Past Events
"Machine Ethics – developing a fully autonomous artificial moral agent"
Dr. Jeffrey White
========================== Date: Monday, November 13, 2017 Time:16:00-17:00 Venue: C016, Lab 1 ==========================
【Safety Enhancement Month】Memorial Lecture of Dr. Shohei Suzuki
Memorial Lecture of our colleague, Dr. Shohei Suzuki
Lecturer: Dr. Noriyuki Satoh, Professor, Marine Genomics Unit, OIST.
Title: Coral Reefs: A Paradise of Marine Biologists
Language: English, with simultaneous interpretation.
Manipulating and Measuring Modes in Multimode Fibres
Dr. Joel Carpenter, School of IT & Electrical Engineering (ITEE), The University of Queensland. Language: English
Cutting Edge Developments in RNA Biology for the Control of Gene Expression
OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: June 30, 2017 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/rnabiology
"AI Aesthetics and Art" - AIAEE Symposium 01
Admission Free. For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.
"Collaboration with Artificial Intelligence - Day 2" - AIAEE Concert 04-2
Admission Free. For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.
"Collaboration with Artificial Intelligence - Day 1" - AIAEE Concert 04-1
Admission Free. For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.
"Labour of love: early careers in pursuit of well-being"
This interactive and invigorating seminar will blend theory, practice, reflection and prescription to present concepts of employee well-being as applied to professionals in general and to academics in particular. Everyone is welcome!
一般公開セミナー: 免疫システムに学ぶ — HLAを中心に据えて — *日本語のみ Only in Japanese
セミナー: HLAを中心に据えて、免疫システムに学ぶ
Comsol Seminar 2017
4th Annual Medical Device Innovation Forum
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.
HLA, Immune Response and Disease ― Classical and New Concept ―
Seminar "HLA, ImmSune Response and Disease" by Prof. Takehiko Saszuki
[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Knots: From application to theory" (part 2) by Dr Nick Owad
The Topology and Geometry Seminar aims to introduce current mathematical research topics starting from the very basics. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.
This is the second talk in a series of 3 lectures on "Knots: From application to theory" by Dr Nick Owad (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit).
OIST Mini Symposium "Nanoclusters in Action"
OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.
"Adolescents with ADHD", Prof. Dr. Saskia van der Oord
Intended for all parents and teachers. English with simultaneous interpretation. Register at https://groups.oist.jp/adhd/public-talk
QG group meeting: twistor-space quantization for the dS causal patch
QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: Twistor-space quantization for the dS causal patch
Seminar "Mutation, divergence and novel phenotypes in rodents and reptiles" by Dr. Adam Hargreaves
Speaker: Dr. Adam Hargreaves Department of Zoology, University of Oxford Date : Monday, November 6, 2017 Time : 3:00pm-4:00pm Venue: C210, Center Building
[Seminar] Title: Innate Immune Mechanisms of Synapse Remodeling During Brain Development
Speaker: Dr. Anna Molofsky
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF)
"Dynamics of Electron Bubbles in the Gross-Pitaevskii Model of a Superfluid" Alverto Villois, University of East Anglia
Seminar:Dynamics of Electron Bubbles in the Gross-Pitaevskii Model of a Superfluid
Speaker: Dr. Alberto Villois, Senior Research Associate, University of East Anglia
"Pioneer of the Artificial Intelligence Music" - AIAEE Concert 03
Admission Free. For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.
"Umwelt Music and Machine Learning" - AIAEE Concert 02
Admission Free. For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.
Opening Reception - Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition
For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.
"Machine Aesthetics Music" - AIAEE Concert 01
Admission Free. For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.
New-Method "Tape Cut" - Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition
For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.
Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition
Admission Free. For information about the exhibit, concerts, and symposia, visit the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition (AIAEE) website.
