Past Events

Seminar

'Dendritic cells for immunity and tolerance', Zwi N. Berneman

Monday, December 1, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
C015, Lab1
Prof. Zwi N. Berneman, MD PhD FRCP - Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Language: English
External Events

Expert Consultation on phytosanitary treatments for The Bactrocera Dorsalis complex

Monday, December 1, 2014 - 09:00 to Friday, December 5, 2014 - 17:30
OIST Main Campus, C210
This is an externally organized event. For more information, please visit the official website: https://www.ippc.int/core-activities/standard-settings/expert-consultation-phytosanitary-treatments-bactrocera-dorsalis-complex
External Events

JavaOne Briefing Session in Okinawa 2014 (External Event)

Saturday, November 29, 2014 - 10:00 to 18:00
Auditorium
This is an externally organized event. You need to register to participate in the event. contact: info@java-kuche.org
OIST Workshops

2014 Entrepreneurial Training Program - Day 2

Saturday, November 29, 2014 - 10:00 to 17:00
OIST, Seminar Room C210

ENTER IMPORTANT DETAILS HERE, SUCH AS SPEAKER INFO, "Language: Japanese. No interpretation will be provided.", "Participation by invitation only.", "Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/reserve for more information and registration.", ETC.

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Jenke-Kodama Unit and Van Vactor Unit

Friday, November 28, 2014 - 17:00 to 18:00
B503
Join us for November's 2nd Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Microbiology and Biochemistry of Secondary Metabolites Unit (Holger Jenke-Kodama) and the Formation and Regulation of Neuronal Connectivity Unit (David Van Vactor).
Seminar

"Gauge theories of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on kagome" Seminar by Oleg Tchernyshyov (Johns Hopkins Universit

Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 13:30 to 14:30
C015, Lab1
Seminar by Prof. Oleg Tchernyshyov (Johns Hopkins University), Thu 27th Nov @ 1:30pm (C015)
External Events

14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA)

Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 09:00 to Saturday, November 29, 2014 - 17:00
OIST Seaside House
This is an external event. For information regarding this event, please visit the conference's website at http://mirlabs.net/isda14/
Seminar

"Detecting topological orders in quantum matter" Seminar by Frank Pollmann (MPI-PKS Dresden)

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016, Lab1
Seminar by Dr. Frank Pollmann (MPI-pks Dresden) : "Spin Liquids on the Kagome Lattice" Tue, 25th Nov @ 2-3pm (C016), All is welcome.
Culture

Winter Concert 2014

Saturday, November 22, 2014 - 14:00 to 16:00
Auditorium
Reservations required. Time and details to be announced.
Workshop

2014 Entrepreneurial Training Program - Day 1

Saturday, November 22, 2014 - 10:00 to 17:00
OIST, Seminar Room C210

Learn to think from a business perspective and also work in teams to create a business plan for a new business rooted in Okinawa. The program will consist of 2 lectures on the design thinking process, 2 workshops to create prototypes for your businesses, and 1 final presentation. There will be participants from the University of Ryukyus and the Okinawa National College of Technology. Participants will also have the chance to get advice on their business plans from local business people as well as from the mentors. So if you want to learn the design thinking process, or want to create a business plan with your fellow teammates, this is your chance to do so!

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Seminar

Correlative Microscopy for in-situ Characterization of Catalyst Nanoparticles under Reactive Environments

Monday, November 17, 2014 - 14:45
D014, Lab 1

Dear all,

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to announce a seminar by Dr. Renu Sharma, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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Date & Time: Thursday, Nov 20th, 13:00-14:00

Venue: D014, Lab 1

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Speaker: Dr. Renu Sharma, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Title: Correlative microscopy for in-situ characterization of catalyst nanoparticles under reactive environments

Abstract :

In recent years the environmental transmission scanning electron microscope (ESTEM) has been successfully employed to elucidate the structural and chemical changes occurring in catalyst nanoparticles under reactive environments. While...

Culture

Sound of Ryukyu - Ryukyu Traditional Performing Arts at OIST

Sunday, November 16, 2014 - 14:00 to 16:00
OIST Auditorium
Admission free. Registration required (from Nov 4th).
Seminar

Internal Seminar: Sowwan Unit and Skoglund Unit

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 17:00 to 18:00
C210
Join us for November's 1st Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C210. This month's seminars feature the Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Ibrahim Mukhles Sowwan) and the Structural Cellular Biology Unit (Ulf Skoglund).
External Events

28th Symposium of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistics (JSCS)

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 09:00 to Saturday, November 15, 2014 - 17:00
Auditorium, B250, C209, Restaurant Floor
This is an externally organized event. For more information on how to register and the latest program, please visit the official website: http://jscs.jp/sympo/28/ (Japanese only)
Seminar

