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2nd iTHES meeting
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To enhance mutual interactions in iTHES, we organize the "iTHES Meeting"
every 2 months or so. The first meeting was held in Oct.15,2013.
As shown below in the Upcoming Events, we will have the 2nd meeting
on Jan.31 (13:30-14:30) just before the iTHES Colloquium.
This time, three iTHES researchers, Dr. K. Uriu (ithes-bio team),
Dr. T. Iitaka (ithes-cond team) and Dr. T. Kanazawa (ithes-phys team),
give short presentations to introduce themselves.
We urge all the iTHES members to attend this 2nd iTHES meeting
to get to know each other.
iTHES Colloquium Committee
T. Tada (ithes-phys team, Committee Chair)
T. Iitaka (ithes-cond team)
G. Kurosawa (ithes-bio team)
T. Hatsuda (ithes Group Director)
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Upcoming Events
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24th iTHES Theoretical Science Colloquium with 2nd iTHES Meeting
Jan.31 (Fri.) 13:30-
2F of the Main Cafeteria
iTHES Meeting (13:30 ~):
Dr. K. Uriu (from ithes-bio team)
"Dynamics of mobile coupled
cellular oscillators"
Dr. T. Iitaka (from ithes-cond team)
"Atomistic modelling of planets"
Dr. T. Kanazawa (from ithes-phys team)
"Taming the randomness in QCD"
Colloquium (15:00~):
Prof. Kei Tokita
(Dept. of Complex Systems Science, Grad. Sch. of
Information Science, Nagoya University)
"An answer to the "Diversity-Stability Debate" in Community Ecology"
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Event Report
Wako-AICS joint symposium on "K, Post-K, and fundamental physics" was
held in RIKEN Wako Campus on January 7th, 2014. RIKEN is operating the
K computer at Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS).
AICS also plays a central role in developments of post-K supercomputers.
There were about 25 participants to discuss current situation and design
of the post-K projects and possible applications in a variety of fields,
from hadron/nuclear/astrophyscs to meteorology. The photo shows Dr
S. Nagataki, iTHES-phys team Research Associate, presenting his current
and future efforts in numerical studies on supernovae and gamma-ray
bursts.
The present symposium
will stimulate communication and collaboration among researchers in AICS
and Wako area.
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Person of the Week
Koichiro Uriu
Self-introduction
I am Koichiro Uriu and a member of the Interdisciplinary Theoretical Biology Team. My main interest is on the theoretical modeling of embryonic development. Currently, I am focusing on the effect of cell movement on information flow in developing tissues. My collaborators and I have been developing physical models to study this topic, which include a population of phase oscillators on a lattice similar to the XY model, and their random motions on the lattice. We analyze how the mobility of these oscillators changes dynamics toward synchronization which can be regarded as an outcome of information flow across the oscillators. The model was motivated by vertebrate somitogenesis during embryonic development where the synchronization of cell-autonomous oscillators by local cell-cell interactions plays crucial roles in making a segmented body plan.
I think that interdisciplinary approach would be a key to understanding development, because it occurs as interplays between both biological and physical aspects, and to analyze them we need biological experiments, data analysis including image processing and statistical inference, and physical modeling.
I did my undergraduate study in the department of Biology at Niigata University in Japan. Then, I did my Master and Ph.D studies in the Mathematical Biology Laboratory at Kyushu University where I learned how to model Biological phenomena. After I got Ph.D, I was a visiting researcher of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Dresden, Germany) where I studied synchronization of locally coupled mobile oscillators with both theory and experiments. In Dresden, I had opportunities to collaborate with experimental biologists and statistical physicists. Making use of these experiences, I would like to enjoy the collaborations with other iTHES members here.
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Visitors
Prof. Lembit Sihver
(Chalmers University of Technology, SWEDEN)
Nuclear Science and Engineering
Jan.20th - March 20th, 2014
room 302 (3rd floor, RIBF building)
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