Seminar by Yan Jiang, PhD student, Key laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, ICCAS, China

Language:English

Application required. Go to https://groups.oist.jp/grad/oist-science-challenge-2015 for more information and application.

OIST Concert Series Admission Free 19:00-21:00

Join us for March's first Internal Seminar Series on Mar. 6, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Trans-Membrane Trafficking Unit (Fadel Alexis Samatey) and the Ecology and Evolution Unit (Alexander Sergeyevich Mikheyev).

Abstract

We present the derivation of the macroscopic equations for systems with a dynamic preferred direction, which can be axial or polar in nature.

In addition to the usual hydrodynamic variables we introduce the time derivative of the local preferred direction [1] or the macroscopic velocity associated with the motion of the active units [2] as a new variable and discuss their macroscopic consequences [1,2]. Such an approach is expected to be useful for a number of biological systems including, for example, the formation of dynamic macroscopic patterns shown by certain bacteria such as Proteus mirabilis, shoals of fish, flocks of birds and migrating insects.

As a concrete application we set up a macroscopic model of...

Prof. Kazunori Kataoka, Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Date/Time: Thursday, March 5th, 14:00-15:00 Venue: C016, Floor C, Lab1

Speaker: Dr. Walter Wuensch (CERN)

Title: Introduction to the CLIC linear collider study and associated development of high-gradient accelerating structures

Abstract: The CLIC collaboration is studying the design of a TeV-range electron-positron linear collider and developing key technology for it. I will give an overview for the motivation for CLIC, introduce the accelerator concept and then go on describe the development of high-gradient accelerating structures - which have a very strong influence on both performance and cost of the whole machine. The accelerating structures are in turn limited by vacuum breakdown and I will finish by describing research into the fundamental physics and...

Speaker : Dr. Tatsuo Azeyanagi (LPTENS, Paris) Title : Anomalies, Chern-Simons Terms and Black Hole Entropy Abstract : Quantum anomalies enable us to access to some important information about quantum field theories in a robust way. Recently, the hydrodynamic limit of the systems with the anomalies has been actively investigated, together with its dual holographic description by gravitational theories with Chern-Simons terms. In this presentation, I will start with a review on the effect of the anomalies in the hydrodynamic limit of conformal field theories. Then I would like to explain how the beautiful property of Chern-Simons terms helps us to compute in detail various quantities relevant to the anomalies through the dual gravitational description. I will also discuss the...

Prof. Peter Engels, Washington State University, USA

This is an externally organized event.

Focused vertical system for proton irradiation of a single cell for radiobiological research

Dr. Mitchell Sogin is a MBL Distinguished Scientist and Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University. His work focuses on microbial evolution and diversity. *Open to public

Speaker: Dr Tomas Cizmar, Reader in Physics and Life Sciences, University of Dundee Seminar title: Multimode Fibres: Seeing through chaos

at Okinawa Prefecture Museum and Art Museum Admission Free

OIST Public Lecture "Eat Play Collide!" Admission Free

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Date/Time: Th 26 Feb 2015 15:00-16:00 Venue: Meeting Room C016, level C, lab 1 Speaker: Dr. Katarzyna Bożek, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology Title: Machine learning and comparative methods in the study of HIV and human evolution

Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Seminar "Roles of a mitochondrial respiratory supercomplex assembly factor in muscle, fat and cancer metabolism."　Prof. Satoshi Inoue

Speaker: Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Prof. Kazimierz Rzazewski, Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Speaker: Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science

Date/Time: Mon 23 February 2015 13:00 – 14:00 Venue: Seminar Room B503, Level B, Centre Bldg. Speaker: William Ryu, Associate Professor, Department of Physics Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto Title: Quantifying and modeling C. elegans exploratory behavior

Ms. Anna Frishman, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

No Registration Required

Join us for February's second Internal Seminar Series on Feb. 20, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit (Tomoyuki Takahashi) and the Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit (Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama).

Seminar by Professor Daisuke Takagi, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Prof. Makoto Tsubota, Osaka City University, Japan

Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit (Shintake Unit) would like to announce a seminar by Dr. Frank Zimmermann, Senior Scientist at CERN (Switzerland).

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Title: Future High-Energy Colliders / Charting the Unknown

Abstract: In 2012 the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider finally discovered the Higgs boson. For its prediction, made some 50 years earlier, Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Higgs boson exhibits a few unique features never before seen. Its close examination may provide answers to several fundamental questions, such as the origin of dark matter, the electroweak phase transition, and the “naturalness” of the...

[Seminar] 'Novel molecular targets for breast and lung cancer stem cells', Prof. Noriko Gotoh, Feb 18th.

3 days of lecture "Quantum Hydrodynamics and Turbulence" by Makoto Tsubota (Professor, Osaka City University, Japan)

Language: English. Open to the public. (1) “Introduction to OIST BNCT" by Profs. Kumada (Univ of Tsukuba) and Yoshioka (KEK, OIST), (2) "New Technology for X-ray and Gamma-ray Imaging" by Profs. Takahashi (JAXA) and Arai (KEK, OIST), and (3) "Our Future: Beyond Metastasis" by Prof. Sugawara (OIST).

Seminar: Prof. J. Paul Bolam, from the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit at the University of Oxford. Title: "Dopamine neurons, synapses and susceptibility in Parkinson’s disease"

Seminar: Prof Catharine Rankin from UBC talks on the complexity of habituation, the simplest form of learning

Language:English. No interpretation will be provided.

Hideyuki Saya, MD, PhD, Professor, Division of Gene Regulation, Institute for Advanced Medical Research, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University

Alessandro Villa. Ph.D. Professor and Associate Dean, Neuroeconomics and Computer Science, University of Lausanne ; President of the European Neural Network Society

National Holiday

This event is an external event. Organized by AMICUS. You are welcome to attend the symposium.

Science and Technology Group invites you to a seminar by Ms.Melissa Carr from Masterwork Conservation.

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

This is an external event organized by Council for Okinawa Prefecture Science Education. Students from Kyushu area will gather and present their science research each other. Contact: 098-857-0481 (Mr. Nakamura)

Join us for February's first Internal Seminar Series on Feb. 6, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Cell Signal Unit (Tadashi Yamamoto) and the Physics and Biology Unit (Jonathan Miller).

This is to open an Art Exhibition "The Jewel Box" organized by Child Development Center. The exhibition will end on 2/16 (Mon).

Prof Timothy Ziman, ILL/Université Joseph Fourier Seminar on skew scattering of electrons including effects of critical spin fluctuations on anomalous and spin Hall effects in ferromagnetic alloys.

Art Exhibition "The Jewel Box" organized by Child Development Center Exhibition Period: February 5 (Thu) - 16 (Mon) Venue: Skywalk, Level C Corridor of the Center Building

Leon Roose, HNEI, University of Hawaii

Seminar will be conductedin English and open to public.

Workshop will be conducted in English and open to public. Registration will start in Dec 2014.