Past Events
Seminar
"Modeling Immuno-qPCR to Estimate Protein Quantity in a Biological Sample" Harrison Leong
Friday, August 22, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
C209
Harrison Leong is Sr. Staff Software Engineer, ThermoFisher Scientific Inc.
Seminar
"Synaptic and non-synaptic learning correlates in neural circuits" Christian Hansel
Monday, August 18, 2014 - 17:00 to 18:00
C015, Lab1
Dr. Christian Hansel, Principal Investigator, Hansel Lab - Neurobiology of learning & memory, University of Chicago. Language : English only.
Seminar
"Variational models for prestrained plates with Monge-Ampère constraint" Marta Lewicka
Friday, August 8, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
C209
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
Seminar
"Shear Thickening of Brownian and non-Brownian suspensions: the Essential Role of Frictional Contact" Ryohei Seto
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
C209
Ryohei Seto is Research Associate of Benjamin Levich Institute at The City College of New York.
Seminar
"Rigidity vs. flexibility of isometric immersions and degenerate deformations of Euclidean domains" Reza Pakzad
Monday, August 4, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
C209
Reza Pakzad is Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
Culture
Linking Space, People, and Dreams: Yamazaki Naoko, Astronaut
Saturday, August 2, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:30
OIST Auditorium
Admission Free Reservations start on Monday 14th July at 10am
Seminar
Update Session 2014 and Safety Seminar EN
Friday, August 1, 2014 - 13:30
B250
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
"Advanced Control for Modern TEM Operation" Chen Xu
Friday, August 1, 2014 - 11:00 to 12:00
C016, Lab 1, Level C
Dr. Chen Xu, EM Facility Manager, Brandeis University. Language: English. No interpretation will be provided. No Registration required.
Seminar
"Reverse-genetic approach to dissect the function of abundant nuclear long noncoding RNAs" Shinichi Nakagawa
Friday, August 1, 2014 - 10:30 to 11:30
C015, Lab1
Dr. Shinichi Nakagawa, Associate Chief Scientist, RIKEN, Nakagawa RNA biology Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
Seminar
Cancelled: Seminar "Elucidation of the physiological function of Ataxin-2, a neurodegeneration-associated RNA binding protein"
Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 16:30 to 17:30
C016, Lab1
Prof. Yukio Kawahara, Department of RNA Biology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University
Seminar
The 2014 Update Session and Safety Seminar_JP
Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 14:30
B503/B250 Seminar Room
The 2014 Update Session (Research Safety Training) and Safety Seminar (July 31st and August 1st)
Seminar
"Progress in optical microfibre/nanowire based photonic devices from the ORC in Southampton UK and PRC in Dublin Ireland" Pengfei Wang
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
D014, Level D, Lab 1
Dr. Pengfei Wang, Senior Research Fellow, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Seminar
"The Critical Casimir Effect and Can One Measure It in a Magnetic Experiment?"Peter Holdsworth
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 13:00 to 14:00
C015, Lab1, Campus
Seminar by Prof. Peter Holdsworth, ENS Lyon. All are welcome.
Seminar
"Femtosecond laser nanoprocessing and biomedical applications" by Mitsuhiro Terakawa
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
B503, Level B, Centre Building
Dr. Mitsuhiro Terakawa, Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University
Seminar
"Through the Years with Nanomaterials - Investigation of Phenomena at Interfaces" Rastko Joksimovic
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
B503, Center Building
Dr. Rastko Joksimovic, Tohoku University
Seminar
"Perovskite solar cells: from basic principles to operating device characteristics" Francisco Fabregat-Santiago and Iván Mora-Seró
Friday, July 25, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab 1 C016
Francisco Fabregat-Santiago and Iván Mora-Seró are Associate Professors at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Spain
Seminar
"Topological properties of superfluid 3He probed by surface electron bubbles" Kimitoshi Kono
Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
Meeting Room C016, Level C, Lab 1 - OIST Campus
Prof. Kimitoshi Kono, Low Temperature Physics Laboratory, RIKEN. All are welcome to attend.
