Past Events

Seminar

[Seminar] "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Organic-modified Metal Oxide Nanocrystals" by Prof. Seiichi Takami, Nagoya University

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 15:00 to 16:00
C209, Level C, Centre Bldg.

Dr. Seiichi Takami, Professor in the Department of Materials Process Engineering at Nagoya University. E-mail: takami.seiichi@material.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Seminar

Seminar "2D thermoelectric materials: Role of the lattice thermal conductivity"

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 10:00 to 11:00
C700, Lab3

Prof. Udo Schwingenschlögl, Materials Science & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Seminar

IAS Users Meeting and Seminar: Mass Spectrometry

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 10:00 to 11:40
C016, Lab1

For OIST members:

Users meeting and Seminar are registration free. We look forward to seeing you at the venue.

For Non-OIST members:

Please contact ias@oist.jp for Seminar sign up. (Users meeting is an internal event.)

OIST Mini Symposium

OIST Mini Symposium "Fluid-Structure Interactions: From Engineering to Biomimetic Systems"

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 09:00 to Thursday, January 16, 2020 - 15:00
OIST Main Campus, Seminar Room C210

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Holiday

Coming of Age Day 成人の日 2020

Monday, January 13, 2020 - 00:00

National holiday

External Events

Symposium "Not Enough! The Color of Welfare as Seen by Me, the User"

Saturday, January 11, 2020 - 13:00 to 15:30
OIST Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)

This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers. The event is in Japanese language.

Research

[PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Mr. Paavo Parmas – “Total stochastic gradient algorithms and applications to model-based reinforcement learning”

Thursday, January 9, 2020 - 09:00 to 10:00
C700, Level C, Lab 3

PhD public presentation

Research

[Seminar] Selection bias may be adjusted when sample size is negative " by Prof. Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 15:00 to 16:00
C210, Lev C, Central Bldg

Title : Selection bias may be adjusted when sample size is negative

Speaker: Prof. Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Affiliation: Kyoto University

Training

Sharepoint Open Hours

Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 14:00
B646

Sharepoint Open Hours

Location: B646

Time: 14:00-15:00

Seminar

[Seminar] "How can we predict efficiently?" by Prof. Sarah Marzen

Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 13:00 to 14:00
Lab3 C700

Professor Sarah Marzen, Claremont McKenna College

Research

[Seminar] "Advances in Anomaly Detection" by Prof. Thomas G. Dietterich

Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location: C700, Level C, Lab 3

Title : Advances in Anomaly Detection

Speaker: Prof. Thomas G. Dietterich

Affiliation: Oregon State University

Seminar

QG group meeting - the hidden heavy particles in higher-spin gravity

Monday, January 6, 2020 - 15:30
Lab 3, A719

This is the weekly QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "The hidden heavy particles in higher-spin gravity"

Seminar

WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE ‘NATURE’?

Monday, January 6, 2020 - 15:00 to 16:00
OIST Center building Seminar Room B250

Dr Henry Gee

Senior Editor

NATURE

Holiday

New Years Holiday 2020

Sunday, December 29, 2019 (All day) to Friday, January 3, 2020 (All day)

National holiday

OIST Science Talk vol.2

Friday, December 27, 2019 - 18:30
Jyunkudo Naha D-NAHA Floor B1

Science Talk by OIST Students

Seminar

[Seminar] "Energy landscape analyses of brain dynamics" by Dr. Jiyoung Kang

Monday, December 23, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
D015 meeting room, Lab1-D

[Computational Neuroscience Unit Seminar] "Energy landscape analyses of brain dynamics" by Dr. Jiyoung Kang, from Center for Systems and Translational Brain Sciences, Institute of Human Complexity and Systems Science, Yonsei University, South Korea

Colloquium

Colloquium: "Classification of 4-manifolds" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski

Monday, December 23, 2019 - 10:00 to 12:00
B714a, level B of Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page ).

Seminar

IAS Users Meeting and Seminar: Mass Spectrometry

Friday, December 20, 2019 - 13:00 to 15:00
D015, Lab 1

For OIST members:

Users meeting and Seminar are registration free. We look forward to seeing you at the venue.

