Past Events

Conference

The 9th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Widegap Semiconductors (APWS2019)

Monday, November 11, 2019 - 10:00 to Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 16:00
OIST Conference Center

This is an externally organized event supported by OIST. Scientific sessions are open to OIST members - please show your OIST ID at the venue entrance before entering. For more information contact the organizers.

Conference

The 2nd KAIST-OIST Symposium

Monday, November 11, 2019 (All day) to Tuesday, November 12, 2019 (All day)
Room# C700, Lab 3, OIST
The 2nd KAIST-OIST Symposium
OIST Workshops

Retina: Mechanism of Photoreceptor Degeneration and Regeneration, and Roles of Immune System

Monday, November 11, 2019 (All day) to Thursday, November 14, 2019 (All day)
OIST Seaside House

OIST Workshop - Application deadline: 15 July, 2019 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/dnu/retina-workshop-2019

Culture

Pakistani Chicken Tikka Masala & Paneer Masala with Rumali Roti

Saturday, November 9, 2019 - 18:00
Community Kitchen Village Center

Dear Foodies :)

Coming cooking class will be Pakistani Chicken Tikka Masala with Rumali Roti.

Chef will be Afshan Jamshaid

Registration deadline: 4th November 2019

Registration link: https://groups.oist.jp/foodies/signup-0

Campus

Family Movie Night: Coco

Saturday, November 9, 2019 - 14:30
Village Center Recreation Room (to the right of the Community Kitchen)

PATO Family Movie Event. Movie: Coco. Attendees: All OIST families.

External Events

5th International Kyushu Colloid Colloquium

Saturday, November 9, 2019 - 09:00 to 17:30
OIST Seaside House

This is an externally organized event. Please contact the organizers directly for more information.

Research

Fall 2019 Lean Startup Entrepreneurial Training Program: 3-day Opening Session

Friday, November 8, 2019 - 17:30 to Sunday, November 10, 2019 - 18:00
Friday: B250; Saturday & Sunday: C700

Language: English

Reservation required

Research

[Seminar] "Stimulating Photoreceptor Regeneration from Muller Cells in Zebrafish Models of Inherited Retinal Dystrophy" by Prof. Brian Perkins

Friday, November 8, 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00
B250, Level B, Ctr Bldg

Title : Stimulating Photoreceptor Regeneration from Muller Cells in Zebrafish Models of Inherited Retinal Dystrophy

Speaker: Prof. Brian Perkins

Affiliation: Cole Eye Institute/Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic

Seminar

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Yasha Neiman

Friday, November 8, 2019 - 14:00
Lab 1, D014

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Introduction to holography and AdS/CFT".

Research

Intro to Entrepreneurship Training Program

Friday, November 8, 2019 - 09:00 to 16:00
Lab 3, B701 Computer Lab

Language: English

Reservation required.

Research

[Seminar] "Magnetic nanoswimmers" by Prof. Ambarish Ghosh

Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00
B700, Level B, Lab 3

Title : Magnetic nanoswimmers

Speaker: Prof. Ambarish Ghosh

Affiliation: Indian Institute of Science

Seminar

[Seminar] "Deconstructing DNA methylation: provocative insights from non-model species" by Dr. Alex de Mendoza

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 - 15:30 to 16:30
C209, Center Building

Speaker: Dr. Alexandre de Mendoza, The University of Western Australia

Seminar

Journal club seminar:The gravitational Wilson loop and the non-Abelian Stokes' theorem

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00
B 712, Lab 3

This is the weekly Journal Club seminar. Speaker: Reiko Toriumi. Title: The gravitational Wilson Loop and the non-Abelian Stokes' theorem.

Seminar

New Postdoc Info Session

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00
For RSVP only

Interactive orientation for Postdoctoral Scholars who joint OIST June -October 2019.

Post-orientation SUMMARY.
Seminar

Seminar "E-field Modulation of Molecular Assemblies and Functions by Engineering Electrostatic Interactions" by Dr. Yoshimitsu Itoh

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
C016, Level C, Lab 1

Yoshimitsu ITOH, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo

Seminar

Seminar - "Exploring the subatomic frontier with the next generation of high-energy particle colliders" by Prof. Philp Burrows

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 - 10:30
C700, Lab 3

Professor Phil Burrows, Interim Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford, Royal Holloway University of London and Imperial College London.

