Past Events

Culture

Concert "Influence of reed flutes on the propagation of instruments and music" Yasuhiro Kasamatsu

Saturday, February 3, 2018 - 15:30 to 17:00
Center Bldg Restaurant Floor

Free. Reservation required. Lecture in Japanese with English simultaneous interpretation. This talk will include a live music performance.

Culture

OIST Cultural Lecture "The Transformation that Opera Brought to Western Music" Yasuhiro Kasamatsu

Saturday, February 3, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:30
Seminar Room B250

Free. Reservation required. Lecture in Japanese with English simultaneous interpretation.

Seminar

"On the value of information in gambling, evolution and thermodynamics", Prof. Luca Peliti (SMRI, Italy)

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C210, Center Building

Seminar "On the value of information in gambling, evolution and thermodynamics" by Luca Peliti, Professor, Deputy Director at SMRI, Italy, Friday, Feb2nd at 2-3pm

Campus

A spoonful of scandal with that? Teatime, 16:00

Thursday, February 1, 2018 - 16:00
Restaurant level, Center Building

We're fresh out of love, but there may be scandal and we certainly have sugar. Bring your own cup, please! Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Henry Fielding (1707-1754) "Love in Several Masques"

Workshop

Workshop: "Aligning Expectations with a Research Supervisor"

Thursday, February 1, 2018 - 09:30 to 11:30
C700, Lab3

This workshop will focus on how to clarify and align your expectation with the current supervisor. The skills you will learn at this workshop could be easily transferable to teams and collaborators.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE .

The 16th Board of Councilors Meeting

Thursday, February 1, 2018 - 00:00

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Seminar

"A phase-field approach to structured plastic deformations"

Wednesday, January 31, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
D015, Level D, Lab1

Prof. Gianni Royer-Carfagni, Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Italy. Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] “Trisections of 4-manifolds” by Dr Dale Koenig

Wednesday, January 31, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
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 (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "Trisections of 4-manifolds".

Seminar

Molecular grounds underlying chromosomal instability in cancers

Wednesday, January 31, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room C016 (Lab1, Level C)

Dr. Toru Hirota, Director, Cancer Institute of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research. Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar

"Self-organization and criticality in martensite" Pierluigi Cesana

Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
D015, Lab1

Speaker: Prof. Pierluigi Cesana (Institute of Mathmatics for Industry, Kyushu University)

Workshop

Workshop: "Mastering Difficult Conversations and Resolving Conflict"

Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 09:00 to 12:00
B503, Lab1

This workshop will teach you how to find benefits of a conflict and to resolve a difficult interpersonal situation.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE

Research

QG group meeting: Tales from It From Qbit, part I

Monday, January 29, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:30
A613, Lab 2

QG group meeting Title: Tales from It From Qbit, part I Speaker: Tomonori Ugajin

Seminar

【Seminar】"Enzymatic mechanism of RecA-recombinase in homologous recombination: Role of RecA in homology recognition and the functions of RecA-DNA filaments" by Prof. Takehiko Shibata

Monday, January 29, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
D014, Lab1, Level D

Prof. Takehiko Shibata " Enzymatic mechanism of RecA-recombinase in homologous recombination: Role of RecA in homology recognition and the functions of RecA-DNA filaments."

Workshop

Workshop: "The Power of Mentoring: It’s All About Relationships"

Monday, January 29, 2018 - 09:30 to 11:30
B503, Lab1

"The Power of Mentoring: It’s All About Relationships" workshop is designed to help researchers to become more effective mentors as well as mentees.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE

Ryukyu Traditional Performing Arts - Sounds of The Ryukyus -

Saturday, January 27, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:30
OIST講堂

Ryukyu Traditional Entertainment Association, Admission Free, Reservation Required

Culture

OIST Activities Fair

Friday, January 26, 2018 - 17:30
Conference Center

If you want to find a group to hang out with, feel free to stop by!

Training

Business Plan Training

Friday, January 26, 2018 - 10:00 to Saturday, January 27, 2018 - 16:45
C700
2 Day program designed to increase START-UP Business Knowledge and develop a Convincing Business Plan .
Seminar

[Seminar] Curiosity-based learning in infants and computational models by Dr. Gert Westermann

Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
B700, Level B, Lab3

Speaker: Dr. Westermann

Seminar

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] “Heegaard splittings and an introduction to 3-manifold theory” by Dr Dale Koenig

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab 3, B700

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, Dr Dale Koenig (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "Heegaard splittings and an introduction to 3-manifold theory". (The talk by Prof. Juncheol Pyo was cancelled.)

