OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Thomas Busch (Quantum Systems Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required). | Website | Venue: Seminar Room B250, OIST Main Campus and Online

This conference will be a hybrid conference with both online and on-site attendees. We will accept on-site participants from within Japan only.

We ask for you understanding that the dates are subject to change due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation.

Careers in Venture Capital for PhDs

Join the Managing Partner and Investment Associates from the University of Tokyo Edge Capital to explore the topic of careers in venture capital for PhDs. Snacks will be provided. No registration required. 11 April 2022 | 17:00-18:00 | Room C210

In describing properties of disordered media, physicists have long been interested in the behaviour of random walks on random graphs that arise in statistical mechanics, such as percolation clusters and various models of random trees. Random walks on random graphs are also of interest to computer scientists in studies of complex networks. In ‘critical’ regimes, many of the canonical models exhibit large-scale fractal properties, which means it is often a challenge to describe their geometry, let alone the associated random walks. In this talk, I will describe an approach suitable for understanding various ‘low-dimensional’ models of random walks on random graphs that builds on the deep connections that exist between electrical networks and stochastic processes.

Part II Discussion Theme:

Working in different places, and especially in different countries, naturally leads one to draw comparisons. Through such, one learns more about the working cultures of each. After some brief general musings on this topic, I plan to share some of my experiences from the UK of working on a departmental committee that was responsible for staff welfare (including work-life balance and gender equality).

The colloquium will be held once a month online. Each event consists of a one-hour talk on mathematics followed by a one-hour diversity panel discussion session. Please register before April 7, 5 pm. Click here to register!

The next ORC Assembly will be the last for the previous ORC representatives and the first for the new representatives! Please join us as we hand over to the new office.

Also on the agenda: Future plans of the new office, with plenty of time for discussion, and a report on the recent Faculty Assembly.

[Neuroscience Club] Prof. Justus Kebschull, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University. Language: English.

We are excited to have an online seminar by Prof. Justus Kebschull from Johns Hopkins University. He is a world-leading researcher studying brain circuit evolution by using cutting-edge circuit tracing and viral tools. Everyone is welcome to join the seminar!

You can join the seminar via ZOOM

These seminars examine the science of how to bring macroscopic (large) systems into the quantum regime. The preparation of large Schrodinger cats is one of the long sought goals of quantum science. Researchers seek to do this for many reasons – to see if it can be done at all – does quantum mechanics still hold for large objects – is there new science that appears when objects become large/massive? Can macroscopic/large quantum systems be useful as precision sensors – and how can we preserve/protect the large scale quantum properties in such systems. These series of talks (experimental and theoretical), will show some facets/aspects of how some researchers are aiming towards the building of large Quantum Cats. Coffee and Okinawan Donuts are supplied during the morning.

Business English communication skills may be essential in your work, or you may wish to improve your business English vocabulary, knowledge, and skills. This short series of 10 one-hour classes will help you work more effectively when using English. Each class will focus of a different aspect of business English communications. Classes will be at 3pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Dean Yates, Queen Mary University of London Title: Spin representations of the symmetric group

Title: A masing spin ensemble: temperature, light, amplifier, and diamond

Abstract:

I will start discussing two fundamental concepts in nature, temperature and light, followed by one of the indispensable basic components in the modern information society, amplifiers. Then I will try to show that combining these three concepts leads to our ongoing project, a heat-driven coherent microwave oscillator based on a spin ensemble in a diamond crystal.

Business English communication skills may be essential in your work, or you may wish to improve your business English vocabulary, knowledge, and skills. This short series of 10 one-hour classes will help you work more effectively when using English. Each class will focus of a different aspect of business English communications. Classes will be at 3pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Next meeting of the OIST ukulele club is Thursday, March 31 at 8:00 PM in the Seaside Lounge.

Business English communication skills may be essential in your work, or you may wish to improve your business English vocabulary, knowledge, and skills. This short series of 10 one-hour classes will help you work more effectively when using English. Each class will focus of a different aspect of business English communications. Classes will be at 3pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Join us for an informal lunchtime "fireside chat" with Shozo Kamiya , Founder of I'm Beside You , a startup developing multimodal AI systems to improve online communications and make them more personalized to the individual. 28 March 2022 | 12:00-13:00 | C210

OISTサイエンストーク2021 vol.4

Title

島んちゅ科学者が語る学びの魅力～沖縄から世界へ～

Speakers

OIST量子情報物理実験ユニット　博士課程2年　太田守洋

株式会社リクルート　データサイエンティスト　大田祥子（OIST第1期生）

HiSci Lab is an annual science educational outreach program to inspire high school girls in Okinawa Prefecture to choose a career in science.

The Innovators Society is gathering with the 3 ^rd installment of the startup workshop series, with speaker Mr. Eli Lyons, Co-founder/CEO of GenomeMiner, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at OIST .

These two 2-hrs webinar series aim to give attendees the necessary skills to be an effective peer reviewer, from both an editor`s and author`s perspective . This webinar will provide practical insights and strategies to help attendees achieve this goal.

To register CLICK HERE.

OIST-ASJ QCS Seminar Series # 3, Dr. Carlos Cid on "Privacy-preserving Technologies: Cryptographic Techniques for Secure Computation", Wed, March 23 at 17:00 JST https://groups.oist.jp/quantum-future

Business English communication skills may be essential in your work, or you may wish to improve your business English vocabulary, knowledge, and skills. This short series of 10 one-hour classes will help you work more effectively when using English. Each class will focus of a different aspect of business English communications. Classes will be at 3pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.

