This 6th workshop is a continuation of the previous workshop in a series. This workshop discuss the modularity and duality, geometric group, cohomological theory, singularity theory, and knot theory. All talks on the black board are expected. The online participation of Zoom will be possible by the registration in advance.

[Speaker] Prof. Mahendra K. Verma, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Shinobu Hikami (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

Title: Quantum wreath product Ziqing Xiang, Southern University of Science and Technology

Prof. Myung-Han Yoon, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Mr. Pablo Jimenez, Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Phd Student

Dr. Jose Rodriques, OIST, Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit(Abdulla Unit),Staff Scientist

Mr. Chenming Zhen, OIST, Phd Student

Professor Ugur G. Abdulla, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Speater:Professor Carlos F. Martino, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA

Lecturer: Professor Jonathan Woodward, University of Tokyo

Plenary Speakers :

Jonathan R. Woodward, University of Tokyo, Japan

Carlos F. Martino, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA

Ugur G. Abdulla, OIST, Japan

Lecture 1. Jonathan Woodward University of Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Chuntao Dan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus

Target Audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

"Dimensional reduction in causal sets" by Dr. David Meyer, UC San Diego

Dr. Yoshihiro Tanaka, Professor in Nagoya Institute of Technology / Inamori research institute for Science. Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

[Hybrid seminar] "Evolving bi-directional referential communication in minimal autonomous agents" by Prof. Seth Bullock, University of Bristol

[Hybrid seminar] "Soft Robotics: Understanding Design Principles and the Implications of Soft Bodies" by Prof. Koh Hosoda, Kyoto University

Open Call for TSVP Visiting Scholars in FY2024

Dr. Andrés G. Mejía Ramón (OIST) will give a preview version of his presentation at the Embassy of Mexico in Tokyo to the OIST community. He is a Postdoctoral Researcher, archaeologist, ecologist, and complex systems scientist focusing on the interactions between humans and the environment across deep time.

Target audience

Interns, Students, PostDocs and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Speaker 1: Dr. Makoto Yamada, Associate Professor, OIST

Title: Approximating 1-Wasserstein Distance with Trees

Speaker 2: Ms. Terezie Sedlinska, PhD Student, OIST

Title: Reinforcement learning behavioral modeling: Two studies of Pavlovian and operant valuation in humans and rats

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "Self-dual GR in de Sitter space".

Andres Mejia Ramon

OIST, Postdoctoral Scholar, Froese Unit

[Seminar] "Asymptomatic: How Deciphering the Silent Spread of COVID-19 Can Help Prevent Pandemics to Come" by Prof. Joshua Weitz.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama (Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required). Tutorial sessions are closed (only for selected participants)

Speaker: Dr. Theerapat Tansuwannont

Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

A physics lecture for non-physicists. Title: Gravity, the Improbability Engine. Speaker: Yasha Neiman.

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Speaker 1: Mr. Tobias Freidling, Ph. D. Student, University of Cambridge

Title: Sensitivity Analysis with the R^2-calculus

Speaker 2: Dr. Mohammad Sabokrou, Staff Scientist, OIST

Title: Deep Learning Advancements in Anomaly Detection for Computer Vision

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Presidential Lecture on the topic "Random to Ordered: From Candies to Monster Crystals from Space" by Prof. Paul Chaikin

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

[Call for registrations] Symposium on "Frontiers in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Stokes Phenomena" Deadline: August 20th, 2023

Presidential lecture on the topic "Patterns in Nature" by Prof. Sidney Nagel

IBISML, NC, BIO, MPS Joint Workshop, Onsite and Online

Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Committee on Neurocomputing (NC) Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics (SIGBIO) Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving (MPS)

Seminar by Mr. En Watanabe, University of Otago

Title : Using a donut-shaped beam for the super-resolution of proteins

Date: June 28 (Wed)

Time: 11:00 - 12:00

Venue: C015 (Lab1)

"Brain-Motivated Computation: A Journey from Neural Circuitry to Cognitive Control Systems" by Dr. Alexander G. Ororbia II, Rochester Institute of Technology

