Past Events

Seminar

[Seminar] "End to end approach for behavior generation in robot systems" by Prof. Tetsuya Ogata

Monday, May 7, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
C016, Lab1

"End to end approach for behavior generation in robot systems" by Prof. Tetsuya Ogata, Waseda University

Holiday

Childrens' Day 2018

Saturday, May 5, 2018 - 00:00

National holiday.

Holiday

Greenery Day 2018

Friday, May 4, 2018 - 00:00

National holiday.

Campus

Road Closure

Thursday, May 3, 2018 - 12:00 to 16:00
Road Closure

Road Closure

Date:2018.05.03(THU)

Time:12:00-16:00

Place:Please Find Attached.

Holiday

Constitution Memorial Day 2018

Thursday, May 3, 2018 - 00:00

National holiday.

Holiday

Showa Day 2018

Monday, April 30, 2018 - 00:00

National holiday.

Campus

SKYWALK3 (Level B) Closure, Noise 4/29(Sun)

Sunday, April 29, 2018 - 00:00

SKYWALK3 (Only level B) Closure & Noise

Please use other SKYWALKS(SKYWALK1 / SKYWALK2 / SKYWALK3 level C is accessible)

Seminar

Seminar "Quantum sensing nano-NMR using a single NV center in diamond" by Prof. Junichi Isoya, University of Tsukuba

Thursday, April 26, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016, Lab1

Prof. Junichi Isoya, University of Tsukuba

Language: English

Research

[Seminar] "Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation” by Prof. Stefan Hoppler

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
C700, Level C, Lab3

Title: "Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation”

Speaker: Professor Stefan Hoppler

Institution: Prof. Stefan Hoppler, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Research

QG group meeting-Tales from Copenhagen

Monday, April 23, 2018 - 15:30
A719, Lab 3

QG group meeting Speaker: Henry Stoltenberg (OIST) Title: Tales from Copenhagen

Summary from "Quantum Information in Cosmology" workshop

Introduction to Python programming on the cluster.

Monday, April 23, 2018 - 13:00
C700

Part III: Introduction to the numerical libraries Numpy, Scipy and Matplotlib. Bring a laptop, and make sure you can access Sango and Tombo.

External Events

KAGAKUJIKAN2018 - Science Time -

Saturday, April 21, 2018 - 10:00 to 16:00
Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum

Science Event for Children and Adults, Free admission, to attend the science cafe, the reservation required

Student Assembly

Friday, April 20, 2018 - 17:00
C700

Updates from Executive meetings and Open Forum

Campus

Mechanical Engineering User Group Meeting

Friday, April 20, 2018 - 16:00
B503, Center Building

The Mechanical Engineering and Microfabrication Support Section would like to invite you to the Mechanical Engineering User Group meeting on Friday the 20th of April.

Campus

Teatime - Three Minute Thesis

Thursday, April 19, 2018 - 16:00
C700

Three Minute Thesis launch event at Teatime

Seminar

[Seminar] "Geometric transport in Quantum Hall Effect" by Prof. Paul Wiegmann

Thursday, April 19, 2018 - 14:30
Lab3 Level C - C756

Seminar by Prof. Paul Wiegmann from University of Chicago

Seminar

Seminar "Improvement and application of ancient DNA methods to study spider radiations on Pacific islands" by Dr. Cotoras

Thursday, April 19, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016, Level C, Lab1

Dr. Cotoras, Entomology dept. California Academy of Sciences

Seminar

"Möbius Kaleidocycles --- A New Family of Ring Mechanisms" by Dr. Johannes Schönke

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 15:00
Lab 3, B700

The weekly Topology and Geometry Seminar, with Dr. Johannes Schönke (Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit)

Seminar

Regulation of cell-fate decisions by stress-responsive p38/JNK MAPK signaling pathways

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016 (Lab1, Level C)

"Dr. Mutsuhiro Takekawa, Professor, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo. Language: English, no interpretation."

Introduction to Python programming on the cluster.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 13:00
C209

Part II: A few common uses for Python on the Cluster. Bring a laptop, and make sure you have access to Sango and Tombo clusters.