Industry Relations

Innovation Seminar: Entrepreneurship, Failure, and Resilience by Dr. Yasuhiro Yamakawa

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 13:30 to 15:00
Lab 1 B503

6th Innovation Seminar Series "Entrepreneurship, Failure, and Resilience" Yasuhiro Yamakawa, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Babson College, USA

Seminar

[Seminar] "Kitaev-Model in a [111] Magnetic Field and its Topological Excitations" Dr. Matthias Gohlke

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Lab1 , LevelC - C016

TQM Unit would like to invite you to a seminar by Dr. Matthias Gohlke.

Language: English

Culture

Art Exhibition "Cycle -Energy for Creation- " by Graduate School of Formative Arts, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts at OIST

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 09:00 to Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 17:00
OIST Tunnel Gallery

Admission Free, Reservation Not Required

Introduction to HPC and scientific computing - Session 2

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 13:00 to 15:00
Room C700

Learn to use the Sango and Tombo HPC clusters at OIST with this two-part introduction. You need no previous experience.

Seminar

[Seminar] Evolution of the termite 'worker' phenotype: a reinterpretation of observations & a reconsideration of hypotheses by Dr. Theodore Evans

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room C700, Level C, Lab3

Dr. Theodore Evans, Associate Professor, the University of Western Australia.

Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar

[Seminar TODAY] Atomtronics and cavity QED experiments in Auckland.

Monday, January 22, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C209, Center Building

I will discuss two experiments at the University of Auckland. In the first experiment we consider a two dimensional Bose gas in an "atomtronic" circuit. We will look at the effects of Anderson localization and of quantum turbulence.

In the second experiment we consider an optical nanofiber, which is part of a fiberoptic ring resonator, interacting with atoms in a MOT. We see strong coupling between atoms and photons, and show saturation of the system for 13 photons in the resonator.

Dr. Hooglerland's expertised field

My research is been centered around the interaction and correspondence between light and matter, and the application of its principles to other areas of research. At low temperatures, matter can be made to behave much like light, i.e., best described by waves. In its interaction with such matter, light can behave like it is composed of particles. Laser cooling and trapping forms a key technique in understanding this interplay. I apply these cooling and trapping techniques to experimental research areas of fundamental atomic physics, quantum chaos, quantum information, and atom lasers. From this research emerges a deeper understanding of the quantum world, which determines in turn what happens in the world around us. Spin-offs from this research I am involved with are improved spectroscopic techniques, laser techniques, interferometric high-precision measurements and atomic beam applications.

More up-to-date information can be found on my group website http://qilab.phy.auckland.ac.nz

(Cited from the website of University of Auckland)

Introduction to HPC and scientific computing - Session 1

Monday, January 22, 2018 - 13:00 to 15:00
Room C700

Learn to use the Sango and Tombo HPC clusters at OIST with this two-part introduction. You need no previous experience.

OIST Workshops

International Symposium on Energy Science and Technology

Sunday, January 21, 2018 (All day) to Friday, January 26, 2018 (All day)
OIST Main Campus, Seminar Room B250

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: Oct 1, 2017 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/isest2018

Public Lecture

OISTうちなーんちゅ科学者たちによるサイエンストーク vol.5

Friday, January 19, 2018 - 18:30 to 19:30
ジュンク堂書店那覇店(那覇市牧志1-19-29)D-NAHA 地下1階

On Friday January 19th, the forth talk of the OIST Science Talk Series featuring OIST scientists from Okinawa will be held. The speaker this time is Dr. Hidehito Adaniya from the Shintake Unit. The series will be continued until February 2018, every third Friday night from 18:30-19:30 at Junku-do Book Store in Naha (1-19-29 Makishi, Naha-city). *The talk is in Japanese only.

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Ales Bucek, Reconstructing termite phylogeny for understanding the key dietary transitions in termite evolution

Friday, January 19, 2018 - 16:30
B503

Internal Seminar: Ales Bucek, Reconstructing termite phylogeny for understanding the key dietary transitions in termite evolution

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Dina Mostafa, Functional Analysis of CCR4-NOT Complex in Pancreatic β-cell Function

Friday, January 19, 2018 - 16:00
B503

Internal Seminar: Dina Mostafa, Cell Signal Unit (Tadashi Yamamoto Unit)

Seminar

"A sharp inequality of J. Moser for higher order derivatives"

Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
C016, Level C, Lab1

Prof. Daniel Spector, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taipei. Language: English, no interpretation.

Campus

The bottom is out of the Universe--so have some tea, 16:00

Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 16:00
Central Building Level B - Restaurant Area

Had a terrible week (and it's not even over yet)? Is your New Year off to a lousy start? Worry not, friends, we've got you covered. Tea and biscuits will be served at 16:00, restaurant level of Center Building. You will still have problems, but hey, at least you can also have tea.

