Let's mark the end of the year 2021, and get ready to welcome the new year with joy and positivity!

Event Date and Time

Saturday, November 20th, 2021 - 16:00-18:00

Venue

OIST Auditorium

**Masks, social distancing between viewing seats, and the use of hand sanitizer will be asked from all spectators**

Speaker: Prof. Hitoshi Okamura Department of System Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Kyoto University

This seminar is aimed at interns and students hoping to practice their conversation skills

Mini Course: COMSOL Multiphysics training course aims to a tour for the most advanced equation based modeling and multiphysics modeling software. This course will be provided by KESCO, the company selling and supporting COMSOL Multiphysics in Japan.

Zoom available . More information and signup here .

Come and join us for an exciting and fulfilling meeting on building better communication skills through impromptu speaking exercises, listening to prepared speeches, and providing constructive feedback. We run our meetings at lunchtime every other Friday. Email oist.tm@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to receive further information.

Dr. Suzana Camargo at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, will give an overview of the current state of knowledge on the relationship between extreme weather and climate events and anthropogenic climate change. She will present a general overview on various types of extreme events, but provide special attention to hurricanes and typhoons.

Register here

Speaker : Professor Mario Bonk, UCLA Title : Fractals and the dynamics of Thurston maps

Abstract:

A Thurston map is a branched covering map on a topological 2-sphere for which the forward orbit of each critical point under iteration is finite. Each such map gives rise to a fractal geometry on its underlying 2-sphere. The study of these maps and their associated fractal structures links diverse areas of mathematics such as dynamical systems, classical conformal analysis, hyperbolic geometry, Teichmüller theory, and analysis on metric spaces. In my talk I will report on some recent developments. Registration: https://oist.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtcOGqrDsrE9KqW7_5WOdtPTZ2XEJIqo6-

PhD public presentation

Webinar: No registration necessary THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18th | 6pm-8pm | Seminar Room B250

Workshop: Registration Necessary - please see the link to register

Language: English

OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season 5: Fate of colliding ribosomes -Induction of stress response or elimination by quality control-

Seminar hosted by QGU.

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Van Riet, KU Leuven

Title: The Festina Lente Bound and some applications

Mini Course: COMSOL Multiphysics training course aims to a tour for the most advanced equation based modeling and multiphysics modeling software. This course will be provided by KESCO, the company selling and supporting COMSOL Multiphysics in Japan.

Zoom available . More information and signup here .

Title: How do quantum systems see each other?

Abstract: I will discuss what happens when you use quantum systems as frames of reference and how this might help us understand more about the structure of spacetime in a theory that encompasses both quantum and relativity theory.

https://groups.oist.jp/faculty-lunch

Title: Sensing and NV (color centers in diamond)

Speaker: Dr. Dmitry Budker Section Leader, Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany Professor of Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Speaker: Samuel Creedon, City, University of London Title: Defining an Affine Partition Algebra

Automated light sheet imaging of cleared large samples using UltraMicroscope Blaze

Open Tida Art Market

Professor Galia Dafni , Concordia University Title: Boundedness and continuity of rearrangements in BMO and VMO Abstract:

Joint work with Almut Burchard (Toronto) and Ryan Gibara (Cincinnati). Let \(f\) be a function of bounded mean oscillation (BMO) on cubes in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(n > 1\). If \(f\) is rearrangeable, we show that its symmetric decreasing rearrangement\(Sf\) belongs to \(\mathrm{BMO}(\mathbb{R}^n)\). We also improve the bounds for the decreasing rearrangement \(f^*\) by Bennett, DeVore and Sharpley, \(\|f^*\|_{ \mathrm{BMO}(\mathbb{R}_+)} \leq C_n\|f\| _{\mathrm{BMO}(\mathbb{R}^n)}\), by eliminating the exponential dependence of \(C_n\) on the dimension \(n\). The key is to switch from cubes to a comparable family of shapes. Using a family of rectangles that is preserved under bisections, one can prove a dimension-free Calder\'on-Zygmund decomposition, and the boundedness of the decreasing rearrangement with the same constant. Restricting to the subspace of functions of vanishing mean oscillation (VMO), we show that these rearrangements take VMO functions to VMO functions. Furthermore, while the map from \(f\) to \(f^*\) is not continuous in the BMO seminorm, we prove continuity when the limit is in VMO.

Please click here to register *After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Mini Course: COMSOL Multiphysics training course aims to a tour for the most advanced equation based modeling and multiphysics modeling software. This course will be provided by KESCO, the company selling and supporting COMSOL Multiphysics in Japan.

Zoom available . More information and signup here .

