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Upcoming Events
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iTHES-RIBF joint seminar
March 25 (Tues), 2014, 15:30-
Large conf. room, RIBF building 2F
Prof. B. K. Agawal (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)
"Nuclear symmetry energy from nuclear observables"
iTHES Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Bernold Fiedler (Mathematics Institute, Free University of Berlin)
Date: 15:00-, March 28, 2014 (the starting time has been changed.)
Place: Room 435, 437, Main Research Building, RIKEN
Title: Reaction and diffusion in several space dimensions - an invitation
iTHES Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Gordon Baym (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Date: 14:30-, April 8, 2014
Place: 2F Large Meeting Room, RIBF Building, RIKEN
Title: HANBURY BROWN AND TWISS INTENSITY INTERFEROMETRY:
FROM STARS TO NUCLEI TO ATOMS AND ELECTRONS
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Event report
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On Wednesday, March 19, Prof. Matthias Troyer, from the Institut für Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich, gave two very exciting talks on testing the first generation of quantum computing devices. Many members of iTHES, as well as researchers from other parts of RIKEN, and from Keio University, attended this talk --- attracting about 50 or so people, crowding the seminar room wall-to-wall.
A recent cover-story of Time magazine was devoted to the first generation of special-purpose quantum analog computers. This subject is attracting considerable attention worldwide. It is now an exciting time where the first non-trivial prototype devices that make use of quantum effects can be built. While a universal quantum computer of non-trivial size is still out of reach, there are a number commercial and experimental devices: quantum random number generators, quantum encryption systems, and analog quantum simulators. In this colloquium Prof. Troyer presented some of these devices and also validation tests that his group performed on them. Quantum random number generators use the inherent randomness in quantum measurements to produce true random numbers, unlike classical pseudorandom number generators which are inherently deterministic. Optical lattice emulators use ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices to mimic typical models of condensed matter physics. Finally, he discussed the devices built by Canadian company D-Wave systems, which are special purpose quantum simulators for solving hard classical optimization problems. This last subject is attracting so much attention that the speaker gave a second presentation on this topic, so he stayed in the same seminar room from 2 pm to about 6:30 pm, interacting non-stop with many people, excited about his presentation. Indeed, some members of the audience arrived at 2 pm, the start of his first presentation, and left at around 6:30 pm, the end of his final presentation, not leaving the room (besides some occasional visit to the toilet next door).
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Person of the Week
Takaharu Mori
Self-introduction
I'm Takaharu Mori, a member of the Theoretical Molecular Science
Laboratory. I graduated from the Tokyo University of Science (B.S. and
M.S.) and Nagoya University (Ph.D.), and then came to RIKEN. My main
research area is Biophysics. I'm interested in development of novel
computational and theoretical methods, especially Molecular dynamics
simulation and Generalized-ensemble algorithm, and its application to
biomolecules. I'm also interested in parallel computing of molecular
dynamics simulations for large-scale supercomputer systems. I hope I can
learn new techniques from other iTHES members and also make good impacts
on activities of the members through the project.
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Visitors
Prof. Bernold Fiedler
(Institute of Mathematics, Free University of Berlin)
Dynamical Systems, Partial Differential Equations, Pattern Formation, Topological Methods, Chemical Reactors, Bifurcations without parameters
http://dynamics.mi.fu-berlin.de
March 8 - April 10, 2014
Room S404 (4the floor, Bioscience building)
Prof. Bijay Kumar Agrawal
(Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)
Pairing reentrance in hot rotating nuclei
Mar. 15 - 31,2014 room 159 (1st floor, main building)
Dr. Tran Viet Nhan Hao
(Tan Tao University)
Nuclear Physics, Computational Physics
Mar 15 - 30, 2014 room 159, (1st floor, main building)
Prof. Gordon Baym
(Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
cold atom physics, condensed matter physics,
dense matter and neutron stars
http://physics.illinois.edu/people/profile.asp?gbaym
March 18 - April 10, 2014
room 433 (4th floor, main research building)
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