Recent News

Publication

Shinnosuke Kawai and Tamiki Komatsuzaki, "Why and how do systems react in thermally fluctuating environments?"was published in Section of Perspectives in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Dec 2, 2011)

Publication

Tatyana Terentyeva, Hans Engelkamp, Alan Rowan, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, Johan Hofkens, Chun Biu Li, Kerstin Blank, "Dynamic Disorder in Single Enzyme Experiments: Facts and Artifacts" was accepted for ACS Nano (December 2012).

Publication

From John-Wiley & Sons, Inc., "Single Molecule Biophysics: Experiments and Theories" Advances in Chemical Physics,146 （2011） eds by Komatsuzaki, Berry and Leitner was publishsed (Dr. Chun Biu Li's cover art was selected as for the front cover art) (November 2011).

Publication

Tamiki Komatsuzaki, 'My memory of Prof. Shuichi Tasaki' Bussei Kenkyuu (Kyoto) was published (November 2011).

Publication

Hiroshi Teramoto, Mikito Toda, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, "Advanced Understanding of Transport Phenomena in High-dimensional Dynamical systems: Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Manifold, its Stable/Unstable Invariant Maniolds and their Breakdown", Bussei Kenkyu (Kyoto) was published (November 2011).

People

Mr. Preetom Nag joined our laboratory (Oct 1, 2011)

Publication

Naoki Miyagawa, Hiroshi Teramoto, Chun-Biu Li and Tamiki Komatsuzaki, 'Decomposability of Multivariate Interactions' was accepted for Complex Systems (Sep. 4, 2011)

Publication

From John-Wiley & Sons, Inc., "Advancing Theory for Kinetics and Dynamics of Complex, Many-Dimensional Systems: Clusters and Proteins" Advances in Chemical Physics,145 （2011） eds by Komatsuzaki, Berry and Leitner was publishsed (Dr. Shinnosuke Kawai's cover art was selected as for the front cover art) (August 2011).

Conference/Workshop

We organized Telluride workshop "The Complexity of Dynamics and Kinetics in Many Dimensions" at Telluride Science Research Center,Telluride,CO (Jun 20-24,2011).

Conference/Workshop

We organized a Hokudai theoretical chemistry joint seminar 2011 with Professor Tetsuya Taketsugu's Quantum Chemistry Laboratory in Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University （Jun 16,2011）.

News

The open house of our institute was held and we exhibited our research activity to the citizens in Sapporo (June 4, 2011)

News

Our paper, Shinnosuke Kawai and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Robust existence of a reaction boundary to separate the fate of a chemical reaction' Physical Review Letters 105, 048304 (2010) was selected as one of the most outstanding achievements in our institute in 2010 (April 27, 2011).

People

Dr. Shinnosuke Kawai was appointed as project assistant professor and Mr. Yuta Chiba and Mr. Masahiro Kikuchi joined our laboratory (April 1, 2011)

Award

Dr. Shinnosuke Kawai received PCCP Prize for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics from Royal Society of Chemistry (March 1, 2011)

Publication

Shinnosuke Kawai and Tamiki Komatsuzaki, "Derivation of the Generalized Langevin Equation in Non-stationary environments" was accepted for Journal of Chemical Physics (Feb 12, 2011)

Publication

Shinnosuke Kawai and Tamiki Komatsuzaki, "Phase Space Geometry of Dynamics Passing through Saddle Coupled with Spatial Rotation" was accepted for Journal of Chemical Physics (Jan 26, 2011)

Publication　

Hiroshi Teramoto, Mikito Toda, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, "A Dynamical Switching of a Reaction Coordinate to Carry the System Through to a Different Product State at High Energies" was accepted for　Physical Review Letters (January 6, 2011).

Publication

An invited article of the work by Prof. Chun Biu Li was published in a book entitled "Cell Signalling Reactions," Springer (December 13, 2010)

Publication

Shinnosuke Kawai and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Quantum Reaction Boundary to Mediate Reactions in Laser Fields' was accepted for Journal of Chemical Physics (December 2, 2010)

Publication

Shinnosuke Kawai and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Quantum Reaction Boundary to Mediate Reactions in Laser Fields' was accepted for Journal of Chemical Physics (December 2, 2010)

Sports

The doubles team, Prof.. Chun Biu Li and Prof.Nishimura, won the first prize at the elimination tournament of table tennis in Research Institute for Electronic Science in Hokkaido University (Nov. 26, 2010)

People
Dr. Mesfin Asfaw moved to California state University (November 1,2010)

Publication

Akinori Baba and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Extracting the Underlying Effective Free Energy Landscape From Single-Molecule Time Series --- Local Equilibrium States and their Network' was accepted for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (October 15,2010)

People
Mr. Zhou Liu joined our laboratory from Department of Biology, Fudan University (October 1,2010)