Fall 2017 Lean Startup Entrepreneurial Training Program: Final Presentations
Language: English
Seats Available: 30
Registration Required
"PLANNING YOUR SCIENTIFIC JOURNEY. Bring Your Plan to Life”
"Planning Your Scientific Journey" series is great for anybody who is working on developing an impactful and answerable scientific question and/or designing a research program for current and future positions.
[Seminar] "Digitization of reproducible data analysis workflows", Prof. Sonja Grün
Speaker: Prof. Sonja Grün Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) Institute of Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany Theoretical Systems Neurobiology RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
"Hierarchy of vortices in turbulence at high Reynolds numbers" by Prof.Goto
Speaker: Prof. Susumu Goto (Osaka University)
Title: Hierarchy of vortices in turbulence at high Reynolds numbers
"Sustaining mechanism of turbulence in a precessing sphere" by Yasufumi Horimoto
Speaker: Yasufumi Horimoto, Prof. Susumu Goto (Osaka University)
Title: Sustaining mechanism of turbulence in a precessing sphere
[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Knots: From application to theory" (part 1) by Dr Nick Owad
The Topology and Geometry Seminar aims to introduce current mathematical research topics starting from the very basics. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.
This is the first talk in a series of 3 lectures on "Knots: From application to theory" by Dr Nick Owad (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit).
Mechanisms of modulation of vocal learning
Associate Professor Jon T. Sakata from McGill University, US, Language: English
QG group meeting: Infrared stories in QED, part 2
QG Group Meeting Speaker: Linqing Chen Title: The infrared story in QED, part 2
Workshop "OIST Diamond Workshop 2017"
The workshop is going to be held from October 29 th , Sunday till November 1 st ,
Internal Seminar: Collin Stecker, Fundamental study and atomic-level understanding of energy materials and interfaces
Free pizza and soft drinks will be served following the Internal Seminar: please bring a mug! We hope to see you there!
Internal Seminar: Juanita Choo (Science and Technology Group)
Free pizza and soft drinks will be served following the Internal Seminar: p lease bring a mug!
Understanding each other through Hofstede’s cultural dimensions.
Are you interested in understanding different cultures? Are you curious to learn new tricks that would help you to flourish in a multicultural work environment? If you answered "yes" to any of this question, then "Understanding each other...." workshop is right for you!
NO registration is required! Bringing a laptop or a phone will make the session much more fun!
Fall 2017 Lean Startup Entrepreneurial Training Program: Mid-checkin
Language: English
Seats Available: 30
Registration Required
"PLANNING YOUR SCIENTIFIC JOURNEY. Plan your research ”
"Planning Your Scientific Journey" series is great for anybody who is working on developing an impactful and answerable scientific question and/or designing a research program for current and future positions.
Ronald D. Vale "RNA Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Disease"
Ronald D. Vale, Professor of the Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco, and Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
CANCELLED--Ada Yonath "Next Generation Environmentally Friendly Antibiotics"
Dr Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009, Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute
Creating effective presentation slides
Jean-luc Doumont (Principiæ), Stanford University (PhD), Trees, Maps, and Theorems (book) International OSA Network of Student (IONS) Conference Public Lecture.
Steven Chu "Climate Change, Energy and a Sustainable Future"
Dr. Steven Chu (Stanford University), Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, US Secretary of Energy from 2009–2013. International OSA Network of Student (IONS) Conference Public Lecture.
IONS Okinawa 2017
OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions.
[Topology and Geometry Seminar] Topology and Geometry Movie Hour
The Topology and Geometry Seminar aims to introduce current mathematical research topics starting from the very basics. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.
This week, we will be screening several short videos showcasing various spaces of interest to topology and geometry.
QG group meeting - E11 symmetry in supergravity
QG group meeting Speaker: Han Yan Title: E11 Symmetry in Supergravity
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.2
Fall 2017 Lean Startup Entrepreneurial Training Program: 3-day Opening Session
Language: English
Seats Available: 30
Registration Required
"Rippling rectangular waves for a modified Benney equation"
Prof. Toshiyuki Ogawa, Meiji University. Language: English, no interpretation.