Seminar
"Optics and Atom Optics à la de Broglie-Bohm" Jordi Mompart
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 10:30 to 11:30
Meeting Room C016, Lab1
Associate Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
External Events
SIG-ICS176 workshop
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - 13:00 to 13:45
Seminar Room C209, Center Bldg.
Keynote lecture by Fujio Toriumi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Systems Innovations, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Seminar
"Wired to Cooperate: Behavioral and neural mechanisms of duet singing in a South American wren" Melissa J. Coleman
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - 11:00
D015, Lab1
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: Hikami unit and Wickens unit
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 17:00
B250, Central Building
Join us for July's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit (Shinobu Hikami) and the Neurobiology Research Unit (Jeff Wickens).
Seminar
"Shaping light for imaging and manipulation" Kishan Dholakia
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
B503, Level B, Centre Building
Prof Kishan Dholakia, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, Scotland, U.K.
Workshop
サイエンスプロジェクトfor琉球ガールズ
Saturday, July 12, 2014 - 13:00 to 16:00
石垣市商工会館研修室
このイベントは、実験などを通じて科学の現場を体験し、そこで活躍する女性研究者・女子学生たちと交流しながら、科学技術に関心のある仲間作りの機会として開催します。
Conference
Ultrafast Phenomena at the Nanoscale
Friday, July 11, 2014 (All day) to Sunday, July 13, 2014 (All day)
OIST Main Campus & Seaside House
The Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit invites you to a post-Ultrafast Phenomena 2014 workshop on Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems to be held at OIST on July 11-13th 2014.
Seminar
Infrared Pump-Probe Imaging and Spetroscopy with 10nm Resolution
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 15:30 to 16:30
C015 Lab1
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
"Laser stirring as a route to Quantum Turbulence in trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates" Joy Allen
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 11:00 to 12:00
Meeting Room C016, Lab1
Research Associate, Newcastle University, UK
Seminar
Seminar by Dr. Atsushi Shimada. "Structural biology of clathrin-mediated endocytosis"
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
C016, Lab1
Seminar by Dr. Atsushi Shimada on July 7th. "Structural biology of clathrin-mediated endocytosis"
Seminar
"Neuroscience using iPS cell technologies and Transgenic non-human primates" Hideyuki Okano
Friday, July 4, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
C016, Lab1
Hideyuki Okano, Professor, Dean, Keio University Graduate School of Medicine, Professor & Chair, Department of Physiology, Keio University, School of Medicine
External Events
NanoJapan 2014 Mid-Program Meeting & Visit to OIST
Friday, July 4, 2014 (All day) to Sunday, July 6, 2014 (All day)
OIST Main Campus & Seaside House
The NanoJapan: International Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (IREU) is a twelve-week summer program that enables freshman and sophomore physics and engineering students from U.S. universities to complete nanoscience research internships in Japan focused on terahertz nanoscience.
Seminar
"Recent Advances in Superstring Theory" Hirosi Ooguri
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 13:30 to 15:00
Seminar Room B250, Center Building
[OIST Seminar Series] Prof Hirosi Ooguri, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (U of Tokyo)
Seminar
"Present and Future Atomic Clocks" Bhanu Pratap Das
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room B250, Center Building
Prof. Bhanu Pratap Das, Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics Group, Indian Institute of Astrophysics
External Events
Expert Conference on Development of Island's Sustainable Societies (2014)
Sunday, June 29, 2014 - 13:00 to Monday, June 30, 2014 - 15:00
6/29: OIST Main Campus B250, C210, C209; 6/30: B250
Free Admission. Registration required. Bilingual English-Japanese. Sponsored by Japan/Okinawa government.
