OIST Neuroscience Online Seminar (ONOS)

Prof. Seung-Hee Lee, Associate Professor, Sensory Processing Lab, KAIST

Unraveling cortical circuits for perceptual decision making Sensory information is a key environmental cue that makes animals guide their behavior. However, it is still unclear how cortical circuits permit appropriate responses to relevant sensory stimuli while inhibiting others. Here, we unraveled cortical circuits that are important for perceptual decision-making in mice performing Go/No-go tasks. We identified parietal and frontal circuits that show unique properties in integrating sensory information and guide action decisions. I will discuss how these circuits work in concert for animals to perform proper action decisions upon the sensory evidence.

ZOOM LINK : https://oist.zoom.us/j/99896092525?pwd=ZVpMcEQ4SjBISnk4UzJqaFpyeEdOZz09

Meeting ID: 998 9609 2525 Passcode: 931719

Speaker: Prof. Kenji Ohmori Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan

Title: Ultrafast quantum simulator with attosecond precision at ultracold temperatures

Join us to understand and apply positive thinking when we meet people from other cultures for the first time.

A casual weekly SynBio Journal Club. This week the speaker is Gear.

PhD public presentation

Inter-unit journal club presentation by PhD student Thato Mokhothu, who will discuss a recent article from eNeuro entitled "Cerebellar Directed Optogenetic Intervention Inhibits Spontaneous Hippocampal Seizures in a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy"

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on social interaction in different disciplines to look for common patterns and to discuss future research directions.

“QuickFix”- improve your application materials in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!

To register CLICK HERE .

Professor Brett D. Wick , Washington University Title: Commutators and Bounded Mean Oscillation

This webinar aims to focus on the impact that climate change is having on oceans and marine life and the effects this will have on the U.S., Japan, and the world. Panelists include Dr. Robert Dunbar, Professor, Earth System Science, Stanford University; Dr. Timothy Ravasi, Professor, Marine Climate Change Unit, OIST, and Dr. Alex Wegmann, Director of Science for the Palmyra Program, The Nature Conservancy.

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Learn how to check in and out of doctor's appointments, describe pain and symptoms, and speak in emergency situations, all in Japanese.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link , then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/98080668912 )

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

New employees are requested to attend the New Employee Orientation and take the on-line courses.

The Training and Education Section has sent invitation mail to the attendees, but if those who haven't receive one yet see this message, please contact training@oist.jp.

As a prevention of the spread of the COVID-19, we will have an on-line NEO by Zoom.

From this time, Ganju welbeing and University Community Service scheduled in the afternoon are available to everyone.

Speaker: Nicolas Jacon, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne Title: Cores of Ariki-Koike algebras

新入職員はオリエンテーションへの参加及びOnlineでの受講が求められています。

参加予定者の方々には、事前に教育研修セクションより招待メールが届いております。

今回のオリエンテーションはコロナ感染拡大防止策の一環として、Zoomでの開催となりました。

参加者の皆様には、Zoom環境の設定をお願いいたします。

また、今回のオリエンテーションは午後に予定されております「がんじゅうサービス」と「 大学コミュニティ支援」は職員のみならずそのご家族やパートナーの方もご覧いただけます。

OIST Mini Symposium | Organizing unit: Analysis on Metric Spaces Unit (Xiaodan Zhou) | Website | Schedule | Abstracts | Register here (Open to the scientific community (registration required))

The Animal Resources Section cordially invites all researchers involved in laboratory animal experiments, as well as other members, to attend the Annual Memorial Service for laboratory animals.

Aims:

To understand the role of positive thinking when we meet people from other cultures for the first time.

To reconsider the approach we use to build relationships at work.

Particpants should have an upper intermediate level of English fleuncy.

Please visit this page closer to the date to download the attached handout.

Click here to join the meeting.

Speaker: Dr. Fabio Parmeggiani, University of Bristol

Quantum Machines Seminar by Group Leader Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light on Cavity optomagnonics: Quantum optics with magnons . Zoom - Please register to attend.

Dr. Adolfo Arroyo-Rabasa , University of Warwick Title: Higher-integrability estimates for systems of PDEs with a non-linear pointwise elliptic constraint

PhD public presentation

Dr. Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama , A ssociate Professor, OIST

Dr. Sebastian Weidt will talk about why he chose to do both research on, and start a company developing, quantum computing technology.

