Past Events
Healthy people with “clonal hematopoiesis” tend to develop a variety of adult diseases including leukemia, strokes and acute myocardial infarction
"Dr. Toshio Kitamura, Professor, The Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo. Language: English. No interpretation."
"Knotted optical vortices and polarisation structures and their interaction with matter waves" Simon Gardiner, Durham University, UK
Speaker: Prof. Simon Gardiner, Durham University, UK
Language: English
Seminar by Prof Chen‐Bin (Robin) Huang 'Optical vortex creation and nonlinear frequency conversion in plasmonic devices'
Speaker: Prof Chen‐Bin (Robin) Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Talk title: Optical vortex creation and nonlinear frequency conversion in plasmonic devices
1st Admissions Workshop 2019
Selection workshop for students seeking admission to the OIST PhD program in 2019
Learning from Denmark - Social Welfare Seminar
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.
Innovation Island Symposium 2019
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.
Journal club seminar: Unitarity bounds on charged/neutral state mass ratio
[Seminar] Cortical Circuits for Odor Coding by Prof. Kevin Franks
Title: Cortical Circuits for Odor Coding
Speaker: Kevin Franks
Affiliation: Duke University
The 20th Board of Councilors Meeting
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Mathematical Physics seminar: Chern-Simons theory II
Joint Math and Theoretical physics seminar on Chern-Simons theory, Knot invariants and Volume conjecture. Vyacheslav Lysov will be leading the discussion.
A novel therapeutic strategy for osteosarcoma by inducing terminal adipocyte differentiation in chemoresistant stemlike cells
"Dr. Hideyuki Saya, Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University. Language: English, no interpretation."
"Fano resonances in plasmonic core-shell nanostructures and the Purcell effect" Tiago J. Arruda, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Speaker: Dr. Tiago J. Arruda, University of São Paulo, Brazil Language: English
Translational Control of Cancer and Neurological Diseases via eIF4E
"Dr. Nahum Sonenberg, Professor, McGill University. Language: English, no interpretation."
Rossmann-Fold Methyltransferases: Taking a “Beta-Turn” around Their Cofactor, S-Adenosylmethionine, Bhanu Chouhan
Internal Seminar Series
Turbulent Flows in Soap Film, Yuna Hattori
Internal Seminar Series
Journal club seminar: The Cosmological Bootstrap
"Cooperative light scattering in cold atomic clouds" Romain Bachelard, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Speaker: Prof. Romain Bachelard, University of São Paulo, Brazil Language: English
Mathematical Physics seminar: Chern-Simons theory
Joint Math and Theoretical physics seminar on Chern-Simons theory, Knot invariants and Volume conjecture. Vyacheslav Lysov will be leading the discussion.
Seminar by Prof TAME 'Quantum plasmonics'
Prof Mark Tame, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
[Seminar] Genomic origins of Yaponesians, people on Japanese Archipelago by Professor Naruya Saitou
Title: Genomic origins of Yaponesians, people on Japanese Archipelago
Speaker: Naruya Saitou
Affiliation: National Institute of Genetics
[PhD Thesis Presentation] -Yafei Mao- Whole-genome sequence analysis of the evolutionary history of the reef-building coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia, Cnidaria)
Thesis Public Presentation
Presenter: Yafei Mao
Title: Whole-genome sequence analysis of the evolutionary history of the reef-building coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia, Cnidaria)
Date&Time: January 31st, 9:00-10:00
Venue: C700, LevelC, Lab3
[Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar] Neck-pinching of CP^1-structures by Dr. Shinpei Baba (Osaka University)
Abstract: A CP^1-structure is a geometric structure on a (compact oriented) surface S and its holonomy is a homomorphism from the fundamental group of the surface into PSL(2, C). Moreover it corresponds to a holomorphic quadratic differential on a Riemann surface.
We consider a path C_t of CP^1-structures on S such that C_t diverges to infinity in its deformation space and yet its holonomy converges. We describe its asymptotic behavior of C_t under the assumption the Riemann surface structure on C_t is pinched along a single loop.
Seminar "Elliptic solutions to BKP equation and many-body systems" by Anton Zabrodin
Anton Zabrodin, Deputy Head of the International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics, Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
Presidential Lecture - “Building, Using, and Teaching The Tree of Life” by Prof. Douglas Soltis and Prof. Pamela Soltis
Joint talk with Prof. Douglas Soltis, Distinguished Professor in the Florida Museum of Natural History and Department of Biology at the University of Florida, and Prof. Pamela Soltis Pam Soltis, Distinguished Professor and Curator, Polyploidy and plant phylogenetics.
