Professor Berthold-Georg Englert, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore

Abstruct Since von Weizsäcker's first attempt in 1935 at improving on the Thomas-Fermi approximation for many-fermion systems, there has been much effort in studying systematic gradient expansions. I'll discuss an alternative approach that exploits approximate factorizations of the unitary evolution operator. Rather than differentiating the effective potential energy at the reference position, as one does in the gradient-expansion method, one now integrates over a vicinity of the reference point. As a bonus of theses investigations, one also obtains highly accurate algorithms for dealing with Hamilton's equations of motion in classical phase space and the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics.

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the seminar! Quantum Systems Unit

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

Alternating knots are some of the simplest knots to describe, and they occur frequently in low crossing knot tables. Most alternating knots have a complement that admits a hyperbolic metric: a metric with constant curvature -1. However, it is difficult to relate the hyperbolic geometry of these knots to their diagrams, and there are several open conjectures on possible relationships. In this talk, Jessica Purcell (Professor at Monash University, Melbourne) will address one such conjecture, concerning cusp volume.

Ecology & Evolution Seminar 5: "Reductive genome evolution in the obligate intracellular symbiont of cockroaches, Blattabacterium cuenoti." by Yukihiro Kinjo (Bourguignon Unit, OIST)

Dr. Hiromitsu Urakami, Editorial Developmental Manager & RSC Japan Manager, Royal Society of Chemistry. Royal Society of Japan K.K.

[Seminar]

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Sutherland

Title: Plumes in Stratified Fluids

Institution: University of Alberta

Seminar Venue: C700, Lab3

Seminar Title: No Qualms About Quantum Theory

Speaker: Professor Berthold-Georg Englert

Organisation: Institution Centre for Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics National University of Singapore

Date/Time: 22nd May, 15:00-16:00 @C700, Lab3

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

Associated to a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold is a cusp shape, which is a point in the Teichmuller space of the torus. It is natural to ask which points in Teichmuller space arise. This is the second talk on this topic by Jessica Purcell (Professor at Monash University, Melbourne).

This workshop will enhance your knowledge of best practices in evidence-based teaching and pedagogy and will help you to understand how to use "active learning" apporoach to promote student learning.

This is a 2 part workshop with 3 modules delivered on Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

Associated to a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold is a cusp shape, which is a point in the Teichmuller space of the torus. It is natural to ask which points in Teichmuller space arise. Jessica Purcell (Professor at Monash University, Melbourne) will introduce cusp shapes and tunnel number, and give background behind the questions asked and several examples.

[PhD Thesis Presentation]

Speaker: Dongrong Zhang

Thesis Title: Spectral theory of turbulent flows

Venue: Seminar Room B503, Center Building

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Internal Seminar: Vladimir Dinets, Science and Technology Group

Friday, May 18th, C700, 4:30pm

Internal Seminar: Mathias Mikkelsen, PhD Student, Quantum Systems Unit

Friday, May 18th, C700, 4pm

This session discusses various career paths open after a period as a postdoc , including Universities, Laboratories and the “Big Wide World”.

"Structural analysis of biological macromolecules using 3D cryo-electron microscopy"

by Jaekyung Hyun (PhD), Nano-Bio Electron Microscopy Research Group

Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)

This one-day workshop aims to give attendees the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding in Japan. After the workshop, attendees will be able to identify relevant research questions, find the appropriate grants, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research.

Speaker: Antony Speranza, University of Maryland Date : Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Time : 3:00pm-4:00pm

Go to http://www.brain-ai.jp/ for more information.

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

This week, we have two 30-mins talks. Dr Linling Ru (Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "A suspension flow with a Plykin attractor", and Motoko Kato (Tokyo University) will talk about "On groups whose actions on finite-dimensional CAT(0) spaces have global fixed points".

"End to end approach for behavior generation in robot systems" by Prof. Tetsuya Ogata, Waseda University

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SKYWALK3 (Only level B) Closure & Noise

Please use other SKYWALKS（SKYWALK1 / SKYWALK2 / SKYWALK3 level C is accessible）

Title: "Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation”

Speaker: Professor Stefan Hoppler

Institution: Prof. Stefan Hoppler, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Part III: Introduction to the numerical libraries Numpy, Scipy and Matplotlib. Bring a laptop, and make sure you can access Sango and Tombo.

ファミリー向け科学イベント、入場無料、サイエンスカフェは要予約

The Mechanical Engineering and Microfabrication Support Section would like to invite you to the Mechanical Engineering User Group meeting on Friday the 20th of April.

Seminar by Prof. Paul Wiegmann from University of Chicago

The weekly Topology and Geometry Seminar, with Dr. Johannes Schönke (Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit)

Part II: A few common uses for Python on the Cluster. Bring a laptop, and make sure you have access to Sango and Tombo clusters.

Lecture title: Event-ready loophole free Bell tests - From Foundations to Applications Speaker: Prof. Harald Weinfurter, University of Munich, Germany

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

Prof. Paola Laurino (Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit, OIST). "Towards an ancient finger print of Rossmann fold enzymes and the evolution of SAM methylation", 10:00-11:00, April 18 (wed).

Lecture title: Spin dynamics of individual neutral impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate Speaker: Prof. Artur Widera, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

Lecture title: Semiclassical wave packet dynamics in quantum systems with loss and gain Speaker: Dr. Eva-Maria Graefe, Imperial College London, UK.

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

Part I: Introduce the Python language. Bring a laptop, and ask for access to Sango and Tombo clusters beforehand.

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: January 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/c3qs

Dr. Joel P. Schneider, Chief of Chemical Biology Laboratory Head, Peptide Design and Materials Section Center for Cancer Research Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Speaker: Prof. Remi Munos

Date,Time,Venue: April 13, Friday from 14:00-15:00 @B711, Lab3

Title: "Several challenges of deep Reinforcement Learning"

Affiliation: INRIA (currently visiting Google DeepMind) Lille, France (London, UK)

Lecture of 10:30 and 15:30 starting on Friday 13th.

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend

This week, Dr. Dale Koenig (Tsvietkova Unit) will talk on "3-manifolds in trisections".

Seminar by Prof. Karlo Penc from Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest

Speaker: Dr Dipankar Mondal, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India

Speaker: Prof. Heng-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University Date : Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: A phase space in your phase space

Speaker: Mr Sylvain de Léséleuc, Institut d'Optique - Orsay, France

The weekly Topology and Geometry Seminar, with Dr. Yasha Neiman.