10-Year Anniversary OISTers' Celebration

Saturday, May 28th

Performances start 14:00–16:00 in the auditorium

Outdoor activities: food trucks, screen printing and music start at 10:30am (near the pond)

Biweekly meeting of the OIST ukulele club

In Workshop #4 we discussed recruiting and compensation for early-stage companies. In Workshop #5, we will use role-play to practice both recruiting as a founder and joining an early-stage startup as an employee or advisor. We will practice as teams in a casual setting, so you can attend this workshop even if you have not attended Workshop #4.

Show your support for World Ocean Day from the comfort of your camera! Take part in ECO club's photography contest by taking a picture that demonstrates your relationship with the ocean and tagging us on social media. The winning photographs will be showcased at OIST and online as well as receiving a very ECO prize. https://twitter.com/eco_club_oist

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia. Title: "N=1 and N=4 Super Yang-Mills. A brief review"

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Originally scheduled for May 2021, this workshop has been rescheduled to May 2022 due to the situation with COVID-19. The new dates are May 23 - 27, 2022.

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

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Cosmos episode 4: Heaven and Hell

The seminar aims to initiate interactions between international and Japanese researchers and students in the field of Ecology and Evolution. The 9th event is presented by Dr. Xin Tong, SPDR Fellow of Cell Function Research Team at RIKEN CSRS. Title: Gall-forming aphids, small insects with great power: female-biased sex allocation via female competition induces novel insect gall organogenesis in plants

Timeline 15:00~15:30: seminar 15:30~16:00: questions and discussion 16:00~: mixer Please apply from here: https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to students who have graduated in the period May 2021 to March 2022.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season6: The struggle for coexistence: empirical approaches to understand mechanisms of persistence under competition

Title: Phononic Frequency Combs

Speaker: Dr. Adarsh Ganesan from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

What is the appropriate level of formality when writing email to people of different cultures?

In this seminar we will look at some key differences between formal and informal English in emails. We will learn about the signs to look for in formal English emails and discuss cultural considerations.

Back from Golden Week and ready to uke out!

[Neuroscience Club] Prof. Gabrielle Girardeau, Principal Investigator, CRCN Inserm / Sorbonne University

Title: The level-set mean curvature flow equation versus the total variation flow equation

Abstract: The level-set mean curvature flow equation has been introduced to track an evolving hypersurface by its mean curvature after it develops singularities. A level-set of a solution of the level-set mean curvature flow equation moves its mean curvature. The total variation flow equation is often used to remove noise from images. Although these two equations look similar, analytic properties are quite different; the former equation is a local equation while the latter is a nonlocal equation. In this talk, we compare these two equations as well as a few applications.

Discussion Theme (for the 2nd part of the event) :

How to collaborate with researchers other than mathematicians

The colloquium will be held once a month online. Each event consists of a one-hour talk on mathematics followed by a one-hour diversity panel discussion session. Please register before May , 5 pm. Click here to register!

Workshop 4: ‘Early-stage Recruiting and Compensation - Both Sides’

Are you being approached by startups to provide technical consultation? OR Are you planning to launch startups in the future? If you are, you might be wondering how new people are recruited to join startups.

The online conference is going to be held on May 11, 2022.

QG visitor seminar. Speaker: Sravan Kumar, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Title: "Probing quantum gravity and non-locality through R^2-like inflation".

Panelists: Ms. Lauren Ha from OIST’s TDIC; Dr. Michael Roizen, an expert on healthy longevity and wellness from the Cleveland Clinic; and recent winners of the Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation (HAPI), including Ms. Li Lian Ng, whose company Tetsuyu Healthcare has developed a new wound assessment and treatment system, and Dr. Siti Anom Bt. Ahmad, whose team at Universiti Putra Malaysia developed an autonomous delivery robot to meet the need for contactless delivery that emerged out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Register here

Speaker: Professor Xiao Zhong, University of Helsinki Title: Variational problems with gradient constraint Abstract: I will talk about three different classes of variational problems with gradient constraint. They arise from elastic-plastic torsion, hypersurfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski spaces with given mean curvature and dimer models.

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Ms. Giorgia Dellaferrera, PhD student, IBM Research Zurich - Institute of Neuroinformatics (ETH and UZH). Language: English, no interpretation.

（This training is offered in Japanese Only) 相手を尊重しながら自分の気持ちや考えを率直・誠実に表現するコミュニケーション法を学びます。ペアワークやグループディスカッションを多用した参加型の研修です。

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

It's ukulele time again! This time if the weather is nice enough we're actually going to meat on the beach behind Seaside House instead of in the lounge. If it's too windy or wet, we'll be back inside as always.

OIST - Osaka University: A Recipe for Scientific Synergy-Series 2 by Dr. Noriyuki Tsumaki and Dr. Ichiro Masai

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speakers: Jonas Sonnenschein and Mirian Tsulaia. Title: "N=2 SUSY Quantum Mechanics and spectra of Non-SUSY Hamiltonians (part 2)"

OIST Beach Club and ChuraMura Lunch Time Learning Session

Guest Speaker: Carl Bastain

OIST-Tohoku U. 2 ^nd Joint Workshop on Marine Science “ Oceans – and the impact of humans and climate change ”

Abstract:

This talk will present the result of a joint work with Mathav Murugan(University of British Columbia) that, for a symmetric diffusion on a complete locally compact separable metric space, two-sided sub-Gaussian heat kernel bounds imply the singularity of the energy measures with respect to the reference measure.

For self-similar (scale-invariant) diffusions on self-similar fractals, the singularity of the energy measures is known to hold in many cases by Kusuoka (1989, 1993), Ben-Bassat, Strichartz and Teplyaev (1999), Hino (2005), and Hino and Nakahara (2006), but these results heavily relied on the self-similarity of the space.

It was conjectured, and had remained open for the last two decades to prove, that the singularity of the energy measures should follow, without assuming the self-similarity, just from two-sided sub-Gaussian heat kernel bounds of the same form as those for diffusions on typical self-similar fractals. The main result of this talk answers this conjecture affirmatively.

The first half of the talk will be devoted to a brief introduction to self-similar diffusions (and their associated Dirichlet forms) on self-similar fractals and to sub-Gaussian heat kernel bounds for symmetric diffusions, so that the talk will (hopefully) be accessible even to those without prior knowledge about diffusions on fractals.

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[Neuroscience Club] Prof. Hidehiko Inagaki, Research Group Leader, Neural Dynamics & Cognitive Functions Group

We are excited to have an online seminar by Prof. Inagaki from Max Plank Florida Institute for Neuroscience.

You can join the seminar via ZOOM (meeting ID: 782 721 4941, Password: 436475).

OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season6: High Fidelity Genome Sequencing: What have we been missing ?

Kay Jin Lim, Nanyang Technological University Title: Descent Algebra of Type A

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speakes: Julian Lang (Neiman Unit) Title: "Self-Dual Gravity"

Title: What makes human special? A molecular approach

Please welcome Prof. Pääbo, our Adjunct Professor, and join his very first faculty talk at OIST!

Yasha, Akiko, and the CPR team

Dr. Daniel Shiu, Chief Cryptographer of Arqit, a leading company with transformational quantum encryption technology, will speak on "Public-cryptography is bad for security".

Registration link: TUESDAY, 19 APRIL 2022, 5:00PM (JST) | OIST Groups

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Dr. Chris Bowman, Reader, University of York. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: students and researchers from related fields. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration.

Ricardo Semler, CEO at Semco SA says: "The longer the message, the greater the chance of misinterpretation. "

Putting yourself in your recipient’s shoes is key to getting your email read.

The seminar aims to initiate interactions between international and Japanese researchers and students in the field of Ecology and Evolution. The 8th event is presented by Ryosuke Nakadai from National Institute for Environmental Studies.

Please register from the next link: https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar

Title: Individual-based temporal beta-diversity: Individual turnover and compositional shift in a community

Timeline 15:00~15:30: seminar 15:30~16:00: questions and discussion 16:00~: mixer

Abstract: As increasing the necessity to assess the influences of global climate change and anthropogenic disturbances on biodiversity, the concept of beta-diversity has been extended to a temporal context and has been intensively studied in recent years. In studies of temporal beta-diversity, methodologies used in spatial beta-diversity have often been used simply. However, temporal beta-diversity often includes "the same individual" between two communities implicitly, which has not been the case with spatial communities, so it is necessary to consider the effects of individual turnover and persistence for quantifying temporal beta-diversity. I focused on both individual identity and the persistence of individuals within a temporal beta-diversity framework and developed some novel indices. In my presentation, I will explain the novel indices which I recently developed and the concepts behind them, showing examples of analysis. I would also like to discuss the prospects for community assemblages through both time and individual identity.

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

Join us for the Grand Opening of the cafe and lounge space in Lab4, Level D. President Peter Gruss and VP for BFM Scott Rudisel will speak at the event.

Ukulele club meets again this Thursday, April 14 at 8:00 PM in the Seaside Lounge, typhoons permitting!

The OIST Innovators Society is hosting a casual fireside chat with Koshu Kunii, Ryosuke Kimura and Kentaroh (Kenny) Awata, from Lifetime Ventures. Lifetime Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital firm based in Tokyo, that invests in talent to create businesses that will be loved and exist for a long time. Lifetime typically invests ~$50-500k in startups at the pre-seed or seed stage and provides hands-on support to its portfolio startups. This is an exciting opportunity to ask venture capitalists anything!

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speakers: Jonas Sonnenschein and Mirian Tsulaia. Title: "N=2 SUSY Quantum Mechanics and spectra of Non-SUSY Hamiltonians (part 1)"