Past Events

Professional Development

Survival Japanese: Official Documents

Friday, November 5, 2021 - 12:00
https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918

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 )

Professional Development

Orators Meeting for Communication & Public Speaking

Friday, November 5, 2021 - 12:00
Seminar Room B503 (Lab 1)

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.

Seminar

Nikon New Confocal Microscopy Seminar

Friday, November 5, 2021 - 11:00
C210

Nikon New Confocal System "AX R"

Seminar

Neuroscience with Gordon Arbuthnott

Thursday, November 4, 2021 - 10:00
B250 or Zoom

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 .

External Events

The 32nd Board of Governors Meeting

Thursday, November 4, 2021 (All day)

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Holiday

Culture Day 文化の日 2021

Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 00:00

National holiday

Seminar

FALL 2021 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series

Tuesday, November 2, 2021 - 16:00 to 17:00
Online via Zoom
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
Seminar

Seminar "Detection, attribution, and projection of tropical cyclones affected by global warming" by Prof. Masaki Satoh

Tuesday, November 2, 2021 - 15:00 to 16:00
Zoom

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

Recreation

SHIPPO/JAPANESE ENAMELING WORKSHOP | 七宝焼

Saturday, October 30, 2021 - 10:00
Conference Center Meeting Room 1
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)

Seminar

OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 2 by Dr. Hiroki Takahashi and Dr. Norihisa Miki

Friday, October 29, 2021 - 17:00 to 18:00
Zoom-Registration is required.

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.

Professional Development

Academic Presenting Skills - Why you should write out your speech part 1

Friday, October 29, 2021 - 15:00 to 16:00
Zoom

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.

Professional Development

Survival Japanese: Going to the doctor

Friday, October 29, 2021 - 12:00
https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918

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 )

Culture

[OIST 10th] Art Exhibition “Cycle - Energy for Creation 2021”

Friday, October 29, 2021 (All day) to Friday, November 26, 2021 (All day)
Tunnel Gallery

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.

Seminar

Emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits

Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 16:00
ZOOM

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

Seminar

[Seminar] Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface by Prof. Johannes M. Fink

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 16:00
Zoom

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

Seminar

Qubits and Spacetime unit seminar: Yasha Neiman, "A microscopic derivation of the quantum measurement postulates"

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 14:00
Lab 4 E48 and Zoom
Next week, at 2pm JST on Wednesday 27th October in Lab 4 Seminar Room E48 , OIST's own Yasha Neiman will tell us about " A microscopic derivation of the quantum measurement postulates".
Public Lecture

[Webinar] The Pursuit of Positive Peace for Climate Justice

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 09:00 to 10:00
Zoom link will be provided upon registration

Join Dr. Maya Soetoro, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Institute for Climate and Peace, and Ms. Juno Fitzpatrick, Advisory Committee Member, Institute for Climate and Peace, and Director of Human Rights and Oceans, Center for Oceans at Conservation International for a discussion about the intersection of climate and peace.

Register here .

Symposium

The 27th East Asia Joint Symposium (EAJS)

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 (All day) to Friday, October 29, 2021 (All day)
ONLINE-Registration is required.

The 27th East Asia Joint Symposium

~Reboot 2021: Explorling Life Science in the Post-Pandemic Era~

Seminar

FALL 2021 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series

Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 16:00 to 17:00
Online via Zoom
Professor Oscar Domingues Bonilla , The University of Lyon Title: John–Nirenberg spaces revisited Abstract:

We study John—Nirenberg-type spaces where oscillations of functions are controlled via covering lemmas. Our methods give new surprising results and clarify classical inequalities. Joint work with Mario Milman (Florida and Buenos Aires).

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

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 09:30 to 10:30
On Zoom
Speaker: George Seelinger , University of Michigan Title: Diagonal harmonics and shuffle theorems
Seminar

[Seminar] Anomalies in (2+1)D Symmetry-Enriched Topological Phases

Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 09:00 to 10:00
Zoom

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Seminar

[Seminar] On the unsteady turbulence and structure/canopy interaction

Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 09:00 to 10:00
Zoom

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Monday, October 25, 2021 - 16:30
on Zoom

Speaker: Samuel Creedon, City, University of London

Title: Defining an Affine Partition Algebra

Professional Development

Academic Speaking Skills - Giving spontaneous one minute talks

Friday, October 22, 2021 - 15:00 to 16:15

Do you have a list of steps in your mind when you are asked to give a quick talk?