Seminar
"From below 10-7K to above 10+7K: quantum turbulence, plasma waves and beyond" Bo Zhang
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
Meeting Room C016, Level C, Lab 1 - OIST Campus
Dr. Bo Zhang, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Graduate School
OIST Admissions Workshop
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 (All day) to Thursday, June 26, 2014 (All day)
Main campus
Admissions Workshop. Student candidate selection workshop for September 2014 entry
Seminar
"Exploring the spin-orbital ground state of Ba3CuSb2O9" Andrew Smerald
Monday, June 23, 2014 - 11:00 to 12:00
C016, Lab1
Andrew Smerald, a former member of Shannon Unit, currently at EPFL Lausanne
Culture
Summer Jazz Concert
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 19:00 to 21:00
OIST Center Court
No reservation needed
Seminar
Internal Seminar: Shannon unit and Saze unit
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 17:00
B250, Central Building
Join us for this June's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Theory of Quantum Matter Unit (Nic Shannon) and the Plant Epigenetics Unit (Hidetoshi Saze).
Campus
OIST Blood Drive / OIST 献血運動
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 09:00 to 17:00
OIST Auditorium / OIST 講堂
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
"Planar Elongational Flow and Elastic Instabilities in an Optimized-Shape Cross-Slot Extensional Rheometer" Simon J. Haward
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 10:00 to 11:00
C209, Center Building
Research Scientist, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Seminar
"Horizon2020: New opportunities for Japanese researchers to join international projects, networks and exchanges" Barbara Rhode
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 - 17:00 to 18:00
Center Building B250
Dr. Barbara Rhode, Minister Counsellor, Head of Science and Technology, EU Delegation to Japan, will explain the EU's new "Horizon2020" programme and how to participate. Language: English (no interpretation)
Seminar
"Fast and Robust Control of Quantum Systems with Shortcuts to Adiabaticity " Andreas Raschhaupt
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
Meeting Room C016, Lab1
Dr. Andreas Ruschhaupt (Group Leader, Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Quantum Optics, University College Cork, Ireland)
Seminar
"Aqua Materials" Takuzo Aida
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
C210, Center Building
Distinguished Professor Takuzo Aida, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
External Events
Musical: Our Blue Planet: Play With Music Based on the Earth Charter
Saturday, June 14, 2014 - 16:00 to 18:00
OIST Auditorium
Musical "OUR BLUE PLANET: Play with music based on the Earth Chapter" - Commemorating The UN Decade o Education for Sustainable Development
Seminar
Internal Seminar: Mikheyev Unit and Sowwan Unit
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 17:00
Seminar room B250 - Central building
Join us for this June's first special edition of the Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Ecology and Evolution Unit (Alexander Mikheyev) and the Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Ibrahim Sowwan).
Seminar
"Excitonic Devices and Electrostatic Lattices" Mikas Remeika
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 10:00
OIST Lab1 C016
Dr. Mikas Remeika, Intel Corporation Semiconductor Technology Development Center, Oregon, USA
Seminar
"From cavity QED with quantum gases to optomechanics" Helmut Ritsch
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
C210, Level C, Center Building
Professor Helmut Ritsch, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Seminar
Joint Seminar between OIST and JST mathematics program on vortex-boundary interactions and wall-bounded turbulent flows
Monday, May 26, 2014 - 10:00 to 17:00
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: Qi Unit and De Schutter Unit
Friday, May 23, 2014 - 17:00
B250, Central Building
Join us for this May's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit (Qi Mikheyev) and the Computational Neuroscience Unit (Erik De Schutter).
Seminar
"Modeling the sedimentation of filaments in viscous fluids via dimensional reduction and hyperviscous regularization" Giulio G. Giusteri
Friday, May 23, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
C209
Dr. Giulio G. Giusteri is Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Brescia, Italy
Seminar
"Asymmetric whispering gallery microcavity optics and photonics" Yun-Feng Xiao
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 16:30 to 17:30
C210, Level C, Center Building
Prof Yun-Feng Xiao, State Key Lab for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, P. R. China