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Yamazaki Lab
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A lab that reads the forms of nature through physics as "patterns."
AboutAbout the lab
Searching for shared mechanisms behind the forms of nature
The Yamazaki Lab studies pattern-formation phenomena and behavioral patterns seen in everyday life.
The branching of cherry trees, snowflakes, cracks in glass, bacterial colonies, flocks of birds and schools of fish: these forms of nature look complex and diverse at first glance.
The lab views them as "patterns" regardless of the fine differences among their components, and tries to bring out the formation mechanisms shared across individual phenomena.
From the viewpoints of statistical physics, nonlinear science, and complex systems science, it aims at simple modeling and the extraction of mathematical structures.
Key terms
- Pattern formation
- The spontaneous emergence of regular shapes or patterns in nature
- Nonlinear science
- A field dealing with phenomena in which input and output are not simply proportional, including pattern formation and chaos
- Cellular automaton
- A simple model in which the cells of a grid switch states according to fixed rules based on the states of their surroundings
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies pattern-formation phenomena and behavioral patterns seen in everyday life from the viewpoints of statistical physics, nonlinear science, and complex systems science. It aims at simple modeling and the extraction of the mathematical structures behind it.
*Illustrative imagePhysics of adhesion
The lab treats the familiar phenomenon of peeling off tape as a physics problem. It investigates nonlinear dynamics, such as how the patterns that appear during peeling form and how they relate to the stiffness of the apparatus.
*Illustrative imageUltradiscrete and max-plus dynamical systems
The lab uses "ultradiscretization," a way of rewriting equations in a form that uses only addition and the maximum. It applies this to studying the periodicity of limit cycles and to deriving rules for reaction-diffusion systems and cellular automata.
*Illustrative imageStatistical properties of competitive team sports
The lab looks at competitive team sports such as soccer through the lens of statistical physics. Its work includes the statistical properties of passing networks that take players' positions into account, hierarchical classification of formations, and evaluation of space.
*Illustrative imageCompetition between local and global interactions
The lab deals with systems in which interactions with nearby neighbors compete with influences that extend over the whole system. Using cellular automaton and dynamical system models, it studies topics such as dynamic transitions between stick-slip states and steady states.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYoshihiro Yamazaki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Snowflake (lumehelves)” Janek Lass / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Physics of adhesion: “Sticky tape” André Karwath aka Aka / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
- Ultradiscrete and max-plus dynamical systems: “Rule30-256-rows” Zhiming Wang / CC0 (cropped)
- Statistical properties of competitive team sports: “Voronoi AAAAA14” SmallJarsWithGreenLabels / CC0 (cropped)
- Competition between local and global interactions: “Belousov Zhabotinsky reaction ( )” Stephen Morris from Toronto, Canada / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Takano Lab): “Crowded cytosol” TimVickers / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Nakazato Lab): “Double slit interference” Aleksandr Berdnikov / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ueda Lab): “Osteosarcoma cells stained for actin, microtubules, and nuclei” Howard Vindin / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Takayama Lab): “Si atoms in graphene ( )” Oak Ridge National Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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