Open Meeting on Strategy
Open Meeting on Strategy chaired by Dr. Ken Peach
Everyone is welcome
[Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar] On the nonlocal curvature of surfaces and curves by Dr. Brian Seguin (Loyola University Chicago)
Abstract: Motivated by generalizations of the Ginsburg-Landau energy and the diffusion equation in which derivatives are replaced by fractional derivatives, Caffarelli, Roquejoffre, and Savin studied the minimizers of a fractional perimeter functional on sets involving a parameter between 0 and 1. Such minimizers have to satisfy a pointwise condition on their boundary, which can be used to define a notion of nonlocal mean-curvature. This definition only holds for surfaces which are the boundary of a set. I will describe how to define a nonlocal notion of mean-curvature for any surface by introducing a fractional area functional and considering its minimizers. Moreover, I will describe how these ideas can be extended to curves by defining a fractional length and an associated nonlocal curvature for a curve.
[Seminar] "Correlated constrained quantum many-body systems" by Dr. Yi-Ping Huang
Seminar hosted by Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
Seminar "Functional renormalization group - a new approach to frustrated quantum magnetism"
Prof. Johannes Reuther, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany
[Seminar] "Statistical Challenge and Promise: Big Data, Sampling Bias" by Prof. Yu Shen, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Prof. Yu Shen, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Open Lectures: The 3rd ABiS Advanced Light Microscopy Training Workshop at OIST
Lectures and microscope demonstration : Super resolution microscopy (SIM, STORM/PALM, STED, etc.) Aberration correction, Labeling condition, Sampling rate, Denoising, etc.) Applications in research. etc. Registration reqired for demonstration. Language: English
Sounds of the Ryukyus
Ryukyu Traditional Performing Arts "SOUNDS OF THE RYUKYUS"
OPEN 13:30 START 14:00
Admission Free, Reservation Required
Nago Science Festival 2019
Venue: 21st Century Forest gymnasium(Nago 21-Seiki no mori Taikukan) 〒905-0015 沖縄県名護市大南2丁目1−1
Admission: Free
Language: Japanese only
The Fifth English & Cross-culture Seminar
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.
Journal club seminar: Turbulence and Random Geometry
Discussion on recent article by Yaron Oz "Turbulence and Random Geometry" with Slava Lysov leading the discussion.
Seminar "Theory of thermionic emission from two-dimensional conductors"
Dr. Maxim Trushin, Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, NUS, Singapore
[Seminar] "Evolution of Planktonic Gastropods in an Acidifying Ocean" by Dr. Katja T.C.A. Peijnenburg
Speaker: Dr. Katja T.C.A. Peijnenburg 1) Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2) University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
[Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar] Some exotic nontrivial elements of the rational homotopy groups of Diff(S^4) by Dr. Tadayuki Watanabe (Shimane University)
Abstract: The rational homotopy groups of the group Diff(S^4) of self-diffeomorphisms of S^4 with the C^\infty-topology. We present a method to prove that there are many 'exotic' non-trivial elements in the rational homotopy groups of Diff(S^4) parametrized by trivalent graphs. The proof utilizes Kontsevich's characteristic classes for smooth disk bundles and a version of clasper surgery for families. In fact, these are analogues of Chern-Simons perturbation theory in 3-dimension and clasper theory due to Goussarov and Habiro.
The Elevator Pitch: A Quick Introduction to You and Your Research
Learn to summarize and present yourself and your research in a short time.
This seminar is aimed at intern students who are not native speakers of English, but all are welcome to attend.
Language: English. Venue: c600B. No need to register.
Seminar"A novel fluorogenic chemical probe for live microglia visualization" by Dr. Fukuda
Dr. Masahiro Fukuda, Postdoc, Duke-NUS Medical School, Language: English
[Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar] The General 4 dimensional Light Bulb Theorem by Dr. David Gabai (Princeton University)
[Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar] David Gabai (Princeton University) will talk about the General 4 dimensional Light Bulb Theorem.
ORC Assembly
First Assembly of the ORC (OIST Researcher Community) with the new elected office.
[Seminar] "An automated high-throughput image processing pipeline for the extraction of structural connectivity from marmoset brain images", Dr. Skibbe
Language: English
[Seminar] A neuron-specific microexon implicated in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) controls subcellular localization of TAF1 by Dr. Jill R. Crittenden
Title: A neuron-specific microexon implicated in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) controls subcellular localization of TAF1
Speaker: Dr. Jill R. Crittenden
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Telomere as the starting point of anticancer drug discovery
"Dr. Hiroyuki Seimiya, Chief, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research. Language: English, no interpretation."
Seminar by Prof YANG 'Supressing photothermal convection in plasmonic optical tweezers and optogenetic bioreactors'
Speaker: Prof Ya Tang Yang - Jack; National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Language: English
Seminar "Conjunctive code for odors and space in posterior piriform cortex"
Dr. Cindy Poo, Postdoc, Champalimaud Institute. Language: English
Cycle - Energy for Creation 2019 - art exhibition
Art Exhibition by Graduate School of Formative Arts, Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts. Admission is free.