Lecture 2: Inside story on the structure and function of a living nano-machine. Seminar by Dr. Jonathan Trent, NASA Ames Research Center, UC. Santa Cruz

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 13:00 to 14:00
C209, Center Bldg., Level C
【Seminar 】Lecture 2: Inside story on the structure and function of a living nano-machine by Jonathan Trent, Ph.D. NASA Ames Research Center, UC. Santa Cruz.
Seminar

"Lecture 1: Sustainability on a resource-limited planet" Jonathan Trent

Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
B250, Center Bldg., Level B
Jonathan Trent, Ph.D, NASA Ames Research Center, UC. Santa Cruz. His second seminar, "Lecture 2: Inside story on the structure and function of a living nano-machine" will be on Wed Nov 12.
Seminar

New Materials and Fabrication Paradigms for Plastic Opto/Electronics

Monday, November 10, 2014 - 15:30 to 16:30
Meeting Room D014, Lab1
Seminar by Prof. Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK
OIST Workshops

Advances in Live Cell Thermal Imaging and Manipulation

Monday, November 10, 2014 (All day) to Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (All day)
OIST Seaside House
Application open: June 24, 2014 Application close: July 20, 2014
Seminar

"Population genomics and the nature of domesticated citrus and cassava" Daniel Rokhsar

Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room C210, Center Building
"Population genomics and the nature of domesticated citrus and cassava" by Professor Daniel Rokhsar; Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at University of California, Berkeley
Seminar

"Coral Reef Ecosystems on a Warming Planet: Lessons from Yellowstone Hot Springs" Prof. Bruce Fouke

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
B503 Seminar room
Speaker: Prof. Bruce W. Fouke (AAPG Distinguished Lecture) (Director, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center & Professor of Geology, Microbiology and the Institute for Genomic University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Seminar

"Science and the Art of Inventiveness" Andrei A. Seryi

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - 16:30 to 17:30
C209, Center Building
Professor in Oxford and Director of John Adams Institute
Holiday

Culture Day 2014

Monday, November 3, 2014 - 00:00

Culture Day 2014

External Events

Japan Health and Psychology Association Meeting

Saturday, November 1, 2014 (All day) to Sunday, November 2, 2014 (All day)
Auditorium, B250, C209, C210, Restaurant Floor
This is an externally organized event.
Seminar

Internal Seminar: Bandi Unit and Satoh Unit

Friday, October 31, 2014 - 17:00 to 18:00
B503
Join us for October's 2nd Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Collective Interactions Unit (Mahesh Bandi) and the Marine Genomics Unit (Nori Satoh).
Seminar

"Spin Liquids on the Kagome Lattice" Seminar by Prof. Andreas Laeuchli (University of Innsbruck)

Friday, October 31, 2014 - 13:00 to 14:00
D015, Lab1
Seminar by Prof. Andreas Laeuchli (Unv.Innsbruck), 2-3pm, Oct 31 (Fri) @ C016. All is welcome!
Seminar

Bayesian co-clustering and its application

Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 10:30 to 11:30
C016
Language : English
Seminar

"Effects of disorder and dimerization on the surface states of weak 3D topological insulators" Hideaki Obuse

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
Meeting Room C015, Lab1
Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan
Campus

Opportunities for Marine Science

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 10:00 to 16:00
C209
Public series of talks by six eminent marine scientists from around the world
Colloquium

"Ask for Evidence: Why So Much of What We're Told is Wrong" Nick Ross

Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 17:00 to 18:00
B250
Nick Ross is a well-known UK TV and radio presenter. This colloquium is open to public. The talk will be in English, but Japanese interpretation will NOT be provided.
Public Lecture

"Simple Stories and Compelling Cases" Sarah Caplin

Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 12:00 to 13:00
B250
Sarah Caplin is a TV executive with more than 30 years of broadcasting experience in factual programme production at BBC TV and at ITV, the UK’s main commercial broadcaster. English with no Japanese interpretation.
Seminar

”Low-dimensional frustrated magnets with competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions” Kazuhiro Nawa (ISSP)

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016, Lab1
Seminar by Dr. Kazuhiro Nawa, ISSP, University of Tokyo. Oct 21 (Tue) at C016. All is welcome.
Seminar

Seminar: Real Time Vision Applications, Prof Donald Bailey, Massey University

Monday, October 20, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:30
C209
The use of field programmable gate arrays for implementing embedded vision algorithms.
External Events

29th International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) General Meeting

Monday, October 20, 2014 - 09:00 to Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 17:00
OIST Seaside House
29th International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) General Meeting
Seminar

Internal Seminar: Price Unit and Brenner Unit

Friday, October 17, 2014 - 17:00 to 18:00
OIST Auditorium
Join us for October's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in the Auditorium. This month's seminars feature the Developmental Signalling Unit (Mary Ann Price) and the Molecular Genetics Unit (Sydney Brenner).
Campus

How can physiology help to understand the ecology and climate change resilience of marine fishes?

