Mr. Terry O’Connor, Communications Director for the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: Jan 15, 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/mtpu/oist-symposium-bootstrap-approach-conformal-field-theories-and-applications

On Friday, March 16th, the last event of the OIST Science Talk Series featuring OIST scientists from Okinawa will take place. The talk series was very popular and well received by the public, so we decided to have an extra event in March in which five of the six speakers will get together and respond to questions come from the public. The event will start from 18:30-19:30 at Junku-do Book Store in Naha (1-19-29 Makishi, Naha-city). *The talk is in Japanese only.

Internal Seminar: Maki Thomas, PhD Student, Marine Biophysics (Satoshi Mitarai Unit)

4:00-4:30 PM, C700

Seminar "Phytoplankton swimming in a flow" by Massimo Cencini (CNR-ISC), Mar 15 (thu) 2-3pm

Dr. Rieko Ohki, Laboratory Head of Fundamental Oncology, National Cancer Center Research Institute. Language: English, no interpretation.

The ecology & evolution seminar series #3: Prof. Evan Economo, Wed 14th March at 10:00 (C210)

Millions of people around the world secretly worry they’re not as smart or talented as other people “think” they are. The so-called Impostor Syndrome impacts both men and women in a variety of disciplines and is especially rampant in academia. This special seminar will teach you what Impostor Syndrome is, how to recognize and handle it.

This Session is for Researchers, OIST Staff and Faculty Members ONLY. Seminar for Graduate Students will be held later in the afternoon.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE .

Dr. Shiki Okamoto, Second Department of Internal Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Hematology, Rheumatology), Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, JAPAN. Language: English

The Accomplishing More With Less for Managers workshop is designed to help participants develop and practice the skills that are crucial for managing people successfully in today’s information overload and diverse work environment. This workshop is ideal for managers and supervisors who are overseeing the work of others and who want to enable their teams to achieve great results.

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

OIST Science Challenge 2018 will be providing participants with a unique opportunity to extend their scientific education and experience research. We also offer valuable information to help them prepare for a doctoral program. Through various interactions with OIST faculty, postdocs, and Ph.D students, the participants will learn about research conducted at OIST, skills needed to survive and enjoy a Ph.D life. At the end of the workshop, participants will be asked to present submitted slide presentation on the "Joy of Discovery" in light of their experience throughout the week. The presentation will be shared with OIST community.

Airfare, travel insurance, accommodation, and meals during the workshop will be provided by OIST.

Apply from here ! For any questions, please contact gradschool.event@oist.jp (OIST Admissions and Career Development Section)

Seminar by Prof. Blanpied

Speaker: Professor Jörg Schumacher, Fluid Mechanics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany

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 Tirasan Khandhawit (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "Gauge theory and topology of manifolds".

"Dr. Nobumoto Watanabe, Unit leader, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science. Language: English, no interpretation."

Seminar by Professor Gul Dolen, Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Wolfgang Bangerth, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, US. Language: English, no interpretation.

Lunchtime fireside chat with Omar Sultan, Managing Partner of Sultan Ventures , a venture capital firm based in Hawaii, USA. Get your startup questions answered.

Learn more about the competitive research funding programs around the world. For more information, please visit here .

By Invitation Only.

Language: Japanese with no interpretation.

YAPC::Okinawa 2018 ONNASON

Internal Seminar : Davide Chiuchiu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Biological Complexity Unit (Simone Pigolotti)

Internal Seminar: Leonidas Georgiou, Stargazing the brain

4:30pm, C700

Refreshments will be served following the seminar.

Dr. Ben Torben-Nielsen, Demiurge technologies, Switzerland. Language: English.

Dr. Michiel Ten Brinke, Erasmus MC, Netherlands. Language: English.

Language: Simultaneous English and Japanese interpretation Registration required. Go to https://groups.oist.jp/tdic/international-symposium-okinawa-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-summit-2018 for more information

Prof. Kaylene Young, Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia. Language: English

Prof. Yosef Yarom, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Israel. Language: English

Dr. Keisuke Kataoka, Chief of Division of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Center Research Institute. Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar: “Global change and the stability of ecosystems” by Prof. Ian Donohue, Trinity College Dublin

Discover your Strengths using Gallup StrengthFinder Assessment.

This course will help you better understand yourself and your unique talent s. You will learn how to productively apply your talents for greater personal and professional success.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE .

Dr. Maya Kiskinova from Elettra Laboratory

Speaker: Priscila Romagnoli, Ph.D. Seminar Title: Graphene on Transparent Dielectric Substrates for Photonics Applications Language: English

Speaker: Dr. Satoshi Okano, Nihon University Date : Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: Spinor-helicity variables for the de Sitter causal patch

Seminar: Discrete-time quantum machines with neutral atoms in optical lattices Speaker: Dr. Andrea Alberti, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bonn

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the seminar.

Quantum Systems Unit (Busch U)

"Action Prediction and Object Bootstrapping: A Neurocognitive View onto a Robotics Problem"by Prof. Dr. Florentin Wörgötter, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

During the seminar, Dr. Steve Aird, OIST's Technical Editor, will explain techniques for writing scientific manuscripts. The talk focuses on principles and procedures that enable authors to turn research data into a well-composed scientific narrative.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE

The ball will be held after the graduation ceremony on Feb 24th starting at 8pm, and will commemorate our first graduates.

Attendance is by invitation only. For details, please see the OIST Graduation Ceremony 2017 website.

Classical Music, Admission Free, Reservation Required

"Individual differences in nonlinear neural dynamics and human behavior" by Dr. Keiichi Kitajo, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center

Title: Rapid evolution of a costly form of parasite resistance in threespine stickleback

by Dr. Daniel I. Bolnick , Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin.

The OIST Researcher Community (ORC) would like to invite all researchers at OIST at our Q&A session with Dr Mark Daly , Nature Publishing Group Associate Editor and OIST's very first graduate.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Time flies. So does Wiley eBooks trial.

The library arranged the 6 months paid trial for Wiley online books containing more than 18,000 monographs, handbooks, dictionaries, companion and landmark book series except Online Reference Works and it is ending on Feb. 28th.

Your benefits:

You can download a PDF file per chapter at no cost. Usage reports will be used to determine which titles should be retained perpetual access rights after the trial ends.

Enjoy the trial while it's on by accessing from here: Wiley Online Books

Your Library,

Contact: library@oist.jp

Speaker : Prof. Guido Boffetta from Department of Physics, University of Torino

Seminar by Dr. Shotaro Shiba (Post-doctoral Fellow, KEK)

Speaker: Dr. Stefano Musacchio, Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

Titile: Split energy cascade in turbulent thin fluid layers

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 Linling Ru (visiting researcher in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "Plykin attractor on the plane".