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.

Nicolle González , University of California, Berkeley Title: Higher Rank Rational (q,t)-Catalan Polynomials and a Finite Shuffle Theorem

Speaker: Prof. Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Vilnius University

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?).

FY22 _Fixed Asset Inspection session will be held via Zoom.Those in charge of please participate in this session.

Workshop on Life Mind Continuity

The aim: We attempt to deepen understanding of mind through discussions of various issues including life mind continuity, theory of mind, embodied mind, phenomenal consciousness, alife and artificial intelligence.

Date: 1pm - 5:35pm, November 25th, 2022

Location: Room1, OIST Conference Center

Organized by Kazuo Okanoya, Takashi Ikegami, and Jun Tani

Seminar from Pr. Martin Frith, Laboratory for Life Information decipherment (Center for Omics and Bioinformatics), Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo.

Dr. Mog Stapleton, East China Normal University. 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).

Interpreting systems as solving POMDPs: a step towards a formal understanding of agency.

Martin Biehl, senior research scientist at Cross Labs.

Four projects on Intrinsic Motivation, Embodiment, Creativity & Videogames.

Christian Guckelsberger, Computer Scientist, Art Historian and Assistant Professor in Creative Technologies at Aalto University.

Okinawa Christian School International (OCSI) will hold their Open House for prospective families on November 23rd, 2022. Events like this tend to fill up quickly, so if it is a school you are interested in for your children, I recommend you register early.

National holiday

"Collective Intelligence in Living/Non-Livings Populations" Workshop 2022. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Invited Guests.

Christopher Cameron is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Montreal.

Speaker: Prof. Salvatore Federico

A faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering (2008-present), with an adjunct position in Kinesiology, Human Performance Laboratory (2012-present)

Title: "The Truesdell Rate in Continuum Mechanics"

What is an agent?

Nathaniel Virgo, Associate Professor at Earth-Life Science Insitute (ELSI) in Tokyo.

Speaker: Dr. Lars Korte

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Germany Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Various topics of ladder polymer science will be covered mainly from the perspectives of synthetic organic and polymer chemistry, including the synthesis of novel conjugated ladder polymers and nanocarbon molecules and their characterizations and properties.

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 3 pm-4 pm and bring your coffee cup, mask, and boundless curiosity.

The OIST Innovators Society is hosting a fireside chat on accelerating biomedical science innovation, featuring Dr. Tanja Rosenmund, Visiting Researcher at OIST and Director of SPARK Berlin Institute of Health . The event will be followed by an open house with staff of the Technology Development & Innovation Center and free coffee and snacks!

OIST Orators meet every two weeks to practice public speaking. No matter your level or experience, everyone is welcome to come and learn together! Our meetings typically consist of prepared talks, impromptu topics to practice speaking on the spot, and a short seminar on some aspect of oratory.

Abstract:

The Vicsek set is a tree-like fractal on which neither analog of curvature nor differential structure exists, whereas the heat kernel satisfies sub-Gaussian estimates. I will talk about Sobolev spaces and scale invariant $L^p$ Poincar\'e inequalities on the Vicsek set. Several approaches will be discussed, including the metric approach of Korevaar-Schoen and the approach by limit approximation of discrete p-energies.

Zoom : https://oist.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpdu-uqTwrGdFV5IrA0woMhvhlxVa_5ttw

Watch entrepreneurs battle it out at the OIST Startup Pitch Competition and cast your vote for the "Audience Choice Award". Free coffee and snacks.

Thursday, November 17, 2022 1:30pm-3:00pm Center Building, C209

Dr. Naoto Shinohara, Specially appointed assistant professor, Tohoku University.

Language: English, no interpretation. All are welcome to attend.

Speaker: Prof. Robert V. Kohn (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU)

Title: Prediction with expert advice: a PDE perspective on a model problem from machine learning

Title: HIV keeps on surprising us: a CRISPR-Cas cure adventure and a drug-resistance story

By Dr. Ben Berkhout, University of Amsterdam.

Language: English, no interpretation

Giada Volpato, University of Florence Title: On the restriction of a character of $\mathfrak{S}_n$ to a Sylow $p$-subgroup

Provost Lecture Series 2 Speaker: Prof. Mahesh Bandi, Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit Title: Not all those who wander are lost

Title:

Photosynthetic cellular modifications to synthesize spider silk with arranged amino acid sequences

★ Ten participants at L4E48 will receive a novelty by L-INSIGHT. (first-come-first-served basis)

Yamamoto Unit presents a seminar by Dr. Haruhiko Koseki, Deputy director and team leader, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN. The seminar is about Polycomb, PRC1, SKP1A, proteasome, CGI.

Speaker: Prof. Shimpei Endo, Tohoku University

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2022 International Schooling Options Information Seminar - a hybrid event featuring representatives from 6 international schools. Open to OIST community, including parents, carers, and curious people.

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

18:00-20:00

B250 and Zoom

See flier for more details and to register

Speaker: Prof Maarten Hoogerland, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Talk title: Anderson localisation and quantum optics experiments in Auckland

Dr. Martin J. How Royal Society University Research Fellow Ecology of Vision Lab, University of Bristol

Online Lecture series "The quest for mathematical understanding of artificial intelligence" by Professor Sanjeev Arora, Computer Science at Princeton University.

Speaker: Prof. Agnid Banerjee (TIFR CAM, Bangalore)

Title: Space like strong unique continuation for some fractional parabolic equations

Seminar: “The smaller they are, the harder they fly: how insect flight copes with miniaturization” by Prof. Sanjay P Sane

EndNote is a reference manager that helps you save time formatting citations, so you can focus on your research. Researchers and administrative staff at OIST have access to the full version of the application through the OIST Software Center.

These online sessions will introduce you the EndNote reference management program in basic and intermediate levels and is available in English and Japanese. USACO will be providing this seminar to OIST members over Zoom with live Q&A.

This is the first mini-symposium of the OIST Center for Quantum Technologies. Organized by Prof. Kae Nemoto, it is taking place on November 9 in B250, Center Building. Everybody within OIST is welcome!

"Silver Workshop V: Complex Geometry and related topics" Workshop 2022. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Invited Guests.

Technical seminar by Protochips Inc: Axon, new transmission electron microscope (TEM) observation and Poseidon, a liquid cell holder fo TEM observation in liquid condition. All OIST members are welcome to join the seminar.

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Tom Froese (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit) | Website | Program | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions.

Abstract: Whitney extension results characterize when one can extend a mapping from a compact subset to a smooth mapping on a larger space. Lusin approximation results give conditions under which one can approximate a rough map by a smoother map after discarding a set of small measure. We first recall relevant results in the Euclidean setting, then describe recent work extending them to horizontal curves in the Heisenberg group. We focus on C^m curves.

Zoom : https://oist.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpduGtqzooG9PA85LMRCwswpo5ODm2nU49

Speaker: Dr. Juan Polo Gomez, Quantum Research Centre, Technology Innovation Institute

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

Fireside chat with Dr. Solange Massa, the founder and CEO of Ecoatoms, a NASA supported company developing the next generation biomaterials, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices in space.

Biological Complexity Unit Seminar, open to everyone who is interested. In person or zoom. Lab 3 B712.

Title: "GC bias-aware abundance estimation from metagenomic data increases accuracy and replicability"

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