Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard helped decipher the logic of the genes required to control early embryonic development. Based on her research, a plethora of transcription control genes was discovered and found to be conserved throughout evolution. In her talk she will discuss the basic mechanisms needed to establish a distinct pattern of cells during embryogenesis. She will also talk about the point of beauty in nature as well as why animals have patterns, a subject on which she has been writing a book. Her research laid the conceptual foundation for our understanding of organ formation and regeneration using the developmental control genes.

Neural Computation Unit (Doya Unit)

OIST Booth at Unna Festival

Workshop for categoerising corals for declaration of village declaration of coral "See Coral, Know Coral"

Prof. Jevon Longdell, Associate Professor, University of Otago.

Language: English

Jazz Concert

Free Admission　No Reservation Required　Rain or Shine

"Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaic and Light-Emission Applications" Prof. Sam Stranks, Cavendish Labratory, University of Cambridge

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

If you have not yet heard of this innovative problem-solving strategy, or if you’ve heard about it and wonder if it could be useful to you and your team, this workshop is the answer. This interactive workshop introduces the design thinking process and gives you a hands-on opportunity to apply design thinking to a ubiquitous problem of today’s workplace .

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We provide the bin bags and you provide the free labour! Let's clean our local beaches and protect our ocean.

Internal Seminar, Friday July 20th, 2018, 4-5pm C700

Internal Seminar, Friday July 20th, 2018, C700

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

The Library would like to invite you to the Institutional Repository (OISTIR) Seminar on July, 20 (Friday).

Last year, we held "Institutional Repository & Archival of Research Data" in cooperation with the Dean of Research Office.

This year, we would like to give information about Open Access and some updates related to OISTIR.

Date: July 20 (Friday)

Time: 10:00-10:25 (English)

10:30-10:55 (Japanese)

Venue: B250, Center Building

7/20(Fri) Seaside House lobby lightings repair/シーサイドハウスロビーの照明修繕作業

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

Seminar by Prof. Ariane Briegel, Professor of Ultrastructural biology

Thesis Public Presentation

Speaker: Tsai-Ming Lu

Title: Comparative genomic studies on Dicyema japonicum : the phylogenetic position of dicyemids and the genomic adaptations to parasitic lifestyle

Ecology and Evolution seminar #6 Semiar by Prof. Tatiana Tatarinova (University of La Verne), July 18th (Wed) 2-3pm at B250. All is welcome.

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

Prof. Nobuhiko Tokuriki, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada

Dr. Kevin Dorgans, Postdoc, Universite de Strasbourg. Language: English

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Dr. Naruya Saitou, Professor, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima

Language: English, no interpretation

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky.

To celebrate the national holiday designed to appreciate the ocean (Umi-No-Hi), members of UMI will be guiding people around the reef flats at Maeda.

National holiday.

" Peshawari Mutton Chop Polov"

Dr. Andrés A León Baldelli, CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France. Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar

Speaker: Prof. Phan-Thien Nhan

Title: SPH modeling of fiber orientation in a 3D printing process

Institution: National University of Singapore

[Seminar]

Speaker: Dr. Xiangyu Hu

Titile: SPH modeling of fluid-structure interaction

Institution: Tehcnical University of Munich

Interactive orientation for Postdoctoral Scholars who joint OIST April -June 2018.

Thesis Public Presentation

Speaker: Chola Kalale

Title: Development of an SPH variant of implicit LES for studying wave energy transport

Dance performance by Kaori Asahiro -Von Einem, der die Steine belauscht-(About One Who Eavesdrops On The Stones)

Instruction on how to write a resume that will appeal to English-based businesses, Michael Ardaiolo, Vice Consul, U.S. Consulate General Naha. Admission free. No reservation required. Session will be in English.

Instruction on how to write a resume that will appeal to English-based businesses, Michael Ardaiolo, Vice Consul, U.S. Consulate General Naha. Admission free. No reservation required. Session will be in English.

Learn about job opportunities at OIST and 5 local hotels. Participation free. No reservation required. No dress requirements. No age limits. No résume required. Campus tours available.

Internal Seminar, Friday July 6th, 2018, 4-5pm, C700 (lab 3)

Internal Seminar: Friday, July 6th, 2018, 4-5pm, C700 (Lab 3)

Seminar: "Interlayer excitons confined in a moiré potential" by Prof. Xiaoqin E Li, UT-Austin.

Prof. Michael Laessig, University of Cologne

Speaker: Prof. Masahiro Kitagawa

Affiliation: Osaka Univerisy, Japan

Date: July 5, Thursday 2018

Venue: D013, Lab1

Three PIs from NICT (t he National Institute of Information and Communications Technology ) , Masahiro Takeoka, Hirotaka Terai, and Kouichi Semba, will present their recent researches on quantum information and technology.

As a first of OIST Presidential Lecture Series, Dr. Hitoshi Murayama, Director of Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, the University of Tokyo, will talk about Dark Matter and Dark Energy, which are considered to make up 95% of the Universe.

Seminar hosted by TQM unit

Dr. Joe Welch, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, UK. Language: English, no interpretation.

We present a Freedman-Robertson-Walker solution of higher spin theory in four dimesions. It is obtained by employing a holomorphic factorization in noncommutative twistor space and gauge functions. We interpret the FRW solution in the context of inflationary cosmology. In interpreting the solution in terms of Fronsdal-type fields in spacetime, a field-dependent higher spin transformation is required, which is implemented at leading order. We also observe that the factorization method provides a convenient framework for setting up a perturbation theory around the exact solutions, and we propose that the nonlinear completion of particle excitations over FRW requires black hole-like states.

In this talk I will review recent results revealing the connection between chiral higher spin theories and self-duality as well as discuss consequences of this connection.

Starting from a generic near horizon expansion in any spacetime dimension greater than two we derive all near horizon symmetries and discover a wealth of novel results: 1. Any non-extremal horizon has an infinite set of near horizon symmetries and associated soft hair excitations. 2. The near horizon symmetries can be represented as generalization of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs algebra. 3. For horizons that are either flat or non-rotating the near horizon symmetries can be represented as Heisenberg algebras, with one quarter of the inverse of Newton's constant playing the role of Planck's constant. 4. Not only black holes, but also cosmological horizons are equipped with soft hair. We discuss implications of soft hair for horizon thermodynamics and entropy, and comment on open problems and further developments, including possible applications to higher spin theories.

English with no interpretation. Admission free. No reservation required. Suitable for general public audience. Part of "Strings 2018." Dr. Hirosi Ooguri is Professor at CalTech, President of the Aspen Center for Physics, and PI of the Kavli Institute at UTokyo.

There is a no-go theorem stating that de Sitter space cannot be supersymmetric, unless the theory violates unitarity. The nonunitary can manifest itself for instance by the presence of ghost fields. We point out that Vasiliev higher spin gravity evades the assumptions of the no-go theorem and provide evidence that dS space can be consistently supersymmetrized. This relates to the fact that the supersymmetric AdS-Vasiliev/U(N) model duality can be consistently Wickrotated into a supersymmetric dS-Vasiliev/U(-N) duality, providing a concrete supersymmetric dS/CFT duality. Using dS/CFT, we compute the dS Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for a range of deformations. We show that the wavefunction is peaked at undeformed dS space and large deformations are supressed, indicating an absence of ghosts. We speculate on the possibility of a stringy interpetation of dS/CFT in terms of exotic string theories. Based in part on [1709.06024] JHEP 02 (2018) 024.