For Non-OIST members:

Please contact ias@oist.jp for Seminar sign up. (Users meeting is an internal event.)

Seminar

Journal club seminar: Batalin-Vilkoviski formalism and applications

Wednesday, December 18, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00
B711, Lab 3

Speaker : Slava Lysov

Title : Batalin-Vilkoviski formalism and applications.

Abstract : I am going to rewiev the Batalin-Vilkoviski (BV) formalinsm and discuaa some applications of it. The releveant papers are: classical paper on BV by A. Schwarz "Geometry of Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization" and the paper by Gorodentsev, Krotov and Losev "Quantum Field Theory as Effective BV Theory from Chern-Simons" .

Seminar

"Mechanics of cell-nanomaterial interactions and some applications in nanomedicine and nanotoxicity"

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
D015, Level D, Lab1

Prof. Huajian Gao, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. Language: English, no interpretation.

Workshop

QuickFix: Writing Cover Letter

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00
For RSVP only

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

To register CLICK HERE Last year ost-workshop survey SUMMARY
Seminar

[Seminar] "Uniaxial-strain Control of Nematic Superconductivity in SrxBi2Se3" by Dr. Ivan Kostylev

Monday, December 16, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016, Lab1

"Uniaxial-strain Control of Nematic Superconductivity in SrxBi2Se3" by Dr. Ivan Kostylev, Kyoto University

Seminar

Seminar "Tensionless Strings from worldsheet perspective" by Dr. Aritra Banerjee

Monday, December 16, 2019 - 13:30 to 14:30
A719, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Aritra Banerjee, APCTP, South Korea

Research

ORC Assembly

Monday, December 16, 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00
Seminar Room C700 (Lab 3, Level C)

Join us for the last ORC Assembly before winter break. Refreshments will be served. Guest: Prof. Jeff Wickens, Ombudsman

Workshop

A*Star - IRCN - OIST Joint Workshop "Tracking Infant Brain Development"

Monday, December 16, 2019 - 09:00 to Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 17:30
Conference Center - Meeting Rooms

Jointly-organized workshop WPI-IRCN U Tokyo, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and OIST | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions | Program | Organizing unit from OIST: Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit (Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama)

Conference

The 3rd Ryudai-OIST symposium

Monday, December 16, 2019 - 00:00
Room# B250, Center, OIST
The 3rd Ryudai-OIST symposium

2019 SCORE! Creating the Next Generation of Scientists, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs

Saturday, December 14, 2019 - 09:00 to 17:00
OIST Auditorium

SCORE! is designed to promote senior high school students’ hands-on science education and interest in entrepreneurship, as well as to support English language education and the goal of becoming a global citizenship.

Seminar

[Seminar @C210] Krisna Pawitan, OIST Wave Energy Converter (WEC) Project: from Paper to Reality

Friday, December 13, 2019 - 16:30 to 17:00
Lab3 C210

Internal Seminar Series

Speaker: Krisna Pawitan (Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit)

Seminar

[Seminar @C210] Swathy Babu, Physiological Function of a Tumor Suppressor Gene, Banp, in Cell Cycle Regulation

Friday, December 13, 2019 - 16:00 to 16:30
Lab3 C210

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Biweekly Internal Seminar Series

Seminar

The reason why miRNAs bind to CDS

Friday, December 13, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
D015 (Lab1, LevelD)

Dr. Hiroaki Sako, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Tokyo. Language: English, no interpretation.

Colloquium

Colloquium: "Functional methods in QFT and renormalization, part II" by Dr. Riccardo Martini

Friday, December 13, 2019 - 09:30
Room 714a, level B of Lab 3.

Speaker: Dr. Martini is a member of this unit (check his page )

After introducing the effective action we will discuss its perturbative expansion and show that it is the generating functional of 1PI correlators.