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

Dr. Eri Hayakawa/Jichi Medical University

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Title: Tensor Field Theories: Renormalization and Random Geometry

Abstract: In the talk, I will share an overview of my research during my PhD thesis. After a practically-minded introduction to renormalization and conformal field theories (CFT), we will see the essential tools developed for tensor models and their large-$N$ expansion. In the second part, I will focus on results of $d>1$ tensor field theories: melonic CFTs, breaking of symmetries. In the last part, we will revive an old approach to study and renormalize an interacting scalar quantum field theory on Galton-Watson random trees, through random walks, which may prove useful for tensor models to escape the melonic large-$N$ limit.

Zoom:

https://oist.zoom.us/j/94081328725?pwd=aFBTdkUvZTdXVU1BYTd6bTUvZHJKdz09

Meeting ID: 940 8132 8725 Passcode: 609087

Language: English

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.)

Presenter: Ms. Sakurako Watanabe

Supervisor: Prof. Jeffery Wickens

Unit: Neurobiology Research Unit

Learn how to call a taxi, give directions to a location, and describe a place with simple adjectives, all in Japanese.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link:https://oist.zoom.us/j/97075839903)

Join in person or by Zoom (Meeting ID: 910 5926 8116 Passcode: 989063)

Tohoku Quantum Alliance (TQA) from Tohoku University and OIST research groups which focus on quantum physics will have a joint meeting to present their current work and explore future collaboration opportunities.

This will be mainly held at L4E48 on the 24th and C210 on the 25th following the “New Normal” guidelines. The number of seats at seminar rooms are limited and all seats are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Everyone else from both Tohoku and OIST research communities is welcome to join the seminar by Zoom For further detail, please visit https://groups.oist.jp/toq .

National holiday

Prof Si Wu of Peking University, China will give a talk for the OIST neuroscience online seminars (ONOS) series on the topic of "Visual information processing through the interplay between fast and slow pathways". Prof Wu is a PI of IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Center for Life Science at Peking University. He is also the Co-editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

Dr. Franz Gmeineder , University of Bonn Title:\(\mathscr{A}\)-quasiconvexity and partial regularity

Image analysis workshop

Associate Professor Dmitriy Stolyarov , St. Petersburg State University and St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute Title: Hardy--Littlewood--Sobolev inequality for p = 1 : Part 2, Proofs (ii).

Withコロナ時代において、誰もが暮らしやすい持続可能な地域を創出する「新たな多文化共生の地域づくり」に必要とされることはどのようなことなのか。本セミナーでは、（一財）ダイバーシティ研究所代表理事の田村 太郎氏を講師として招聘し、Withコロナ時代における「これからの多文化共生の在り方」について考える機会を持ちます。

Modern views on intelligent informatics and biomedical sciences: Track 1: Signal Processing, Computer Networks, and Telecommunications Track 2: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human-Computer Interaction Track 3: Bioinformaticsw, Medical Imaging, and Neuroscience

Speaker: Qi Wang, Osaka University Title: On τ -tilting finiteness of Schur algebras

“QuickFix”- improve your application materials in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!

To register CLICK HERE . Post-event survey SUMMARY .

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "Scalar^3 scattering in the dS static patch"

Project Management Training - 2020 by Peason Japan, Nov 13 Fri & 20 Fri

Leading Agile Projects provides student participants with the experience of managing a project through a hands-on competitive simulation that puts them in the role of project manager.

Please register HERE

* Max. # of 16 for each event

Register and join us as we go over the absolute basics of academic writing.

This four part series will cover

Strategies, audiences, purpose, organisation, styles and flow

Inter-unit journal club presentation by Dr Sam Reiter, leader of the Computational Neuroethology Unit, who will discuss a recent article from Nature Methods entitled " EthoLoop: automated closed-loop neuroethology in naturalistic environments "

Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/95700149323?pwd=VWQxY0FGQmxVQmtUTVZ2SXRnMGx6dz09 Meeting ID: 957 0014 9323 Passcode: 855303

Associate Professor Chun-Yen Shen , National Taiwan University Title: Algebraic methods in sum-product estimates and their applications

This webinar is the first of the U.S. - Japan Dialogue Series on the future of climate, presented by the OIST Foundation.

“Islands” are often compared to the concept of canaries in the coal mine when it comes to climate change. It is on islands that we often see the initial signs of climate change and where it can have rapid impact on biodiversity and signal changes that will soon be coming to other parts of the world.

Join the OIST Foundation as we explore this topic with panelists Dr. Evan Economo (Professor, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit – OIST) along with Dr. Rosemary Gillespie (Professor and Schlinger Chair of Systematics, Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley) and Dr. George Roderick (William Muriece Hoskins Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management – UC Berkeley), who have both been engaged in working on such issues on Pacific Islands for the past 30 years.

Register here

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!