By Prof. Isaac Planas-Sitjà from Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isaac-Planas) Zoom Link:

https://oist.zoom.us/j/95993904953?pwd=MEZpZk1uVGxJQUxGZnpyOEoxbVVKUT09

Meeting ID: 959 9390 4953 Passcode: 782775

Abstruct:

Animals face daily decisions, such as where to forage or nest, which can be critical for their fitness. In social animals, these decisions are complicated by a potential conflict of interests among group members, which nonetheless must collectively reach some form of agreement if the group is to remain together. Insects have been model organisms to study collective behaviour and advance our understanding of mechanisms leading to optimal and successful decisions. While it is clear that there are no two identical individuals, a debate still exists on whether heterogeneity of behaviour among group members could improve, or not, group performance. In fact, the question of how identical or dissimilar units, with same average properties, give rise to different collective processes goes beyond behavioural ecology. During this talk, I will introduce some of the mechanisms involved in collective behaviour (e.g., information sharing, social feedback and social interactions), and discuss how these mechanisms coupled with individual differences can lead to more accurate decisions, from gregarious to eusocial insects.

Title: Water and Graphene: a Quaint Quantum Couple

The SOKOBAN random walk by Ofek Lauber Bonomo1 and Shlomi Reuveni, School of Chemistry, Center for the Physics & Chemistry of Living Systems, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Seminar in L4E26, welcome to anyone being interested.

Quantum Gravity group meeting Speaker: Slava Lysov Title: Supersymmetry, Localization and BV-polyvectors (part 1)

We have biweekly open hours at OIST Innovation where you can come and talk with us about anything related to the Proof of Concept application process.

The details will be updated

Abs of steel with Rachel!

When: Wednesday morning 8am - 8:35am

Where: Village Center Meeting Room

Bring: Yoga mat, towel, water bottle and indoor shoes (optional)

*BARBIE WEEK - wear PINK*

REGISTRATION NO LONGER REQUIRED - IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THE CALENDAR FOR REMINDERS, THEN PLEASE REGISTER VIA QR CODE!

Dr. Sebastian Sprick, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde

PhD Thesis Public Presentation

Vivek Pareek

A bottom up approach for analyzing circuits underlying navigation in vertebrates

by Head of Research. Claire WYART, Paris Brain Institute/INSERM

Title: Graphene Oxide as a Super Material

[Seminar] "Quasi-universal scaling of brain activity: from real neurons to artificial intelligence." by Prof. Miguel Munoz.

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Onna closer through a shared love of food. Each session will be focused on one dish, taught by someone with a personal connection to the recipe (perhaps you?).

The details will be updated

OIST Child Development Center (CDC) annual art exhibition. This year's theme is "nature". Come enjoy the art made by our creative students!

National holiday

Dr. Fernando P. Duda, Professor and Head Department of MEchanical Engineering,

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

Language: English

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Speaker: Prof. Mark Michison, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Visitor seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Subhajit Mazumdar,Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University Title: Kite and Triangle diagrams through Symmetries of Feynman Integrals

This 6th workshop is a continuation of the previous workshop in a series. This workshop discuss the modularity and duality, geometric group, cohomological theory, singularity theory, and knot theory. All talks on the black board are expected. The online participation of Zoom will be possible by the registration in advance.

[Speaker] Prof. Mahendra K. Verma, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

We have biweekly open hours at OIST Innovation where you can come and talk with us about anything related to the Proof of Concept application process.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Shinobu Hikami (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

Valtameri Autism as an invisible disability: What you see is NOT everything

A lack of societal understanding and acceptance of autism is a serious issue that is associated with loneliness and mistreatments of autistic people in criminal justice system or employment. Autism is not a disorder or impairment that needs to be treated or cured. What needs to be changed is the societal understanding of autism.

In this talk, from the societal model and neurodiversity paradigm, I will highlight lived experiences of autistic people including my own and latest research and cover topics such as sociality, loneliness, and mental health in autism. There will be a Q&A session at the end.

Speaker:

Dr Kana Grace

Kana is an English-Japanese bilingual psychologist specializing in Autism. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Center for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) at University College London where she completed her PhD, and a research collaborator at Autism Spectrum Australia. She has been featured in major media such as BBC, Scientist, and Spectrum. Kana is autistic and an ADHDer, and is passionate about advocacy for autism and neurodiversity.

Fee:

1,000 yen/person

I will send you the details via email.

Booking:

Please email to valtameri.grace@outlook.com

Email title: "talk" Email text: please write down your preffered session (English or Japanese) and numbers of people who are coming. I will reply to you to confirm your booking. First-come-first-served basis of 20 capacity

Location:

Seminar Room, Seaside House, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)

Date and time:

Saturday, July 29

11:00 am - 12:15 pm Japanese

14:00 pm - 15:15 pm English

I will do the same talk at different times. Choose the one you prefer!

