Seminar by Prof. Susumu Yanagisawa "First-principles investigation on the electronic states of the organic single-crystals and the organic-metal interfaces: importance of accurate prediction of the crystal and the interface structures"

Associate Professor Taizo Hanai, Laboratory for Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Systems Life Science, Kyushu University

Ryukyu traditional performing arts by Nomura Ryu.

This is an externally organized event. Please contact the organizers for further information

SCORE! is designed to promote senior high school students’ hands-on science education and interest in entrepreneurship, as well as support the approach for English-Oriented Prefecture Okinawa.

Join us for this years last Internal Seminars Series on December 11, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This seminar features the Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit (Amy Shen) and Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit (Tsumoru Shintake).

Professor Akemi Tomoda, Research Center for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui will be giving a talk on "Adverse sensory input of the abuse modified by early experience". (in English)

Professor Makoto Sato, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, will be giving a talk on "Oxytocin and more: what we have learned from the developmental disorders of the brain". (in English)

2-part seminar by Hitachi

Please join us for tea, coffee,and home baking !

Bring yourself, your colleagues, your families and share some time, talk and listen to others!

Prof. Vladimir Ya. LEE, Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba

A Free on line course starting on the 9th Nov. together with discussion group. Language: English Registration required.

Friday, 10:30-11:30, Speaker: Dr. Yael Levitte, the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Cornell University, Language: English. No interpretation.

The Common English Errors Workshop Dates: Friday, December 4th, 2015 Times: 10:00-12:00 (2h) Venue: Seminar Room B503, Center Bldg. "Registration required. Please go to https://groups.oist.jp/hrtraining/common-english-errors-workshop-december-4th

Hiroshima University x OIST YUI Café Development of the Ocean Current Turbine Please register now. Language: Japanese only

[HEART] Training for RSD Staff, Executive Assistant, RA, RU member (E)

Date: November 30th, Monday Time: 13:30 - 17:00 Venue: Lab3, B717 C700 Seating Capacity: 10 40 Target Audience: Resarch Support Division Staff, Executive Assistant, Research Administrator, Research Unit member Spoken Language: English

Contents: 1. Basic system operations 2. Entry of expense request (travel, honorarium and meeting expens) 3. Entry of purchase request (excluding direct order) 4. Inquiry of purchase request slips 5. Inquiry of budget balance (budget execution status report) 6. Inquiry of budget execution items (slip detail) ※The training contents may be updated.

*The training registration webpage will be open and announced on TIDA shortly. **Training class will be held multiple times on different days...

OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Pre-registration required (includes conference proceedings & access to all sessions): https://groups.oist.jp/cws/iciibms-registration-form-oist-members - For non-OIST members, please register at http://www.iciibms.org/registration.html

Join us for November's second Internal Seminar Series on November 27, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This month's second seminar features the Quantum Systems Unit (Thomas Busch) and the Bioinspired Soft Matter Unit (Ye Zhang).

Do you have questions or suggestions regarding OIST computers, networks, software, or any other IT related matters? Or do you have something that you would to discuss with IT people? Or do you just feel like having a coffee break?

If the answer is "yes" to any of these questions, come join us at Lab3 B706 (Level B between Lab2 and Lab3) at 16:00 on Friday, November 27th.

IT is hosting the 5th IT coffee on this Friday afternoon, and is inviting all members of OIST. This event is aimed to be a place to casually share information and IT issues with OIST members; come and talk directly with the people that run IT at...

Training for Professors (B)

"Dr. Naoki Mochizuki, Deputy Director, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) Research Institute", "Language: English. No interpretation.", "All OIST members are welcome"

Dr. Barry Cox, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

Training for Manager (D)

Exhibition by Brain Science idea, Malvern, Biolabs, Otsuka, Ina Optika, Scrum, M&S Instruments, OptoSigma and Funakoshi

"Dynamics of perceptual decision-making under temporal uncertainty", Dr. Nestor Parga, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. No registration required.

Dr. Barry Cox, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

Training for Professors (B)

Installation and training for elemental analyzer

Tuesday 13:30 - 14:30, Language: Japanese, simultaneous interpretation to English is available, Refreshment will be served after the lecture

[HEART] Training for RSD Staff, Executive Assistant, RA, RU member (E)

Date: November 24th, Tuesday Time: 13:30 - 17:00 Venue: Lab3, C700 Seating Capacity: 40 Target Audience: Resarch Support Division Staff, Executive Assistant, Research Administrator, Research Unit member Spoken Language: Japanese

Contents: 1. Basic system operations 2. Entry of expense request (travel, honorarium and meeting expens) 3. Entry of purchase request (excluding direct order) 4. Inquiry of purchase request slips 5. Inquiry of budget balance (budget execution status report) 6. Inquiry of budget execution items (slip detail) ※The training contents may be updated.

*The training registration webpage will be open and announced on TIDA shortly. **Training class will be held multiple times on different days with same...

National Holiday.

Genus Vigna -the Wild and Sexy- Speaker: Dr. Ken Naito Genetic Resource Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences

Dr. Tsunehide Kuroki from National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College. Language English.