People
Dr. Akinori Baba moved to RIKEN Center of Developmental Biology (October 1,2010)

Publication

Hiroshi Teramoto and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'How does a choice of Markov partition affect the resultant symbolic dynamics?' was accepted for Chaos < Focus Issue on "Intrinsic and Designed Computation: Information processing in dynamical Systems"> (August 31,2010)

Publication

Shinnosuke Kawai and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Dynamical Reaction Coordinate in Thermally Fluctuating Environments in the Framework of Multidimensional Generalized Langevin Equations' was accepted for Physical Chemsitry Chemical Physics (August 12, 2010)

Publication

Shinnosuke Kawai and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Robust existence of a reaction boundary to separate the fate of a chemical reaction' was accepted for Physical Review Letters (June 24, 2010)

Movement

Most of our laboratory eventually moved to the same floor of the building in the north campus (June 18, 2010)

Publication

Yasuhiro Matsunaga, Chun Biu Li, and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Collectivity at Different Space and Time Scales in Multiscale Protein Dynamics' was accepted for Physical Review E (June 12, 2010)

News

The open house of our institute was held and we exhibited our research activity to the citizens in Sapporo (June 5, 2010)

Publication

Shinnosuke Kawai and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Nonlinear Dynamical Effects on Reaction Rates in Thermally Fluctuating Environments', 'Hierarchy of Reaction Dynamics in a Thermally Fluctuating Environment' were accepted for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (April 8, 2010)

Award

Our application with groups in Dortmund TU and Princeton Univ. was approved for Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

(March 30, 2010)

People
Mr. Kitamura, Mr. Sakurai graduated from Math. Department (March 25,2010)

Award

Mr. Yutaka Nagahata received an excellent award in a Sakigake mathematical workshop on "cooperation between applied mathematics and physics- let's make and move your mathematical model. (March, 8-10, 2010)

Publication

Shinnosuke Kawai and Tamiki Komatsuzaki : "Dynamic pathways to mediate reactions buried in thermal fluctuations. I: Time-dependent normal form theory for multidimensional Langevin equation", "Dynamic pathways to mediate reactions buried in thermal fluctuations II: numerical illustrations using a model system" were accepted for Journal of Chemical Physics(Dec. 9, 2009)

Publication

Chun Biu Li, Haw Yang, and Tamiki Komatsuzaki: "New Quantification of Local Transition Heterogeneity of Multiscale Complex Networks Constructed from Single-Molecule Time Series" was accepted for Journal of Physical Chemistry B (Oct. 14, 2009)

People

New member,Dr.Mesfin Asfaw joined our laboratory(July 27,2009)

Conference/Workshop

We organized the workshop entitled"The Complexity of Dynamics and Kinetics in Many Dimensions" at Telluride Science Research Center,Telluride,CO.(Jun .29-Jul 3,2009)

People

New member,Dr.Masahiro Itoh joined our laboratory(June 1,2009)

New member,Dr.Kitsakorn Locharoenrat joined our laboratory(May 7,2009)

New members, Dr.Kamlesh Awasthi ,Mr.Naoki Miyagawa,Mr. Daisuke Sakurai and Mr.Hiroto Kitamura joined our laboratory (April 1, 2009)

Publication

Chun Biu Li, Mikito Toda, and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Bifurcation of Transition States in Many-Degrees of Freedom Chemical Reactions' was accepted for publication in J.Chem.Phys. (Jan. 19, 2009)

Conference/Workshop

Dr. Akinori Baba's poster presentation at Institute for Protein Research Seminar on New Approaches to Complexity of Protein Dynamics by Single Molecule Measurements: Experiments and Theories was awarded as one of the best presentations "Multidimensional energy landscape from single molecule time series" (Osaka, Japan) (Dec 7 -9, 2008).

Conference/Workshop

Prof. Chun Biu Li presented an invited talk and Dr. Hiroshi Teramoto, Dr. Akinori Baba and Mr. Kazuto Sei presented posters at Institute for Protein Research Seminar on New Approaches to Complexity of Protein Dynamics by Single Molecule Measurements: Experiments and Theories (Osaka, Japan) (Dec 7 -9, 2008).

Conference/Workshop

Prof. Chun Biu Li and Mr. Kazuto Sei presented invited talks, and Dr. Hiroshi Teramoto, Dr. Akinori Baba poster presentation at 46th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, Dec 3 -5, 2008(Fukuoka)

Conference/Workshop

Prof. Chun Biu Li, and Dr. Hiroshi Teramoto presented invited talks at Workshop on Interfacial dynamics on the boundaries of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics, (Hokkaido)(Nov. 20, 2008).

Conference/Workshop

Dr. Shinnosuke Kawai's presentation at Stereodynamics2008 was selected as a hot topic presentation "Dimension reduction for the analyses of reaction dynamics of O(1D)+N2O -> NO+NO" (Dalian, China) (Oct. 13–18, 2008).

