Prof. Yosef Yarom, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Israel. Language: English

Dr. Keisuke Kataoka, Chief of Division of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Center Research Institute. Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar: “Global change and the stability of ecosystems” by Prof. Ian Donohue, Trinity College Dublin

Discover your Strengths using Gallup StrengthFinder Assessment.

This course will help you better understand yourself and your unique talent s. You will learn how to productively apply your talents for greater personal and professional success.

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Dr. Maya Kiskinova from Elettra Laboratory

Dr. Yutaka Yoshida, Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (OH, USA)

This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

Speaker: Priscila Romagnoli, Ph.D. Seminar Title: Graphene on Transparent Dielectric Substrates for Photonics Applications Language: English

Speaker: Dr. Satoshi Okano, Nihon University Date : Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: Spinor-helicity variables for the de Sitter causal patch

Seminar: Discrete-time quantum machines with neutral atoms in optical lattices Speaker: Dr. Andrea Alberti, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bonn

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the seminar.

Quantum Systems Unit (Busch U)

"Action Prediction and Object Bootstrapping: A Neurocognitive View onto a Robotics Problem"by Prof. Dr. Florentin Wörgötter, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

During the seminar, Dr. Steve Aird, OIST's Technical Editor, will explain techniques for writing scientific manuscripts. The talk focuses on principles and procedures that enable authors to turn research data into a well-composed scientific narrative.

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The ball will be held after the graduation ceremony on Feb 24th starting at 8pm, and will commemorate our first graduates.

Attendance is by invitation only. For details, please see the OIST Graduation Ceremony 2017 website.

Classical Music, Admission Free, Reservation Required

"Individual differences in nonlinear neural dynamics and human behavior" by Dr. Keiichi Kitajo, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center

The OIST Researcher Community (ORC) would like to invite all researchers at OIST at our Q&A session with Dr Mark Daly , Nature Publishing Group Associate Editor and OIST's very first graduate.

Title: Rapid evolution of a costly form of parasite resistance in threespine stickleback

by Dr. Daniel I. Bolnick , Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Time flies. So does Wiley eBooks trial.

The library arranged the 6 months paid trial for Wiley online books containing more than 18,000 monographs, handbooks, dictionaries, companion and landmark book series except Online Reference Works and it is ending on Feb. 28th.

Your benefits:

You can download a PDF file per chapter at no cost. Usage reports will be used to determine which titles should be retained perpetual access rights after the trial ends.

Enjoy the trial while it's on by accessing from here: Wiley Online Books

Your Library,

Contact: library@oist.jp

Speaker : Prof. Guido Boffetta from Department of Physics, University of Torino

Seminar by Dr. Shotaro Shiba (Post-doctoral Fellow, KEK)

Speaker: Dr. Stefano Musacchio, Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

Titile: Split energy cascade in turbulent thin fluid layers

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 Linling Ru (visiting researcher in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "Plykin attractor on the plane".

Seminar "Evolution of complex asexual reproductive strategies in jellyfish" by Simone Pigolotti

Prof. A. Jeffrey Giacomin, Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Canada. Language: English, no interpretation.

TQM is pleased to invite you to our seminar!

Speaker : Dr. Owen Benton from RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science

Join a lively discussion panel about scientific peer-reviews and editorial process for publication . The panel consists of a former Senior Editor and 3 Reviewers / OIST Faculty members.

Everyone is welcome! No registration is required!

Speaker: Aidan Chatwin-Davies, California Institute of Technology Date : Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Time : 3:30pm-4:30pm

Fluid Mechanics Unit is pleased to invite you to a seminar on "Bifurcations in rotating plane Couette flow at moderate Reynolds numbers". Speaker: Prof. Masato Nagata, Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China

Dr. Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov, University of Bremen (Bremen, Germany)

This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

QG group meeting Speaker: Aidan Chatwin-Davies (Caltech) Title: Decoherence and the Black Hole Information Puzzle

Speaker:

Junichiro Kono

Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

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

On Friday, February 16th, the sixth talk of the OIST Science Talk Series featuring OIST scientists from Okinawa will take place. The speaker this time is Dr. Naoyuki Taira from the Ishikawa Unit. The talk is the last one of the series which started in September 2017. The talk series was very popular and well received by the public, so we will have an extra event in March in which five of the six speakers will get together and respond to questions come from the public. The two remaining events will start from 18:30-19:30 at Junku-do Book Store in Naha (1-19-29 Makishi, Naha-city). *The talk is in Japanese only.

Internal Seminar: Dale Koenig, Postdoctoral Researcher, Topology and Geometry of Manifolds Unit (Anastasiia Tsvietkova)

Internal Seminar: Sandrine Burriel, PhD Student, Cell Signal Unit (Tadashi Yamamoto Unit)

Seminar "Fast charging state detection and coherent transport of an artificial molecule" by Mr. Shota Norimoto, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University

Language: English

How Time Makes Mind: An Expanded Bergsonian Framework for Consciousness Research by Prof. Yasushi Hirai, Fukuoka University

Fluid Mechanics Unit is pleased to invite you to a seminar on "Subcritical transition in plane Poiseuille flow". Speaker: Prof. Masato Nagata, Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China

Dr. Reim Johannes from Tohoku University will give a talk on "Stabilizing the skyrmion phase in Cu2OSeO3:The influence of field, temperature and time"

Language: English

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 Linling Ru (visiting researcher in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "An introduction to uniformly hyperbolic attractors".

Dr. Jun-ichiro Inoue, Professor, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo. Language: English, no interpretation.

This is Part 2 of "Your Scientific Skills" workshop series.

Once you identify your skills and learn how to communicate them in a job application, it is important to develop a strategy and come up with several achievable goals. This workshop is designed to help you to make your job search more structured and less stressful process.

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This is Part 1 of "Your Scientific Skills" workshop series.

How does your science PhD training translate into skills that are valued by an employer beyond academia? Come to the Part 1 of the "Your Scientific Skills" workshop series to find out the ways to communicated these skills to your future employer.

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Selection workshop for students seeking admission to the OIST PhD program in 2018

National holiday.

Have a nice time with locals at Onna-son Industrial Festival Karaoke Performance Show!

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

Dr. Yukinobu Arata

Research Scientist, Cellular Informatics laboratory, Riken