Externally organized event by Okinawa High School Physics Education Association.

[HEART] Training for Travel Team Staff (H)

Date: November 18th, Wednesday Time: 15:00 - 17:00 Venue: Lab3 - B717 Seating Capacity: 10 Target Audience: Travel Team Staff Spoken Language: Japanese

Contents: 1. Basic system operations 2. Approval of expense request (Approval process by travel team) 3. Operations limited to Financial management division (to be updated) ※The training contents may be updated. *Training class will be held multiple times on different days with same contents, so please attend one of the classes during this period.

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日程：2015年11月18日 (水) 時間：15:00 – 17:00 場所：Lab3 - B717 席数：10 対象者：旅費チームスタッフ 使用言語：日本語

内容： 1. システム基本操作 2. 経費申請に対する承認（旅費チーム承認） 3. 財務ディビジョン固有処理（内容更新予定） ※トレーニング内容は変更される場合もございます。ご了承ください。

Dr. Timothy Keitt, Associate Professor, Section of Integrative Biology The University of Texas at Austin

Registration required. Please register by Nov 6th.

Roger T. Hanlon, Ph.D. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence RI, USA

[HEART] Training for Professors (B)

Date: November 17th, Tuesday Time: 10:00 - 10:45 Venue: Lab3, B717 Seating Capacity: 10 Target Audience: Professor (including associate, assistant, adjunct and visiting professor) Spoken Language: English

Contents: 1. Basic system operations 2. General operations with approver interface 3. Inquiry of budget balance (budget execution status report) ※The training contents may be updated.

※This training includes the hands-on activity with the mobile device (iPhone/Android smart phone or tablet device) . So please bring your mobile device to the training class. *Training class will be held multiple times on different days with same contents, so please attend one of the classes during this period.

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日程：2015年11月17日 (火) 時間：10:00 – 10:45 場所：Lab3,...

Registration is required

[HEART] Training for RSD Staff, Executive Assistant, RA, RU member (E)

Date: November 16th, Monday Time: 13:30 - 17:00 Venue: Lab3, C700 Seating Capacity: 40 Target Audience: Resarch Support Division Staff, Executive Assistant, Research Administrator, Research Unit member Spoken Language: Japanese

Contents: 1. Basic system operations 2. Entry of expense request (travel, honorarium and meeting expens) 3. Entry of purchase request (excluding direct order) 4. Inquiry of purchase request slips 5. Inquiry of budget balance (budget execution status report) 6. Inquiry of budget execution items (slip detail) ※The training contents may be updated.

*The training registration webpage will be open and announced on TIDA shortly. **Training class will be held multiple times on different days with same...

Mr Gwilym Roberts, Partner Kilburn & Strode and Honorary Visiting Professor of Queen Mary University of London, will speak about IP Creation and Management in Academic Research.

Prof. Manjunatha Kini, National University of Singapore

Diwali special dinner and performances. Tickets required.

The third event in this year's Diwali celebrations is a friendly match of cricket at 9am at Onna Seaside Civil Park, Nabee Beach.

Join us for November's first Internal Seminar Series on November 13, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This month's first seminar features the Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit (Nicholas M. Luscombe) and the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit (Yabing Qi).

[HEART] Training for President, Vice President, Auditor (A)

Date: November 13th, Friday Time: 15:00 - 15:45 Venue: Lab3, B717 Seating Capacity: 10 Target Audience: President, Vice President, Auditor Spoken Language: English

Contents: 1. Basic system operations 2. General operations with approver interface 3. Inquiry of budget balance (budget execution status report) ※The training contents may be updated.

※This training includes the hands-on activity with the mobile device (iPhone/Android smart phone or tablet device) . So please bring your mobile device to the training class.

*Training class will be held multiple times on different days with same contents, so please attend one of the classes during this period.

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日程：2015年11月13日 (金) 時間：15:00 – 15:45...

As part of this year's Diwali celebrations, there will be Bollywood dancing at this week's Teatime.

[HEART] Training for Budget Section Staff (I)

Date: November 12th, Thursday Time: 13:30 - 15:00 Venue: Lab3, B717 Seating Capacity: 10 Target Audience: Budget Section Staff Spoken Language: Japanese

Contents: 1. Basic system operations 2. Budget registration 3. Inquiry of budget balance (budget execution status report) 4. Inquiry of budget execution items (slip detail) 5. Operations limited to Financial management division (to be updated) ※The training contents may be updated.

*Training class will be held multiple times on different days with same contents, so please attend one of the classes during this period.

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日程：2015年11月12日 (木) 時間：13:30 – 15:00 場所：Lab3, B717 席数：10 対象者：予算セクション職員 使用言語：日本語

内容： 1. システム基本操作 2. 予算登録 3. 予算執行状況照会 4. 予算執行明細照会（予算執行伝票の明細を照会します。） 5. 財務ディビジョン固有処理（内容更新予定） ※トレーニング内容は変更される場合もございます。ご了承ください。

" Chemosensory function of desert toads" Prof. Takatoshi Nagai, Dept. Biology, Keio Univ. School of Medicine