The weekly Topology and Geometry Seminar, with Prof. Anastasiia Tsvietkova.

Titile: Improving Reinforcement Learning with Human Input

Speaker: Professor Matthew E. Taylor

Institution: University of Michigan

Date & Time: 30th May, 14:00-15:00

Title: Imagination Machines

Speaker: Professor Sridhar Mahadevan

Institution: Stanford University & University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Date & Time: 30th May, 13:00-14:00

EndNote Hands-on Session

See demos, ask questions one-on-one, and get hands-on time with technology from MATLAB

Seminar

Title: Serotonin in the regulation of adaptive behavior

Speaker: Professor Zachary F. Mainen

Affiliation: Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Speaker: Dr. Marios Christodoulou, South University of Science and Technology Date : Tuesday, May 29, 2018 Time : 3:00pm-4:00pm

COMSOL Hands-on Session

LabVIEW Hands-on Session

LabVIEW Hands-on Session

PhD Thesis Presentaion

Speaker: Chris Reinke

Titile: The Gamma-Ensemble. Adaptive Reinforcement Learning via Modular Discounting

QG group meeting Speaker: Daisuke Takahashi Title: Cosmological constant and scale invariance

Introduction to HPC by Jan Moren (OIST HPC Team)

Seminar by Dr. Daisuke Saigusa, Senior Assistant Professor, Tohoku University

Language: English

See demos, ask questions one-on-one, and get hands-on time with technology from Mathematica.

See demos, ask questions one-on-one, and get hands-on time with technology from IPA.

SKYWALK3 (Only level B) will be closed.

Please use other SKYWALKS（SKYWALK1 / SKYWALK2 / SKYWALK3 level C is accessible）

Iranian Chicken Tah-Chin

OIST Workshop - Preliminary Application Deadline: Dec 20, 2017 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/manifolds/workshop

Prof Joel Hass (University of California, Davis) is presenting a public lecture on "Comparing shapes of genus zero". This talk is aimed at a general scientific audience. All are welcome to attend.

Abstract: Almost everything we encounter in our 3-dimensional world is a surface - the outside of a solid object. Moreover there is an explosive increase in the availability of digitized representations of surfaces in 3D. Comparing the shapes of surfaces is, not surprisingly, a fundamental problem in both theoretical and applied mathematics. Facial recognition, drug design and much of radiology, for example, are concerned with comparing and aligning surfaces. Deep mathematical results are now being used to study objects such as bones, brain cortices, proteins and biomolecules by studying their surface geometry. This talk will discuss recent joint work with Patrice Koehl that introduces a new way to align and compare surfaces, and how well it performs relative to other methods and to human experts.

Professor Berthold-Georg Englert, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore

Abstruct Since von Weizsäcker's first attempt in 1935 at improving on the Thomas-Fermi approximation for many-fermion systems, there has been much effort in studying systematic gradient expansions. I'll discuss an alternative approach that exploits approximate factorizations of the unitary evolution operator. Rather than differentiating the effective potential energy at the reference position, as one does in the gradient-expansion method, one now integrates over a vicinity of the reference point. As a bonus of theses investigations, one also obtains highly accurate algorithms for dealing with Hamilton's equations of motion in classical phase space and the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics.

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the seminar! Quantum Systems Unit

Dr. Cristina I. Ureche Senior Manager, Key Accounts Europe & Asia SIRION Biotech GmbH

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

Alternating knots are some of the simplest knots to describe, and they occur frequently in low crossing knot tables. Most alternating knots have a complement that admits a hyperbolic metric: a metric with constant curvature -1. However, it is difficult to relate the hyperbolic geometry of these knots to their diagrams, and there are several open conjectures on possible relationships. In this talk, Jessica Purcell (Professor at Monash University, Melbourne) will address one such conjecture, concerning cusp volume.

Ecology & Evolution Seminar 5: "Reductive genome evolution in the obligate intracellular symbiont of cockroaches, Blattabacterium cuenoti." by Yukihiro Kinjo (Bourguignon Unit, OIST)

Dr. Hiromitsu Urakami, Editorial Developmental Manager & RSC Japan Manager, Royal Society of Chemistry. Royal Society of Japan K.K.

[Seminar]

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Sutherland

Title: Plumes in Stratified Fluids

Institution: University of Alberta

Seminar Venue: C700, Lab3

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

Associated to a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold is a cusp shape, which is a point in the Teichmuller space of the torus. It is natural to ask which points in Teichmuller space arise. This is the second talk on this topic by Jessica Purcell (Professor at Monash University, Melbourne).

Seminar Title: No Qualms About Quantum Theory

Speaker: Professor Berthold-Georg Englert

Organisation: Institution Centre for Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics National University of Singapore

Date/Time: 22nd May, 15:00-16:00 @C700, Lab3

This workshop will enhance your knowledge of best practices in evidence-based teaching and pedagogy and will help you to understand how to use "active learning" apporoach to promote student learning.

This is a 2 part workshop with 3 modules delivered on Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

Associated to a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold is a cusp shape, which is a point in the Teichmuller space of the torus. It is natural to ask which points in Teichmuller space arise. Jessica Purcell (Professor at Monash University, Melbourne) will introduce cusp shapes and tunnel number, and give background behind the questions asked and several examples.

[PhD Thesis Presentation]

Speaker: Dongrong Zhang

Thesis Title: Spectral theory of turbulent flows

Venue: Seminar Room B503, Center Building

Prof. Sarah C Woolley from Department of Biology, McGill University, Canada

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Internal Seminar: Vladimir Dinets, Science and Technology Group

Friday, May 18th, C700, 4:30pm

Internal Seminar: Mathias Mikkelsen, PhD Student, Quantum Systems Unit

Friday, May 18th, C700, 4pm

Speaker: Prof. Sharon Gobes from Dept of Neuroscience Wellesley College, USA

This session discusses various career paths open after a period as a postdoc , including Universities, Laboratories and the “Big Wide World”.

Speaker: Ms. Eva Kolařova, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Speaker: Prof. Vladimír Remeš from Palacký University, Czech Republic

"Structural analysis of biological macromolecules using 3D cryo-electron microscopy"

by Jaekyung Hyun (PhD), Nano-Bio Electron Microscopy Research Group

Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)

This one-day workshop aims to give attendees the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding in Japan. After the workshop, attendees will be able to identify relevant research questions, find the appropriate grants, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research.

Speaker: Antony Speranza, University of Maryland Date : Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Time : 3:00pm-4:00pm

Seminar by Paul Dumas (Research Director CNRS and Emeritat at Synchrotron Soleil)

Speaker: Dr. Amanda Hund, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Speaker: Prof. Elizabeth Scordato, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA

Dr. Yutaka Fujii, University of Fukui

Language: English

Dr. Akira Fukuda, Hyogo College of Medicine,

Language: English

Go to http://www.brain-ai.jp/ for more information.