During this workshop participants will learn the foundation of project management and how to develop project management tools based on their personal strengths.

Anika Haller (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany)

Georg Michelitsch, Technische Universität München, Germany

Mr. Katawoura Beltako, Nanodevice Quantum Simulation (NQS Group) Aix-Marseille University, France

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: Introduction to the geometry of null hypersurfaces

Welcome Ceremony for Class of 2018 New Students

Poha

Speaker: Dr. Vincnezo Vitagliano from Keio University Abstract: External conditions have a dramatic impact on the way dynamical symmetry breaking occurs. I will review some recent (and some less recent) results of symmetry breaking in curved spacetime. Flirting with the contemporary interest toward 2D engineered material, I will then move on potential applications on geometrically deformed lattices. In a curved background, the natural expectation is that curvature works toward the restoration of an internal symmetry. I will show instead that, for topological defects, the competing action of the locally induced curvature and of boundary conditions generated by the non-trivial topology allows configurations where symmetries can be spontaneously broken close to the core.

"Many-body quantum spectroscopies in extremes" by Prof. Mack Kira, University of Michigan

Exhibition: 8/27 - 9/22;

Special Events on 9/22 (Sat): 1. Symposium (Japanese only) 2. Spcial Tour to the Electron Microscope Room, 3. Bashofu Thread Making Workshop

TROPICALITY workshop final film screenings and drawing presentation. From 10am to 1pm. The event is free and open to everyone.

Talk by Dr. Manajit Hayer-Hartl (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany) “Chaperone machineries for the biogenesis and metabolic repair of RuBisCO, the most abundant enzyme in nature” Venue: C209

Hosted by TQM unit.

Dr. Franz-Ulrich Hartl (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany) Title: “Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Proteome Maintenance” Venue: C209

Dr. Yijuang Chern, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Director of Department of International Affairs; Dr. Chau-Hwang Lee, Research Fellow, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Deputy Executive Secretary of Central Academic Advisory Committee

[Seminar]

Title: Two quantum phase transitions in nano-confined helium

Speaker: Professor Keiya Shirahama

Institution: Department of Physics, Keio University

[Seminer]

Title : Plasmons in Metallic Nanostructures: Excitation, Propagation and Detection

Speaker : Prof. Paul Leiderer

Institution : University of Konstanz, Germany

Prof. Masaya Sawamura, Professor, Hokkaido University. Language: English

Neural Computation Unit (Doya Unit)

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Jui-Yin Lin

Title: Transport properties of strongly correlated 2D electrons confined in microchannels

Date&Time: August 21st, 9:00am

Venue: C210, Center Building

Sarah McAnulty is a PhD candidate at UConn and is something of a SciComm powerhouse. She founded the successful Skype a Scientist program, which connects classrooms and researchers all over the world, she regularly gives general audience science talks and hosts science trivia nights, and she does an amazing job communicating her science through social media (she has 8,679 twitter followers). Sarah will come to OIST and give a talk or workshop about SciComm.

Stable homotopy and differential topology

Thursday Tea time- a sign that the weekend is just around the corner. Pop-in at Grano at 4.00pm today to meet and greet friends over cupfuls of hot tea.

OIST Workshop - OIST members are welcome to attend the data analysis presentation sessions held on August 23, 13:00-15:30 at L3-C700. Other sessions are exclusively for participants - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/grad/collaborative-experimental-design-and-analytics-ceda-2018

[Seminar]

Title: Comparative Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Analyses of Retinal Müller Glia during Different Damage Paradigms in Zebrafish, Chick, and Mouse

Speaker: Professor David R. Hyde

Institution: University of Notre Dame

Seminar Venue: B503, Center Building

Gravity on large scales is relatively well understood. For galaxies, planets and apples: we have Einstein’s General Relativity with which to make accurate predictions. But on small scales, where quantum mechanics becomes important, gravity is more difficult to understand, and as a result we lack precise descriptions of various natural phenomena (such as black holes).

One way to make progress in in our search for quantum gravity is to start from the large scale theory we know and love (at the ‘bottom’), and look for ways in which it may be modified and improved as we zoom in to smaller scales (going ‘up’ to a more fundamental theory).

