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.

Title: Quantization of folded strings in non-critical dimensions

Speaker: Dorin Weissmann

Abstract: I will talk about some problems that arise when attempting to quantize rotating strings semiclassically, in the critical and non-critical dimensions. The problems are divergences associated with folding points in the string. A rotating closed string is a basic system that suffers from this problem, and I show how we deal with it by treating the fold as a boundary and placing mass terms there. Based on an upcoming paper with J. Sonnenschein.

CFF internal seminar

In this webinar, we will discuss the strategy and tactics of career planning during a crisis, the foundation of which is you being resourceful, and as helpful as you can.

Seminar for general audience, about mankind's discovery of magic. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "The spiritual art of Calculus and the union of Heaven and Earth".

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Presenter: Ms. Farzana Rahman

Supervisor: Prof. Kenji Doya

Unit: Neural Computation Unit

Audience: OIST researchers and students

As campuses are shuttered and classes moved online, the spread of COVID-19 poses mid-term and long-term uncertainties, as well as opportunities to implement innovation for positive change for the higher education industry.

National holiday

Due to the current situation with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the organizers have decided to postpone this workshop. We kindly ask for your understanding.

Join this exciting OIST Foundation webinar to learn about the unknown scientific aspects of Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s exhibition to Japan. Featuring Dr. Matthew Perry, a wildlife scientist and descendent of Commodore Perry, the webinar will touch upon the ways in which this early US-Japan interaction formed a base for long-term US-Japan science diplomacy and exchange.

General geek-out Zoom Webinar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: Clean hands and the Scientific Revolution.

"Effective Visual Communication of Science" will teach you how to effectively communicate your own scientific ideas and results by applying best visual communication practices. As a bonus, you will be able to give and receive feedback on your own figures.

Presenter: Ms. Sona Roy

Supervisor: Professor Ye Zhang

Co-supervisor: Professor Mitsuhiro Yanagida

Audience: OIST researchers and students

Due to the current situation with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the organizers have decided to cancel this workshop. We kindly ask for your understanding | Please visit the workshop's official website for more information.

Biweekly seminar series

The Student Assembly Meeting (SAM) for April is open to all students, interns, and special research students.

This month's SAM will be conducted via Zoom in light of COVID-19 concerns and will focus on COVID-19 as well.

Biweekly seminar series

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

Due to the current situation with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the organizers have decided to cancel this workshop. We kindly ask for your understanding | Please visit the workshop's official website for more information.

This public webinar will explore the evolving impact of the novel coronavirus in the United States and Japan and lessons we might learn from the experiences of our two countries.

[postponed! updated 2020-03-25] Following the campus-wide social distancing advice, we are postponing this seminar. Details will be announced later.

[postponed! updated 2020-03-25] Following the campus-wide social distancing advice, we are postponing this seminar. Details will be announced later.

Featuring: Afshan Jamshaid and Nina Harano. Both are students in the sciences, Afshan at OIST in Okinawa and Nina at Columbia University in New York City.

RSVP by March 24 http://tinyurl.com/oist2020

Sharepoint Open Hours

B646 14:00-15:00

"Dr. Takashi Saito, Team Leader, Laboratory for Cell Signaling, RIKEN. Language: English, no interpretation."

Discover your Talents using Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment .

This course will help you better understand yourself and your unique talents . You will learn how to productively apply your talents for greater personal and professional success .

More information soon.

If your race was cancelled because of coronavirus, don't cry, run with us. We are holding a 4.6k and 12.2k run on Sunday 22 March. Meet outside Jimmy's at 12:00. Both the 4.6k and 12.2k runs will set off from Jimmy's around 12:15. See the attached photos for the running routes.

Science Challenge 2020 has been cancelled due to the spread prevension of COVID-19

OIST Science Challenge workshop will be providing participants with a unique opportunity to extend their scientific education and experience research. We also offer valuable information and tips to help them prepare for a doctoral program. Through a series of activities with faculty, postdocs, as well as with PhD students, the participants will learn about research conducted at OIST, and skills needed to survive and enjoy a PhD life.

Airfare, travel insurance, accommodation, and meals during the workshop will be provided by OIST.

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A casual weekly journal club with broad interest in Synthetic Biology. This week's speaker is Shiv