Workshop: "Put your PhD to work: Planning for a successful career in science" - 13:30-15:30 on Friday, October 28 - Ctr Bldg, SR C210 - Instructor: Dr. Philip Clifford, University of Illinois, USA - Registration required on groups.oist.jp/pcda - Registration deadline: Tuesday, October 25

Dr Yannick Saintigny. French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Research Laboratory and Open Facility for Radiation Biology with Accelerated Ions (LARIA). Large Heavy Ion National Accelerator (GANIL).

Workshop: "Fostering scientific careers with individual development plans" - 13:30-14:30 Thursday, October 27 - Lab 3 - Seminar Room C700 - for OIST Faculty (This event is not open to others) - Instructor: Dr. Philip Clifford, University of Illinois, USA - Please read more on www.groups.oist.jp/pcda

Seminar "Origins of Algal Plastids"

Speaker: Professor Hwan Su Yoon

Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Abstract:

Organellogenesis and its associated endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT) are driving forces of eukaryote genome evolution. However, little is known about early events in plastid origin because the primary plastid endosymbiosis in Plantae (red, green, and glaucophyte algae and plants) occurred >1 billion years ago. In this seminar, I will introduce red algal diversity and evolutionary history as a major primary endosymbiosis group, then compare a recent case of another primary endosymbiosis in photosynthetic Paulinella to better understand early stage of algal origin.

Red algae (Rhodophyta) include more than 7,000 species thrive in...

Dr. Sergey Taskaev, Leading Researcher, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. Language: English.

Dr. Alexander Ivanov, Deputy Director, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. Language: English.

"Orientation session for OIST New Postdocs and Staff Scientists"; 11:30-12:30 on Monday, Oct. 24; Lab 3 - Seminar Room C700; Postdoctoral Scholars and Staff Scientists hired between June-October 2016; No registration required. More info on https://groups.oist.jp/pcda

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: Aug 21, 2016 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - website: https://groups.oist.jp/mtpu

Internal Seminar: Angela White, Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantum Systems Unit (Busch Unit)

Internal Seminar: Georgy Filonenko, Postdoctoral Researcher, Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit (Khusnutdinova Unit)

Intro to GPU Programming by Jan Moren (OIST HPC Team)

"Professor Jemal Guven, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, "Language: Engrish. No interpretation."

LabVIEW Seminar by Ryuji Kuwashima (National Instruments Japan Corporation)

Seminar: "Negative resistance and other wonders of viscous electronics in graphene" by Prof. Gregory Falkovich

Allinea Hands-on Session by Florent Lebeau (Allinea Software Ltd.)

Enhance research production using Allinea Performance Reports

Presenter: Florent Lebeau (Allinea Software Ltd.)

Seminar title: "Machine Learning of Motor Skills for Robots: From Simple Skills to Table Tennis and Manipulation"

Speaker: Prof. Jan Peters

Affiliation: Universität Darmstadt Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Abstract

Autonomous robots that can assist humans in situations of daily life have been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences. A first step towards this goal is to create robots that can learn tasks triggered by environmental context or higher level instruction. However, learning techniques have yet to live up to this promise as only few methods manage to scale to high-dimensional manipulator or humanoid robots. In this talk, we investigate a general framework suitable for learning motor...

Sculptor Rinus Roelofs. Language: English. No interpretation.

12:30-14:00 on October 17, 2016; SR C700; Whom: OIST Postdoctoral Scholars and Scientists; Instructor: Laura Sanger, Clinical Psychologist, Ganjuu Wellbeing Service; Registration is required. Please register on PCDA website: https://groups.oist.jp/pcda

Mr. Paul Hildebrandt, Inventor of Zometool, Language: English. Interpreters exists. Registration required: e-mail to naoko.tokumoto[at]oist.jp

The workshop is open to the research community for participation.

Please come, grab some sweets, and talk about your IT problems. Unless we hear about your issues, we won’t be able to solve it. あなたが抱えている、 ITに関する問題を共有しましょう。 問題が起こっている事を教えて頂く事が 解決への第一歩になります。

Time: Noon-13:00, Thursday - Oct 13, 2016; Venue: Lab 3, SR C700; Coordinator: Dr. Cecilia Lu, Group Leader, Van Vactor Unit, OIST; Read more on https://groups.oist.jp/pcda

Professor Itaru HAMACHI Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Graduate School of Engineering Kyoto University, Kyoto and CREST/JST, JAPAN http://www.sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/hamachi-lab/index.php?members%2Fhamachi​

Noon-13:00, Tuesday - Oct 11, 2016; Ctr Bldg, SR C210; Read more on PCDA website: https://groups.oist.jp/pcda

OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (show your OIST ID card at the entrance). For non-OIST members, please register at https://indico.oist.jp/PG16

The event is open to all. Language: Japanese (no interpretation). For more information contact the organizers.

Internal Seminar: Bill Söderström, Postdoctoral Researcher, Structural Cellular Biology Unit (Skoglund Unit)

Event is free of charge. Pre-registration by phone or on website. On-site registration possible. Symposium language is Japanese. Simultaneous interpretation (Japanese <=> English) will be provided.

Workshop: How to prepare an effective résumé for positions in "industry"! - Time/Date: 13:30-15:30 on Thursday, 6 October 2016 - Registration Deadline: 17:00 Wednesday, 5 October 2016 - Location: Lab 3 - Level C - Seminar room C700 - Register on www.groups.oist.jp/pcda

Professor Takeaki Sakurai from Tsukuba University

When: 10:00-12:00 on October 5, 2016; Where: Ctr Bldg, Seminar Room C209; Whom: OIST Postdoctoral Scholars and Scientists are strongly encouraged to attend; Instructors: Dr. Kristen K. Mighty and Dr. Mearah Quinn-Brauner from Northwestern University, USA; Registration deadline: Monday, October 3; To read more info about the event and to register, please go to https://groups.oist.jp/pcda

After receiving his BS and MS in 1987 and 1990, Bing Xu obtained his PhD in 1996. Notably, Xu lab pioneered the integration of enzyme transformation and self-assembly for developing molecular biomaterials, synthesized the first dimeric nanoparticle consisting of quantum dot and nanomagnet for exploring nanoscience inside cells, reported the first case of using dopamine to anchor molecules on iron oxide surface, and demonstrated the first case of using enzymatic transformation and self-assembly to inhibit cancer cells selectively. Being identified on the Thomson Reuters "highly-cited researchers 2014&2015" list, Bing Xu currently is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, and his research focuses on the applications of molecular engineering in materials, biology, and medicine.

Language: English

Registration Required

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

Title: "Microfluidics & Organs on a Chip" by Prof. Shuichi Takayama

Organization: University of Michigan

Talk will bw open to all OIST students and researchers.

Dr. Jean Dalibard, Professor, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

This is a part of the summer school CQD2016

No Reservation Required / Admission Free / Everyone is welcome

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: May 2016 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - website: https://groups.oist.jp/group/okinawa-school-physics-coherent-quantum-dynamics

Speaker: Prof. Martine Collart

Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva

Title: Translational capacity of a cell is determined during transcription elongation via the Ccr4-Not complex

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

Short version of Romeo and Juliet by Pembroke Players, UK.

Language: English (no interpretation). Admission Free Reservations Required

Reserve at http://www.oist.jp/reserve .

"Professor Mao-Pei Tsui, National Taiwan University, "Language: Engrish. No interpretation."