Originally scheduled for December 2020, this mini-symposium has been rescheduled to November 2021 due to the situation with COVID-19. The new dates are Nov 15 - 17, 2021. The mini-symposium will be held online.

OIST Mini Symposium | Organizing unit: Protein Engineering and Evolution | Open to OIST members | For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

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

INNOVATION SEMINAR: Mr. Eli Lyons, CEO of Genome Miner and OIST Entrepreneur-in-Residence, will regale us with stories of his roller-coaster ride from a graduate student at the University of Tokyo to Co-founder of 2 startup companies in Japan. Pizza to follow. In-person:open to the first 30 participants.

This seminar is aimed at interns, students and researchers who ware presenting at International conferences.

The OIST Innovators Society is hosting a virtual fireside chat with Paul McInerney, General Partner of Incubate Fund , a venture capital firm based in Tokyo. This is an exciting opportunity to ask a venture capitalist anything! In-person and online.

This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers. For more information please visit the meeting's website (external link)

OIST - Osaka University: A Recipe for Scientific Synergy-Series 1 by Dr. Svante Pääbo and Dr. Hisashi Arase

Meet the Innovation Supporters at OIST

Join the staff of the Technology Development & Innovation Center for free coffee and snacks and ask them how OIST can help support innovative ideas, prototyping, starting a business, and more. Come any time between 2 pm-4 pm and bring your coffee cup, mask, and boundless curiosity.

Tuesday 9th November 2021, 16:00–17:00 JST (UTC+9), online on Zoom Professor Denis Serre , The UMPA Title: Compensated integrability: classical and singular Divergence-BV symmetric tensors Abstract:

Compensated Integrability is a recent tool of Functional Analysis, which extends both the Gagliardo Inequality and the Isoperimetric Inequality. It concerns the determinant of positive symmetric tensors whose row-wise Divergence is controlled in the space of bounded measures. It is somehow dual to Brenier's Theorem of Optimal Transport. Its applications cover several domains in Mathematical Physics and in Differential Geometry.

Speaker: Arik Wilbert , University of South Alabama Title: Real Springer fibers and odd arc algebras

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Our speaker will be Michelle Maiese on Mindshaping, Racist Habits, and White Ignorance . We will be meeting on Monday, November 8, 2021 at 9:30 am, Japan time (GMT +9).

Hands on Demo

Nikon AX R New Confocal system

This language seminar is aimed at Interns and Students who want to make their presentations flow better.

Learn how to get your juminhyo at the Village Office, how to dispose of large garbage, how to get a package redelivered, how to make a bank transfer, and how to send an international package.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link , then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )

Come and join us for an exciting and fulfilling meeting on building better communication skills through impromptu speaking exercises, listening to prepared speeches, and providing constructive feedback. We run our meetings at lunchtime every other Friday. Email oist.tm@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to receive further information.

Nikon New Confocal System "AX R"

The OIST Neuroscience Club w ould like to invite you to a special presentation by Prof. Gordon Arbuthnott . For his last public presentation, he will give a talk about his journey as a neuroscientist: past, present, and future .

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

National holiday

Professor Itai Shafrir , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Title: Minimizers of a variational problem for nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation in two dimensions

[Speaker] Prof. Masaki Satoh (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)

Language: English

Instructor: Kiku Doi is from Japan and excited to share her unique talent with you!

講師：土井 貴久子

For children ages 5-12 (limited to 6 participants)

対象年齢　5-12歳 (参加人数　6人まで）

OIST and Keio University, Japan's very first private institution of higher learning located in the center of Tokyo, are starting a series of short seminars (OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK) to introduce each other's researchers to promote future collaboration.

Do you start preparing for a presentation by creating your slides first or your script first? Join us to find out why you should start with a script and how to go about doing it.

Learn how to check in and out of doctor's appointments, describe pain and symptoms, and speak in emergency situations, all in Japanese.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link , then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )

An art Exhibition by the Graduate School of Formative Arts from the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. This exhibition is the latest in a series of exciting collaborations between OIST and the OPUA that started in 2013. The Tunnel Gallery will host this year edition as part of our Anniversary celebration events.

Prof. Dr. Julijana Gjorgjieva

Assistant Professor in Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Technical University of Munich

The emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits

How neural circuits become organized during early postnatal development based on patterns of spontaneous activity and different plasticity mechanisms. Prof. Julijana will show the emergence of organization at the sub-cellular and cellular level and discuss implications for computations implemented by these networks. These theoretical models and simulations are supported by experimental data and make numerous predictions for future experiments.

Zoom link

Passcode: 959053

Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface - Prof. Johannes M. Fink, Institute of Science and Technology Austria