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CREST project starts at Theoretical Biology Laboratory
Atsushi Mochizuki, Interdisciplinary Theoretical Biology Team
We recently obtained a five-years research funding from CREST JST in the area of "Creation of Fundamental Technologies for Understanding and Control of Biosystem Dynamics".
In this project we will study dynamics of complex network systems in biology by combining mathematical theories and experimental verifications. We will collaborate with three groups of experimental biologists including lab. of Dr. Sako, who is an experimental advisor of iTHES. I'm thinking to have opportunities for interaction between iTHES members and our CREST project in near future. By the integration of the projects, we can promote the connection between theoretical and experimental sciences in biology further more.
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Special Theoretical Science Colloquium
We are going to have a special Theoretical Science Colloquium
jointly organized by RIKEN iTHES and Kavli IPMU
on Dec.4 (Wed.)
3pm-4:30pm.
(See the upcoming event below.)
Coffee/tea and cakes will be served from 2:30pm in front of the
lecture room (2nd floor of the RIBF building: The building no.45
of E-3 area in http://www.riken.jp/en/access/wako-map/#campus_map ).
Please join together with your colleagues!
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Upcoming Events
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Seminar
Nov. 26 (Tuesday) 16:00~17:30
Main Research Building, room #124,126
Dr. Wei Ku (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
"Can high-Tc superconductivity be an entirely different beast under strong correlation?"
Seminar
Dec. 2nd, Monday, 2013, 14:00
5F seminar room (535-537), Main Research Bldg.
Mr. George Knee, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, U.K.
"Weak values and quantum estimation"
iTHES Theoretical Science Colloquium
December 4th, Wednesday, 2013, 15:00
2F Large meeting room, RIBF Building
"The Quantum Universe"
Prof. Hitoshi Murayama (KIPMU, Univ. of Tokyo)
iTHES Workshop
Dec. 7-8, 2013
"Interdisciplinary mini-workshop on non-equilibrium physics"
Kyoto university (Room 525, Bldg. No. 5, Faculty of Science)
http://ribf.riken.jp/~hidaka/workshop/iwnp.html
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Person of the Week
Toshiaki Iitaka
Leaping as frogs
My research interest is the material properties at planetary conditions: In situ observation of the interior of Earth, such as crust, mantle and core, is very limited due to the depth, pressure and temperature. Only surface observations of earthquake propagation, geomagnetic fields, etc. are feasible. It’s like clapping a watermelon and guessing the inside. Interior of other solar and extrasolar planets becomes more and more difficult to observe. Therefore theoretical and computational prediction based on the basic principles of quantum mechanics plays an important role in planetary science. The knowledge of Earth’s interior will pave the way to understand the history of Earth and the origin of Life as Prof. Maruyama explained in the first iTHES colloquium. One of my approaches to this problem is developing a computer program for crystal structure prediction to constrain the interior structure of planets. The program generates initial crystal structures randomly and explores the free energy landscape in the phase space for finding the most stable and metastable crystal structures under the given pressure and temperature. We have already successfully discovered new crystal structures, which turned out to have very interesting properties. Since crystal structure prediction has common algorithms with protein structure prediction and nuclear structure prediction, I expect fruitful exchange of ideas with researchers in iTHES community.
As a Colloquium Committee member, I always enjoy iTHES colloquiums and seminars, where all iTHES members are eager to leap into the heated discussions overriding the barriers around their own home fields. No frog wants to stay in the well. So, I am confident of the iTHES’s success. If you are a frog-enthusiast, please visit my FROG site, too.
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