Past Events
Seminar
'Commencing the domestic production of lead glazed bricks- Analytical studies of excavated ceramics from the 7-8th century' Dr. Junko Furihata
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 11:00
D015, Lab1
Dr. Junko Furihata, Senior Conservator at the Conservation Science Laboratory of the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
Seminar
"Exploring the Nanoscale Dynamics of Molecular Systems" Dr. Frank Vollmer
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 11:00 to 12:00
C209, Center Building
Dr. Frank Vollmer, MPRG Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Seminar
"From electric to thermoelectric transport properties of atomic and molecular junctions" Prof. Fabian Pauly
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 09:30 to 10:30
C209, Center Building
Prof. Fabian Pauly, Junior Professor, Department of Physics, University of Konstanz
Seminar
"Discrete Exterior Calculus Discretization of Navier-Stokes Equations on Surface Meshes"
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016 - L1 Bldg
Professor Anil Hirani, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seminar
"Abnormal activation of transcription factor NF-kB by oncoprotein of Human T cell leukemia Virus 1 (HTLV-1)"
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 13:00 to 14:00
C015, Lab 1
Abnormal activation of transcription factor NF-kB by oncoprotein of Human T cell leukemia Virus 1 (HTLV-1), Prof. Junichi INOUE. The University of Tokyo.
Seminar
"Regional heterogeneity of dopamine neuron transmission in the striatum" Dr. Nao Chuhma
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 11:00 to 12:00
C209, Center Building
Dr. Nao Chuhma: Associate Research Scientist/ Research Scientist; Psychiatry/ Molecular Therapeutics; Columbia University/ New York State Psychiatric Institute
Seminar
OIST Seminar "We Want to Know"
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 14:00 to 15:30
OIST Main Campus, Seminar Room B250
OIST Seminar by Prof. Ryugo Hayano, University of Tokyo - Language: English and Japanese with simultaneous interpretation - No registration required
Seminar
"Discretizations of Exterior Calculus"
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016 - L1 Bldg
Professor Anil Hirani, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seminar
Seminar by Prof. Thomas W. Holstein -"Molecular Mechanisms of Hydra Regeneration"
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 10:30 to 11:30
C210 (Center Building, Level C)
Speaker: Prof. Thomas W. Holstein Molecular Evolution and Genomics, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Germany
Graduate School
OIST-APU Joint Symposium "FUTURE WATCH: Governing the Speed of Change"
Sunday, February 21, 2016 - 14:00 to 16:30
OIST Auditorium
Students of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) discuss their views and ideas about the future of the world. Admissions free. Reservations required. In English and Japanese, with simultaneous interpretation.
External Events
IB Symposium@Okinawa on MYP and DP Research
Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 11:00 to 17:00
OIST Conference Center, Auditorium
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.
Graduate School
Student Research Presentations 4-5pm C700
Friday, February 19, 2016 - 16:00
C700 Lab 3
OIST Students to present on their thesis research topic every second Friday from 4-5pm in C700 Lab 3
Graduate School
Workshop 2: How to prepare an effective CV for "Faculty" positions
Friday, February 19, 2016 - 14:00
Lab 3 Seminar Room C700
Workshop series on "How to prepare an effective CV and/or Résumé for jobs in academia and industry!"
Seminar
Seminar by Prof. Kyoko Nozaki -"Development of New Catalysts toward Utilization of Renewable Resources"
Friday, February 19, 2016 - 10:30 to 11:30
C700 (Lab 3, Level C)
Speaker: Professor Kyoko Nozaki, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo
Campus
Late Start Teatime
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 16:30 to 17:30
Restaurant
Teatime will start at 16:30 this week, as we will be joined by the 50 students that are visiting for the Admissions Workshop.