People

Mr. Johannes-Geert Hagmann from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon who has joined our laboratory within the graduate exchange program of the Japanese-French doctoral college went back to France by finishing his term in Japan (Sep. 17, 2008)

Publication

Hiroshi Teramoto and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Exploring Remnant of Invariants Buried in a Deep Potential Well in Chemical Reactions' was accepted for publication in J.Chem.Phys. (Jul. 26, 2008)

Movement

The part of our laboratory moved to a new building in the north part of the university campus (Jul. 24, 2008)

People

Dr. Hiroshi Teramoto was appointed as an assistant professor in our laboratory (June 16 2008)

News

The open house of our institute was held and we presented our researches to people in Sapporo (June 7, 2008)

Conference/Workshop

Dr. Shinnosuke Kawai et al presented their research at 24th Symposium on Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics (Hokkaido) (June 2-4, 2008).

Publication

Hiroshi Teramoto and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Probing remnant invariants to mediate energy exchange in a highly-chaotic many-dimensional system' was accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E (May. 30 2008)

People

New members, Mr. Yutaka Nagahata and Dr. Shinnosuke Kawai, joined our laboratory (April 1, 2008)

Sports

We went to a laboratory ski tour in Sapporo Kokusai (Mar. 29-30, 2008)

Conference/Workshop

Dr. Hiroshi Teramoto and Mr. Johannes-Geert Hagmann presented their research at the 63rd Annual Conference of Physical Society of Japan (Kinki Univ. Osaka) (March 22-26, 2008).

Conference/Workshop

Mr. Kazuto Sei (D2) et al. presented at the meeting at Hokkaido branch of Biophysical Society of Japan (March 18, 2008)

People

Dr. Chun Biu Li was appointed as an associate professor in our laboratory (March 1 2008)

Conference/Workshop

We organized the second workshop entitled "Renaissance of Dynamical Systems" to explore the foundations of chemical reaction and protein dynamics in terms of geometrical structures in high-dimensional phase space (Nara Women's Univ.) (Feb. 20-22, 2008)

People

The new position of research associate was opened in our laboratory (Feb. 18, 2008)

Sports

The doubles team, Dr. Chun Biu Li and Ms. Kayo Abe, won the first prize at the elimination tournament of badminton in Hokkaido University (Prize: Sport towels and socks) (Jan. 22, 2008)

Conference/Workshop

Dr. Hiroshi Teramoto was invited at the workshop of young researchers "Searching the frontier of Theoretical Chemistry" (IMS, Okazaki) (Jan. 15-17, 2008)

Publication

Chun Biu Li, Haw Yang, and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Multiscale Complex Network of Protein Conformational Fluctuation Buried in Single Molecule Time Series' was published in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (Jan. 15 2008)

Sports

We went to a laboratory ski tour in Niseko (Jan. 12-14, 2008)

Conference/Workshop

Dr. Hiroshi Teramoto et al. presented their researches at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan (Yokohama) (Dec. 21-23, 2007)

Publication

Yasuhiro Matsunaga, Chun Biu Li, and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Anomalous Diffusion in Folding Dynamics on Minimalist Protein Landscape' was published in Physical Review Letters (Dec. 7, 2007)

Publication

Akinori Baba and Tamiki Komatsuzaki 'Construction of effective free energy landscape from single molecule time series' was published in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (Dec. 4 2007)

Conference/Workshop

We organized the first workshop entitled "Renaissance of Dynamical Systems" to explore the foundation of chemical reaction and protein dynamics in terms of high-dimensional phase space geometrical structures (Nara Women's Univ.) (Dec. 2-4, 2007)

Sports

The doubles team, Dr. Akinori Baba and Dr. Chun Biu Li, won the first prize at the elimination tournament of table tennis in Research Institute for Electronic Science in Hokkaido University (Prize: two mini-whisky) (Nov. 28, 2007)

News

Dr. Akinori Baba's paper in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA was highlighted in three newspapers in Japan (Nov. 20-22, 2007)

News

"Press release" of Dr. Akinori Baba's paper in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA from Japan Science and Technology Agency (Nov. 20, 2007)

People

New member Mr. Johannes-Geert Hagmann from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon joined our laboratory within the graduate exchange program of the Japanese-French doctoral college (Nov. 19, 2007)

Publication

Akira Shojiguchi,Chun Biu Li, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, and Mikito Toda 'Fractional Behavior in Multi-Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems Describing Reactions' was published in Physical Review E (Nov. 8, 2007)

People

New member Ms. Kayo Abe (Secretary) joined our laboratory (Oct. 22, 2007)

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Our new laboratory started at the Research Institute for Electronic Science (Oct. 1, 2007)