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In April 2012, I visited the Institute for
the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) at the
University of Tokyo, where I gave a
seminar on The
Program in Interdisciplinary Studies at IAS, Princeton.
In March 2012, I gave the annual William Witherspoon Lecture in
Theology and Science at the Center
for Theological Inquiry in Princeton.
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In February 2012, my Program in
Interdisciplinary Studies organized a short series of weekly
lectures by current members. Here are the slides from Monica Manolescu,
about Ways of (Not) Knowing:
Cartography, Art, Literature, and Philip Ording,
about Variations on a Proof:
Mathematical Exercises in Style.
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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