Holiday

Culture Day 2019 Observed

Monday, November 4, 2019 - 00:00

National holiday

Holiday

Culture Day 2019

Sunday, November 3, 2019 - 00:00

National holiday

Seminar

[Seminar] Xingya Xu, How do condensin and cohesin work: ‘hold-and-release(clip)’ or ‘ring’?

Friday, November 1, 2019 - 16:30 to 17:00
Lab3 C700

Speaker: Xingya Xu (G0 Cell Unit)

Title: How do condensin and cohesin work: ‘hold-and-release(clip)’ or ‘ring’?

More info on the ISS site https://groups.oist.jp/iss
Seminar

[seminar] Vivek Pareek, Exciton-exciton interaction in Van der Waals semiconductors

Friday, November 1, 2019 - 16:00 to 16:30
Lab3 C700

Speaker: Vivek Pareek (Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit)

Exciton-exciton interaction in Van der Waals semiconductors

More info on ISS site https://groups.oist.jp/iss

Seminar

[Seminar] "Learning from social data to study human behaviour" by Dr. Scott A. Hale

Friday, November 1, 2019 - 14:30 to 15:30
Meeting room D015, Lab1 Bldg.

Speaker: Dr Scott A. Hale

Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Title: Learning from social data to study human behaviour

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture - "Toy models" by Professor Tadashi Tokieda

Friday, November 1, 2019 - 13:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)

Tadashi Tokieda , Professor, Stanford University (Mathematics)

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture - "Deep Learning for Medical Imaging" by Dr. Lily Peng

Friday, November 1, 2019 - 10:50 to 12:10
Auditorium

Lily Peng, MD, PhD.

Dale webster, PhD, Google AI Healthcare

In 2017, she was listed as one of WIRED Next’s “20 People Who Are Creating the Future”

Seminar

【SEMINAR】by Prof. Carsten Sachse: Structural basis of p62/SQSTM1 polymers by Electron Cryo-Microscopy

Friday, November 1, 2019 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room C700 (Lab3)

【SEMINAR】 by Prof. Carsten Sachse, Director of Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons ER-C-3: Structural Biology. 【* Schedule Changed 】

- Structural basis of p62/SQSTM1 polymers by Electron Cryo-Microscopy-

Conference

20th International Conference on System Biology

Friday, November 1, 2019 (All day) to Tuesday, November 5, 2019 (All day)
OIST Conference Center and Seminar Rooms

20th International Conference on System Biology | https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/icsb2019/ |

Conference

Tutorials and satellite workshops of ICSB2019

Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 00:00
OIST Conference Center

A series of tutorials and satellite workshops for the 20th International Conference on Systems Biology will be held at OIST on October 31st.

Seminar

Seminar by Dr Ling 'Entanglement engineering for space-based quantum networks'

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - 15:30 to 16:30
C700, Level C, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr Alexander Ling, PI, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore

Research

[Seminar] "Phase transitions in early vertebrate development" by Prof. Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
C700, Level C, Lab 3

Title : Phase transitions in early vertebrate development

Speaker: Prof. Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Affiliation: Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Seminar

Journal club seminar: Geometric Quantization

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00
B712, Lab 3
We will discuss an interesting paper by Andrea Carosso Geometric Quantization Slava Lysov will be leading the discussion.

Sharepoint Open Hours

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - 14:00
B646

Sharepoint Open Hours

Location: B646

Time: 14:00-15:00

Seminar

Seminar “Talking Rocks: Recent Rock Art Research in Chihuahua” by Dr. Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
C016, Lab1

Title: “Talking Rocks: Recent Rock Art Research in Chihuahua”

Author: Dr. Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta, Archaeologist

Campus

Memorial Service for Laboratory Animals

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 13:00 to 13:30
Animal Memorial Monument at east side of Center Court

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.

Seminar

Science Digest Chalk Talk: "How hard do you have to push water through a pipe?"