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

Language: English

John Murray, Maynooth University Title: A Schur-positivity conjecture inspired by the Alperin-Mckay conjecture

Language: English

Speaker: Vyacheslav Lysov (Quantum Gravity). Title: Tropical Mirror Symmetry

These two 2-hrs webinar series aim to give attendees the necessary skills to be an effective peer reviewer, from both an editor`s and author`s perspective . This webinar will provide practical insights and strategies to help attendees achieve this goal.

To register CLICK HERE .

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

Language: English

Is it Dear Smith, Dear John, Dear John Smith, Dear Doctor John Smith, Dear Professor Smith, Honourable Professor Smith OR Dear Sir?

First impressions are important in writing too. Join us as we discuss how to address people you know and those you do not. We will look at titles and learn how to make it clear who the email is intended for.

March 17 meeting of the OIST Ukulele Club

Virtual webinar with representatives from two area international schools: OCSI and Hope Academy

When : Wednesday, March 16, 1800-1930

Where : Zoom (click for link to register)

Target Audience : OIST parents/guardians/curious community members

A 2-day seminar held by Algorithms for Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (Gene Myers) Unit along with Genomics and Regulatory Systems (Nicholas Luscombe) Unit as the co-host.

In the seminar, entitled " OIST-UT Genomics Research Seminar ", we invite 3 Ph.D. students from The University of Tokyo (Shinichi Morishita lab) to OIST, and each of the 8 researchers in total from UT and OIST will give a 20 min talk on their work plus 10 min Q&A session.

The seminar will be held on site at OIST, although you can also join via zoom (link below). On each day, right after the seminar we will have time and place for further discussion and interaction with the presenters (while keeping distance).

Speaker: Vyacheslav Lysov (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Introduction to tropical Gromov-Witten theory" (part 3)

Susumu Ariki, Osaka University

Title: Three lectures on modular Lie algebras (Part III)

A 2-day seminar held by Algorithms for Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (Gene Myers) Unit along with Genomics and Regulatory Systems (Nicholas Luscombe) Unit as the co-host. In the seminar, entitled " OIST-UT Genomics Research Seminar ", w e invite 3 Ph.D. students from The University of Tokyo (Shinichi Morishita lab) to OIST, and each of the 8 researchers in total from UT and OIST will give a 20 min talk on their work plus 10 min Q&A session. The seminar will be held on site at OIST, although you can also join via zoom (link below). On each day, right after the seminar we will have time and place for further discussion and interaction with the presenters (while keeping distance).

Susumu Ariki, Osaka University

Title: Three lectures on modular Lie algebras (Part II)

OIST Science Challenge workshop will be providing participants with a unique opportunity to extend their scientific education and experience research. We also offer valuable information and tips to help them prepare for a doctoral program. Through a series of activities with faculty, postdocs, as well as with PhD students, the participants will learn about research conducted at OIST, and skills needed to survive and enjoy a PhD life. At the end of the workshop, participants will be asked to present a submitted slide presentation on the theme "Diversity in Science" in light of their experience throughout the week. The presentation will be shared with the OIST community. Airfare, accommodation, and meals during the workshop will be provided by OIST.

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "A new kind of Feynman rules: what is Higher Spin Gravity? (part 2)"

About one year has passed since the start of R&D for Moonshot Goal 6, "a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer that will revolutionize economy, industry, and security by 2050”. They will disseminate the results of R&D currently being carried out in the goal's seven projects, and explore issues related to the realization of fault-tolerant universal quantum computers. Prof. Hiroki Takahashi will give a presentation.

Susumu Ariki, Osaka University

Title: Three lectures on modular Lie algebras (Part I)

-This event will be held in Japanese-

Dean of Research, Dr. Tadashi Yamamoto will attend this forum.

Speaker: Professor Jun Kitagawa, Michigan State University Title: A brief introduction to branched optimal transport Abstract:

The optimal transport (also known as Monge-Kantorovich) problem is a classical optimization problem which has recently become the focus of much research with connections to various fields such as PDEs, geometry, and applications. In particular, it provides an effective way to metrize the space of probability measures on a given metric space. However, there is an alternate approach to metrizing such spaces using so called branched optimal transport. Branched optimal transport is based on the classical Gilbert-Steiner problem, later adapted by Qinglan Xia, and in contrast to the Monge-Kantorovich approach tends to yield branching structures. In this series of lectures I will introduce the basics of branched optimal transport and discuss some of the known results in the literature.

OIST x ASJ "Future of Energy and Climate" Seminar Series

Version up your workplace English!

Ten zoom classes for basic/pre-intermediate business English.

March 9th (More) Useful Email language follow up Emails.

Speaker: Vyacheslav Lysov (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Introduction to tropical Gromov-Witten theory" (part 2)

This talk discusses a generalized class of supersolutions, so-called \(p\)-supercaloric functions, to the parabolic \(p\)-Laplace equation. This class of functions is defined as lower semicontinuous functions that are finite in a dense set and satisfy the parabolic comparison principle. Their properties are relatively well understood in the slow diffusion case \(p>2\), but little is known in the fast diffusion case \(1

Speaker: Professor Asuka Takatsu, Tokyo Metropolitan University Title: Curvature and Optimal transport Abstract

In this series of lectures, I first review the notion of curvature (Gaussian curvature and Ricci curvature). In particular, I recall some comparison theorems (Toponogov's triangle comparison theorem, Bishop--Gromov volume comparison theorem etc). Then I introduce a generalized notion of curvature in non-smooth spaces.

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

Language: English

Language: English

Cosmos episode 3: The Harmony of the Worlds

At our next Innovators Society meeting, we will be joined by Graham Garner, our resident Technology Licensing Specialist at OIST - to talk about Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and other research agreements you may need to use throughout your career.

Casual discussion group based on pre-recorded theoretical ecology talks; all welcome! This week: Sebastian Schreiber (UC Davis). General theorems for coexistence and extinction in stochastic models .