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Masaki Oshikawa

@masakioshikawa.bsky.social
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 1h
Mirror Lake in OSU Campus
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Breakfast
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mission Coffee Co., Columbus OH
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Got an outdoor dining table on the deck
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Got a new commuter bike! The blue “bd-1” (Birdy) folding bike is under repair but will come back, too.
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Renaming the village
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seafood Fra Diavolo
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Danfords Hotel & Marina, Port Jefferson NY
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sopa de Mariscos
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thomas Jefferson statue in Port Jefferson, NY
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ferry
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Got a car (but I will keep commuting by bike)
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Veterans Plaza at Mallway Park, Upper Arlington
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Received moving boxes from Japan
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tumbling composter
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Alum Creek
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
North Market, Columbus OH
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New faculties reception at OSU President’s House
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Indian Run Meadows Park, Dublin OH
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Entering Dublin, OH
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s HOT in Columbus these days 🥵
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pho and spring rolls
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Antrim Lake and Antrim Park, on the way to the OSU
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
West Woodruff Avenue in the OSU Campus
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
红烧牛肉面 / Braised beef noodle
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My name is… BASAKI 😅 OK, this is the first time getting this
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Antrim Lake at dusk, on the way back from the OSU
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Encounter on my way to the OSU
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ohio Stadium at the Ohio State University
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Goodbye Japan, see you again!
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ITP Housing Questionnaire Form in 1997 Long before the Munger Residence was built, private housing had to be arranged for long-term participants by Monica Curry. Part of me misses the interesting experience of staying in various places around Santa Barbara and interacting with landlords.
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Another find: invitation letter to ITP, UC Santa Barbara Program. This was my first long (> 1 week) visit to (K)ITP. I remember this visit very well, but forgot that I went there as an affiliate of Ian Affleck.
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yet another photo rediscovered recently Lake Mead (Hoover Dam) near Las Vegas, July 1992 I was a graduate student, and visitedthe US for the first time to attend a workshop at ITP (without “K” back then), UC Santa Barbara. After the workshop, I traveled for a while with Greyhound Bus.
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Ten-don (tempura rice bowl)
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Another photo rediscovered. The school cap looks new, so probably this was taken around when I started junior high school of Kaisei Academy (April 1980).
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I have been trying to clear out my office at ISSP, and found several interesting documents. This is a record of one of the luckiest things happened to my life — the postdoc offer from Ian Affleck in 1995!
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
in Japan
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Recently published: Generalized Kramers-Wannier Duality from Bilinear Phase Map This is mostly by Linhao LI and Han Yan and I joined the project only at the later stage. Anyway, it is nice to see that the celebrated Kramers-Wannier duality can be systematically generalized! doi.org/10.1103/g1l7...
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ethiopian Parliament Building
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Ethiopian food in a Food Court Menu was completely in Ethiopian (Amharic); this place apparently targets local population. I was not so hungry and ordered the least expensive 650ETB dish, but it had a decent amount for a meal. The price level here looks very roughly similar to Japan.
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Jewelry shop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (during layover)
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Stone Town, Zanzibar
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Parsis are a small but quite influential minority group in India, originating from the Persian refugees in the 7th(!) Century. There were also hundreds of Parsis in Zanzibar under the British rule. Freddie Mercury, the legendary rock singer, was born in one of such Parsi families in Zanzibar.
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Bi Khole’s Palace Ruins (built in 1860) Bi Khole (Lady Khole) was a daughter of Sultan Al-Said, who was a Sultan of Oman and later became a Sultan of Zanzibar as well.
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Unguja” is the main island of Zanzibar archipelago (also known as Zanzibar island). It is somewhat larger (1,666 km^2) than Okinawa main island (1,207 km^2).
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We are shuttled to the conference venue by used buses from Japan (and many other cars with Japanese signs are running around in Zanzibar)
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Indian Institute of Technology Madras Zanzibar Campus
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Shop and restaurant in Kibele, Zanzibar
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Forodhani Gardens, Zanzibar, Tanzania
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Masaki Oshikawa @masakioshikawa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Venue of the Conference Dinner
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