Vegan and plant-based cuisine have been attracting attention for their potential both as a developing market and as a sustainable choice. Haruko Kawano of VegeProject Japan will tell us about global trends, the context of this rising demand, and how to incorporate veganism into our diets.

14:00-15:00 Presentation followed by Q&A at B250 15:00-15:30 Food tasting at foyer and wood deck next to B250

AIEN and Yun-Taku will also sell vegan snacks and sweets after the talk

Prof. Kalle Parvinen: University Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland

Dr Xiaozi Liu: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Marine Research, Norway

Prof. Mikko Heino: Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, and also affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Friday, December 9th *4:00-5:30 PM*

Please join us for tea, coffee, and home baking! Bring yourself, your colleagues, your families and share some time, talk and listen to others. Come and see our new location! All are welcome :)

*Our location is now at the Former President's House by faculty housing and Lab 5.

Dr Anna Shchiptsova: Researcher in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-Natural Systems Research Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Dr. Jaideep Joshi: Researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Guest Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Prof. Karol Opara: Assistant professor at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Creation of an isolated turbulent blob fed by vortex rings, Mr. Takumi Matsuzawa, The University of Chicago. Language: English.

Prof. Raul Primicerio: Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

[Change of room: now L4F23 ]. Online seminar by Dr. Christian Rudolph from Brunel University London. Anyone interested is welcome. Zoom link and abstract in the description.

"Towards Hierarchical Motor Control" by Dr. Steve Heim, Postdoc, Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT

Seminar by Mio Murao, Professor at Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Universty of Tokyo, Languate (English)

This talk will introduce two major forms of cold-water biogenic habitats. Deep-sea coral reefs are extensive in the NE Atlantic region due to high food availability and high carbonate saturation levels. Maerl beds are calcified seaweed habitats and are the oldest biogenic habitat type found in shallow waters of the region. (...)

Dr. Orestes Rivada-Wheelaghan, Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Instituto the Investigaciones Químicas (IIQ) at Universidad de Sevilla (Spain).Language: English

Dr. Nao Terasaki, Team Leader, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Language: English

This session will be done in Japanese. The program will start off with a general introduction of OIST, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by a panel discussion by two OIST PhD students.

Shaping the future of 3D interaction with virtual worlds

Speaker:

Professor Wei-Hau Chang, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

“Harnessing the power of Bertozzi reaction for capturing flexible parts in cryo-EM structures”

Speaker:

Professor I-Ping Tu, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

" Garbage in, Einstein out A Mathematical Study of Einstein from Noise”

Abstract: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which is a fundamental result in quantum mechanics, and related inequalities such as the hydrogen and Hardy uncertainty principles, belong to the family of geometric inequalities known as the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities. In this talk, we discuss some recent results about the optimal uncertainty principles, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities, and their quantitative stability. The talk is based on recent joint works with C. Cazacu, J. Flynn and G. Lu.

With new songs! Probably!

Talk 1: 15:00-16:00

Speaker: Prof. Shigeaki Koike (Waseda University)

Title: ABP maximum principle with upper contact sets for fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs

Talk 2: 16:00-17:00

Speaker: Prof. Michiaki Onodera (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Title: A perturbation theory of overdetermined problems

Curious about Intellectual Property? Please join our introductory seminar, hosted by TDIC alongside guest Patent Lawyer Gregory Kirsch.

This is an introduction-level seminar open to everyone at OIST.

Language: English

Neural Computation Unit will hold an OIST / Humanoids 2022 joint workshop at Auditorium. If you are interested in joining, please register.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: Locality of higher-spin gravity from anomalous dimensions of double-trace operators.

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.

Speaker: Prof. Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Vilnius University

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.

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

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