Past Events
PATO Winter Holiday Party
Winter Holiday Party, themed activities for children, all OIST families welcome.
Thomas Fogarty, Rise of the Quantum Machines
Internal Seminar Series. Please note the room change - it is C209 this time
Soshi Mizutani, Machine Learning Based Forecasting and Its Application for Quantum Materials
Internal Seminar Series. Please note the room change - it is in C209 this time
Seminar by Prof. Kamm "In vitro models of neurological disease"
Speaker: Prof. Roger D Kamm
Affiliation: Biological Enginering Department, MIT
Audience: OIST researchers and students
Seminar by Prof. Shuichi Takayama "Microfluidic Studies of Lung Injury, Infection, and Fibrosis"
Speaker: Professor Shuichi Takayama
Affiliation: Georgia Tech, USA
Audience: OIST researchers and students
Electron microscopy approaches applied to cell biology with a special focus on autophagy
Electron microscopy approaches applied to cell biology with a special focus on autophagy
Prof. Dr. Muriel Mari - University Medical Center Groningen – The Netherlands
Seminar by Prof. Sandini "From Humanoid Robots to Anthropomorphic Minds"
Speaker: Prof. Sandini
Affiliation: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and University of Genova
Audience: OIST researchers and students
[PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Mr. Hsieh-Fu Tsai "Analysis of glioma cell guidance and interaction in microfluidic-controlled microenvironments enabled by machine learning"
PhD Thesis public presentation by Mr. Hsieh-Fu Tsai
Audience: OIST researchers and students
Cancelled: [Seminar] "Force-sensitive actin polymerization systems" by Prof. Naoki Watanabe, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
Dr. Naoki Watanabe, Professor at Laboratory of Single-Molecule Cell Biology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies
Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
Interactive Lecture: "Maximizing your contribution within a High Performing Team".
This lecture will give you an understanding of how to communicate and optimise individual and collective effectiveness within a team, in the context of both OIST and future employment.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Post-workshop survey SUMMARYSeminar by Prof. Tepper "Neurophysiology and Synaptic Connections of Striatal Interneurons"
Speaker: Prof. James Tepper
Affiliation: Rutgers, The State University of Newark
Language: English
Audience: OIST researchers and students
[PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Mr. Stefan Pommer "The effect of serotonin receptor 5-HT1b on lateral inhibition between spiny projection neurons in the mouse striatum"
Student: Mr. Stefan Pommer
Language: English
Target Audience: OIST researchers and students
Workshop: "High Performing Teams, how can I make a real impact?"
What is a high - performing team ? You will get an answer during the participative and practical workshop by Belbin (Cambridge, UK). By using Belbin Team Roles as the framework, you will understand what makes performing teams and high performing team-members.
TO REGISTER CLICK HERE . Post-workshop survey SUMMARY[Seminar] "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Organic-modified Metal Oxide Nanocrystals" by Prof. Seiichi Takami, Nagoya University
Dr. Seiichi Takami, Professor in the Department of Materials Process Engineering at Nagoya University. E-mail: takami.seiichi@material.nagoya-u.ac.jp
IAS Users Meeting and Seminar: Mass Spectrometry
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 "2D thermoelectric materials: Role of the lattice thermal conductivity"
Prof. Udo Schwingenschlögl, Materials Science & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
OIST Mini Symposium "Fluid-Structure Interactions: From Engineering to Biomimetic Systems"
OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.
Symposium "Not Enough! The Color of Welfare as Seen by Me, the User"
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers. The event is in Japanese language.
[PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Mr. Paavo Parmas – “Total stochastic gradient algorithms and applications to model-based reinforcement learning”
PhD public presentation
[Seminar] Selection bias may be adjusted when sample size is negative " by Prof. Hidetoshi Shimodaira
Title : Selection bias may be adjusted when sample size is negative
Speaker: Prof. Hidetoshi Shimodaira
Affiliation: Kyoto University
Sharepoint Open Hours
Sharepoint Open Hours
Location: B646
Time: 14:00-15:00
[Seminar] "How can we predict efficiently?" by Prof. Sarah Marzen
Professor Sarah Marzen, Claremont McKenna College
[Seminar] "Advances in Anomaly Detection" by Prof. Thomas G. Dietterich
Title : Advances in Anomaly Detection
Speaker: Prof. Thomas G. Dietterich
Affiliation: Oregon State University
QG group meeting - the hidden heavy particles in higher-spin gravity
This is the weekly QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "The hidden heavy particles in higher-spin gravity"
WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE ‘NATURE’?
Dr Henry Gee
Senior Editor
NATURE
New Years Holiday 2020
National holiday
OIST Science Talk vol.2
Science Talk by OIST Students
[Seminar] "Energy landscape analyses of brain dynamics" by Dr. Jiyoung Kang
[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: "Classification of 4-manifolds" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski
Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page ).
IAS Users Meeting and Seminar: Mass Spectrometry
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.)
Journal club seminar: Batalin-Vilkoviski formalism and applications
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" .
"Mechanics of cell-nanomaterial interactions and some applications in nanomedicine and nanotoxicity"
Prof. Huajian Gao, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. Language: English, no interpretation.
QuickFix: Writing Cover Letter
“QuickFix”- improve your application materials in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!
To register CLICK HERE Last year ost-workshop survey SUMMARY[Seminar] "Uniaxial-strain Control of Nematic Superconductivity in SrxBi2Se3" by Dr. Ivan Kostylev
"Uniaxial-strain Control of Nematic Superconductivity in SrxBi2Se3" by Dr. Ivan Kostylev, Kyoto University
Seminar "Tensionless Strings from worldsheet perspective" by Dr. Aritra Banerjee
Speaker: Dr. Aritra Banerjee, APCTP, South Korea
ORC Assembly
Join us for the last ORC Assembly before winter break. Refreshments will be served. Guest: Prof. Jeff Wickens, Ombudsman
A*Star - IRCN - OIST Joint Workshop "Tracking Infant Brain Development"
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)
The 3rd Ryudai-OIST symposium
2019 SCORE! Creating the Next Generation of Scientists, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs
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 @C210] Krisna Pawitan, OIST Wave Energy Converter (WEC) Project: from Paper to Reality
Internal Seminar Series
Speaker: Krisna Pawitan (Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit)
[Seminar @C210] Swathy Babu, Physiological Function of a Tumor Suppressor Gene, Banp, in Cell Cycle Regulation
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Biweekly Internal Seminar Series
The reason why miRNAs bind to CDS
Dr. Hiroaki Sako, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Tokyo. Language: English, no interpretation.
Colloquium: "Functional methods in QFT and renormalization, part II" by Dr. Riccardo Martini
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.
[Seminar] "Area of Genomic Turbulence near Vertebrates" by Prof. Daniel Chourrout
Title : Area of Genomic Turbulence near Vertebrates
Speaker: Prof. Daniel Chourrout
Affiliation: Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Norway
A hepatic post-transcriptional control of whole body metabolic homeostasis through FGF21 regulation by CCR4-NOT deadenylase
Dr. Sakie Katsumura, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas. Language: English, no interpretation.
Sharepoint Open Hours
Sharepoint Open Hours
Location: B646
Time: 14:00-15:00
Journal club seminar: Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation
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] "Out of time ordered effective dynamics of a quartic oscillator" by Dr. Bidisha Chakrabarty
Speaker: Dr. Bidisha Chakrabarty, ICTS-TIFR
[Seminar] "Introduction to NEST and NEST3 features” by Dr. Dennis Terhorst
Speaker: Dr. Dennis Terhost
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine
Title: Introduction to NEST and NEST3 features