Join us to talk about what types of things should be discussed and how we should discuss them in a spontaneous one minute talk.

Professional Development

Survival Japanese: Taxi and directions

Friday, October 22, 2021 - 12:00
https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918

Learn how to call a taxi, give directions to a location, and describe a place with simple adjectives, 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 )

Professional Development

Orators Meeting for Communication & Public Speaking

Friday, October 22, 2021 - 12:00
Seminar Room B503 (Lab 1)

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.

Research

[PhD Thesis Presentation_Zoom] - Po-Shun Chuang - "From Polyps to Colonies: Applying polyp bail-out to study coral coloniality"

Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 19:00 to 20:00
Please join via zoom

PhD Public Presentation

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Tatiana Engel: Flexible identification of cognitive computations from spikes

Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 10:00
ZOOM Event

Prof. Tatiana Engel

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Engel Laboratory, United States

https://facultyprofiles.cshl.edu/tatiana.engel

Zoom link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/98260915981?pwd=dWNFRVQrcUhCNWhrbGhtYWs0TEZPUT09

Colloquium

Catch-All Mathematical Colloquium

Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 09:00 to 11:00
Zoom

The 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. October speaker is Megumi Harada, Professor of McMaster University. In the discussion session, we will hear about the speaker's personal journey as a mathematician. You 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 Oct 18th, 5 pm. Click here to register!

Seminar

Carroll Symmetry and Cosmology

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 16:00
Lab4 E01 and Zoom

Seminar hosted by QG unit. Speaker: Jelle Hartong, The University of Edinburgh Title: Carroll Symmetry and Cosmology

Public Lecture

Climate Change: Everything Goes Somewhere

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 09:00 to 10:00
Zoom link will be provided upon registration

The presenters talk about their new book, A Guide to Understanding Fundamental Principles of Environmental Management: It Ain’t Magic: Everything Goes Somewhere, and how it relates to climate change and other “sticky” natural resource management problems.

Presenters: Mr. Andrew Manale, Policy Analyst & Writer Mr. Bengt “Skip” Hyberg, President, H&H Conservation

Register here .

Seminar

FALL 2021 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 16:00 to 17:00
Online via Zoom
Dr. João Pedro Ramos , Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Title: STABILITY FOR GEOMETRIC AND FUNCTIONAL INEQUALITIES Abstract
Seminar

Faculty lunchtime seminar: Eugene Kroll

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 12:10
Lab 4, E48

Faculty Lunctime Seminar. Speaker: Eugene Kroll (STG). Title: "Knocking Out Cancer's Sweet Tooth".

Training

Introduction to Python programming on the Cluster — Session 3

Monday, October 18, 2021 - 13:00 to 15:00
L4E01

Python is a popular, powerful programming language that is often used in scientific computing. You will get an introduction to the Python language and to common scientific libraries, and you will learn how to use Python in the OIST cluster environment.

Professional Development

Academic Presenting Skills - Learning from TED part 2

Friday, October 15, 2021 - 15:00 to 16:00

What makes a good presentation good?

Join us as we consider the aspects of making memorable presentations.

Professional Development

Survival Japanese: Restaurants

Friday, October 15, 2021 - 12:00
https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918

Learn how to make a reservation at a restaurant, order food and ask for items, and order food for pickup, 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 )

Public Lecture

[Webinar] Innovating Higher Education in Japan

Friday, October 15, 2021 - 08:00 to 09:00
Zoom link will be provided upon registration

Join the Japan ICU Foundation and the OIST Foundation for this new webinar series focused on the Future of Education in Japan. Panelists: Prof. Monte Cassim (President, Akita International University), Dr. Peter Gruss (President, OIST), Dr. Kohei Itoh (President, Keio University), Dr. Shoichiro Iwakiri (President, ICU)

Register here .

Seminar

Quasiconformal and Sobolev mappings in metric measure spaces

Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 15:00 to 16:00
Zoom

Analysis on Metric Spaces Fall Seminar

Title: Quasiconformal and Sobolev mappings in metric measure spaces

Speaker: Panu Lahti, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Abstract: Starting from Gehring, the equivalence between the metric, geometric, and analytic def- initions of quasiconformality has been investigated by various authors. There are many results stating that if a mapping is metrically quasiconformal, perhaps only in a relaxed sense, then it is analytically quasiconformal, or at least a Sobolev mapping. In recent joint work with Xiaodan Zhou, we have shown an improved version of such a result, which seems to detect more Sobolev mappings than previous results in the literature. I will discuss these results as well as the general strategy of the proofs.

Training

Introduction to Python programming on the Cluster — Session 2

Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 13:00 to 15:00
L4E01

Python is a popular, powerful programming language that is often used in scientific computing. You will get an introduction to the Python language and to common scientific libraries, and you will learn how to use Python in the OIST cluster environment.

Seminar

Zoom Seminar by Karapet Mkrtchyan from Imperial College London

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 17:00
Lab4 E01 and Zoom

Seminar hosted by QG Unit. Speaker: Karapet Mkrtchyan, Imperial College London Title: Duality-symmetric formulation of electrodynamics and (chiral) p-form generalizations

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 15:00 to 16:00
On Zoom
Speaker: Paul Wedrich , University of Hamburg Title: Knots and quivers, HOMFLYPT and DT
Seminar

FALL 2021 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 10:00 to 11:00
Online via Zoom
Professor Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester Title: Finite point configurations and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension Abstract:

The Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension was invented in 1970 to study learning models. This notion has since become one of the cornerstones of modern data science. This beautiful idea has also found applications in other areas of mathematics. In this talk we are going to describe how the study of the VC-dimension in the context of families of indicator functions of spheres centered at points in sets of a given Hausdorff dimension (or in sets of a given size inside vector spaces over finite fields) gives rise to interesting, and in some sense extremal, point configurations.

Seminar

[Joint Seminar] Universal transport features in spin-orbit-coupled quantum wires

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 09:00 to 10:00
Zoom

Theory of Quantum Matter Unit and Quantum Machines Unit joint Seminar.

Training

Introduction to Python programming on the Cluster — Session 1

Monday, October 11, 2021 - 13:00 to 15:00
L4E01

Python is a popular, powerful programming language that is often used in scientific computing. You will get an introduction to the Python language and to common scientific libraries, and you will learn how to use Python in the OIST cluster environment.

Workshop

RIMS x OIST Jointly-funded Workshop "Interactions of New Trends in Algebraic Geometry and Singularities"

Monday, October 11, 2021 (All day) to Friday, October 15, 2021 (All day)
Zoom (meeting URL will be sent to registered participants)

RIMS x OIST Jointly-funded Workshop | Main organizer from OIST: Shinobu Hikami (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions | Application Form (Deadline Oct 4, 2021)

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

Recreation

Yoga with Yasuko

Saturday, October 9, 2021 (All day)
Village Center Ocean View and Seaside House Chura Hall

https://groups.oist.jp/recreation/iyengar-yoga-yasuko Yasuko -san will be offering two classes in two locations.

For more information and REGISTRATION , please visit our website.

Research

Modern Ecology and Evolution Journal Club [VENUE&TIME CHANGED]

Friday, October 8, 2021 - 16:30
Seaside House Recreation Lounge/ Zoom
[VENUE AND TIME CHANGE] Please feel free to join us for the continuation of fortnightly MEEJC, this Friday, 4.30pm, Seaside House, Recreation Lounge. This week we are invited to join for discussion on this recent preprint: Functional repertoire convergence of distantly related eukaryotic plankton lineages revealed by genome-resolved metagenomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.15.341214v2
Professional Development

Academic Speaking Skills - Concluding a Presentation

Friday, October 8, 2021 - 15:00 to 16:00
Zoom

Do you have a strategy for finishing your presentation?

Join us to leanr about some tried and tested techniques as we discuss microfanancing.

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