National holiday

Registration for Microscopy Training Course at OIST is now open until Wednesday, December 28, 2022.

The 7th ABis Advanced Light Microscopy Course at OIST will run from January 23 - January 24, 2023.

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

"Differential glial control of parallel memory formation" by Prof. Ko Matsui,

Super-network Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Would you like to know more about our fully funded PhD program and Research Internship as well as opportunities to experience the atmosphere at OIST? Staff and Alumni from OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) will come to Tokyo to answer all your questions about the PhD & Research Internship admission process, support for students as well as student life at OIST.

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Onna closer through a shared love of food. Each session will be focused on one dish, taught by someone with a personal connection to the recipe (perhaps you?).

Neural Computation Unit will hold a retreat/reunion at OIST seaside house. If you are interested in joining, pleaese contact ncus@oist.jp

There's a limit to how much you can grow your hair out in a week, but we're going to ask you to try.

Speaker: Prof. Bernd Kawohl (University of Cologne)

Title: On Reuleaux and Cohn-Vossen, or buttons and balls that cannot run away

Speaker: Marios Sergides, Ph. D Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Title: Optical manipulation applications from soft matter to biomechanics

Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Speaker: Prof. Shimon Edelman Department of Psychology Cornell University

Title: Conscience, Conditional Cooperation, and the Prospects of Surviving Capitalism

Learn the skills neccessary to enter the water safely, through ocean risk assessment and management.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Slava Lysov. Title: Tropical Mirror: Correlation Functions.

Come learn how to communicate your impactful ideas visually and engage audiences with poster presentations, an important skill set not only for scientists, but for all presenters! Poster presentations are an interactive, effective format for showcasing research or sharing ideas, programs, and projects.

Speaker: Prof. Shimon Edelman Department of Psychology Cornell University

Title: Autodiagnosis and the Dynamical Emergence Theory of Basic Consciousness

Prof. Joe Yuichiro Wakano: Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences (IMS), Meiji University, Japan

Vegan and plant-based cuisine have been attracting attention for their potential both as a developing market and as a sustainable choice. Haruko Kawano of VegeProject Japan will tell us about global trends, the context of this rising demand, and how to incorporate veganism into our diets.

14:00-15:00 Presentation followed by Q&A at B250 15:00-15:30 Food tasting at foyer and wood deck next to B250

AIEN and Yun-Taku will also sell vegan snacks and sweets after the talk

Prof. Kalle Parvinen: University Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland

Dr Xiaozi Liu: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Marine Research, Norway

Friday, December 9th *4:00-5:30 PM*

Please join us for tea, coffee, and home baking! Bring yourself, your colleagues, your families and share some time, talk and listen to others. Come and see our new location! All are welcome :)

*Our location is now at the Former President's House by faculty housing and Lab 5.

Prof. Mikko Heino: Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, and also affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Dr Anna Shchiptsova: Researcher in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-Natural Systems Research Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Title:

Programming electronic and spin states in 2D supramolecular architectures by modifications on the single atomic or molecular level

Dr. Jaideep Joshi: Researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Guest Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Prof. Karol Opara: Assistant professor at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Creation of an isolated turbulent blob fed by vortex rings, Mr. Takumi Matsuzawa, The University of Chicago. Language: English.

Prof. Raul Primicerio: Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

[Change of room: now L4F23 ]. Online seminar by Dr. Christian Rudolph from Brunel University London. Anyone interested is welcome. Zoom link and abstract in the description.

"Towards Hierarchical Motor Control" by Dr. Steve Heim, Postdoc, Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT

Seminar by Mio Murao, Professor at Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Universty of Tokyo, Languate (English)

This talk will introduce two major forms of cold-water biogenic habitats. Deep-sea coral reefs are extensive in the NE Atlantic region due to high food availability and high carbonate saturation levels. Maerl beds are calcified seaweed habitats and are the oldest biogenic habitat type found in shallow waters of the region. (...)

Dr. Orestes Rivada-Wheelaghan, Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Instituto the Investigaciones Químicas (IIQ) at Universidad de Sevilla (Spain).Language: English

Dr. Nao Terasaki, Team Leader, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Language: English

This session will be done in Japanese. The program will start off with a general introduction of OIST, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by a panel discussion by two OIST PhD students.

Shaping the future of 3D interaction with virtual worlds

Speaker:

Professor Wei-Hau Chang, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

“Harnessing the power of Bertozzi reaction for capturing flexible parts in cryo-EM structures”

Speaker:

Professor I-Ping Tu, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

" Garbage in, Einstein out A Mathematical Study of Einstein from Noise”

Abstract: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which is a fundamental result in quantum mechanics, and related inequalities such as the hydrogen and Hardy uncertainty principles, belong to the family of geometric inequalities known as the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities. In this talk, we discuss some recent results about the optimal uncertainty principles, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities, and their quantitative stability. The talk is based on recent joint works with C. Cazacu, J. Flynn and G. Lu.

With new songs! Probably!

Talk 1: 15:00-16:00

Speaker: Prof. Shigeaki Koike (Waseda University)

Title: ABP maximum principle with upper contact sets for fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs

Talk 2: 16:00-17:00

Speaker: Prof. Michiaki Onodera (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Title: A perturbation theory of overdetermined problems

Curious about Intellectual Property? Please join our introductory seminar, hosted by TDIC alongside guest Patent Lawyer Gregory Kirsch.

This is an introduction-level seminar open to everyone at OIST.

Language: English

Neural Computation Unit will hold an OIST / Humanoids 2022 joint workshop at Auditorium. If you are interested in joining, please register.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: Locality of higher-spin gravity from anomalous dimensions of double-trace operators.

We will take a closer look at the autonomic nervous system and the way our biology helps us navigate daily life, how we respond to cues of safety and danger below the level of conscious thought, and how this guides the way we move through the world, from turning toward and backing away, to connecting and other times isolating.