Outcomes
Acknowledgements
Please list TSVP/OIST as one of your affiliations when publishing about research (partially) conducted during your visit.
Please also include a short phrase in the acknowledgements, see below.
Affiliation:
Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, 904-0495, Japan
Acknowledgement in case of per diem:
This research was conducted while visiting the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) through the Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program (TSVP).
Acknowledgement in case of salary:
This research was conducted while funded by the Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program (TSVP) at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).
*EVSP visitors please replace accordingly with "Experimental Visiting Scholar Program (EVSP)"
Visting Programs in Numbers
updated 2023-04-11
FY22 | FY23 (scheduled) | FY24 (expected) | ||
TSVP Visiting Scholars | 22 | 20 | 20 | |
TSVP Thematic Programs (participants) | 0 | 2 (40) | 3 (60) | |
Domestic Visitors | 0 | 5 | 5 | |
TSVP-affiliated (workshop participants, visiting Alumni, etc.) | 5 | 20 | 20 | |
EVSP Visiting Scholars | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
TSVP/EVSP Talks | 19 | 20 | ||
Total number of Talk participants (average) | 1042 (56) | |||
Youtube views (average per video) | 2824 (202) | |||
Workshops (total participants) | 3 (80) | |||
Other events (career talks, mini courses, outreach talks) | 5 | 5 | ||
Visitor Interactions with OIST units (running total) | 25 | 38 | ||
Number of Countries visitors came from (running total) | 12 | 18 |
FY2023
updated 2023/06/29
"Do octopuses dream?" nature video summarizing the paper on "Wake-like skin patterning and neural activity during Octopus Sleep" that resulted from a collaboration of TSVP Visiting Scholar Leenoy Meshulam and OIST professor Sam Reiter.
Publications
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C. Claramunt, & M. P. Dube (2023). A brief review of the evolution ofGIScience since the NCGIA researchagenda initiatives. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 26, 137–150. https://doi.org/10.5311/JOSIS.2023.26.30
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S. Burke, P. Pottier, M. Lagisz, E. L. Macartney, T. Ainsworth, S. M. Drobniak, & S. Nakagawa (2023). The impact of rising temperatures on the prevalence of coral diseases and its predictability: A global meta-analysis. Ecology Letters, 26(8), 1039–1050. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14266
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S. Nakagawa & M. Lagisz (2023). Next steps after airing disagreement on a scientific issue with policy implications: A meta-analysis, multi-lab replication and adversarial collaboration. BMC Biology, 21(1), 153. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-01567-5
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S. Nakagawa, M. Lagisz, R. E. O’Dea, P. Pottier, J. Rutkowska, A. M. Senior, Y. Yang, & D. W. Noble (2023). Orchard 2.0: An R package for visualising meta-analyses with Orchard Plots. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.14152
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S. Nakagawa, Y. Yang, E. L. Macartney, R. Spake, & M. Lagisz (2023). Quantitative evidence synthesis: A practical guide on meta-analysis, meta-regression, and publication bias tests for Environmental Sciences. Environmental Evidence, 12(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-023-00301-6
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L. Puggioni, G. Boffetta, & S. Musacchio (2023). Flocking turbulence of microswimmers in confined domains. Physical Review E, 107(5), 055107. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.107.055107
- A. Pophale, K. Shimizu, T. Mano, T. L. Iglesias, K. Martin, M. Hiroi, K. Asada, P. G. Andaluz, T. T. Van Dinh, L. Meshulam, & S. Reiter (2023). Wake-like skin patterning and neural activity during Octopus Sleep. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06203-4
(see also the above nature video, or listen to the nature podcast of 2023-06-28)
Articles
- Article about the French-Japanese Seminar on "Metaverse and Virtual Reality"
- Articles about the research on "Octopus sleep is surprisingly similar to humans" which was published in the journal "nature" in June 2023. It results from a collaboration between Visiting Scholar Leenoy Meshulam and OIST's Professor Sam Reiter and his group.
