Hosted by: Theory of Quantum Matter unit (Nic Shannon)

Moderated by one of the most outstanding women in the Japanese corporate sector today, and broadcast live from Tokyo, Okinawa, and New York, this webinar presents a conversation between entrepreneurs, business strategists and innovation leaders, which will lead to some practical suggestions for participants interested in exploring entrepreneurship in Japan.

Register here: https://oistfoundation.org/webinars/

National holiday

National holiday

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "D-branes of higher-spin gravity?"

Presenter: Mr. Ankur Dhar

Supervisor: Professor Tsumoru Shintake

Co-Supervisor: Professor Nic Shannon

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.)

During this short course, you will use design thinking framework to develop a constructive and effective approach to designing your career. With a bias toward action, you will tackle life "wicked" problems, acquire tools to prototype 3 different careers that fit your skills, values, and passion.

Title :A short review of N=2 SUSY Quantum Mechanics

Abstract : We are going to SUSY Quantum Mechanics. The good review of the subject is a paper by F. Cooper, A. Khare, U. Sukhatme "Supersymmetry and Quantum Mechanics" . Mirian Tsulaia will lead the discussion.

Title: Symplectic Reduction in Field Theory

Speaker: Slava Lysov

Abstract: We will briefly review the symplectic recution in finite dimensional case and generalization to the field theory with possible inclusion of the edge modes. We will apply these ideas to the BF-model and compare the results with the predictions of algebraic topology.

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Matthias Gohlke (Quantum what's the Matter). Title: "Kitaev's honeycomb model: an exactly solvable quantum spin liquid"

Catavitello et al (2018) " A kinematic synergy for terrestrial locomotion shared by mammals and bird " eLife, 7:e38190.

Reviewed/presented for the journal club by PhD student Salvatore Lacava from the Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit.

Please see internal neuroscience mailing list for Zoom details or contact the organisers.

プロポーザルの基本とは、相手を適切に想定し、相手の聞きたいポイントを聞きたい順に提示していくことです。

本勉強会では、個々の持っている研究テーマについて、深く広く考え、その学術的な価値を再認識していただく事から始め、

伝えるべきポイント、伝え方についても学んでいただきます。

Title : Recent Progress on Black Hole Information

Abstract : We are going to discuss String Theory conference talk by J. Maldacena "Review: Recent progress on the black hole information paradox" . Slava Lysov will lead the discussion.

Dr. Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, Professor of Structural Biology, Uppasala University, Sweden.

Title: Current Algebras and Celestial CFT Correlators

Speaker: Sudip Ghosh

Abstract: I will discuss the construction of a SL(2,C) current algebra using the subleading soft graviton theorem and the constraints imposed by this current algebra via null state relations on the spectrum of the putative CFT dual of Einstein gravity in (3+1)-d asymptotically flat spacetimes.

TQM UNIT is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

The second seminar in the OIST Neuroscience Online Seminars (ONOS), we will host Prof. Masanori Sakaguchi from International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS). He will give us a talk about

" Adult neurogenesis for memory consolidation during sleep".

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99572966347?pwd=RHBDV2pCNFBaQjk0d2dsTTdRaGlLUT09

Meeting ID: 995 7296 6347

Password: 562866

"fsdafds"Adult-neurogenesis for memory consolidation during sleep"Adult-neurogenesis for memory consolidation during sleep"

We are pleased to invite you to our seminar.

Strengthening transnational bonds in the era of online connections: Research and Educational Exchange in the U.S., Japan, and the Philippines Sponsored by: Fulbright Japan, Fulbright Philippines, OIST Foundation

To register: click here

Speaker : Bogna Ignatowska-Jankowska (Postdoctoral Scholar at Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit led by Marylka Yoe Uusisaari)

Location : C700 (Lab 3), Zoom

Title : Distinct behavioral effects of cannabinoids in 3D motion capture of freely moving mice

TAW (Teacher Appreciation Week), the main event of PATO, will be held in late summer this year.

PATO will be collecting donations from CDC/SAP parents.

The money will be used to provide some special treats for the teachers and staff for TAW2020.

We regret to inform you that OCNC2020 has been cancelled due to the situation with COVID-19 | Website

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: 'Hannes Schoenke (Mathematics, Mechanics, Materials, and other aspects of M Theory). Title: "A glimpse into the beauty of algebraic geometry (examples included!)"

Title : AdS3 gravity and random CFT

Abstract : We are goin to discuss the recent paper by Jordan Cotler and Kristan Jensen "AdS3 gravity and random CFT" . Yasha Neiman will lead the discussion.

Our new Deigo Cluster is coming! Learn all about the migration, and ask us any questions you may have.

Large N Phase Transitions and Small AdS-Schwarzschild Black Holes

Speaker: Sudip Ghosh

Abstract: We will discuss aspects of small AdS-Schwarzschild Black Holes in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular we will consider issues related to dynamical instabilities of small black holes and their dual interpretation in the boundary gauge theory at large N.

