Dr. Mitchell Sogin is a MBL Distinguished Scientist and Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University. His work focuses on microbial evolution and diversity. *Open to public

Speaker: Dr Tomas Cizmar, Reader in Physics and Life Sciences, University of Dundee Seminar title: Multimode Fibres: Seeing through chaos

at Okinawa Prefecture Museum and Art Museum Admission Free

OIST Public Lecture "Eat Play Collide!" Admission Free

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Date/Time: Th 26 Feb 2015 15:00-16:00 Venue: Meeting Room C016, level C, lab 1 Speaker: Dr. Katarzyna Bożek, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology Title: Machine learning and comparative methods in the study of HIV and human evolution

Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Seminar "Roles of a mitochondrial respiratory supercomplex assembly factor in muscle, fat and cancer metabolism."　Prof. Satoshi Inoue

Speaker: Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Prof. Kazimierz Rzazewski, Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Speaker: Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science

Date/Time: Mon 23 February 2015 13:00 – 14:00 Venue: Seminar Room B503, Level B, Centre Bldg. Speaker: William Ryu, Associate Professor, Department of Physics Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto Title: Quantifying and modeling C. elegans exploratory behavior

Ms. Anna Frishman, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

No Registration Required

Join us for February's second Internal Seminar Series on Feb. 20, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit (Tomoyuki Takahashi) and the Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit (Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama).

Seminar by Professor Daisuke Takagi, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Prof. Makoto Tsubota, Osaka City University, Japan

Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit (Shintake Unit) would like to announce a seminar by Dr. Frank Zimmermann, Senior Scientist at CERN (Switzerland).

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Title: Future High-Energy Colliders / Charting the Unknown

Abstract: In 2012 the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider finally discovered the Higgs boson. For its prediction, made some 50 years earlier, Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Higgs boson exhibits a few unique features never before seen. Its close examination may provide answers to several fundamental questions, such as the origin of dark matter, the electroweak phase transition, and the “naturalness” of the...

[Seminar] 'Novel molecular targets for breast and lung cancer stem cells', Prof. Noriko Gotoh, Feb 18th.

3 days of lecture "Quantum Hydrodynamics and Turbulence" by Makoto Tsubota (Professor, Osaka City University, Japan)

Language: English. Open to the public. (1) “Introduction to OIST BNCT" by Profs. Kumada (Univ of Tsukuba) and Yoshioka (KEK, OIST), (2) "New Technology for X-ray and Gamma-ray Imaging" by Profs. Takahashi (JAXA) and Arai (KEK, OIST), and (3) "Our Future: Beyond Metastasis" by Prof. Sugawara (OIST).

Seminar: Prof. J. Paul Bolam, from the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit at the University of Oxford. Title: "Dopamine neurons, synapses and susceptibility in Parkinson’s disease"

Seminar: Prof Catharine Rankin from UBC talks on the complexity of habituation, the simplest form of learning

Language:English. No interpretation will be provided.

Hideyuki Saya, MD, PhD, Professor, Division of Gene Regulation, Institute for Advanced Medical Research, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University

Alessandro Villa. Ph.D. Professor and Associate Dean, Neuroeconomics and Computer Science, University of Lausanne ; President of the European Neural Network Society

National Holiday

This event is an external event. Organized by AMICUS. You are welcome to attend the symposium.

Science and Technology Group invites you to a seminar by Ms.Melissa Carr from Masterwork Conservation.

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

This is an external event organized by Council for Okinawa Prefecture Science Education. Students from Kyushu area will gather and present their science research each other. Contact: 098-857-0481 (Mr. Nakamura)

Join us for February's first Internal Seminar Series on Feb. 6, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Cell Signal Unit (Tadashi Yamamoto) and the Physics and Biology Unit (Jonathan Miller).

This is to open an Art Exhibition "The Jewel Box" organized by Child Development Center. The exhibition will end on 2/16 (Mon).

Prof Timothy Ziman, ILL/Université Joseph Fourier Seminar on skew scattering of electrons including effects of critical spin fluctuations on anomalous and spin Hall effects in ferromagnetic alloys.

Art Exhibition "The Jewel Box" organized by Child Development Center Exhibition Period: February 5 (Thu) - 16 (Mon) Venue: Skywalk, Level C Corridor of the Center Building

Leon Roose, HNEI, University of Hawaii

Seminar will be conductedin English and open to public.

Workshop will be conducted in English and open to public. Registration will start in Dec 2014.

OIST welcomes you to the Open Campus 2015!

Christian Peeters, CNRS Research Professor, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie Paris

Seminar by Prof. Furong Zhu, Department of Physics and Institute of Advanced Materials, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Seminar by Dr. Shiyong Wang, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

This is an externally organized event.

Join us for January's second Internal Seminar Series on Jan. 23, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Chemistry and Chemical Bioengineering Unit (Fujie Tanaka) and the Quantum Systems Unit (Thomas Busch).

Seminar by Prof. Tae-Woo Lee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea

Seminar by Prof. Kilwon Cho, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea

Lecturer: Prof Fam Le Kien, TUV, Austria.

Klaus von Klitzing (1985 Nobel Prize Laureate) will give an introductory talk about his discovery at OIST Workshop DiRT2D. All are welcome!

*Seminar Time and Venue have been changed* "Influenza or Ebola– which is the greater threat?" Seminar by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka