Special OIST Teatime! Professor Svante Pääbo will attend. Please bring your own mug. Registration requested: https://groups.oist.jp/cpr/teatime-registration

Marine Genomics Seminar Sereies 39

Title: Interaction between host Chondrus ocellatus and two endophytes

Speaker: Dr. Han-Gil Choi, Wonkwang University, Republic of Korea

Prof. Ugur Abdulla Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit

Professor Ugur Abdulla received Ph.D. in Mathematics from Soviet Union Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical & Mathematical Sciences degree from High Attestation Comission of the Azerbaijan Republic, Habilitation Doctor degree in Mathematics from Saxon Ministry of Art and Sciences in Germany. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Nottingham in England, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Paderborn, Bremen and Bonn in Germany, and Max-Planck Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in Natural Sciences in Leipzig , Germany. Prior joining OIST, he was a Professor of Mathematics at the Florida Institute of Technology, United States in 2004-2022. Professor Abdulla is an expert on Partial Differential Equations, Potential Theory, Calculus of Variations & Optimal Control, and Mathematical Biosciences with 62 scholarly publications. He solved an outstanding open problem posed by Kolmogorov in 1928, and proved the Wiener-type criterion at infinity for the second-order elliptic and parabolic PDEs.

Speaker: Prof. Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich, Department of Physics, Institute for Quantum Electronics, Optical Nanomaterial Group

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Speakers:

Goro Akagi (Tohoku University) Jiwoong Jang (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Tianling Jin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Inwon Kim (University of California, Los Angeles) Shuhei Kitano (Waseda University) Olivier Ley (IRMAR, INSA-Rennes) Adam Oberman (McGill University) Norbert Pozar (Kanazawa University) Julio Rossi (University of Buenos Aires) Hung Tran (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Shuntaro Tsubouchi (University of Tokyo) Yifeng Yu (University of California, Irvine) Erbol Zhanpeisov (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Organizers: Qing Liu (OIST), Hiroyoshi Mitake (University of Tokyo), Xiaodan Zhou (OIST)

Visit the conference website for more details.

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Optical sensors can play a role in many technologies ranging from biosensing through to magnetic field sensing. This talk will give some overview on how one can use whispering gallery optical resonators for sensing.

Speaker: Professor Alan Jeffrey Giacomin, Queen’s University, CANADA

Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology

OIST Workshop | Program | Visit the workshop's website for more details. | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (working meals are closed sessions).

National holiday

Cosmos episode 7: The Backbone of Night

The Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts and OIST will hold another exhibition at the OIST Tunnel Gallery this year! This event is a voting contest, and you can vote for your favorite works during the exhibition! We hope you will join us!

Date ：January 6th - January 20th

Venue : OIST Tunnel Gallery

The imaging of individual atoms in a atomic cloud or gas is a challenging task. In this talk we will discuss how to experimentally achieve this using techniques from quantum optics and in particular using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Dr. Min Ru, Professor of Department of Mathmatics, University of Houston

Zoom URL:

https://oist.zoom.us/j/95676276965?pwd=QTN2QjBVRWwwL01Dbm1ndFBQa2FTQT09

National holiday

Registration for Microscopy Training Course at OIST is now open until Wednesday, December 28, 2022.

The 7th ABis Advanced Light Microscopy Course at OIST will run from January 23 - January 24, 2023.

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

"Differential glial control of parallel memory formation" by Prof. Ko Matsui,

Super-network Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Would you like to know more about our fully funded PhD program and Research Internship as well as opportunities to experience the atmosphere at OIST? Staff and Alumni from OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) will come to Tokyo to answer all your questions about the PhD & Research Internship admission process, support for students as well as student life at OIST.

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Onna closer through a shared love of food. Each session will be focused on one dish, taught by someone with a personal connection to the recipe (perhaps you?).

Neural Computation Unit will hold a retreat/reunion at OIST seaside house. If you are interested in joining, pleaese contact ncus@oist.jp

There's a limit to how much you can grow your hair out in a week, but we're going to ask you to try.

Speaker: Prof. Bernd Kawohl (University of Cologne)

Title: On Reuleaux and Cohn-Vossen, or buttons and balls that cannot run away

Speaker: Marios Sergides, Ph. D Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Title: Optical manipulation applications from soft matter to biomechanics

Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Speaker: Prof. Shimon Edelman Department of Psychology Cornell University

Title: Conscience, Conditional Cooperation, and the Prospects of Surviving Capitalism

Learn the skills neccessary to enter the water safely, through ocean risk assessment and management.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Slava Lysov. Title: Tropical Mirror: Correlation Functions.

Speaker: Prof. Shimon Edelman Department of Psychology Cornell University

Title: Autodiagnosis and the Dynamical Emergence Theory of Basic Consciousness

Prof. Joe Yuichiro Wakano: Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences (IMS), Meiji University, Japan

Prof. Kalle Parvinen: University Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland

Vegan and plant-based cuisine have been attracting attention for their potential both as a developing market and as a sustainable choice. Haruko Kawano of VegeProject Japan will tell us about global trends, the context of this rising demand, and how to incorporate veganism into our diets.

14:00-15:00 Presentation followed by Q&A at B250 15:00-15:30 Food tasting at foyer and wood deck next to B250

AIEN and Yun-Taku will also sell vegan snacks and sweets after the talk

Dr Xiaozi Liu: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Marine Research, Norway

Friday, December 9th *4:00-5:30 PM*

Please join us for tea, coffee, and home baking! Bring yourself, your colleagues, your families and share some time, talk and listen to others. Come and see our new location! All are welcome :)

*Our location is now at the Former President's House by faculty housing and Lab 5.

Prof. Mikko Heino: Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, and also affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Dr Anna Shchiptsova: Researcher in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-Natural Systems Research Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Title:

Programming electronic and spin states in 2D supramolecular architectures by modifications on the single atomic or molecular level

Dr. Jaideep Joshi: Researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Guest Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Prof. Karol Opara: Assistant professor at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Creation of an isolated turbulent blob fed by vortex rings, Mr. Takumi Matsuzawa, The University of Chicago. Language: English.

Prof. Raul Primicerio: Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway