Past Events
Day 3: Entrepreneurship Training
Language: English
Reservation required
Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)
Language Seminar Series: Let's talk about the news!
Language Seminar Series: Describing Culture
How can we describe the cultures of others? More importantly how do we describe our own culture? Join us to find out some language that you can use to answer these questions.
https://oist.zoom.us/j/96204657749?pwd=eGxvWktiNHhKY3pCMXlSeXF2U3k4UT09
Language Seminar Series: Advanced Japanese Conversation
Conversation practice for Advanced Japanese speakers!
Thursdays at 17:00
September 17th - December 10th, 2020
Zoom link- https://oist.zoom.us/j/93424948586
PATO General Meeting for 2020-2021 Term Elections
Dear PATO (Parent Association for Tedako at OIST) Members,
We are holding a General PATO Meeting to elect new committee members for the 2020-2021 term. We will be talking about upcoming events and discussing any current concerns or issues. We hope that you can join us!
Seminar : Exotic superconducting states in FeSe-based materials investigated by spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy
TQM unit is pleased to inviet you to a online seminar.
[Webinar] Oceans, Climate, Cholera, and the Corona Virus: A Discussion with Dr. Rita Colwell
We are pleased to announce that this public webinar is rescheduled to Wednesday, September 16 (JST).
Dr. Rita Colwell, one of the most eminent scientists of our time and a member of OIST's Board of Governors, will share her insights into global challenges facing the planet today ranging from the health of oceans to climate change to disease. In addition, she will highlight elements of her new book, A Lab of One’s Own , about the challenges women face in the field of science and how this can be changed.
Register here .
(Please kindly note that you will need to re-register even if you previously signed up for this event.)
Language Seminar Series: JLPT Practice Seminar
JLPT (日本語能力試験)practice for all levels!
Every Tuesday from 5-6 PM
Zoom link to join- https://oist.zoom.us/j/98765166720
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
E-webinar: "Delivering your presentation remotely".
Your presentation skills are just as important as the information you are presenting. Learn how to present online clearly and effectively to get your message across the audience.
To register CLICK HERE . Post-workshop survey SUMMARY*ZOOM*[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Mr. Adrian David "Higher-spin holography in de Sitter space: horizon modes, black holes, and the boundary partition function"
Presenter: Mr. Adrian David
Supervisor: Professor Shinobu Hikami
Co-supervisor: Professor Yasha Neiman
The three-body problem from Newton to gravitational waves
Title: The three-body problem from Newton to gravitational waves
Speaker: Dr. Alessandro Alberto Trani
Abstract:
The gravitational few-body problem is one of the oldest conundrums in astronomy and classical mechanics. Yet, its simplest instance, the three-body problem, has no general analytical solution and only a partial statistical solution has been achieved so far. With the birth of gravitational wave astronomy and the rise in exoplanet discoveries, the three-body problem is again becoming central to explaining astrophysical phenomena.
I will first describe our recent efforts in deriving a complete statistical solution to the non-hierarchical, chaotic three-body problem. I will then review the status of gravitational wave detections and our current understanding of their origin, and show how three-body interactions play a key role in several formation pathways of gravitational wave events.Day 2: Entrepreneurship Training
Language: English
Reservation required
Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)
Day 1: Entrepreneurship Training
Language: English
Reservation required
Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)
OIST NetCafé (Online Information Session)
Join the OIST information session with a cup of coffee! This session is for Japanese students currently seeking for opportunities in PhD in STEM. The sessions will be done in Japanese. The program is consisted of OIST general introduction, PhD & Research Internship admission process followed by the OIST graduate from Neural Computation Unit.
Science Digest - Nobuaki Mizumoto on Evolutionary perspectives of collective behavior in termites
Thursday, September 10th, at 12:00 in C209 and on Zoom , Nobuaki Mizumoto (Evolutionary Genomics Unit led by Tom Bourguignon) will give a Talk on "Evolutionary perspectives of collective behavior in termites"
OIST - University of Tokyo Mini Talk Series-Nafamostat is an Existing Drug with Multiple Possible Therapeutic Effects on COVID-19
Senior Prof. Jun-ichiro Inoue, The University of Tokyo
Technical Webinar: State-of-the-art 3D Bioprinting
This is a webinar to introduce new technologies and products for 3D bioprinting .
Date : Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Time : 16:00-17:00 JST
Presenter : Ryo Asada, Ph.D (CELLINK KK, Kyoto Japan)
Please visit the link and register.
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8714001693678805008
*ZOOM* [PhD Thesis Presentation] - Mr. Andrew Justin Winchester "Spatially and temporally resolved microscopy of traps in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites"
PhD thesis public presentation
Presenter: Mr. Andrew Justin Wichester
Supervisor: Professor Keshav Dani
英語のクラスについてみんなさんの質問を受け付けます!Your questions about English classes answered.
私もOISTの英語の講座に 無料で参加できますか?
ジャスティン先生たちが英語のクラスについて説明します.あなたにぴったりの講座を見つけましょう。 13 時まで、個別面談を受け付けています。ぜひお越しください。
I can study English at OIST free of charge?
Join us for an individual Q & A session between 12 and 1 PM and together we will find a course that suits you perfectly.
[Webinar] OIST - University of Tokyo Mini Talk Series - Application of Tissue-Clearing Technology for Cancer Research
Assistant Professor Kei Takahashi, The University of Tokyo
Seminar : Multipolar orders in spin-orbit entangled 5d Mott insulators
TQM unit is pleased to invite you to our seminar!
Science Digest - Nobuaki Mizumoto on Evolutionary perspectives of collective behavior in termites
Diversity open forum
You are invited to C700 on Friday 28th of August at 5.30PM for this open forum. It will be a safe space to discuss any shortcomings that you have noticed at OIST and wish could be fixed, any topic under diversity is welcome.
*Zoom* [PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Ms. Krishna Priya Subramonian Rajasree– “Multiphoton process in optical nanofiber-mediated cold Rydberg and ground state Rb atoms”
PhD Public Presentation
"Transforming visual information between areas V1 and MT" - Dr Nic Price, Monash University
An OIST neuroscience online seminars (ONOS) talk.
Abstract
The visual system is a complex, hierarchically-organised information processing network. Counter-intuitively, successive areas contain less information about a scene, but neural activity is structured to better represent specific information. For example, neurons in primate area MT convey little colour information, but motion direction can be linearly decoded from their activity. The ongoing activity of individual neurons is highly variable, meaning reliable computation depends on collaborative processing across neural populations. However, it remains unclear how visual information is reliably represented across neurons within an area, and how these representations are transformed between areas to extract specific stimulus properties. To address this, we record visually-evoked activity simultaneously from dozens of neurons in V1 and MT in marmosets.
We use decoding techniques to predict stimulus orientation or direction from activity across a neural population. This has allowed us to show that neural representations are affected by stimulus history: recent motion biases predictions in a manner consistent with perceptual illusions; and luminance and contrast changes affect orientation coding, again in a manner consistent with human sensitivity.
We study inter-area communication by comparing the timing of action potentials in V1 with local field potentials (LFP, a population measure of local dendritic activity) in MT. We have shown that action potentials preferentially occur at specific phases of the LFP, and that motion information is best communicated from V1 to MT at specific phases.
Collectively, this suggests that hierarchical information processing depends on action potentials in privileged subsets of neurons occurring in privileged time windows.
Zoom details
Zoom Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/95700149323?pwd=VWQxY0FGQmxVQmtUTVZ2SXRnMGx6dz09
Meeting ID: 957 0014 9323 Passcode: 855303
QuickFix: "Using LinkedIn to achieve your goals”.
“QuickFix”- learn how to use LinkedIn in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!
To register CLICK HERE Post-event survey SUMMARYPacBio Sequel2 Analysis Webinar
PacBio provides Sequel2 Analysis Webinar at 27 Aug.
Journal club seminar: More quantum noise from wormholes
Title : More quantum noise from wormholes
Abstract : We are going to discuss the nice paper by Douglas Stanford "More quantum noise from wormholes" . Sudip Ghosh will lead the discussion.
Sharepoint Open Hours
Sharepoint Open Hours
Location: B646
Time: 14:00-15:00
Date: 8/26/2020
Seminar : Search for spin liquids in three-dimensional materials
TQM unit is pleased to invite you to our seminar!
[Zoom] IAS Users Meeting & Seminar: Mass Spectrometry
For OIST members:
Users meeting and Seminar are registration free. We look forward to your participation via Zoom.
For Non-OIST members:
Please contact ias@oist.jp for Seminar sign up. (Users meeting is an internal event.)
OIST NetCafé (Online Information Session)
Join the OIST information session with a cup of coffee! This session is for Japanese students currently seeking for opportunities in PhD in STEM. The sessions will be done in Japanese only. The program is consisted of OIST general introduction, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by the panel discussion by 2 OIST PhD students currently in Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit and Membranology Unit.
(ZOOM) Inter-Unit Neuroscience Journal Club
Hoban et al. (2020) "Impact of α-synuclein pathology on transplanted hESC-derived dopaminergic neurons in a humanized α-synuclein rat model of PD" PNAS, 117 (26) 15209-15220.
Reviewed/presented for the journal club by Professor Gordon Arbuthnott from the Brain Mechanism for Behaviour Unit.
Zoom Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/95700149323?pwd=VWQxY0FGQmxVQmtUTVZ2SXRnMGx6dz09
Meeting ID: 957 0014 9323 Passcode: 855303
*zoom*【Technical Seminar】Latest Advances in 10x Genomics’ Single Cell and Visium Spatial Gene Expression Solutions by Dr.Leo Chan
DNA sequencing section would like to invite you to the following seminar by Dr.Leo Chan. He will introduce Latest Advances in 10x Genomics. This will be a precious opportunity for you to learn the latest advances in Targeted Gene Expression, Chromium Single Cell Immune Profiling v2 with Feature Barcode Technology, and the Visium Spatial Gene Expression Solution with Immunofluorescence.
[Seminar] The reductive glycine pathway - a plug-and-play tool for one-carbon assimilation by Dr. Arren Bar-Even
Dr. Arren Bar-Even, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Seminar: "Magnetic and Volumetric Properties of Breathing Pyrochlore Magnets" by Dr. Yoshihiko Okamoto, Nagoya University
TQM unit is pleased to invite you to our zoom seminar!
[Zoom Seminar] An importin mechanism in chronic pain by Dr. Letizia Marvaldi, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Monday, August 17, 2020 - 15:00
Location:Seminar Room Lab4 F01 or via Zoom link below
Speaker:Dr. Letizia Marvaldi, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Title:An importin mechanism in chronic pain
Deadline for POC Letters of intent
Deadline for POC and Tech Pioneer Letters of Intent
Food Drive - Aug 17th - Aug 20th 2020
Food drive to help people in Onna Village in need! All collected items will be donated to Onna Village Welfare Council, which will then distribute the items to people in Onna Village.
Inter-Unit Neuroscience Journal Club (Zoom)
Hoban et al. (2020) "Impact of α-synuclein pathology on transplanted hESC-derived dopaminergic neurons in a humanized α-synuclein rat model of PD" PNAS, 117 (26) 15209-15220.
Reviewed/presented for the journal club by Professor Gordon Arbuthnott from the Brain Mechanism for Behaviour Unit.
Zoom details will be announced closer to the date.
Journal club seminar: Twistorial superparticles, partial SUSY breaking and Higher spin fields on AdS(4)
Title : Twistorial superparticles, partial SUSY breaking and Higher spin fields on AdS(4)
Abstract : We are going to discuss the nice paper by Mikhail Plyushchay, Dmitri Sorokin and Mirian Tsulaia "Higher Spins from Tensorial Charges and OSp(N|2n) Symmetry" . Mirian Tsulaia will lead the discussion.
Theoretical Physics Seminar: Karol Gietka
Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Karol Gietka (Quantum Systems). Title: "Quantum Simulators in Other Frames of Reference"
Sharepoint Open Hours
Sharepoint Open Hours
Location B646
Time: 14:00-15:00
Journal club seminar: The spectrum of Laplacian on moduli space via Liouville theory
Title : The spectrum of Laplacian on moduli space via Liouville theory
Abstract : We are going to discuss the nice talk by Sarah Harrison on String Math 2020 conference "The spectrum on M_{0,4} via Liouville theory" . Slava Lysov will lead the discussion.
*Zoom*[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Mr. Hong Huat Hoh "Study on Alteration of Cellular Phenotypes and Processes in Cancer Using Exogenous Biological Agents"
Presenter: Mr. Hong Huat Hoh
Supervisor: Professor Tadashi Yamamoto
Co-supervisor: Professor Ye Zhang
Audience: OIST researchers and students
Representation Theory Seminar by Prof. Liron Speyer: Semisimple Specht modules indexed by bihooks
Hosted by Mathematics Department, Kyoto University.
https://www.math.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/seminar/4419
Prof. Speyer will give a talk at Lab4 F01 and it will be seen on Zoom.
Journal club seminar: Conformal higher spin gauge models in curved backgrounds
Title : Conformal higher spin gauge models in curved background
Speakers : Sergei Kuzenko and Michael Ponds
Abstract : Sergei Kuzenko and Michael Ponds from The University of Western Australia will tell us about conformal higher spin gauge models in curved background. The talk is based on their two recent papers "Generalised conformal higher-spin fields in curved backgrounds" and "New locally (super)conformal gauge models in Bach-flat backgrounds" .
zoom [PhD Thesis Presentation] - Mr. Sebastien Lapointe "Nickel Complexes of New Electron-Rich, Sterically-Hindered PNP Pincer Ligands"
Speaker: Mr. Sebastien Lapointe
Supervisor: Prof. Julia Khusnutdinova
Unit: Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit
Audience: OIST researchers and students