A physics lecture for non-physicists. Title: Planets in bullet-time: inside Ne wt o n's apple. Speaker: Yasha Neiman.

Dr. Makoto Yamashita, Professor, Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University

By Prof. Isaac Planas-Sitjà from Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isaac-Planas) Zoom Link:

https://oist.zoom.us/j/95993904953?pwd=MEZpZk1uVGxJQUxGZnpyOEoxbVVKUT09

Meeting ID: 959 9390 4953 Passcode: 782775

Abstruct:

Animals face daily decisions, such as where to forage or nest, which can be critical for their fitness. In social animals, these decisions are complicated by a potential conflict of interests among group members, which nonetheless must collectively reach some form of agreement if the group is to remain together. Insects have been model organisms to study collective behaviour and advance our understanding of mechanisms leading to optimal and successful decisions. While it is clear that there are no two identical individuals, a debate still exists on whether heterogeneity of behaviour among group members could improve, or not, group performance. In fact, the question of how identical or dissimilar units, with same average properties, give rise to different collective processes goes beyond behavioural ecology. During this talk, I will introduce some of the mechanisms involved in collective behaviour (e.g., information sharing, social feedback and social interactions), and discuss how these mechanisms coupled with individual differences can lead to more accurate decisions, from gregarious to eusocial insects.

The SOKOBAN random walk by Ofek Lauber Bonomo1 and Shlomi Reuveni, School of Chemistry, Center for the Physics & Chemistry of Living Systems, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Seminar in L4E26, welcome to anyone being interested.

Quantum Gravity group meeting Speaker: Slava Lysov Title: Supersymmetry, Localization and BV-polyvectors (part 1)

Dr. Sebastian Sprick, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde

A bottom up approach for analyzing circuits underlying navigation in vertebrates

by Head of Research. Claire WYART, Paris Brain Institute/INSERM

[Seminar] "Quasi-universal scaling of brain activity: from real neurons to artificial intelligence." by Prof. Miguel Munoz.

Dr. Fernando P. Duda, Professor and Head Department of MEchanical Engineering,

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

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: Prof. Mark Michison, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Visitor seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Subhajit Mazumdar,Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University Title: Kite and Triangle diagrams through Symmetries of Feynman Integrals

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).

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

In the last few decades, the notion of Integrable systems and Chaos, both classical and quantum, have seen immense developments. Fuelled by a flurry of scientific inter-community dialogues, these ideas have turned out to be universally useful in a wide spectrum of theoretical studies, from worldsheet string sigma models, to black holes and holography, and further into real experimental systems. Numerous interesting connections between these seemingly disparate research areas are developing, promising to shed light on important open questions. We hope to further fuel these dialogues by inviting people from different fields using state-of-the-art tools to explore these exciting ideas.

Detailed program at: https://groups.oist.jp/integrability-deformations-chaos/program

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

Prof. S hoi Shi, Ph.D. , IIIS, University of Tsukuba

Onsite: L4F01

ZOOM

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).

Speaker: Dr. Haruna Fujioka, Okayama University, Japan

[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

QG group meeting. Speaker: Julian Lang. Title: "Emergent Supersymmetry from a Twistor Space description of the U(N) vector model".

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.

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

QG group meeting. Speaker: Misaki Ohta. Title: Symmetries, Lattices, Groups.

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