Past Events

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
Campus

Weekly Teatime!

Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 16:00
Center Bldg, Level B Restaurant
Connect with colleagues over refreshments.
Seminar

Seminar on Theory of colloidal stabilisation by unattached polymers by Mr. Alexey Shvets, Thu 22 May 14:00 @ C210 Seminar Room

Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room C210, Level C, Centre Bldg.
Date/Time: Thu 22 May 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Seminar Room C210, Level C, Centre Bldg. Title: Theory of colloidal stabilization by unattached polymers Speaker: Mr. Alexey Shvets, Institut Charles Sadron, Université de Strasbourg, France
Seminar

Seminar on Simplicial complexes as models of complex systems by Dr. Slobodan Maletic, Tue 20 May 14:00 @ C209 Seminar Room

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room C209, Level C, Centre Bldg.
Date/Time: Tue 20 May 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Seminar Room C209, Level C, Centre Bldg. Title: Simplicial complexes as models of complex systems Speaker: Dr. Slobodan Maletic, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences
Culture

Do you see art in science? Submit your images!

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 12:00 to Sunday, June 15, 2014 - 17:00

We are holding a scientific art contest and looking for science images that hold artistic value.

If you have any images, please submit to: doyouseeartinscience@gmail.com

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Research

HPC User Meeting

Monday, May 19, 2014 - 14:00
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

[Seminar] "fosB-null mice display impaired adult hippocampal neurogenesis and spontaneous epilepsy with depressive behavior" by Noriko Yutsudo

Monday, May 19, 2014 - 11:00 to 12:00
Venue: OIST Campus Lab 1, Meeting Room C015 (Level C)

Date: Monday, May 19, 2014 Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Venue: Lab 1, Meeting Room C015 (Level C)

Speaker:   Dr. Noriko Yutsudo Affiliation: Kobe Pharmaceutical University

Title : “ fosB -null mice display impaired adult hippocampal neurogenesis and spontaneous epilepsy with depressive behavior ”

Abstract :

Patients with epilepsy are at high risk for major depression relative to the general population, and both disorders are associated with changes in adult hippocampal neurogenesis, although the mechanisms underlying disease onset remain unknown. The expression of fosB , an immediate early gene encoding FosB and DFosB/D2DFosB by alternative splicing and translation initiation, is known to be induced in neural progenitor cells within the subventricular zone...

Seminar

“Generation of functionally distinct cone photoreceptor types in zebrafish” Sachihiro Suzuki

Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
OIST Campus Lab 1, Meeting Room C016 (Level C)
Dr. Sachihiro Suzuki is in the Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington
Seminar

Seminar by Mr. Hans Tietz, "Multi-Purpose CMOS Cameras for Electron and X-Ray detection; Sensitivity, Resolution, Dynamic Range, Speed"

Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 13:30 to 14:30
Lab 1, Seminar Room C015

Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit (Shintake Unit) would like to invite you to a seminar by Mr. Hans Tietz, Managing Director of Tietz Video and Image Processing Systems GmbH, Germany. We hope to see many of you at the seminar.

Speaker: Mr. Hans Richard Tietz, Managing Director, Tietz Video and Image Processing Systems GmbH, Germany

Title: Multi-Purpose CMOS Cameras for Electron and X-Ray detection; Sensitivity, Resolution, Dynamic Range, Speed.

Abstract: The development of digital cameras, which are applicable for a wide HV range, and which satisfy all criteria: including large detection area, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, spatial resolution, dynamic range and fast read out, is a challenge. TVIPS has designed CMOS based cameras with active pixel sensors. The cameras fulfil...

Seminar

"Exotic fluid dynamics in binary superfluids" Hiromitsu Takeuchi

Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 10:30 to 11:30
C016, Lab1
Dr. Hiromitsu Takeuchi (Lecturer, Osaka City University, Japan)
Public Lecture

Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture by Mohau Pheko

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 18:00 to 19:00
OIST Auditorium
Admission free. Reservation required. English with Japanese simultaneous interpretation.
Culture

Sketches of Sciences: Photo sessions with Nobel Laureates

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 (All day) to Sunday, July 6, 2014 (All day)
OIST Campus
Over 50 photographic portraits of Nobel Laureates, complemented with interviews, videos and digital presentations.
Seminar

Seminar: "Dynamics of a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid" by Johannes Knolle

Friday, May 9, 2014 - 13:30 to 15:00
Lab1 D015
"Dynamics of a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid: signatures of emergent Majorana fermions and fluxes" Dr. Johannes Knolle (MPI-PKS Dresden)
Seminar

[Seminar] “Analysis of the function of miR-124 during medaka neural development” by Yumiko Yamasaki-Kato

Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 11:00 to 12:00
OIST Campus Lab 1, Meeting Room C016 (Level C)

Title : “Analysis of the function of miR-124 during medaka neural development ”

Abstract :

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) comprise a group of small noncoding RNA molecules (about 22 nucleotides) thought to have contributed to the evolution of vertebrate brain homogeneity as well as diversity. The miRNA miR-124 is well conserved between invertebrates and vertebrates and is expressed abundantly in the central nervous system (CNS).

For my doctoral dissertation, I studied the function of miR-124 in Oryzias latipes (medaka). In this research, I collaborated with Dr. Rie Kusakabe and Prof. Dr. Kunio Inoue of Kobe University, Japan. We identified five candidate genes for medaka miR-124. The five genes are unlinked on four different chromosomes...

Holiday

Greenery Day 2014 (observed)

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 00:00

Greenery Day 2014 (observed)

Holiday

Children's Day 2014

Monday, May 5, 2014 - 00:00
National Holiday.
Holiday

Constitution Memorial Day 2014

Saturday, May 3, 2014 - 00:00

Constitution Memorial Day 2014

Culture

Julio Goya's World

Thursday, May 1, 2014 (All day) to Monday, June 30, 2014 (All day)
OIST Main Campus
A public exhibition of large metalwork art.
Holiday

Showa Day 2014

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 00:00

Showa Day 2014

Seminar

[Seminar] "Shortcuts to adiabaticity in many-body systems" by Dr. Adolfo del Campo, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
Meeting Room D015, Lab1
Quantum Systems Unit (Busch U) would like to invite you to a seminar by Dr. Adolfo del Campo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Seminar

Internal Seminar: Kuhn + Doya Unit and Mitarai Unit

Friday, April 18, 2014 - 17:00
B250, Central Building
Join us for this April's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature a collaboration between the Optical Neuroimaging (Bernd Kuhn) and Neural Computation (Kenji Doya) Units and the Marine Biophysics Unit (Satori Mitarai).
Seminar

Seminar by Prof. Aikichi Iwamoto. "Chasing a single amino acid substitution in HIV-1 circulating among Japanese population."

Friday, April 18, 2014 - 16:00 to 17:00
C016, Lab1
No summary available.
Seminar

Seminar "Dense-gas shock-refraction properties" by Professor Touber

Friday, April 18, 2014 - 14:00 to 15:00
C210, Center Building
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

Seminar by Ippei Danshita: “Quantum tricriticality and bright-like dark solitons near the superfluid -insulator transition of binary Bose mixtures"

Friday, April 18, 2014 - 13:30 to 14:30
C016, Lab1
Seminar by Prof. Ippei Danshita of Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University. Friday, April 18th at 13:30-14:30 (C016). All is welcome !

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