Research

[Seminar] "Area of Genomic Turbulence near Vertebrates" by Prof. Daniel Chourrout

Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00
B700, Level B, Lab 3

Title : Area of Genomic Turbulence near Vertebrates

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Chourrout

Affiliation: Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Norway

Seminar

A hepatic post-transcriptional control of whole body metabolic homeostasis through FGF21 regulation by CCR4-NOT deadenylase

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00
D015 (Lab1, LevelD)

Dr. Sakie Katsumura, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas. Language: English, no interpretation.

Sharepoint Open Hours

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 14:00
B646

Sharepoint Open Hours

Location: B646

Time: 14:00-15:00

Seminar

Journal club seminar: Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00
B 711, Lab 3

Speaker : Yasha Neiman

Title : Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation

Abstract :We are going to discuss the recent paper by Ahmed Almheiri, Thomas Hartman, Juan Maldacena, Edgar Shaghoulian and Amirhossein Tajdini "Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation"

Seminar

[Seminar] "Out of time ordered effective dynamics of a quartic oscillator" by Dr. Bidisha Chakrabarty

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 15:30 to 16:30
A720, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Bidisha Chakrabarty, ICTS-TIFR

Seminar

Decoding environmentally driven gene regulatory networks in hepatic macrophages

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
D015 (Lab1, LevelD)

"Dr. Mashito Sakai, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego. Language: English, no interpretation."

Seminar

[Seminar] "Introduction to NEST and NEST3 features” by Dr. Dennis Terhorst

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
Meeting room C015, Lab1 Bldg.

Speaker: Dr. Dennis Terhost

Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine

Title: Introduction to NEST and NEST3 features

Colloquium

Colloquium: "Classification of 3-manifolds" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 09:30 to 12:00
Room 714a, level B of Lab 3.

Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page )

Seminar

Group Meeting: Review of Higher Spin Theories - Part 3

Monday, December 9, 2019 - 15:30 to 17:00
A719, Lab 3

This will be the concluding part of the series of lectures on Higher Spin theories by Mirian Tsulaia.

Abstract: In today's talk we will discuss Vasiliev's formulation of Higher Spin theories, focussing in particular on the topic of free and nonlinear unfolded equations.

Seminar

[Seminar] "Open cortical multi-area model as research platform” by Prof. Markus Diesmann

Monday, December 9, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar room C209, Center Bldg.

Speaker: Prof. Markus Diesmann

Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine

Title: Open cortical multi-area model as research platform

Culture

"Peshawari Rosh Dum Pukht & Peshawari Naan"

Saturday, December 7, 2019 - 18:00
Community Kitchen Village Center

Dear Foodies :)

Campus

Family Movie Event: Spirited Away

Saturday, December 7, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00
C209 Center Building

Family Movie Night. Spirited Away. Open to all OIST families.

External Events

Satoumi Conference in Onna Village 2019: From Satoumi in Okinawa "Aiming to be the most coral-friendly island in the world"

Saturday, December 7, 2019 - 09:30 to 18:00
OIST Auditorium

This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.

Lecture

Special Lecture - "Particles for a Better World" by Dr. GP Yeh

Friday, December 6, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
Center Building C209

Dr. GP Yeh, President and Chairman of the GP Yeh Foundation. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to the OIST community.

Seminar

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Seva Nikulin

Friday, December 6, 2019 - 14:00
Lab 1, C016

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Seva Nikulin. Title: "De Sitter space as a space of probability distributions".

Colloquium

Colloquium: "Functional methods in QFT and renormalization, part I" by Dr. Riccardo Martini

Friday, December 6, 2019 - 09:30 to 12:00
Room B714a

Speaker: Dr. Martini is a member of this unit (check his page ).

Research

[Seminar] "Sustainability of wave energy resources in Northeast Asia" by Bahareh Kamranzad

Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab1 C016
Title:

Sustainability of wave energy resources in Northeast Asia

Presenter: ​

Bahareh Kamranzad カムランザッド バハレ

​The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University, 京都大学 白眉センター

​Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University,

Research

[Seminar] "Lymphocyte trafficking to the CNS – does provenance matter?" by Prof. Thomas Korn

Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
C209, Level C, Ctrl Bld

Title : Lymphocyte trafficking to the CNS – provenance matters

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Korn

Affiliation: Technical University of Munich

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