Past Events
FALL 2020 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series
The 29th Board of Governors Meeting
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Seminar : “Completing the square” in frustrated magnets
TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!
Day 5: Entrepreneurship Training-Mid-check-in
Language: English
Reservation required
Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
Abstract: Let G be a reductive complex algebraic group with a Borel subgroup B. A spherical G-variety is an irreducible normal G-variety X where B has an open orbit. If X is affine, or if it is projective but endowed with a G-linearized ample line bundle, then the group action criteria for the sphericality is in fact equivalent to the representation theoretic statement that a certain space of functions (related to X) is multiplicity-free as a G-module. In this talk, we will discuss the following question about a class of spherical varieties: if X is a Schubert variety for G, then when do we know that X is a spherical L-variety, where L is the stabilizer of X in G.
[CANCELLED] OIST Workshop "Okinawa School in Physics: Coherent Quantum Dynamics (CQD2020)"
We regret to inform you that CQD2020 has been cancelled due to the situation with COVID-19 | Website
*Zoom* [PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Mr. Shijin Zhang– “Design and Synthesize Small Molecular Self-Assembling Peptides for Biomedical Applications"
PhD Public Presentation
QG Group meeting: S-matrix vs. lightcone formalism in de Sitter space
This is the weekly QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "S-matrix vs. lightcone formalism in de Sitter space"
Theoretical Physics Seminar: Yasha Neiman
Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Scattering in the causal diamond"
Language Seminar Series: Managing Intercultural Introductions (Part 1 of 2)
What kind of questions should I be asking when I meet someone from another culture for the first time? How do I avoid making a bad first impression? What kind of communication strategy should I have?
Sharing is Caring / Round-table with other University PhD students
Please join us for the online round-table session, “Sharing is Caring”!
This online round-table session is designed for PhD students of consortium participating universities to get together and share experiences and resources in job search, life as PhD students, life in Japan, etc.
Anyone welcome.
[Webinar] The Neanderthals in Us: How Neanderthal Genes Influence Us Today
Learn how genes from Neanderthals still influence us from one of the most outstanding leaders in the field of evolutionary genetics. Dr. Pääbo will discuss how Neanderthal gene variants influence fertility, pain sensitivity and severity of SARS-COV-2 infections in people today.
Svante Pääbo is Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Adjunct Professor at OIST.
Register here
QuickFix: "Writing Cover Letter".
“QuickFix”- improve your application materials in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!
To register CLICK HERE Post-event survey SUMMARYOnline meet-up session with PKSHA Technology Co.,Ltd
Online meet-up session with Engineering Manager of image data processin.
◆Company information
PKSHA Technology was founded in 2012 as an artificial intelligence venture company from the University of Tokyo.
Name: PKSHA Technology Co.,Ltd Business Activities: Solution development and/or sales using algorithms (machine learning/deep learning, natural language processing, image recognition)...
Zoom seminar by Peter Woit: twistors and the Standard Model
Zoom seminar hosted by QG group. Speaker: Peter Woit (Columbia University). Title: Twistors and the Standard Model.
Seminar : Spontaneous magnon decay and non-Hermitian topology
TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!
Day 4: Entrepreneurship Training
Language: English
Reservation required
Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)
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!