National Holiday.

Coffee and sweets with your Friendly OIST IT Department

Please come and join!

Admission Free, Reservation Required

The first ECO club meeting is Thursday, October 5th, from 5-6 pm in C700. All members of the OIST community are welcomed to join this meeting to plan future ECO projects.

Prof. Shinsuke Sando Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology The University of Tokyo

Speaker: Dr. Dimitrios Giataganas Research Associate, National Center for Theoretical Sciences(NCTS) Date : Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Time : 10:30-11:30am Venue: C756, Lab 3

Yasuyuki Kato, Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo. Language: English

The Topology and Geometry Seminar aims to introduce current mathematical research topics starting from the very basics. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

This is the final talk in a series of 3 lectures on "Curves, surfaces, and symmetries" by Dr Robert Tang (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit).

QG group meeting Speaker: Jake Barnett Title: The correspondence between tunneling and complex classical trajectories

OIST OCEAN Store will start to interface purchasing data with HEART. You will be able to see the budget execution status on budget report of HEART on the next business day. Also, the workflows on HEART will be synchronized with OCEAN. If you are an OCEAN user, and purchase related tiles are not displayed on your top page of HEART, please submit HEART Fin User Authorization Request by Thursday, September 28.

Pre-registration required. Register via phone or email (​E-mail: pato.event2017@gmail.com Phone: 050-5243-8555). Contact the organizers for further information.

Dr. Yoshinori Matsumoto, Professor at Department of Applied Physics and Physico-informatics, Keio University

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Seminar "Bose-Fermi dual superfluids" by Dr. Christophe Salomon, Research Director, ENS, LKB, CNRS, France

The Topology and Geometry Seminar aims to introduce current mathematical research topics starting from the very basics. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

This is the second talk in a series of 3 lectures on "Curves, surfaces, and symmetries" by Dr Robert Tang (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit).

Presentation

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: 21 May 2017 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/cqd/okinawa-school-physics-coherent-quantum-dynamics

Quantum gravity group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "AdS and CFT from twistor space"

Admission free. Reservations required.

National Holiday.

This hands-on workshop is designed for Postdocs, Technicians, Faculty members and Graduate Students (2nd Year +) who want to improve their technical writing skills.

Instructor: Dr. Steve Aird.

Prof. Ben Powell, University of Queensland, Brisbane. Language: English

Seminar by Prof. Yamasaki, Osaka University

This is a three-day international conference on mathematical aspects of continuum mechanics. It is the sequel of the conference series CoMFoS organized by Research activity group in JSIAM 'Mathematical Aspects of Continuum Mechanics' ('MACM').

Language: English, no interpretation.

Come and join a lively discussion with successful KAKENHI recipients. Everyone is welcome!

The Topology and Geometry Seminar aims to introduce current mathematical research topics starting from the very basics. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

This is the first talk in a series of 3 lectures on "Curves, surfaces, and symmetries" by Dr Robert Tang (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit).

QG group meeting Speaker: Tomonori Ugajin Title: "Black holes, holography and quantum information"

Seminar by Benjamin Pingault, Cambridge University, UK

National Holiday.

Admission Free, Reservation Starts on Fri, September 1st at 10am, Reserve at www.oist.jp/concert

OIST and Junku-do, the biggest book store in Okinawa will hold a series of monthly talks featuring OIST scientists whose origin is Okinawa. (Only in Japanese.)

Internal Seminar : Peter Bratby, Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Neuroscience Unit (Erik De Schutter Unit)

Internal Seminar : Girish Beedeesee, Student, Marine Genomics Unit (Satoh Unit)

Dr. Thomas Billam, Lecturer, Newcastle Univesity, UK

Dr. Miklos Lajko, Postdoctoral researcher at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland.Language: English

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

Quantum Gravity group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "Twistor geometry, Penrose transform and higher-spin algebra in (A)dS_4"

Dr. Denis Vion, Research Director, CEA-Saclay, France, Language: English

Dr. Nobuo Tanaka, Professor at Institute for materials and systems for sustainability, Nagoya University. NIMS NOW No.6 (2015) in Japanese language only. http://www.nims.go.jp/publicity/nimsnow/vol15/hdfqf1000006xih3-att/NN_JP_2015_no6.pdf

Koji Ikuta Ph.D. Professor and Director of Biomicro Mechatronics and Robotics Lab. The University of Tokyo. 　Registration: NOT required.

Seminar

Quantum Gravity group meeting Speaker: Linqing Chen Title: "The Infrared story in QED: asymptotic symmetry charge, vacuum degeneracy, soft modes and memory effect"

Title: Skin-friction and vorticity fields in wall-bounded flows and the attached eddy hypothesis

Speaker: Prof. M.S. Chong (University of Melbourne)

Dr. Shunsuke C. Furuya, Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory RIKEN. Language: English

Join Dr. Marius Sudol, National University of Singapore, for a semi-informal talk about his experience with academic research, teaching and mentoring in the international environment.

Everyone is welcome! Registration is not required; however, if you have a specific question, CLICK HERE to submit.

Dr. Ludovic Jaubert, LOMA, University of Bordeaux. Language: English

This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.

Welcome Ceremony for Class of 2017 New Students

Instructor: Mr. Hideo Tanaka (Tomy Digital Biology) Language: English Sessions: 1) Search and Explorer using IPA @ 10:00 – 11:00 2) Omics Data analysis using IPA @ 11:00 – 12:00