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In January 2012, I organized a one-day workshop, together with
Jun Makino,
at Tokyo Institute for
Technology. The title was
New
Mathematical Techniques for High Performance Computing.
A central discussion point was: how to simulate star clusters with
millions of stars on supercomputers with millions of cores?
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In December 2011, I participated as one of the organizers in the
MODEST-11
workshop at the Lorentz Center
in Leiden, Holland, a very well organized dedicated Dutch national
center where every week a different scientific meeting is being held.
In October 2011, I gave a lecture, followed by a discussion, on
Exploring
the Use of Virtual Worlds for Interdisciplinary Research, in a
mixed virtual/real event organized at Exeter
University in Real Life and in the European University campus in
Second Life. It was a fun way to exchange experiences in the use of
virtual worlds for education and research.
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In August 2011, I gave the
Introductory
talk for the MODEST-10d workshop
entitled "High-Level Languages for Hugely Parallel Astrophysics Simulations:
Dialogues between Computer Scientists and (Astro)physicists", that
Jun Makino and I organized
at the
Center
for Planetary Sciences at
Kobe University.
In July
2011, Ataru
Tanikawa,
Jun Makino and I
finished a preprint titled
Unexpected Formation Modes of
the First Hard Binary in Core Collapse. In this paper, which is
accepted for publication
in New
Astronomy, for the first time we show how exactly the first hard
binary is formed in core collapse of a collisional N-body system,
such as a star cluster.
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In June 2011, the
K
computer in Kobe, Japan, became the fastest supercomputer in the world,
even though it was only 80% completed. I would visit the K computer center
later in the summer, in Aug/Sep. As far as I know, it is the only
supercomputer that has a train station named after it:
K
computer mae, which means "the station in front of the K computer".
Also in June, we held an interdisciplinary workshop
Adventures of
Categories at the Research
Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Kyoto University, for which
I was a member of the scientific organizing committee.
In May 2011, I visited my collaborator
Hayato
Saigo at his new work place, the
Nagahama
Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, a recently established
modern research institute, located north of Kyoto, near Maibara.
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In April 2011, I visited
Jun Makino, one of
my long-time collaborators, at his new home base, the
Interactive
Research Center of Science, a newly established interdisciplinary
educational and research organization, embracing all science departments
at the Tokyo Institute for
Technology.
In March 2011, I found that I could
easily
compute my
Erdős number,
and found to my surprise that my Erdős number = 3 (Paul Erdős wrote a paper
with Harold Shapiro, who wrote a paper with Max Tegmark, who wrote a
paper with me).
I used the same web site to find out that my Einstein number = 4
(Albert Einstein wrote a paper with Peter Bergmann, who wrote a paper
with Joel Lebowitz, who wrote a paper with David Ruelle, who wrote a
paper with me).
In February 2011, I was
interviewed
by William Storrar, Director of the
Center for Theological Inquiry
about my work in interdisciplinary studies.
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In December 2010, I gave a talk at Kyoto University, titled
A
Game of Arrows: Widely Interdisciplinary Research. It was placed
on the web as a set
of six
YouTube videos.
Also in December, I visited the
Center
for Planetary Sciences at
Kobe University,
a lively new center that was founded three years ago.
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In November 2010, I visited
Jun Tani's lab at
RIKEN in Tokyo, to discuss
with Jun Tani how Husserlian
phenomenology
may be useful in robotics.
Also in November, I visited
Shigeru Taguchi
at Yamagata University, in
order to start a collaboration on the use of Husserlian phenomenology
in various forms of interdisciplinary research.
In September 2010, I started my fall visit at the
Research Institute for
Mathematical Sciences at Kyoto University, an interdisciplinary
organization covering a broad range of mathematics, from pure to
applied, including the history of mathematics.
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In August 2010, I attended the
MODEST-10 conference in
Beijing, where I gave the summary talk at the end of the meeting. The
vibrant international atmosphere at the
Kavli Institute for Astronomy and
Astrophysics, where part of the conference was held, was especially
impressive.
In July 2010, I visited
Dan Zahavi,
professor in philosophy at the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, to
continue our discussions about how to introduce Husserlian
phenomenology to a wider audience.
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In June 2010, I visited Kyoto University, and I was impressed to hear
about a new
project Paraiso
(Portuguese for `paradise': PARallel Automated Integration Scheme
Organizer) that was started there by Takayuki Muranishi, in the
interdisciplinary
Hakubi
group. His aim is to make it much easier to write highly parellel
computer code for scientific simulations.
In May 2010, I visited NAOJ, the
National Astronomical Observatory Japan,
in Tokyo, where I
met Kimihiko
Hirao, Deputy Director of the
Next-Generation
Supercomputer R & D Center in Kobe, Japan, and his group
who were introduced to the 4D2U
scientific visualization project. It was
interesting to hear about the plans for the new Advanced Institute for
Computational Science in Kobe, for which Hirao will be the director,
and which will open this summer.
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