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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."

"Professor Chun-Chi Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, "Language: Engrish. No interpretation."

Language: English

Reservation Required

Workshop: How to prepare an effective CV for "Postdoctoral" positions! - Time/Date: 13:30-15:30 on Thursday, 15 September 2016 - Registration Deadline: 17:00 Tuesday, 13 September 2016 - Location: Lab 3 - Level C - Seminar room C700 - Register on www.groups.oist.jp/pcda

Dr David G. Hitlin, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology. Part 2 of 2. The first seminar is the previous day, September 13, from 11:00 in C209.

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

Dr David G. Hitlin, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology. Part 1 of 2. The second seminar is the following day, September 14, from 11:00 in C209.

Speaker: Dr. Wolfgang Fritzsche

Nano Biophotonics Department, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT)

Title: Bioanalytics using single plasmonic nanostructures

Host: Mukhles Sowwan (Nanoparticles by Design Unit)

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

Registration Required. Admission Free. Classic Solo Guitar Recital.

Language: English

Registration Required!

Date: Friday, September 9, 2016

Venue: C016, Lab1, Level-C

Time: 11am - noon [a talk of 45 minutes and Q&A session]

Speaker: Dr Robert Guetig

Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine. Theoretical Neuroscience

http://www.em.mpg.de/index.php?id=282&L=1

The library is hosting EndNote Seminar on September 9th. We will invite an expert of EndNote from its providing company. There are two sessions: Basic and Intermediate. Please register from the library webpage.

Workshop: How to prepare an effective CV for "Faculty" positions! - Time/Date: 13:30-15:30 on Thursday, 8 September 2016 - Registration Deadline: 17:00 Tuesday, 6 September 2016 - Location: Lab 3 - Level C - Seminar room C700 - Register on www.groups.oist.jp/pcda

"Dr. Eckart Meiburg, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara", "Language: Engrish. No interpretation."

Language: Japanese only. Purpose of this training: Learn convenient functions and utilization methods.

Dr. Richard J. Roberts

1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Chief Scientific Officer, New England BioLabs Inc.

Language: English