Part II: A few common uses for Python on the Cluster. Bring a laptop, and make sure you have access to Sango and Tombo clusters.

Lecture title: Event-ready loophole free Bell tests - From Foundations to Applications Speaker: Prof. Harald Weinfurter, University of Munich, Germany

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

"Dr. Bojana Kokinovic, Postdoc, Umea University. Language: English"

Prof. Paola Laurino (Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit, OIST). "Towards an ancient finger print of Rossmann fold enzymes and the evolution of SAM methylation", 10:00-11:00, April 18 (wed).

Lecture title: Spin dynamics of individual neutral impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate Speaker: Prof. Artur Widera, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

Lecture title: Semiclassical wave packet dynamics in quantum systems with loss and gain Speaker: Dr. Eva-Maria Graefe, Imperial College London, UK.

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

Part I: Introduce the Python language. Bring a laptop, and ask for access to Sango and Tombo clusters beforehand.

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: January 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/c3qs

Internal Seminar, Maeva Techer, Postdoc, Ecology and Evolution (Mikheyev Unit)

C700, 4:30-5:00 pm

Dr. Joel P. Schneider, Chief of Chemical Biology Laboratory Head, Peptide Design and Materials Section Center for Cancer Research Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Speaker: Dr. Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Deputy laboratory head from Laboratory for motor learning control, RIKEN Brain Science Institute Language: English

Internal Seminar, Sebastien Lapointe, PhD Student, Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit

C700, 4:00-4:30 pm

Speaker: Prof. Remi Munos

Date,Time,Venue: April 13, Friday from 14:00-15:00 @B711, Lab3

Title: "Several challenges of deep Reinforcement Learning"

Affiliation: INRIA (currently visiting Google DeepMind) Lille, France (London, UK)

Lecture of 10:30 and 15:30 starting on Friday 13th.

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend

This week, Dr. Dale Koenig (Tsvietkova Unit) will talk on "3-manifolds in trisections".

"Dr. Juha Kere, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Karolinska Institute and Professor of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, King's College London. Language: English, no interpretation."

Seminar by Prof. Karlo Penc from Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest

Speaker: Dr Dipankar Mondal, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India

Speaker: Prof. Heng-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University Date : Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: A phase space in your phase space

Speaker: Mr Sylvain de Léséleuc, Institut d'Optique - Orsay, France

The weekly Topology and Geometry Seminar, with Dr. Yasha Neiman.

Prof. Peter Kharchenko, Department of Biomedical Informatics of the Harvard Medical School, US

Prof. Igor Adameyko, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

"Dr. Hideyuki Saya, Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University. Language: English, no interpretation."

Seminar by Dr. Evgney Ivashkin

Seminar by Dr. Oleg Gusev

Speaker: Dr Yong Yang, Senior research fellow, Institute of Photonics, Aston University, UK

Dr Cetin, Senior Manager, Allen Institute for Brain Science and Assistant Professor (affiliate faculty), Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington School of Medicine

Prof. Michael Shadlen MD PhD

Department of Neuroscience

Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute

Kavli Institute of Brain Science

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Columbia University

Internal seminar: Alex Tang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit

C700, 4:30-5:00pm

Internal Seminar: Cindy Esporlas, PhD Student, Light-Matter Interactions Unit

4:00-4:30pm, C700

Speaker: Austin B. Mudd Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley Date : Thursday, March 29, 2018 Time : 3:45pm-4:45pm Venue: C210, Center Building

Speaker: Jessen V. Bredeson Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley Date : Thursday, March 29, 2018 Time : 2:30pm-3:30pm Venue: C210, Center Building

Prof. Anasavarapu Srikantha Phani, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Canada. Language: English, no interpretation.

Speaker: Dr. G. Albert Wu U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute Date : Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Time : 3:45pm-4:45pm Venue: C209, Center Building

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

Speaker: Dr. Therese Mitros University of California, Berkeley Date : Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Time : 2:30pm-3:30pm Venue: C209, Center Building

Neural Computation Unit will hold an internal workshop at Seaside House. By invitation only

Seminar by Prof. Murat Kazanci from Istanbul Medeniyet University.

Speaker: Prof. Tadashi Takayanagi, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University Date : Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

Seminar " Onset of Random Matrix Behavior in Scrambling Systems" by Masanori Hanada (Kyoto/Colorado) Mar 26 (Mon) 11:00-12:00 C015, Lab1, English

Select female high school students from Okinawa will learn about cutting edge science by participating in fun, hands-on workshops.

Speaker: Dr. Dionysios Anninos, University of Amsterdam Date : Friday, March 23, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

"Effective Visual Communication of Science: how to visualize your scientific ideas and help your audience effortlessly grasp the essence of your research". This 2 day workshop is especially valuable for PostDocs, PhD students and other researchers who have to communicate complex ideas and results

Registration is required. Space is limited to 24 participants. Priority will be given to Postdocs.

National holiday.

seminar by Dr Goda on March 20

Emergence of Intelligence through End-to-End Reinforcement Learning and Chaos-based Reinforcement Learning towards the Emergence of "Thinking" by Dr. Katsunari Shibata, Oita University

Speaker: Lashmi Piriya Ananda Babu

Title: Functional roles of microtubules in a giant presynaptic terminal

Speaker: Dr. Henrique von Gersdorff from Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University