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 13:30 to 14:30
Seminar Room C209
How can physiology help to understand the ecology and climate change resilience of marine fishes?
OIST Workshops

GSPE: Genomics of Social Parasite Evolution

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 (All day) to Saturday, October 18, 2014 (All day)
C210
OIST Workshop organized by Prof. Alexander Mikheyev (Ecology and Evolution Unit)
Seminar

"UniProt: How-To Maximize Your Functional & Structural Analysis of Proteins" Steven Rosanoff and Alessandra Vigilante

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 13:00 to 14:00
C 209, Center bldg
Dr. Steven Rosanoff - database engineer and software developer for UniProt, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, England; Dr. Alessandra Vigilante, Luscombe Group, University College London UCL Genetics Institute, Dept of Genetics, Evolution & Environment
External Events

Joint Conference of IPSJ SIGs for Human-Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing Systems

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 09:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 17:00
OIST Seaside House
External event. Pre-registration required. Registration forms (Japanese only) at http://sigubi.ipsj.or.jp/seminar44/ & http://www.sighci.jp/events/sig/160.
Holiday

Sports Day 2014

Monday, October 13, 2014 - 00:00

Sports Day 2014

Seminar

Drug Delivery and Ultrasound

Friday, October 10, 2014 - 10:00 to 11:00
C016, Lab 1

Dear all,

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to announce a seminar by, Prof. Ghaleb Husseini, American University of Sharjah.

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Date & Time: Friday, October 10, 10:00-11:00

Venue: C016, Lab 1

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Speaker: Prof. Ghaleb Husseini

American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates

Title: Drug Delivery and Ultrasound

Abstract : Chemotherapy is the most extensively used treatment in the fight against malignant neoplasms. Unfortunately, chemotherapy use is plagued with numerous side effects. These side effects are caused primarily because of the non-specific nature of the treatment as the drug is capable of killing normal and cancerous cells alike....

Public Lecture

"Japanese as 'Rice Growers' in Big Science" Toshihide Maskawa (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2008)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 19:00 to 20:30
OIST Auditorium
Lecture structured as a dialogue. Japanese with English simultaneous interpretation. Prof Toshihide Maskawa was awarded one-fourth the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 and is Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University and director of the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI).
Seminar

'Wiring the Functional Brain' Prof. Hisashi Umemori.

Monday, October 6, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
C015, Lab1
Seminar 'Wiring the Functional Brain' Prof. Hisashi Umemori.
Seminar

"Stable two-dimensional composite solitons in spin-orbit-coupled self-attractive Bose-Einstein condensates in free space" Boris A. Malomed

Monday, October 6, 2014 - 10:30 to 11:30
Meeting Room D014, Level D, Lab 1
Professor, Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel
OIST Workshops

HTSA2014: Practical Course on High-Throughput Sequencing Data Analysis

Monday, October 6, 2014 - 09:00 to Friday, October 10, 2014 - 16:30
OIST Main Campus C209 and Seaside House
Application deadline: July 15, 2014
Culture

Koto & Shakuhachi Concert

Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 19:00
OIST Auditorium
10/2 (Thu) 19:00 Admission Free. 入場無料 Reservation Required. 予約
Seminar

"Hand-Operating Nanotechnology: Can we control molecular machines by our hands?" Katsuhiko Ariga

Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
Meeting Room C016, Lab1
Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga, World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
Seminar

"Can we derive the second law of thermodynamics from the Schrödinger equation?" Biao Wu

Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 10:30 to 11:30
Meeting Room C016, Lab1
Professor, International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, China
Seminar

Concepts in Heterogeneous Catalysis - Application in the Syngas to Methanol Conversion

Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 10:00 to 16:30
D014, Lab 1, Seminar Room
Seminar by Dr. Frank Abild-Pedersen from Stanford University 10:00-11:00, Oct 02
Seminar

"Understanding Adolescence: From Basic Science to Public Policy" Harlene Hayne

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 17:30
B250 Seminar Room, Center Bldg
Vice-Chancellor & Professor of Psychology, University of Otago. English with no interpretation. 講演会は英語のみになります。
Culture

Jissei Omine "Exhibition of Elemental Molded Pieces"

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 (All day) to Saturday, October 25, 2014 (All day)
OIST Main Campus
Admission Free.

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