Seminar

C3QS2018 Lecture "Event-ready loophole free Bell tests - From Foundations to Applications" Harald Weinfurter

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 11:15 to 12:00
B250, Level B, Center Building

Lecture title: Event-ready loophole free Bell tests - From Foundations to Applications Speaker: Prof. Harald Weinfurter, University of Munich, Germany

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

Seminar

Seminar "Loss of GABAB-mediated interhemispheric synaptic inhibition in stroke periphery" by Dr. Bojana Kokinovic

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
D015, Lab1

"Dr. Bojana Kokinovic, Postdoc, Umea University. Language: English"

Seminar

Ecology & Evolution seminar series 3 : "Towards an ancient finger print of Rossmann fold enzymes and the evolution of SAM methylation" by Paola Laurino

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:00
C700, Lab3

Prof. Paola Laurino (Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit, OIST). "Towards an ancient finger print of Rossmann fold enzymes and the evolution of SAM methylation", 10:00-11:00, April 18 (wed).

Seminar

C3QS2018 Lecture "Spin dynamics of individual neutral impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate" Artur Widera

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 09:45 to 10:30
B250, Level B, Center Building

Lecture title: Spin dynamics of individual neutral impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate Speaker: Prof. Artur Widera, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

Seminar

C3QS2018 Lecture "Semiclassical wave packet dynamics in quantum systems with loss and gain" Eva-Maria Graefe

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 09:00 to 09:45
B250, Level B, Center Building

Lecture title: Semiclassical wave packet dynamics in quantum systems with loss and gain Speaker: Dr. Eva-Maria Graefe, Imperial College London, UK.

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

Research

Explanatory Session for “CREST/PRESTO Grant by JST

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 - 11:00

JST representatives will visit OIST to explain about CREST/PRESTO. Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Time: 11:00-12:00(Japanese session) 14:00-15:00(English Session) @ C210 Seminar Room, C Floor, Center bld. Speaker: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Representatives Dr. Hideki Yamazaki & Dr. Tomohisa Hamada/ Senior Staff, Department of Innovation Research, JST , No registration required . Contact: grant@oist.jp Grants and Research Collaborations Section,

Introduction to Python programming on the cluster.

Monday, April 16, 2018 - 13:00
C700

Part I: Introduce the Python language. Bring a laptop, and ask for access to Sango and Tombo clusters beforehand.

OIST Workshops

Coherent Control of Complex Quantum Systems (C3QS 2018)

Monday, April 16, 2018 (All day) to Friday, April 20, 2018 (All day)
OIST Seaside House

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: January 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/c3qs

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Maeva Techer, Postdoc, Ecology and Evolution (Mikheyev Unit)

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 16:30 to 17:00
C700

Internal Seminar, Maeva Techer, Postdoc, Ecology and Evolution (Mikheyev Unit)

C700, 4:30-5:00 pm

Seminar

Seminar "Reassessment of mechanism underlying cerebellar learning" by Dr. Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
Meeting room D014, Level D, Lab1

Speaker: Dr. Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Deputy laboratory head from Laboratory for motor learning control, RIKEN Brain Science Institute Language: English

Seminar

[Seminar] "Racemic hydrogels from self-assembling mirror image peptides: Predictions from Pauling and Corey" by Dr. Joel P. Schneider, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
C015, Lab 1, Level C

Dr. Joel P. Schneider, Chief of Chemical Biology Laboratory Head, Peptide Design and Materials Section Center for Cancer Research Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Sebastien Lapointe, PhD Student, Coordination and Chemistry Catalysis Unit

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 16:00 to 16:30
C700

Internal Seminar, Sebastien Lapointe, PhD Student, Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit

C700, 4:00-4:30 pm

Research

[Seminar] Several challenges of deep Reinforcement Learning by Prof. Remi Munos

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
B711, Lab3

Speaker: Prof. Remi Munos

Date,Time,Venue: April 13, Friday from 14:00-15:00 @B711, Lab3

Title: "Several challenges of deep Reinforcement Learning"

Affiliation: INRIA (currently visiting Google DeepMind) Lille, France (London, UK)

Seminar

[Lecture series] "Field-theory approach to quantum many-body systems" by Prof. Masaki Oshikawa

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 10:30 to Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 17:00
Lab 3 Level B / B711, 712, 715, 717

Lecture of 10:30 and 15:30 starting on Friday 13th.