TQM unit is holding a Zoom seminar.

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.

Discover how to handle difficult conversations every day to discuss what matters most.

Title : Extended TQFT

Abstract : This talk is the continuation of my TQFT discussion from last week. I am going to discuss the extended TQFT as an open-closed strings following the nice paper by Aaron D. Lauda, Hendryk Pfeiffer "Open-closed strings: Two-dimensional extended TQFTs and Frobenius algebras" . After that I am going to discuss 2-categories approach and compare it with asymptotic symmetries and edge modes.

Sharepoint Open Hours

Time: 14:00-15:00

Location B648 Meeting Room

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "Boundary locality vs. higher-spin symmetry"

2nd Admissions Workshop for 2020

OIST 2020 Pride "By the Letter"

Sat. June 13 (T)rans TV: documentary watch -together 5PM@C700

Wed. June 17 (B)i myself: prompted discussion panel 5:30PM@C700

Sat. June 20 (L)ost in Lesbos: picnic get-together 4PM@OIST pond area

Wed. June 24 (A)ee of Hearts: book club discussion 5:30PM@C700

Sat. June 27 (G)rand Drag Karaoke: karaoke get-together 7PM@Seaside Lounge

Tue. June 30 (I)ntrospective: mini-docs watch-together 2020 5:30PM@C700

Anderson et al (2018) " Required growth facilitators propel axon regeneration across complete spinal cord injury" Nature, 561: 396-400.

Reviewed/presented for the journal club by PhD student Lina Koronfel from the Optical Neuroimaging Unit.

Zoom details will be announced closer to the date.

Title : Strings from Massive Higher Spins: The Asymptotic Uniqueness of the Veneziano Amplitude

Abstract : We are going to discuss the recent paper by Simon Caron-Huot, Zohar Komargodski, Amit Sever and Alexander Zhiboedov "Strings from Massive Higher Spins: The Asymptotic Uniqueness of the Veneziano Amplitude" . Dorian Weissman will be leading the discussion.

Title : TQFT and Asymptotic symmetries

Speaker : Vyacheslav Lysov

Abstract : I will provide an introduction to topological quantum field theories (TQFT) and their generalization - Extended TQFT. Using the TQFT framework I am going to discuss the behaviour of Hilbert spaces, associated to the boundary components, under the gluing.

Join the OIST Foundation for an on-line discussion about research in the U.S. and Japan on the impact of climate change on coral reefs featuring Dr. Timothy Ravasi, Professor of Marine Science, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) & Dr. Jose M. Eirin-Lopez, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University (Miami, Florida).

This is the first seminar in the online seminar series OIST Neuroscience Online Seminar (ONOS). Dr. Lukas Ian Schmitt is a team leader of the distributed cognitive processing laboratory in RIKEN. Please join us using the following link

These two 2-hrs webinar series aim to give attendees the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . After the workshop, attendees will be able to identify relevant research questions, find the appropriate grants, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research.

Donate your unwanted clothes to help Okinawan people in need! All donations will be collected and given to HelpOki and Oki Hands Oki Heart non-profit organizations. Let's help our Okinawan community!

These two 2-hrs webinar series aim to give attendees the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . After the workshop, attendees will be able to identify relevant research questions, find the appropriate grants, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research.

I will review the structure of the fermionic Z2xZ2 orbifolds that produced a large space of phenomenological three generation models. I will discuss the trial and error old school method that gave rise to the first known string derived MSSM models, as well as the more modern classification methods that enables the analysis of large spaces of vacua and extraction of some of the global properties underlying them, e.g. spinor--vector duality. I will discuss a new direction of research that was initiated over the past year. Since the mid-eighties it is known that in addition to the ten dimensional tachyon free heterotic-string vacua there exist tachyonic ten dimensional vacua. In the supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric tachyon free cases the ten dimensional tachyon are projected out by the same projection. I will discuss the construction of phenomenological tachyon free models starting from the tachyonic 10D vacua and their particular features.

Discover your productivity style and time management strategies to achieve your ambitious goals.

Title: How Domain Walls of N=1, D=4 SYM look like

Speaker: Dmitri Sorokin, University of Padua, Italy

Abstract: We review main features of the pure N=1, D=4 SYM with the gauge group SU(N) and its effective description by the Veneziano-Yankielowicz generalized sigma-model. We then indicate that the construction of BPS domain walls interpolating between different SYM vacua requires the presence of a dynamical membrane source. We will show how such a membrane is coupled to the SYM and present the explicit form of BPS domain walls which it creates in the Veneziano-Yankielowicz effective theory. In particular, we will describe 1/2 BPS domain wall configurations with |k| less than or equal to N/3, where k is the membrane charge that sets the "distance" between two distinct SUSY vacua.

General-audience geek-out Zoom talk. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "Reductionism, physics, mathematics and the mind".

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who gradauted in the period May 2019 to April 2020, has been cancelled. Awardees will be prsented their degree at the ceremony in May 2021.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.