Valtameri

自閉症という見えない障がい：見えるものが全てではない

自閉症に対する社会の理解欠如は、孤独や刑事司法制度・雇用における当事者の不当な扱いに繋がる深刻な問題です。自閉症は「病気」ではなく、自閉症者を「治す」・「変える」必要はありません。変えていくべきなのは社会の自閉症に対する理解です。

この講義では、障害の社会的モデル・ニューロダイバーシティの目線から、講師自身を含めた当事者の経験と最新の研究に焦点を当て、自閉症における社会性・孤独・メンタルヘルスなどのトピックについて革新的な情報をお話しします。質疑応答の時間もあります。

講師：

Dr Kana Grace （カナ・グレイス博士）

カナは、自閉症専門の英日バイリンガル心理学者です。現在、博士号を取得したユニバーシティカレッジロンドンの自閉症研究所の名誉研究員・オーストラリアの自閉症チャリティー団体Autism Spectrum Australiaの共同研究者です。BBC, Scientist, Spectrum など国外の主要なメディアでも注目される自閉症研究者・活躍家です。カナは、自閉症・ADHD当事者で自閉症・ニューロダイバーシティの 擁 護活動に熱意を持っています。

経歴：

博士, ユニバーシティカレッジロンドン, 英国

修士(カウンセリング心理学), ボストンカレッジ, 米国

PgCert(自閉症), シェフィールドハラム大学, 英国

理学士,ノースイースタン大学,米国

参加費：

1000円/1人 お支払い詳細はメールにてお伝えします。

予約：

valtameri.grace@outlook.com へEメールを送信。

メールタイトル：「講演会」 メールの本文：希望のセッション（日本語化か英語）・参加人数をご記入ください。 予約完了の返信を致します。 定員20名の先着順です。

場所：

沖縄科学技術大学院大学（OIST）

シーサイドハウス内、セミナールーム

日時：

7月29日、土曜日

11:00 am - 12:15 pm　日本語

14:00 pm - 15:15 pm 英語

日本語と英語で違う時間帯に同じ講演をします。どちらかをお選びください。

Title: Quantum wreath product Ziqing Xiang, Southern University of Science and Technology

Prof. Myung-Han Yoon, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!

Mr. Pablo Jimenez, Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Phd Student

Dr. Jose Rodriques, OIST, Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit(Abdulla Unit),Staff Scientist

Mr. Chenming Zhen, OIST, Phd Student

Professor Ugur G. Abdulla, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Speater:Professor Carlos F. Martino, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA

Lecturer: Professor Jonathan Woodward, University of Tokyo

Plenary Speakers :

Jonathan R. Woodward, University of Tokyo, Japan

Carlos F. Martino, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA

Ugur G. Abdulla, OIST, Japan

Lecture 1. Jonathan Woodward University of Tokyo, Japan

Target Audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Dr. Chuntao Dan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus

In the last few decades, the notion of Integrable systems and Chaos, both classical and quantum, have seen immense developments. Fuelled by a flurry of scientific inter-community dialogues, these ideas have turned out to be universally useful in a wide spectrum of theoretical studies, from worldsheet string sigma models, to black holes and holography, and further into real experimental systems. Numerous interesting connections between these seemingly disparate research areas are developing, promising to shed light on important open questions. We hope to further fuel these dialogues by inviting people from different fields using state-of-the-art tools to explore these exciting ideas.

Detailed program at: https://groups.oist.jp/integrability-deformations-chaos/program

"Dimensional reduction in causal sets" by Dr. David Meyer, UC San Diego

Screening event for children and parents

Deciphering the Mystery of Sleep: the insights from comparative neuroscience

Prof. S hoi Shi, Ph.D. , IIIS, University of Tsukuba

Onsite: L4F01

ZOOM

Covid still sucks y'all. We'll be back in a few weeks

Dr. Andrés G. Mejía Ramón (OIST) is a Postdoctoral Researcher, archaeologist, ecologist, and complex systems scientist focusing on the interactions between humans and the environment across deep time. Dr. Tom Froese (OIST) is Assistant Profesor and Head of the Unit. is a cognitive scientist with a background in computer science and complex systems. He investigates the interactive basis of life and mind

Dr. Yoshihiro Tanaka, Professor in Nagoya Institute of Technology / Inamori research institute for Science. Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第５回事務職員向け勉強会　「OIST組織の俯瞰・総括」 （日本語） Speaker: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Speaker: Dr. Haruna Fujioka, Okayama University, Japan

[Hybrid seminar] "Evolving bi-directional referential communication in minimal autonomous agents" by Prof. Seth Bullock, University of Bristol

We have biweekly open hours at OIST Innovation where you can come and talk with us about anything related to the Proof of Concept application process.