Speaker: Dr. Fajian Hou

​Affiliation: Professor, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences

Join "Career Spotlight" seminar with Dr. Parisky to learn about a rewarding career as a STEM educator.

Every one is welcome. CLICK HERE to REGISTER.

Seminar by Professor Z. Jane Wang

"Insect Flight: from Newton’s law to Neurons"

Language: Available in English only. Hosted by Okada (Quantum Materials Science) Unit. 言語：英語のみ。主催：岡田（量子物質科学）ユニット

Dr. Kunihiro Inomata, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Language: English

On Friday December 15th, the forth talk of the OIST Science Talk Series featuring OIST scientists from Okinawa will be held. The speaker this time is Dr. Shizuka Shimabukuro from the Tripp Unit. The series will be continued until February 2018, every third Friday night from 18:30-19:30 at Junku-do Book Store in Naha (1-19-29 Makishi, Naha-city). *The talk is in Japanese only.

Prof. Grahame Blair, Executive Director, Programmes at the UK Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC)

How do you build an exceptional collaboration or team; one that exceeds its goals, is fun to work in and helps everyone involved to grow? Join us in this session to find out how to get started.

Registration is required . Spaces are limited to 30 participants.

To Register CLICK HERE.

Prof. Gasper Tkacik, IST Austria

Leadership skills are key ingredients for your success as a researcher, even before you are officially ‘the boss’. This workshop will introduce you to the behaviours, strategies and characteristics that will help you achieve your leadership potential.

Everyone is welcome! NO REGISTRATION is required.

Speaker: Lucas Fabian Hackl Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos & Department of Physics Date : Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

Dr Masanori Murayama, Senior Team Leader, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN

Planning for success in your research career has never been more important. Join us to learn the strategies and tools to help you find and pursue effectively the career path you want, within or outside academia.

Registration is required. Spaces are limited to 25 participants.

To Register CLICK HERE

QG group meeting Speaker: Lucas Hackl (Penn State) Title: Entanglement and complexity of squeezed states

Registration NOT required.

Dr. Luis Echegoyen, Robert A. Welch Endowed Professorship in Chemistry at the University of Texas at El Paso

OIST Jointly-funded workshop | All scientific sessions are open to OIST members | website: https://indico.cern.ch/event/577879/

For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.

The details will be announced later.

詳細は決定次第ご案内いたします。

Internal Seminar: Shizuka Shimabukuro, Postdoctoral Researcher, Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit (Tripp Unit), Language: English, no interpretation

Internal Seminar: Han Yan, PhD student, Advanced Medical Instrumentation Unit (Sugawara Unit), Language: English, no interpretation

Speaker: Prof. Andrey Shukurov Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Date : Friday, December 8, 2017 Time : 2pm-3pm

Presentation

Speaker: Dr. Nathan Sanders, Professor at University of Vermont

Speaker: Dr. Richard T. Corlett, Professor at Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Three seminars by Prof. Akira Funahashi, Yoshiyuki Asai and Takeshi Abe

Speaker: Dr. Siddharth Balachandran: Associate Professor at Fox Chase Cancer Center

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 week, Dr Tirasan Khandhawit (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "Studying manifolds through Morse theory".

QG group meeting Speaker: Vasudev Shyam Title: "What kind of RG is GR?"

Prof. Frederic Berger, Senior Group Leader, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Petr Moroshkin, Research Scientist, RIKEN, Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako, Japan

Language: English

The International Symposium on Advances in Abrasive Technology (ISAAT2017) is organized by the Japan Society for Abrasive Technology (JSAT). For more information visit the symposium website ( http://www.scoop-japan.com/kaigi/isaat2017/ )

For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.

Prof. Kohei Itoh, Professor, Keio University, Department of Applied Physics and Phsico-Informatics

Language: English

Dr Subra Suresh, President-Designate and Distinguished University Professor Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & Former Director, U.S. National Science Foundation

The exhibition organizers and artists, Mr. Hideki Nakazawa and Ms. Mika Kusakari , are doing two special guided tours for the OIST community.

A special guided tour of the AI Art and Aesthetic Exhibition in English by the main artists on 12/1 (Fri) at 12:30.

Prof. Dr. Nicole Dubilier, Director, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Head of the Symbiosis Department from Bremen, Germany will give a talk.

Zhaocai (Joe) Zhou, Ph.D Professor, Principal Investigator State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Web: http://www.sibcb.ac.cn/ePI.asp?id=121

Dr. Jihwan Myung, Senior Research Fellow, Taipei Medical University. Language: English

Learn how to publish in high impact journals and to maximise your impact in the field with Nature Research Academies interactive 1/2 day workshop.

"PhD Women:Work in Progress" is a LeanIn circle that promotes women in leadership by creating a safe and supportive environment where women can get inspired, learn and grow.

Speaker: Prof. Rolf Pfeifer Dr. sc. techn. ETH, Scientific Advisor, “Living with Robots” Inc. Visiting Professor, Dept. of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Professor. em. University of Zurich

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

B.S. in Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry (the University of Tokyo) in 2005. Ph.D. in Department of Computational Biology (the University of Tokyo) in 2009. Assistant Professor at Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo since 2011. Associate Professor at Department of Biological Sciences, the University of Tokyo since 2014. Currently the Vice President of Japanese Society for Bioinformatics, a Board Member of International Society for Computational Biology, Councilor of Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology, Associate Member of Science Council of Japan, and Member of Global Young Academy. Major in bioinformatics, especially areas related to genomics, evolution, ecology, and ethology.

Admission Free. For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.

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

Admission Free. For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.

Internal Seminar, Nicolas Moreno (Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit)