Prof. Gui-Qiang Chen

Statutory Professor in the Analysis of PDEs, Director of the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDEs ( OxPDE ), University of Oxford, United Kingdom

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第３回 事務職員向け勉強会 「研究機器・施設および技術支援」 （日本語） Speaker: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Speaker 1: Mr. Haoyu Han, Ph. D. Student, Michigan State University

Title: Alternately Optimized Graph Neural Networks

Speaker 2: Mr. Weijie Liu, Ph. D. Student, Zhejiang University

Title: Robust Graph Dictionary Learning

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor. Michael A. Long

Title: Neural mechanisms of interactive communication

Join the ZOOM from the link here!

https://oist.zoom.us/j/91531249984?pwd=eFNldWNHRlN0by91WlZJVTI3djFNZz09

Zoom talk by Dr. Ferretti working at Big Data Institute, University of Oxford.

Talk targeted to a general audience, zoom link available or come to C15, Lab1.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia. Title: Interacting Black Holes and Massive Higher Spin Fields (part2).

Prof Juan Manfredi

University of Pittsburgh, USA

Speaker: Sir John Ball

Heriot-Watt University and Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh

Abstract Population genetics and phylogenetics are two main subfields of evolutionary genetics. The former investigates the genetic variations among populations within a species while the latter focuses on reconstructing phylogeny of many species using genetic data. In this presentation, I will present my previous work on the population genetics of an alpine ground beetle, Nebria ingens complex, in the Sierra Nevada in California and my current work on the deep evolutionary history of species radiation of Lepidoptera. In the alpine ground beetle study, I used genome-wide variants to characterize the population structure and demographic history. I found that the glacial refugia was in the low-elevation drainage basins of Sierra Nevada during the last glacial maximum, followed by the postglacial recolonization to the current high-altitude alpine zone. I also used genome-wide association approaches to identify the genes putatively associated with the postglacial elevational range shift, local adaptation to the heterogeneous environments, and the morphological variations. For the study of Lepidoptera species radiation, I use published high-quality lepidopteran genomes to explore the genomic evidence related to rapid diversification of modern lepidopteran lineages. The preliminary results suggest that the gene evolution involving host plant detection, phytocompound detoxification, and protein digestion play crucial roles in species diversification along with the Angiosperm radiation. Finally, I will provide my personal perspective on connecting population genetics (microevolution) and phylogenetics (macroevolution) for a more thorough understanding of evolutionary processes.

About Dr. Yi-Ming Weng: Yi-Ming was born and brought up in Taiwan. He graduated from National Chung-Hsing University for bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Entomology department. He is interested in insect biodiversity and evolution in general. For his master thesis, he studied phylogeography of alpine ground beetles in Taiwan, looking for sharing evolutionary history between the alpine ground beetle species with similar ecological niche and geographical distribution. Yi-Ming started his PhD carrier in the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017. He worked with Professor Sean Schoville to further study the evolutionary history of alpine ground beetle from the Sierra Nevada in California using genomic data. By the time he started to develop his skillsets in bioinformatics and genomics. Now Yi-Ming is working with Professor Akito Kawahara in the University of Florida as a postdoctoral researcher studying evolutionary genomics of Lepidoptera.

Despite Yi-Ming has been working mostly with computers for his bioinformatics analyses, he is most interested in outdoor activities and direct observation of insects. He believes that good biological questions usually come from the field, and stepping out to touch the insects gets the best inspiration.

Speaker: Prof. Ugur Abdulla

Analysys and Partial Differential Equations Unit, OIST

Metric Recovery from Unweighted k-NN Graphs by Ryoma Sato (Kyoto University)

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Ugur Abdulla (Analysis and Partial Differential Equations) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

Speaker: Dr. Albrecht Wagner

A physics lecture for non-physicists. Title: Why is the sky blue? Speaker: Yasha Neiman.

Prof. Colin Jackson, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University

The Orators club is back and have a meeting this Friday 9th June, 12pm @ L4E01.

Join us for fun and educating exercises on how to practice and strenghten our commination skills!

This is your chance to overcome stage fright and get better at public speaking.

All levels are welcome!

佐古クミ先生のハタ・ヨガ教室

Laugh in the face of danger by singing "Have You Ever Seen The Rain" directly into a typhoon.

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!

Speaker 1:Mr. Pengfei HE, Ph. D. Student, Michigan State University

Title: Probabilistic Categorical Adversarial Attack

Speaker 2:Mr. Yuki TAKEZAWA, Ph.D. Student, Kyoto University

Title: Beyond Exponential Graph: Communication-Efficient Topologies for Decentralized Learning via Finite-time Convergence

In this meeting we will catch up on progress in the development of the OIST Natural History Collection

Please send us your awe-inspiring scientific images!

Those selected will form a collection that will represent OIST at exhibitions throughout the world.

Deadline EXTENDED June 22 at 9am JST .

What is GPSS Group ? GPSS Group is Tokyo based and engaged in a wide range of energy businesses including solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and biogas, as well as a variety of other businesses to realize a sustainable society. We consider the gifts of nature such: as water, wind, and heat, which all exist in the local regions as the "local commons." To create a sustainable society together with the local communities, we utilize these potentials that are naturally replenished.

User group meeting for the Environmental Science and Informatics section

QG group meeting. Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia. Title: Interacting Black Holes and Massive Higher Spin Fields.

Assistant Professor Han Bao, Kyoto University, "Proper Losses, Moduli of Convexity, and Surrogate Regret Bounds"

Speaker: Sylvain Agostini (Dr. Sci.)

Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba (Assistant Professor) Tara Ocean Japan (Director)

Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

Abstract: This presentation will introduce the activities of the Tara Océan Foundation around the world and the Tara JAMBIO Microplastics Joint Survey, which began in 2020 using research vessels of marine stations around Japan. With the support of various private organizations, and with the cooperation of national universities participating in the JAMBIO network. (...)

Learn About Okinawa's History: A Historian and Elder ’ s Insights on the Battle of Okinawa

Seminar by Dr. Dolma Michellod (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany)

This Mini Course will provide participants with a better understanding of tools and techniques used for gathering, understanding and using geographical data. Although the focus is on human mobility data, principles and practices are relevant to much broader fields. We hope many of you will be able to join and consider potential applications in your own research. Each session is independent, so feel free to attend just one or both!

Ms. Hanna Tseran, MPI, "Expected Expressivity and Gradients of Maxout Networks"

Dr. Pedro Lopes, Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

[Speaker] Prof. Tuan Tran, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Date/Time: June 5 (Mon), 2023 / 12:00 - 13:00 (Postponed from June 1)

Location : L3 C700 and zoom

Speaker: Marcin Korecki, ETH Zürich

Title: The man behind the curtain: AI, Complexity and Social Systems

This Mini Course will provide participants with a better understanding of tools and techniques used for gathering, understanding and using geographical data. Although the focus is on human mobility data, principles and practices are relevant to much broader fields. We hope many of you will be able to join and consider potential applications in your own research. Each session is independent, so feel free to attend just one or both!

OIST Workshop | Workshop website: | Main organizer: Liron Speyer (Representation Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions

[Speaker] Dr. Eiichiro Yamaguchi, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, USA.

The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers developed and hosted annually by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin in November. In 3–minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin.

BeActive Fitness Classes

June Schedule - Registration now open

Via the Link

OIST will be featured in a very famous Japanese TV show, Waratte Koraete! (笑ってこらえて！), on May 31.

Date/time: 7-9pm Wednesday May 31 ^st

Realtime online view: https://tver.jp/live/ntv

The following OIST students and topics will be featured:

Ant brain research by Shubham Florian's research on exoplanets using machine learning Miyu's study on memory Jann's clownfish reseach

Speaker: Professor Giuseppe Tomassetti, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

QG group meeting. Speaker: Slava Lysov. Title: Higher Topological Quantum Mechanics on Graphs.

[Speaker] Dr. Fernando Ángel Fernández-Álvarez, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM), CSIC, Spain

May 30 is “Go-Mi- Zero” day in Japan (5=Go, 3-Mi, 0=Zero, Gomi=waste, garbage), and a great opportunity to think about nature and keep neighbourhood beaches clean.

This event is part of UMIGOMI ZERO WEEK ( https://uminohi.jp/umigomi/zeroweek/) .

Please:

Wear gloves Wear something blue (to note Umigomi Zero Week). Not compulsory.

In case of rain, the event will be canceled. No volunteer certificate will be issued for this event.

Contact Mayu at +81 50 54696440 with questions.

This event is part of OIST SDGs Initiative.

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Xiaodan Zhou (Analysis on Metric Spaces) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions.

OIST campus will be closed on Thursday and Friday due to the typhoon. All talks will be online on Thursday and Friday. You can obtain a zoom link from here.

Dr. Hirokazu Maruoka, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University.

Language: English.

We are inviting Dr. Shun Satoh from Kyoto University who calls himself as a "Fish Maniac" in his blog.For his details please check the link below. https://symphysodondiscus.wixsite.com/website-1/blank-3 Date: May 29th(Mon) Time: 15:00* - Room: C209 (Center Bldg) *The start time has been updated as of May 19th. sorry for the inconvenience.

Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94360778822?pwd=ZDlPZFY2d3luQWovcUdLZ1lvbGdpQT09 Meeting ID: 943 6077 8822 Passcode: 705537 If you have any questions, please contact egu@oist.jp.

* Dr.Yong Keun Park, Physics Department of KAIST, South Korea

* Language: English (No interpretation)

These new banners, featuring imagery created by OIST researchers as part of the scientific process, have been on display for a few days now. This exhibit opening will provide some background about the images and the project and thank the researchers for contributing.

Osaka University is one of OIST's strategic partners.

Since 2020, we have co-hosted a series called "Recipe for Scientific Synergy" to introduce researchers from both sides. In order to strengthen the network with a view toward more robust collaboration on bottom-up basis, we have decided to transform this series into an on-site symposium.