[Speaker] Prof. Dr. Marc Avila, Director ZARM - Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, Professor of Fluid Mechanics, University of Bremen, Germany

Speaker: Dr. Mathias Mikkelsen, Kindai University, Osaka

June 23, 2023 10:00 - 11: 00 at C700, Lab 3

Prof. Suzanne Pfeffer, Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine

A kinase and a phosphatase: molecular basis of inherited Parkinson’s disease

Activating mutations in LRRK2 kinase cause Parkinson’s disease and activated LRRK2 phosphorylates a subset of Rab GTPases. We have discovered that Rab phosphorylation blocks primary cilia formation in specific neurons and astrocytes in the nigrostriatal circuit that are important for dopaminergic signaling in Parkinson's disease. This lecture will provide an update on our studies using purified LRRK2 and its counteracting PPM1H phosphatase to understand how the proteins become localized and activated on membrane surfaces. In addition, work will be presented related to the consequences of LRRK2 mutation for neurons and astrocytes in the dorsal striatum of mice and humans.

Did you know that for some very special materials, when you shine light on them they will cool down? Optical refridgeration is not a very well known phenomena but it can cool materials down to temperatures below 100K! In this talk we will discuss the optical trapping of nanoparticles AND the bulk cooling of them using optical means.

Speaker 1: Mr. Guillaume Houry, Ph. D. Student, Universite Paris-Saclay

Title: Average complexity of Persitence Homology computing in Topological Data Analysis

Speaker 2: Yuxuan Wan, Ph. D. Student, Michigan State University

Title: Defense Against Gradient Leakage Attacks via Learning to Obscure Data

Title: Lectures on Capacities Speaker: Professor Daniel Spector, National Taiwan Normal University

Zoom registration: https://oist.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErce-tpj0jGNN5TM3gwMnRnGHaY5lNZ5Qk#/registration

Lecture 1 Tuesday, June 20 10 am Title: Riemann and Lebesgue Integration Abstract: The Riemann integral is perfectly suited for consideration of volume, surface area, arc length, and integration of functions in classical analysis - when the sets in question are smooth and the functions in question continuous. In this talk, we introduce these ideas and explain the progression from Riemann integration to Lebesgue integration, emphasizing in particular the powerful tools one obtains from this construction. Lecture 2 Wednesday, June 21st 10 am Title: Capacitary Integration Abstract: The Lebesgue integral provides one with a satisfactory tool for many purposes in mathematical analysis. Yet in the modeling of natural phenomena, with the introduction of partial differential equations, integrals which are not Lebesgue integral makes a prominent appearance - capacitary integrals. In this talk we discuss this motivation for capacitary integration, with examples, explain the differences with Lebesgue integration, and show the usefulness of these non-standard objects. Lecture 3 Thursday, June 22nd 10 am Title: Capacitary Sobolev Inequalities and Applications Abstract: The study of capacities and Capacitary Sobolev Inequalities is now more than half a century old, and yet there are still a number of open research questions to investigate concerning them. In this talk we discuss in more detail Capacitary Sobolev inequalities with an emphasis on a subject with the most recent activity - Capacitary Sobolev Inequalities around L1. Open problems will be mentioned.

Zoom link: TBA

Dr. Rebecca Ostertag, Professor of Biology, University of Hawai'i at Hilo. Language: English, no interpretation. Target audience: everyone at OIST and beyond. Seminar will be held in-person only.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Erik De Schutter (Computational Neuroscience) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions | Tutorial sessions are closed (only for selected participants)

Speaker: John Lewis

University of Kentucky, USA

Generation of entanglement from mechanical rotations. Is it possible to use the movement of massive objects to generate quantum entanglement? If this proves to be possible - what consequences would it have for our understanding regarding quantum mechanics and how it relates to space and time? Come to this talk by thoeretician Dr Toros, from Scotland - to hear how he proposes to do it and what might be the consequences!

Prof. Gui-Qiang Chen

Statutory Professor in the Analysis of PDEs, Director of the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDEs ( OxPDE ), University of Oxford, United Kingdom