistical Mechanics, Critical Phenomena and Renorm

Speaker: Dr. Arang Rhie, Genome Informatics Section at NIH/NHGRI, USA
 

Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/84967336568?pwd=ZkhVWlRCdzBjM3VDSWRneDVXaUhVUT09

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. 

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

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

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!