We had a kettle; we let it leak:

Our not repairing made it worse.

We haven't had any tea for a week...

The bottom is out of the Universe.

-- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) "Natural Theology"

Seminar

[Seminar] "Quantum Spin Liquids Coupled to Other Degrees of Freedom" Mr. Masahiko G. Yamada

Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 14:30 to 15:30
Lab1 , LevelC - C016

Theory of Quantum Matter Unit is pleased to invite you to a seminar on "Towards indicator based, cost effective and policy".

OIST Workshops

OIST Mini-symposium "Dynamics of Viscoelastic and Inertioelastic Flows"

Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 09:00
C210 (Jan 18 morining only), C209 (Jan 18 afternoon to the end)

Language: English

Workshop

OIST Mini Symposium "Dynamics of Viscoelastic and Inertioelastic Flows"

Thursday, January 18, 2018 (All day) to Saturday, January 20, 2018 (All day)
OIST Main Campus, Seminar Room C209 (only morning of Jan 18@C210)

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

Seminar

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] “Conformally flat hypersurfaces and Guichard nets” by Dr Gudrun Szewieczek

Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab 3, B700

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, Dr Gudrun Szewieczek (Technische Universität Wien/Kobe University) will give a talk on “Conformally flat hypersurfaces and Guichard nets”. Dr Szewieczek is co-hosted by the Fried and Tsvietkova Units.

Seminar

Seminar by Dr Petrov 'Light-matter interaction and optical forces mediated by surface guiding waves: the effects of spin-locking'

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 16:30 to 17:30
C700, Level C, Lab 3

Dr Mihail Petrov

Saint-Petersburg University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics, Russia

Seminar

Web of Science Intermediate (In English)

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 14:15 to 15:15
B503 in Center Bldg.
Intermediate How and when to use the analysis functions literature management using Endnote Online
Seminar

Web of Science 中級 (In Japanese)

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:00
B503 in Center Bldg.
中級 分析機能を使いこなす 文献を管理する
Seminar

Web of Science Beginner (in English)

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 10:45 to 11:45
B503 in Center Bldg.
Beginner

Finding "the must read article" by searching the citation indexed database: Web of Science.

Seminar

Web of Science 初級 (In Japanese)

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 09:30 to 10:30
B503
初級

「読むべき論文」の簡単な見つけ- 引索引データベースだからできること

Seminar

OIST Forum 2018 "Think Globally. Contribute Locally. - Science that Matters -"

Saturday, January 13, 2018 - 13:30 to 17:30
Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo

Reservation required | Language: English and Japanese | Simultaneous Interpretation provided

External Events

The Harvard Medical School Introduction to Clinical Research Training Program-Japan

Saturday, January 13, 2018 - 08:00 to Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 16:30
OIST Seminar Room B250

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

Research

Seminar "Breaking the Classical Optical Limit: From Micro- to Nano-spectroscopy and its temporal control" by Dr. Norihiko Hayazawa

Friday, January 12, 2018 - 10:00 to 12:00
C015, Lab1

Language Available in English only Hosted by Okada (Quantum Materials Science) Unit 言語 英語のみ(セミナー後の日本語での質問などは可能です) 主催 岡田(量子物質科学)ユニット
Seminar

Seminar by Dr. Nathan Lo

Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
C700, Level C, Lab 3

Dr. Nathan Lo, Associate Professor , School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, will give a short talk on his research.

Seminar

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] “A hands on introduction to Morse theory and handle decompositions” by Dr Dale Koenig

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab3, B700

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, Dr Dale Koenig (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "A hands on introduction to Morse theory and handle decompositions".

Seminar

“Advocacy as a viable career for PhDs”

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:00
C210, Central Building

Join "Career Spotlight" seminar with Dr. Garry McDowell to learn about a rewarding career in Advocacy and Science Policy. Every one is welcome!

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE

Workshop

Workshop: “Paving the road to independence”

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:30
C210, Central Building

Recent changes in the international academic research workforce led to re-definition of postdoctoral research independence. Dr. McDowell will provide up-to-date information on the international scientific environment as well as introduce various platforms that can help to foster independent thinking , freedom to define the problem of interest and develop the best approaches to address that problem .

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE

Seminar

Ecology & Evolution seminar series: #1 Seminar by Prof. Tom Bourguignon

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:00
C700, Lab3

Seminar "Evolution of cockroaches and their endosymbionts, Blattabacterium " by Prof. Bourguignon (Ecology & Evolution seminar series), Jan 10th, 10am @ C700, Lab3

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