Recent progress in ‘Effective Field Theory’ may shed some light on the connections between large and small scale physics. By exploiting certain physical properties of scattering probabilities (e.g. that they are unitary, causal and local), one can derive an infinite number of constraints which any large scale theory must satisfy in order to admit a sensible small scale completion.

In this talk, I will provide an overview of these new ‘positivity constraints’, and discuss their implications for quantum gravity.

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "The complex action of GR and black hole entropy"

Inetern as Media Section and Community Relations Section for 3 weeks.

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

National holiday.

All OIST students are welcome to attend this event.

Origami, the exquisite craft of folding paper into three-dimensional shapes, has been practiced for millennia by artists and lay people. Prof. Mahadevan will discuss some physical aspects of rigid and soft origami associated with the weak and strong deformations of thin sheets of any material. The efficient packing properties of folded matter suggest that it ought to occur naturally in physical and biological systems, and he will show that they do indeed appear on a range of scales, e.g. in drying gels, wings, leaves and even your gut as a self-organized pattern. These physical manifestations of origami suggest the question of how to design the number, location and orientation of folds to create complex shapes. Prof. Mahadevan will finish his talk with a description of attempts to solve this inverse problem, and its generalizations.

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Solving Word Problems in finitely presented groups" by Robert Tang

Dr. Sebastian Reinig, Postdoc, National Institute of Genetics. Language: English

"Ultra-strong light-matter interactions and super-radiant phase transitions" by Prof Motoaki Bamba, Osaka Univ

プロポーザルの基本とは、相手を適切に想定し、相手の聞きたいポイントを聞きたい順に提示していくことです。

本勉強会では、個々の持っている研究テーマについて、深く広く考え、その学術的な価値を再認識していただく事から始め、

伝えるべきポイント、伝え方についても学んでいただきます。

Speaker Dr. Tomoaki Matsuura, Associate Professor at Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University.

"Dr. Shugo Suwazono, Chief of the Division of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Okinawa Hospital. Language: English, no interpretation."

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

QG group meeting Speaker: Henry Stoltenberg Title: Tales from PiTP 2018: Holography and Quantum Error Correction

"Broadband plasmonics in the optical and THz range" by Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta, DCMP&MS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

10:00-18:00 Saturday, August 4th 2018 Elementary School students and Junior High School students Admission Free

Internal Seminar, Friday August 3rd, C700, 4-5pm

Internal Seminar, Friday August 3rd, 2018, 4pm

Topology and Geometry unit seminar

Dr. Jafar Sharif, RIKEN IMS, Yokohama Japan

Mr. Asem Elarabi, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University

Language: English

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} Professor Satoru Kidoaki, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University

Laboratory of Biomedical and Biophysical Chemistry, IMCE, Kyushu University

This talk will take as a starting point the Skyrmions as baryons in large- N QCD. It is further assumed that at high density, the sextic term in derivatives becomes dominant at some large density. This assumption is based on the observation that the term behaves like a perfect fluid, which is welcome for nuclear matter at large density – an environment suitable for the studies of neutron stars. With very large masses and compact radii, neutron stars become the closes known stable objects to the critical line of gravitational collapse. With some phenomenological motivation in mind, we consider the possibilities of finding exact analytic solutions to a system which is approximated by the sextic derivative term and a potential; this system is called the BPS-Skyrme model. We find a condition for when the gravitating soliton equations can be solved exactly and deduce the phenomenological implications. We furthermore find that this system has the peculiarity of not having stable black holes, meaning that the soliton cannot become scalar hair of a black hole. This is somewhat surprising, because the Skyrme soliton with a fourth-order derivative term can become stable black hole hair. We write down a class of models with higher-order derivative terms and find 2 new models that can sustain stable hair and 2 new that cannot.

Finally, we consider the problem of the classical binding energies of the Skyrmions, which are far too large compared to nuclei and explain a solution to this problem based on holography. Interestingly the solution from holography relates the baryon to the instanton of a 5-dimensional theory and the moduli of the instanton become massive modes in the Skyrmion. These modes in addition to the zero modes of the Skyrmion are expected to describe the spectra of nuclei.