Seminar

"3-manifolds in trisections" by Dr. Dale Koenig

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 15:00
Lab 3, B700

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend

This week, Dr. Dale Koenig (Tsvietkova Unit) will talk on "3-manifolds in trisections".

Seminar

Transcriptional control of human embryo genome activation

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 13:30 to 14:30
D015 (Lab1, Level D)

"Dr. Juha Kere, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Karolinska Institute and Professor of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, King's College London. Language: English, no interpretation."

Seminar

[Seminar] "The ground states of two-dimensional SU(N) Heisenberg models" by Prof. Karlo Penc

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 14:30
C015 (Lab1, Level C)

Seminar by Prof. Karlo Penc from Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest

Seminar

Seminar by Dr Mondal 'Application of contactless micromanipulation using one- and two-color femtosecond lasers in force and fluorescence spectroscopy'

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
C210, Centre building

Speaker: Dr Dipankar Mondal, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India

Seminar

[Seminar] "Aspects of Spinning Witten Diagrams" by Prof. Heng-Yu Chen

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 10:30 to 11:30
C756, Lab 3

Speaker: Prof. Heng-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University Date : Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

Research

QG group meeting - a phase space in your phase space

Monday, April 9, 2018 - 15:30
A719, Lab 3

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: A phase space in your phase space

Seminar

Seminar by Mr Sylvain de Léséleuc 'Experimental many-body physics using arrays of individual Rydberg atoms'

Friday, April 6, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
B503, Level B, Centre Building

Speaker: Mr Sylvain de Léséleuc, Institut d'Optique - Orsay, France

Seminar

"Geometric algebras: from the wedge product to higher-spin holography" By Dr. Yasha Neiman

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 15:00
Lab 3, B700

The weekly Topology and Geometry Seminar, with Dr. Yasha Neiman.

Seminar

Seminar "Exploring human brain with single-cell transcriptional and epigenetic measurements" by Prof. Peter Kharchenko

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 14:45 to 15:15
C209, Level C, Center building

Prof. Peter Kharchenko, Department of Biomedical Informatics of the Harvard Medical School, US

Seminar

Seminar "Signals from the brain and olfactory epithelium control shaping of the face" by Prof. Igor Adameyko

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 14:15 to 14:45
C209, Level C, Center building

Prof. Igor Adameyko, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Seminar

Role of actin dynamics in reprogramming and fate determination of cells

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016 (Lab1, Level C)

"Dr. Hideyuki Saya, Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University. Language: English, no interpretation."

Seminar

Seminar "PRE-NEURONAL SEROTONIN: A NEW OLD FUNCTION OF ANCIENT MOLECULE" by Dr. Evgeny Ivashkin

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 13:30 to 14:00
C209, Level C, Center building

Seminar by Dr. Evgney Ivashkin

Seminar

Seminar "X-midge: cell and tissue-specific mechanisms of tolerance to complete desiccation in a unique insect." by Dr. Oleg Gusev

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 13:00 to 13:30
C209, Level C, Center building

Seminar by Dr. Oleg Gusev

Seminar

Seminar by Dr Yang 'Introduction of surface nanoscale axial photonics (SNAP)'

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 11:00 to 11:30
C209, Level C, Centre building

Speaker: Dr Yong Yang, Senior research fellow, Institute of Photonics, Aston University, UK

Seminar

"Circuit mapping with novel molecular genetic tools" by Dr Cetin

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:00
B503, Level B, Lab 1

Dr Cetin, Senior Manager, Allen Institute for Brain Science and Assistant Professor (affiliate faculty), Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington School of Medicine

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