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00
Classroom B700, Lab 3, level B

Rory Cerbus (Staff Scientist in Chakraborty Unit)

Seminar

QG group meeting: Holography, effective strings, and hadrons

Monday, October 28, 2019 - 15:30 to 17:00
A719, Lab 3

This is the weekly Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speaker: Dorin Weissman. Title: Holography, effective strings and hadrons.

Seminar

Seminar: "Optical cavity for quantum networks" by Dr. Ezra Kassa

Monday, October 28, 2019 - 11:00
B503, Level B, Center building

Speaker: Dr. Ezra Kassa, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

OIST Science Talk vol.1

Friday, October 25, 2019 - 18:30
Jyunkudo Naha D-NAHA Floor B1

Science Talk by OIST Students

Seminar

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Keerthy Menon

Friday, October 25, 2019 - 14:00
Lab 1, C016

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Keerthy Menon (Quantum Systems). Title: "Wave particle duality - the evergreen mystery".

External Events

11th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Acute Care Surgery

Friday, October 25, 2019 - 08:00 to Saturday, October 26, 2019 - 14:40
OIST Conference Center, Main Campus Seminar Rooms & Tunnel Gallery (poster session)

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

Seminar

[Seminar] "Seeing is believing" by Dr. Aris Fiser

Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:30
D015, Lab1

"Seeing is believing" by Dr. Aris Fiser, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedica Research (FMI)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Quantum microwaves with a DC-biased Josephson junction" by Dr. Iouri Moukharski

Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016, Lab1

"Quantum microwaves with a DC-biased Josephson junction" by Dr. Iouri Moukharski, CNRS/CEA Saclay

Workshop

Workshop: "Discover your working style with the MBTI"

Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 13:00 to 14:30
For RSVP only

The Myers-Briggs Type Inventory ( MBTI ) is a career assessment tool that will allow you to discover your preferences in perceiving the world and making decisions. This session will require you to take the MBTI assessment tool in advance of the session, and our results will be presented and discussed by a licensed MBTI coach.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE Post-workshop survey SUMMARY

Seminar

Project Management Training - 2019

Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 13:00 to Friday, October 25, 2019 - 17:00
President house

Project Management - We will delve into traditional project management tools for aligning team members, managing schedules, creating and tracking budgets, and defining scope. In addition, we will explore the latest trends in Agile project management which can be better for projects with higher degrees of uncertainty and frequency of change.

Please register HERE :

* Max. # of 20 for each event

Seminar

International Networking Training - 2019

Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 09:00 to Friday, October 25, 2019 - 12:30
President house

International Networking - At the end of this program you will feel more comfortable with both face-to-face and virtual networking experiences. You will also learn how to turn everyday encounters with other professionals into opportunities for your career.

Please register HERE .

Max. # of 20 for each event

* Participants should bring their laptops and a copy of their resume.

Workshop

Workshop: "Managing emotional intelligence in the workplace"

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 13:30 to 15:00
Conference center - Meeting room 1

This workshop will give you an understanding of emotional intelligence concepts, and provide practical advices and tools to build your workplace 'people skills', having difficult conversations, giving and receiving feedback, making decisions, and managing conflict with colleagues, etc.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Post-lecture survey SUMMARY

Holiday

Enthronement Ceremony 2019

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 - 00:00

National holiday

Seminar

QG group meeting: Deformations and cocycles

Monday, October 21, 2019 - 15:30 to 17:00
A719, Lab 3

This is the weekly Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speaker: Slava Lysov. Title: Deformations and cocycles.

Seminar

Seminar by Dr Hsiang-Hua Jen 'Cooperative light emissions from many quantum emitters'

Monday, October 21, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
B503, Level B, Centre building

Speaker: Dr Hsiang-Hua Jen, Assistant Research Scholar, IOP, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Talk title: Cooperative light emissions from many quantum emitters

Seminar

ORC Assembly

Monday, October 21, 2019 - 12:00
Seminar room C209 (Central Building)

From 12:00-13:00

OIST Workshops

Advances in Cluster Beam Deposition

Monday, October 21, 2019 - 09:00 to Friday, October 25, 2019 - 18:00
OIST Main Campus, Seminar Room B250

Dear OIST Workshop - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/acbd

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