Academia Sinica x OIST Joint Symposium | All scientific session are open to OIST members | For more information, please see the symposium website

Prof. Simone Pigolotti, Associate Professor (Biology Complexity Unit)

We will host a PATO general meeting on April 16th (tue), everyone is welcome to join our meeting!

[time] April 16th (tue), 12:00-13:00

[venue] D013 , Lab1 Level D

If you have any questions about this meeting please email: oist.pato.group@gmail.com

Thank you,

PATO Committee Members

Computational Problems in Low-dimentional Topology II

Venue: Conference Room 1&2

Sharepoint Open Hours

Time: 14:00-15:00

Location: B646

Prof. Tomonao Matsushita (Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Japan)

OIST Concert Series No. 36, Free Admission, Reservation Required

Internal Seminar Series

Internal Seminar Series

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

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker 1: Chris Campbell (Qüantüm Šyštems), "Bright Solitons: What can we do with them" Speaker 2: Mathias Mikelsen (Qüantüm Ŝyŝtems), "Static and dynamic phases of the Tonks-Girardeau gas in a continuum optical lattice: Superfluidity, friction, critical dynamics and stick-slip motion"

After attending this skill-building workshop, trainees will have the ability to respond effectively to the most common questions asked when they interview for their first industry research position. Trainees will improve their ability to respond to opening and closing interview scenarios, as well as tough and awkward interview questions. Finally, we will discuss effective—and not-so-effective—strategies for negotiating job offers.

To register CLICK HERE

Sharepoint Open Hours

Time: 14:00-15:00

Location: B646

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Croker, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Speaker: Dr. Mirian Tsulaia, Ilia State University

Pakistani Chicken Biryani

Title : Crystalline biomacromolecules in vivo : cellulosic thecal plates and liquid crystalline chromosomes

Speaker : Professor Joseph T.Y. Wong

Affiliation : Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Girish Beedessee

Title: Genomic insights on secondary metabolism in symbiotic dinoflagellates

Date&Time: April 5th, 9:00-10:00

Venue: C700, Level C, Lab3

"Dr. Jun-ichiro Inoue, Professor, The University of Tokyo, Language: English, no interpretation."

Speaker: Dr. Sarah Kostinski, Postdoc at Tel Aviv University. Apri 2 at 10am in C016-Lab1.

Internal Seminar Series

Internal Seminar Series

(The obsolete title was "Non-Classical Properties of Few-Particle Systems with Synthetic Spin-Orbit", for your information)

Speaker: Mr. Valette is currently in his last year as a Ph.D. student at Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

This session will give hands-on practice and tips for writing a cover letter in the sciences. It is aimed at interns and Ph.D students, but all are welcome. Session provided by Margaret Howell of OIST's Language Education Section.

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker 1: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity), "What does a spinor look like?" Speaker 2: Juan-David Vasquez-Jaramillo (Quantum Transport and Electronic Structure Theory), "Can we control the interactions among individual magnetic dopants in metallic surfaces?"

This talk provides an overview of these changes and touches on the possible consequences of new initiatives, which can be applied by researchers in their roles as authors, readers, referees and editors.

A blender is an intricate geometric structure of a three- or higher-dimensional diffeomorphism. Its characterising feature is that its invariant manifolds behave as geometric objects of a dimension that is larger than expected from the dimensions of the manifolds themselves. We introduce a family of three-dimensional Hénon-like maps and study how it gives rise to an explicit example of a blender. The map has two saddle fixed points. Their associated stable and unstable manifolds consist of points for which the sequence of images or pre-images converges to one of the saddle points; such points lie on curves or surfaces, depending on the number of stable eigenvalues of the Jacobian at the saddle points. We employ advanced numerical techniques to compute one-dimensional stable and unstable manifolds to very considerable arclengths. In this way, we not only present the first images of an actual blender but also obtain a convincing numerical test for the blender property. This allows us to present strong numerical evidence for the existence of the blender over a larger parameter range, as well as its disappearance and geometric properties beyond this range. We will also discuss the relevance of the blender property for chaotic attractors; joint work with Stephanie Hittmeyer and Bernd Krauskopf (University of Auckland) and Katsutoshi Shinohara (Hitotsubashi University).

"Dr. Takashi Saito, Team Leader, RIKEN. Language: English, no interpretation."

Prof. Andre Brown, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences at Imperial College London

The Lorenz system still fascinates many people because of the simplicity of the equations that generate such complicated dynamics on the famous butterfly attractor. This talk addresses the role of the stable and unstable manifolds in organising the dynamics more globally. A main object of interest is the stable manifold of the origin of the Lorenz system, also known as the Lorenz manifold. This two-dimensional manifold and associated manifolds of saddle periodic orbits can be computed accurately with numerical methods based on the continuation of orbit segments, defined as solutions of suitable two-point boundary value problems. We use these techniques to give a precise geometrical and topological characterisation of global manifolds during the transition from simple dynamics, via preturbulence to chaotic dynamics, as the Rayleigh parameter of the Lorenz system is increased; joint work with Hinke Osinga (University of Auckland) and Eusebius Doedel (Concordia University, Montreal).

Dr. Hideaki Shimazaki, Program-specific Associate Professor at Kyoto University

Speaker: Dr Yong Yang, Senior Research Fellow, Aston University, UK

Seminar by Prof. Krause-Kyora (Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University)

Speaker: Prof. Ferrari is based at the Department of Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Aim: To introduce recently developed ideas and techniques on the SYK models and generalizations.

Nihon TV's popular entertainment program "The Most Useful School in the World," in which Provost Mary Collins introduces OIST will be broadcast in Okinawa!

OISTが紹介された、日本テレビ「世界一受けたい授業」が県内で放送されます。

Science Project for Ryukyu Girls / Science Camp -vol.8- / Female Junior high and high school students in Okinawa can apply. Accommodation fee and the airfare fee will be supported.

[Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar] Tropical geometry, normal surfaces and the character variety by Stephan Tillmann (University of Sydney)

This workshop will cover the fundamentals of computer vision and structure-from-motion photogrammetry and how they are applied to coral reef biology and ecology.

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National holiday

[Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar] Topology on tiny machines: logspace and finite-state complexity by Dr. Ben Burton (University of Queensland)

Dr Carrillo Reid got his Ph.D. from UNAM in Mexico City and then did postdoc studies in OIST: in Northwestern, Chicago: and finally in NYU, New York; before leaving last year to set up his own laboratory in Mexico.

Seminar by Prof. Xiang Cheng, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

"Dr. Issei Mabuchi, Visiting Professor, The University of Tokyo. Language: English, no interpretation."

Bogna Ignatowska-Jankowska, Research Fellow (Uusisaari Unit). Bring your own lunch.

Title : Functional organization of the cerebellum during motor learning in mice

Speaker : Professor Javier F Medina

Affiliation : Baylor College of Medicine