Title
Prime Number and Life - New Paradigm for the 21st Century -

Organizers
Kazuo Kuwata (Gifu University)

Synopsis
Biological problems may arise from the complexity of combinations or the nature of many body dynamics. Human brain plays a variety of functions based on these complexities, and created a notion of ‘time’, which is only meaningful for life and counts the number of non-commutative events occurring locally around the observed region. This non-commutativity is inevitably connected to various number theoretical problems, such as Riemann hypothesis.
On the other hand, the existence of magicicada cassini provides us with some fundamental relationship between the prime number theory and the basic principles of life. Here we will discuss on the representation of life from various mathematical pints of view, especially focusing on the protein conformation, the dynamics, the interaction with other molecules, and the evolution of prion in a given environment. Final goal would be to construct the new paradigm hopefully, c.f. ‘life dynamics’ in place of ‘quantum dynamics’. The new paradigm could give us also the novel theoretical schemes in relation with various biological applications such as drug discovery as well as other open life sciences.

Speakers
・ Jin Yoshimura (Shizuoka University): 17 and 13 years, the secret of magicicada
・ Akio Kawauchi (Osaka City University): Application of knot theory to prion diseases
・ Takeshi Ishikawa (Gifu University): Fragment molecular orbital method and number theory
・ Kazuo Kuwata (Gifu University): Number theory, protein dynamics and prion





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