Seminar
"Lattices, disorder and quasi-particles in Faraday waves: understanding fluid particle motion in surface waves" by Prof. Michael Shats
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 14:00 to 15:00
C015 (Lab1, Level C)
Professor Michael Shats Head, Centre for Plasmas and Fluids Research School of Physics and Engineering The Australian National University
The 14th Board of Governors Meeting
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 00:00
OIST Campus
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Seminar
/Location Changed/Lecture Series: “Theory of Open Quantum Systems” Ilya Sinayskiy-3
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 10:30 to 11:30
B712, Level B, Lab 3
Lecture 3: Projection operator approach to the description of open quantum systems. Time local and time non-local quantum master equations. Examples of exactly solvable Open Quantum Systems.
Seminar
"Lagrangian statistics and particle dispersion in two-dimensional turbulence" by Prof. Michael Shats
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 14:00 to 15:00
D015 (Lab1, Level D)
Professor Michael Shats Head, Centre for Plasmas and Fluids Research School of Physics and Engineering The Australian National University
Graduate School
Admissions Workshop for 2016
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 (All day) to Thursday, February 18, 2016 (All day)
Onna Main Campus
February Admissions Workshop for 2016 entry students
Seminar
/Location Changed/Lecture Series: “Theory of Open Quantum Systems” Ilya Sinayskiy-2
Monday, February 15, 2016 - 15:00 to 16:00
B712, Level B, Lab 3
Lecture 2: Coherent states for bosonic and spin systems. Glauber-Sudarshan P representation for dissipative dynamics of bosonic and spin systems. Fokker-Planck equation and its solution.
Workshop
Amphipol Symposium 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016 - 09:00 to Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 17:00
OIST Seaside House & Main Campus (Teaching Lab)
OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.
Seminar
Internal Seminar: Computational Neuroscience Unit
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 17:30 to 18:00
C700
Join us for this month's first Internal Seminars Series on February 12, from 17:30 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This seminar features the Computational Neuroscience Unit (Erik De Schutter).
Graduate School
Workshop 1: How to prepare an effective CV for "Postdoctoral" positions!
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 14:00
Lab 3 Seminar Room C700
Workshop series on "How to prepare an effective CV and/or Résumé for jobs in academia and industry!"
External Events
Marine Staff Training
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 13:30 to 17:00
OIST Conference Center, Meeting Room #1
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.
Seminar
/Location Changed/Lecture Series: “Theory of Open Quantum Systems” Ilya Sinayskiy-1
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 10:30 to 11:30
B712, Level B, Lab 3
Lecture 1: Quantum Master Equation in the Lindblad (GKSL)Form, derivation and simple examples. Kraus representation of the Open Quantum System dynamics.
External Events
G1 Youth Kick-Off Meeting
Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 08:00 to 17:00
OIST Main Campus, Seminar Room C210
This is an externally organized event by G1 Youth Secretariat
Holiday
National Foundation Day 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 00:00
National holiday. OIST administrative offices closed.
Seminar
/Schedule Changed/"Open Quantum Walks: from Quantum Computing to Quantum Biology" Ilya Sinayskiy
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 16:00 to 17:00
C015, Level C, Lab 1
Dr. Ilya Sinayskiy, Researcher, National Institute for Theoretical Physics and Centre for Quantum Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Seminar
"Self-consistent non-equilibrium Green's function approach applied to the study of weakly interacting Bose-Hubbard model" Nicola LoGullo
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 10:30 to 11:30
D015, Level D, Lab1
Nicola Lo Gullo (Post-doc, University of Padua, Italy)
Seminar
Fundraising in Japan
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 10:00
C210 Center Building
Speakers: Mr. Yoshihiro Kamozaki (Deputy Secretary General, Japan Fundraising Association) Mr. Fumitaka Watanabe (Fundraising Staff, iPS Cell Research Fund, Kyoto University)
Seminar
"Cooperative effects in quantum transport: Cooperative Shielding"
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 14:00 to 15:00
Professor Luca Celardo, Assistant Professor in Condensed Matter Theory at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Brescia, Itay)
External Events
NHK Heart Forum
Sunday, February 7, 2016 - 12:00 to 18:00
Auditorium, Conference Center Meeting Room I & II
Externally organized event by NHK Heart Forum Project members.
