Speaker: Tianyuan Xu , University of Colorado at Boulder Title: On Kazhdan–Lusztig cells of a-value 2

OIST Health and Safety and Recreation Services presents a classroom session on Ocean Safety.

Guest Speakers are:

Jason Macdonald: Program Director

Taishi Otono: President of Japan Water Patrol: Representative Director and Chief Instructor of Okinawa Lifesaving Association

James Renshaw: Instructor

OISTサイエンストーク2021 vol.1

タイトル：「足元に目を向けよう」

やんばると西表島がついに世界自然遺産に登録。この豊かさを守るための主戦場は、実はあなたのすぐ側にある。

登壇者：OIST環境科学セクション リサーチサポートリーダー 吉村 正志

　　　　 　株式会社Endemic Garden H 環境部長 上開地 広美

Bike Share Club Seaside Ride - Safety Lesson at the Seaside House

Saturday, November 27th from 8am to 10am.

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Non-linear effects in Hybrid Quantum Systems--Prof. Bill Munro from NTT

Seminar hosted by QG Unit. Speaker: Dr. Andrea Campoleoni , Universite de Mons Title: Carrollian and Galilean conformal higher-spin algebras in any dimensions

At our next Innovators Society meeting, we will be joined by Dr. Masaru Nagura - General Manager at Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) Tokyo.

Notes from Underground: vocal communication in a eusocial rodent

Naked mole-rats are exceptionally long-lived (reported lifespans > 30 years), highly resistant to cancer and low oxygen conditions and live in colonies organized to support a single breeding female, queen. This type of social behavior is rare among mammals, although commonly found in the social insects: bees, wasps, and ants. Yet how naked mole-rats organize and maintain their elaborate social groups is largely unknown. Recent work from our group identified a critical role for vocal communication in naked mole-rats societies. Using machine learning techniques, we developed methods to automatically classify and analyze features of one vocalization type, the soft chirp, a greeting call used by naked mole-rats when they encounter one another in their subterranean habitat. We demonstrated that soft chirps encode information about individual and colony identity, suggesting the possibility of colony specific dialects. In a series of behavioral tests, we found that vocal responses were enhanced to home colony vs. foreign colony audio playbacks and to artificially generated colony-specific dialects. We further demonstrated that these dialects can be learned, as pups that were cross-fostered early in life acquired the dialect of their adoptive colonies. Colony specificity of vocal dialects is controlled in part by the presence of the queen: when the queen was lost the vocal cohesiveness of the colony dialect disintegrated. In this lecture I will highlight some of the remarkable lessons we can learn from the naked mole-rat including how vocal communication emerges as an evolutionary mechanism for enhanced cooperation.

PhD Public Presentation

This colloquium will be held once a month. It will be held online for the time being. Each event consists of a one-hour talk on mathematics followed by a one-hour diversity panel discussion session.

In the mathematics part, we will hear an exciting overview talk for a general audience. November speaker is Masato Mimura from Tohoku University. In the discussion session, we will hear about the speaker's experience as a mathematician, especially in choosing fields of research. Y ou can take inspiration from them and exchange ideas with other participants in a small group. After the sessions are over, there will be a tea time where participants can chat freely.

You can join Part I only or both parts of the colloquium. Please register before November 19, 5 pm. Click here to register!

Part I Expository math talk 3-4 pm

Speaker: Masato Mimura 見村万佐人 (Tohoku University 東北大学)

Talk Title : The Green--Tao theorem for number fields

Abstract: The celebrated Green--Tao theorem states that an upper dense subset of the set of rational primes contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. Later, Tao proved that an upper dense subset of the set of Gaussian primes, namely, prime elements in the integer ring $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{-1}]$ of the number field $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-1})$ contains arbitrarily shaped constellations. (We will explain the precise statement in the talk.) In the paper, Tao asked whether the same conclusion holds in the setting of arbitrary number fields. In this joint work with Wataru Kai (Tohoku U.), Akihiro Munemasa (Tohoku U.), Shin-ichiro Seki (Aoyama Gakuin U.) and Kiyoto Yoshino (Tohoku U.), we answer Tao's question in the affirmative. We have an application to the setting of a binary quadratic form. More precisely, given a form $F$, we study combinatorics on the set of pair of integers $(x,y)$ for which $F(x,y)$ is a rational prime. No serious background of number theory is required for this talk.

Part II Diversity Panel Discussion 4-5 pm

Blueprint for a Scalable Photonic Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer – Dr. J. Eli Bourassa and Dr. Ilan Tzitrin, Xanadu

Wednesday 10th November 2021, 10:00–11:00 JST (UTC+9), online on Zoom Associate Professor Kabe Moen , The University of Alabama Title: Fractional Integrals and weights Part I Abstract:

I will introduce fractional integral operator and its related maximal operator. After developing some of the relevant background, we will discuss its boundedness on Lebesgue spaces and various related inequalities of Hedberg and Welland. We will also cover endpoint bounds and applications to Sobolev-Poincare inequalities.

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

Ph.D Thesis Presentation for External by Sam Ross

National holiday

Speaker:

Yumiko IMAI, Project Leader, Ph.D. Regulation for Intractable Infectious Diseases Center for Vaccine & Adjuvant Research National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN)

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

PhD public presentation

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-

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.