TSVP Talks
So far 2 TSVP Talks, 1 evening public lecture with Japanese Interpretation
Workshops and Seminars
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French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” (64 participants)
TSVP visitors participated in the following workshops at OIST
- OIST Workshop "Representation Theory of Hecke Algebras and Categorification" (Mahir Can, Jon Kujawa, and TSVP alumni Chris Bowman)
Teaching
- Big Geographical Data: a digital revolution for transportation studies by Christophe Claramunt
- Career Talk by Jochen Steil
- Outreach Talk at a local High school by Shinichi Nakagawa
- Asymptotic Symmetries lecture series by Daniel Grumiller
Other Activities
- Participating in the Sustainable Transport Hackathon (Christophe Claramunt)
FY2022
Publications
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Y.-C. Chen, R. Fosdick, E. Fried. "Isometries between given surfaces and the isometric deformation of a single unstretchable material surface." Journal of Elasticity 151 (2022), 159–175. (doi:10.1007/s10659-022-09909-0)
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M.A. Kanso, M. Naime, V. Chaurasia, K. Tontiwattanakul, E. Fried, A.J. Giacomin. "Coronavirus pleomorphism." Physics of Fluids 34 (2022), 063101-1–10. (doi:10.1063/5.0094771)
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Y.-C. Chen, R. Fosdick, E. Fried. "Reply to van der Heijden and Starostin." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 478 (2022), 20210856-1–9. (doi:10.1098/rspa.2021.0856)
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Y.-C. Chen, R. Fosdick, E. Fried. "A novel dimensional reduction for the equilibrium study of inextensional material surfaces." Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 169 (2022), 105068-1–27. (doi:10.1016/j.jmps.2022.105068)
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Y.-C. Chen, E. Fried. "Conformal deformations of a dilational material surface." Journal of Elasticity, in press. (doi:10.1007/s10659-023-10003-2)
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G. Boffetta, S. Musacchio, A. Mazzino, M. E. Rosti. "Transient inverse energy cascade in free surface turbulence." Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 034601 (2023). (doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.034601)
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S. Crew, A. Goswami, R. Osburn. "Resurgence of Habiro elements." arXiv (2023). https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07001
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Y.-C. Chen, "A mechanical theory of growth." Submitted to Journal of Elasticity.
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Y.-C. Chen, E. Fried, S. Janssens, "Wringling of circular suspended films."
Articles
- OIST Institutional News: "OIST launches new Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program", 2023-05-23
https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2022/5/23/oist-launches-new-theoretical-sciences-visiting-program - News article about Robert Osburn's visit in the University College Dublin's "UCD Today" magazine (p. 34)
TSVP Talks
19 general-audience Talks (18 TSVP and 1 EVSP) with a total of 1042 participants, highest attendance of a single talk: 109 participants.
Workshops
- Collective Intelligence in Living/Non-Livings Populations (26 participants)
- Silver Workshop V: Complex Geometry and related topics (24 participants)
- ALIFE Workshop 2022 (25 participants)
Teaching
- [Mini-course] BV functions in Carnot groups | Speaker Dr. Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo, University of Jyväskylä
- Mini Course: Control and Computation in Living Systems by Timothy O'Leary
- Two outreach talks at local schools in Okinawa (Leenoy Meshulam)
- Career talk by Kerstin Lenk
Other Activities
- Classical music concert with a violin solo by Visiting Scholar Shiro Ikeda
- Art/dance performance in Naha by Takashi Ikegami
FY2020 (Visiting Mathematics Professor Program)
Publications
- J. E. Greene and A. Lobb. "The Rectangular Peg Problem" (2020). arXiv:2005.09193. (See also this Quanta Magazine article)
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J. McCoy, G. Wheeler, and Y. Wu. "Higher Order Curvature Flows of Plane Curves with Generalised Neumann Boundary Conditions" (2020). PDF
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J. A. McCoy. "Contracting Self-Similar Solutions of Nonhomogeneous Curvature Flows" (2020). PDF
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J. A. McCoy. "Contraction of Convex Hypersurfaces by Nonhomogeneous Functions of Curvature" (2020). PDF
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S. Y. Kholmatov and P. Piovano. "Existence of Minimizers for the SDRI Model" (Submitted 2021). arXiv
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P. Piovano and I. Velčić. "Microscopical Justification of the Winterbottom Problem for Well-Separated Lattices" (Submitted 2021). arXiv:2111.13604
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P. Piovano and I. Velčić. "Microscopical Justification of Solid-State Wetting and Dewetting" J. Nonlinear Sci. 32, 32 (2022). arXiv:2010.08787
Lectures
- OIST Presidential Lecture: "The Rectangular Peg Problem" by Andrew Lobb (2020/07/30) https://vimeo.com/444445868