"Action Prediction and Object Bootstrapping: A Neurocognitive View onto a Robotics Problem"by Prof. Dr. Florentin Wörgötter, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

During the seminar, Dr. Steve Aird, OIST's Technical Editor, will explain techniques for writing scientific manuscripts. The talk focuses on principles and procedures that enable authors to turn research data into a well-composed scientific narrative.

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The ball will be held after the graduation ceremony on Feb 24th starting at 8pm, and will commemorate our first graduates.

Attendance is by invitation only. For details, please see the OIST Graduation Ceremony 2017 website.

Classical Music, Admission Free, Reservation Required

"Individual differences in nonlinear neural dynamics and human behavior" by Dr. Keiichi Kitajo, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center

Title: Rapid evolution of a costly form of parasite resistance in threespine stickleback

by Dr. Daniel I. Bolnick , Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin.

The OIST Researcher Community (ORC) would like to invite all researchers at OIST at our Q&A session with Dr Mark Daly , Nature Publishing Group Associate Editor and OIST's very first graduate.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Time flies. So does Wiley eBooks trial.

The library arranged the 6 months paid trial for Wiley online books containing more than 18,000 monographs, handbooks, dictionaries, companion and landmark book series except Online Reference Works and it is ending on Feb. 28th.

Your benefits:

You can download a PDF file per chapter at no cost. Usage reports will be used to determine which titles should be retained perpetual access rights after the trial ends.

Enjoy the trial while it's on by accessing from here: Wiley Online Books

Your Library,

Contact: library@oist.jp

Speaker : Prof. Guido Boffetta from Department of Physics, University of Torino

Seminar by Dr. Shotaro Shiba (Post-doctoral Fellow, KEK)

Speaker: Dr. Stefano Musacchio, Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

Titile: Split energy cascade in turbulent thin fluid layers

Seminar "Evolution of complex asexual reproductive strategies in jellyfish" by Simone Pigolotti

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 Linling Ru (visiting researcher in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "Plykin attractor on the plane".

Prof. A. Jeffrey Giacomin, Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Canada. Language: English, no interpretation.

TQM is pleased to invite you to our seminar!

Speaker : Dr. Owen Benton from RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science

Join a lively discussion panel about scientific peer-reviews and editorial process for publication . The panel consists of a former Senior Editor and 3 Reviewers / OIST Faculty members.

Everyone is welcome! No registration is required!

Speaker: Aidan Chatwin-Davies, California Institute of Technology Date : Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Time : 3:30pm-4:30pm

Fluid Mechanics Unit is pleased to invite you to a seminar on "Bifurcations in rotating plane Couette flow at moderate Reynolds numbers". Speaker: Prof. Masato Nagata, Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China

Dr. Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov, University of Bremen (Bremen, Germany)

This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

QG group meeting Speaker: Aidan Chatwin-Davies (Caltech) Title: Decoherence and the Black Hole Information Puzzle

Speaker:

Junichiro Kono

Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

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

On Friday, February 16th, the sixth talk of the OIST Science Talk Series featuring OIST scientists from Okinawa will take place. The speaker this time is Dr. Naoyuki Taira from the Ishikawa Unit. The talk is the last one of the series which started in September 2017. The talk series was very popular and well received by the public, so we will have an extra event in March in which five of the six speakers will get together and respond to questions come from the public. The two remaining events will start from 18:30-19:30 at Junku-do Book Store in Naha (1-19-29 Makishi, Naha-city). *The talk is in Japanese only.

Internal Seminar: Dale Koenig, Postdoctoral Researcher, Topology and Geometry of Manifolds Unit (Anastasiia Tsvietkova)

Internal Seminar: Sandrine Burriel, PhD Student, Cell Signal Unit (Tadashi Yamamoto Unit)

Seminar "Fast charging state detection and coherent transport of an artificial molecule" by Mr. Shota Norimoto, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University

Language: English

How Time Makes Mind: An Expanded Bergsonian Framework for Consciousness Research by Prof. Yasushi Hirai, Fukuoka University

Fluid Mechanics Unit is pleased to invite you to a seminar on "Subcritical transition in plane Poiseuille flow". Speaker: Prof. Masato Nagata, Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China

Dr. Reim Johannes from Tohoku University will give a talk on "Stabilizing the skyrmion phase in Cu2OSeO3:The influence of field, temperature and time"

Language: English

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 Linling Ru (visiting researcher in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "An introduction to uniformly hyperbolic attractors".

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

This is Part 2 of "Your Scientific Skills" workshop series.

Once you identify your skills and learn how to communicate them in a job application, it is important to develop a strategy and come up with several achievable goals. This workshop is designed to help you to make your job search more structured and less stressful process.

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This is Part 1 of "Your Scientific Skills" workshop series.

How does your science PhD training translate into skills that are valued by an employer beyond academia? Come to the Part 1 of the "Your Scientific Skills" workshop series to find out the ways to communicated these skills to your future employer.

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Selection workshop for students seeking admission to the OIST PhD program in 2018

National holiday.

Have a nice time with locals at Onna-son Industrial Festival Karaoke Performance Show!

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

Dr. Yukinobu Arata

Research Scientist, Cellular Informatics laboratory, Riken

Alireza Ghahari, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences on a simple level. No prior knowledge of topology is expected

This week, Prof. Luca Lussardi (Politecnico di Torino) will give a talk on “The Kirchhoff-Plateau problem”. Prof. Luca Lussardi is co-hosted by the Fried and Tsvietkova Units.

Dr. Masanao Miwa , Professor, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology. Language: English, no interpretation.

“Studying biodiversity change by using soundscape information retrieval techniques” by Dr. Tzu-Hao Lin , Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica

Speaker : Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

QG group meeting Speaker: Adi David Title: "Tales from KAWS 2018: Analytic Conformal Bootstrap and Large Spin Perturbation Theory"

Details will be provided by Faculty Affairs Office.

Junghyun Jo, Ph.D., Research Associate, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology 6, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Genome Institute of Singapore

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