Ilia Kurbatov, Far Eastern Federal University

Fabian Weber, Institute of Methods for Material Development, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin f¨ur Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany

Dr. Michael Ridley, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Guangzong Xing, Jilin University, China

Organized by "Resonance Bio" project funded by MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas.

Registration closed.

Internal Seminar Series, 4-5 pm, Friday, October 26, C700

Internal Seminar, 4-5 pm, Friday, October 26, C700

Discussion of the recent article by Haco, Hawking, Perry and Strominger "Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair" by Vyacheslav Lysov.

The Language Education Section and Dr. Nick Friedman will teach you to identify the birds around OIST. Meet at the pond at 17:00 to join. No registration required.

"On diagrams of simplified trisections and mapping class groups" by Dr Kenta Hayano of Keio University

"Quantitative models of enhancer regulatory function in the Drosophila embryo" by Garth Ilsley, Oct 24 (wed) at 15:00-16:00 in C210.

OIST researchers are welcome to attend the conference as an audience. Registration fee is not required for OIST members. Please register by October 18th.

Time: 11:10-12:00

Speaker: Dr. Alex Dornburg, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (USA)

Seminar: "Textile degradation in indoor cultural heritage" by Pauline Uring, LISA (Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR 7583 CNRS – University Paris Est and Paris Diderot)

Time: 10:10-11:00

Speaker: Prof. Lars Schmitz, W.M. Keck Science Center (USA)

Time: 9:20-10:10, Oct 23

Speaker: Dr. Matt Brandley, Department of Primary Industries, New South Wales, (Australia)

Quantum Gravity Group Meeting:

Title: Conformal Bootstrap at Finite Temperature

Speaker : Sudip Ghosh, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)

Dr. Steffen Kiel is senior scientist and curator at the Paleobiology Department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. He received is PhD in paleontology from the University of Hamburg in Germany, and continued his research at various institutions in the USA, England, Austria, and Germany. His main interests are the drivers of evolution on geologic timescales, biogeography, and the deep ocean.

Speaker: Dr. Patrick Tremblay, Senior Vice President and Corporate Development Officer Caprion Biosciences Inc.

Modern views on intelligent informatics and biomedical sciences: Track 1: Signal Processing, Computer Networks, and Telecommunications Track 2: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human-Computer Interaction Track 3: Bioinformaticsw, Medical Imaging, and Neuroscience

Spanish Music Performance Free Admission　Reservation Required

Discussion of the recent article in Nature by D. Frauchiger and R. Renner "Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself" by Henry Stoltenberg.

Dr. Scott Cummins, University of Sunshine Coast, Australia.

Key words : Marine Biology, Neurobiology, Chemical Ecology, Genomic, Proteomic

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

We're inviting several guests from Japan and overseas.

This event is registration-free, so please come and join us if you're interested!

The Animal Resources Section cordially invites all researchers involved in laboratory animal experiments, as well as other members, to attend the Annual Memorial Service for laboratory animals.

OIST researchers are welcome to attend the talk and poster sessions of the OIST x CiNet workshop, from October 17th to 19th. Please register for poster presentation and attendance by September 24th.

Quantum Gravity Group Meeting

Title: Fine-tuning and the Second Law in our de Sitter universe

Speaker : Yasha Neiman

TEDxOIST 2018: Beneath the Surface. Language: English with simultaneous Japanese interpretation. Registration required.

Internal Seminar, Friday October 12th, 4-5pm, B700

Internal Seminar, Friday October 12, 4-5pm, B700

This highly interactive 90-minute workshop covers the most common questions asked during job interviews and how to formulate the best responses.

Researcher registration - CLICK HERE. Students should register via Graduate School.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

Discussion on symmetries and charges in general relativity at null boundaries by Lin-Qing Chen.

This workshop covers the structure, organization, and delivery of scientific talks.

Researcher registration - CLICK HERE . Students should register via Graduate School.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

Speaker: Dr. Bruce Alberts

Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry & Biophysics for Science & Education. University of California, San Francisco.

[Seminar]

Title: Emergence of topological gauge theories from coupled arrays of wires

-- coupled-- wire construction demystified

Speaker: Professor Keisuke Totsuka

Institution: Kyoto University

Speaker: Prof. Akito Kawahara, Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, University of Florida

[Seminar]

Title: Trapping Visons in Kitaev’s spin liquid

Speaker: Professor Masafumi Udagawa

Institution: Gakushuin University

“QuickFix”- improve your application materials in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!

[Seminar] Speaker: Dr. Gary (I-Kang) Liu, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

National holiday.

This is an event for OISTers’ to know what activities are happening at OIST, as well as for (official or informal) groups to recruit new members! Especially for new students, it will be a good chance to know activities you could do with people at OIST. Everyone at OIST, including interns, families, postdocs, admins, faculties, are all welcome!

Please spread this info to whom may want to recruit members and look for new activities!

For groups/clubs interested in joining: If you or your group wants to join this Activities Fair, please email (yuka.suzuki@oist.jp) or message Yuka Suzuki in advance with your group name. Also, please ask Yuka if you want to borrow a screen or do some performance. Performance may be possible in the meeting room 1. Each group will have a spot with a table and their group/activity name at the conference centre. Groups are welcome to bring items to show the taste of their activities or anything to attract people (video, instruments, snacks etc)!

[Cancelled] Speaker: Claudine Haroche, CNRS, Paris

This workshop will cover academic and non-academic job search strategies.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

To register CLICK HERE

This workshop will cover how to develop your personal brand and effectively communicate your value to important stakeholders.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

To register CLICK HERE

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Ray Xin Lee

Title: Nature and source of animal spontaneous behaviors : Insights from psycho behavioral development and neuronal population dynamics in mice

Date&Time: October 3rd, 9:00am

Venue: C700, Lab3

Speaker: Dr. Yutaro Shoji from Nagoya University Abstract: The electroweak vacuum is not absolutely stable in the standard model and various models beyond the standard model. This is due to an appearance of another deeper vacuum, into which the electroweak vacuum can decay. The decay proceeds through quantum tunneling and the rate is expressed with an exponential suppression factor and a pre-factor. The suppression factor has been calculated in many papers, but a naive dimensional analysis has been usually adopted for the pre-factor.

We have pointed out that such an evaluation can suffer from large quantum corrections and it is important to calculate the pre-factor as well.

To calculate the pre-factor, we had problems in a gauge sector; its gauge invariance is not explicitly shown, and there appear zero modes, which we could not deal with.

We have solved these problems and made it possible to determine vacuum decay rates precisely.

As applications, we analyzed the decay rates in the standard model and its fermionic extensions. We also provide a public code, which can be used for models that exhibit classical scale invariance at a high energy scale.

[Seminar]

Title: In vivo imaging of calcium and membrane potential signals in mouse hippocampal neurons

Speaker: Professor Tsai-Wen Chen

Institution: National Yang-Ming University