Graduate School
Student Research Presentations 4-5pm C700
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 16:00
C700 Lab 3
OIST Graduate Students to present on their thesis research topics every second Friday from 4-5pm in C700
Campus
Teatime: Biscuit or Cookie?
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 16:00 to 17:00
Center Building, Level B, Restaurant Area
Do not miss weekly Teatime: tea, coffee, snacks, and good company guaranteed!
The 10th Board of Councilors Meeting
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 00:00
OIST Campus
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Seminar
"Sedimentation and Resuspension from River Plumes" by Prof. Bruce R. Sutherland
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016 (Lab1, Level C)
Prof. Bruce R. Sutherland Director, Institute for Geophysical Research Depts. Physics / Earth & Atmospheric Sciences University of Alberta
Common Resource User Satisfaction Survey DEADLINE
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 12:00
https://groups.oist.jp/rsd/user-satisfaction-survey
Anonymous survey to inform concrete policy changes to enhance the range of common equipment and services available to researchers.
Seminar
"Bose-Einstein Condensation of Light" Prof. Martin Weitz
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 09:30 to 10:30
C209, Center Building
Professor Martin Weitz, Institut fur Angewandte Physik, Universitat Bonn
Seminar
"Flexible tuning of olfactory microcircuits" Dr. Izumi Fukunaga
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 11:00 to 12:00
C209, Center Building
Dr. Izumi Fukunaga, Career Development Fellow at the Francis Crick Institute, UK
Seminar
"Thermodynamics of error correction" Dr. Simone Pigolotti
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 09:30 to 10:30
C209, Center Building
Dr. Simone Pigolotti, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya at Ramon y Cajal researcher
Seminar
Internal Seminar: Dean's Research Unit and Mathematical Soft Matter Unit
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 17:00 to 18:00
C700
Join us for this year's very first Internal Seminars Series (!) on January 29, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This seminar features the Dean's Research Unit and Mathematical Soft Matter Unit (Eliot Fried).
Campus
A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment Discussion group
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 16:00
Room 4 Conference centre
Comparing yourself to others does not lead to happiness
Campus
Teatime with Albrecht Wagner
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 16:00 to 17:00
Center B Restaurant
Come to Teatime to talk to friend of OIST and departing Acting President Dr. Albert Wagner.
Seminar
Seminar: "Order induced by disorder in pyrochlore XY antiferromagnets" by Alexei Andreanov
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 14:30 to 15:30
C016, Lab1
Seminar by Dr. Alexey Andreanov (Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea), 28th Jan (Thu) @ 2:30-3:30pm in C016, Lab1.
Campus
Peach Fest!
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 15:00 to 18:00
Center B250
Come celebrate Ken Peach's contribution to OIST
Seminar
"Quantum Phase Transitions in Itinerant Spin and Charge Density Waves" Dr. Yejun Feng
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 09:30 to 10:30
C209, Center Building
Dr. Yejun Feng (1) X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 (2) The James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, IL 60637
OIST Workshops
International Symposium on Functional Materials
Monday, January 25, 2016 - 09:00 to Friday, January 29, 2016 - 17:00
OIST Main Campus, Seminar Room B250
OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: October 5, 2015 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - URL: https://groups.oist.jp/isfm2016
External Events
Okinawa Public Schools Women's Leaders Association General Meeting
Saturday, January 23, 2016 - 10:00 to 18:00
B250
Externally organized event by Okinawa Public Schools Women's Leaders Association.
Seminar
Okinawa Underwater Photographic Society Meeting
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 19:00 to 21:00
OIST Main Campus, Seminar Room B250
This event is open to all. Event in English (no interpretation). For details contact organizers.