Speaker: Yasufumi Horimoto, Prof. Susumu Goto (Osaka University)

Title: Sustaining mechanism of turbulence in a precessing sphere

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 "Knots: From application to theory" by Dr Nick Owad (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit).

QG Group Meeting Speaker: Linqing Chen Title: The infrared story in QED, part 2

Associate Professor Jon T. Sakata from McGill University, US, Language: English

The workshop is going to be held from October 29 ^th , Sunday till November 1 ^st ,

Free pizza and soft drinks will be served following the Internal Seminar: please bring a mug! We hope to see you there!

Free pizza and soft drinks will be served following the Internal Seminar: p lease bring a mug!

Are you interested in understanding different cultures? Are you curious to learn new tricks that would help you to flourish in a multicultural work environment? If you answered "yes" to any of this question, then "Understanding each other...." workshop is right for you!

NO registration is required! Bringing a laptop or a phone will make the session much more fun!

Language: English

Seats Available: 30

Registration Required

"Planning Your Scientific Journey" series is great for anybody who is working on developing an impactful and answerable scientific question and/or designing a research program for current and future positions.

Ronald D. Vale, Professor of the Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco, and Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dr Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009, Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute

Jean-luc Doumont (Principiæ), Stanford University (PhD), Trees, Maps, and Theorems (book) International OSA Network of Student (IONS) Conference Public Lecture.

Dr. Steven Chu (Stanford University), Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, US Secretary of Energy from 2009–2013. International OSA Network of Student (IONS) Conference Public Lecture.

OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions.

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, we will be screening several short videos showcasing various spaces of interest to topology and geometry.

QG group meeting Speaker: Han Yan Title: E11 Symmetry in Supergravity

On Friday October 20th, the second talk of the series of monthly talks featuring OIST scientists from Okinawa will be held. The speaker this time is Dr. Ayumu Karimata. The series will be continued until February 2018, every third Friday night from 18:30-19:30 at the Junku-do Book Store in Naha (1-19-29 Makishi, Naha-city). *The talks are only in Japanese only.

Language: English

Seats Available: 30

Registration Required

Prof. Toshiyuki Ogawa, Meiji University. Language: English, no interpretation.

Tobias Bonhoeffer, Director, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology

Organized by EU Delegation to Japan and OIST. Target audience: OIST Postdocs, 'Grant Office/Kakenhi', OIST University Research Administrators, and participants from outside OIST. Get details and register for individual consultations at https://groups.oist.jp/horizon2020.

Language: English

Seats Available: 20

Registration required.

"Planning Your Scientific Journey" series is great for anybody who is working on developing an impactful and answerable scientific question and/or designing a research program for current and future positions. Note: enrollment in the iBiology FREE on-line course and a laptop are required.

Seminar by Prof. Peter Wainwright , Department of Evolution & Ecology, Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis

Come and join a lively discussion about careers in Technology Transfer filed. Everyone is welcome!

The Topology and Geometry Seminar aims to introduce current mathematical research topics starting from the very basics. We also invite members of other units to talk about the mathematical aspects of their research area. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

This week, Ulf Skoglund ( Structural Cellular Biology Unit ) will give a guest lecture on "Molecular electron tomography can visualize individual macromolecules!"

QG group meeting Speaker: Henry Stoltenberg ​Title: Quantum complexity

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

Internal Seminar: Jerome Vernieres, Gas Phase Synthesis of Fe-based Nanoparticles

​4:30-5:00 pm, C700

Refreshments to follow

Internal Seminar: Margeret Mars-Brisbin, PhD Student, Marine Biophysics Unit (Mitarai Unit). Language: English, no interpretation.

Presentation

Professor Mats Wahlgren from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Language: English

We do not suggest you throw your tea into the East China Sea. Instead, drink it and have some cookies. The Boston Tea Party, as described by Mr. Dawes Jr. in Mary Poppins (1964):

Mr. Dawes Jr: In seventeen hundred & seventy three, An official of this bank unwisely loaned a large sum of money to finance a shipment of tea to the American Colonies... Do you know what happened?

George W. Banks: Yes sir, yes I think I do. As the ship lay in Boston harbor, a party of colonists, dressed as Red Indians, boarded the vessel, behaved rudely, and threw all the tea overboard. This made the tea unsuitable for drinking — even for Americans!

Join us for teatime at 16:00, Thursday, Restaurant Level of Center Building. Please bring your own tea-holding vessel.

(Image: Flickr/Tom Simpson)

"Planning Your Scientific Journey" series is great for anybody who is working on developing an impactful and answerable scientific question and/or designing a research program for current and future positions. Note: enrollment in the iBiology FREE on-line course and a laptop are required.

The Topology and Geometry Seminar aims to introduce current mathematical research topics starting from the very basics. We also invite members of other units to talk about the mathematical aspects of their research area. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

This week, Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity Unit) will give a guest lecture on "Geometry in real life".

Lecturer: Dr. Roger Cashmore, Chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Language: English only. Open to public.

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