"The Dance of the Blue Planet" talk by Dr. Susan K. Avery, President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI

Speaker: Dr Andreas Schell, Kyoto University

Prof. Frederik J. Beekman heads the section Radiation, Detection & Medical Imaging at TU Delft University. He co-authored 130 journal papers and is the inventor on 31 patents.

Dr. Hiroyuki Hama, SLiT-J Office, Electron Photon Research Center, Tohoku University

Seminar "Evolution of cancer stem cells and therapeutic targets in acute myeloid leukemia."　Issay Kitabayashi, March 30.

Seminar by Prof. Fernando Ponta, "Advanced Reduced-Order Methods for the Aeroelastic Analysis of Wind Turbine Rotors" from 10:00-11:00, March 26 2015.

Seminar "Regulation of the TRAF6-NF-kB-NFATc1 signal pathway in osteoclastogenesis."　Jun-ichiro Inoue, March 25.

OISTと琉大の女性研究者・学生が講師となって、最先端の科学を楽しく学べる講義や実験を実施します。 また、リケジョの先輩達が様々な理系分野の中からどのように専攻を決めたのか、研究の楽しさ、研究室の様子や学生生活、大学卒業後の進路などについてお話しします。

National Holiday.

Join us for March's second Internal Seminar Series on Mar. 20, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C209. This month's second seminars feature the Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit (Eileen Gail Tripp) and the Immune Signal Unit (Hiroki Ishikawa).

United Nations International Happiness Day

Seminar: Prof. Sen-Lin Tang from Academia Sinica talks on Searching for health-associated bacteria in corals: a story about Endozoicomonas

Seminar: Prof Nathaniel Daw from New York University talks on "Mechanisms of model-based reinforcement learning: Prospection and episodes"

International Science Communication Workshop - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate. URL: https://groups.oist.jp/cpr/iscw2015-japan-deserves-more

Dr. Charles Yokoyama, Director of Research, RIKEN Brain Institute and former senior scientific editor at Neuron

Dr. Toshio Kuroki is the Program Director of the World Premier International Research Center Initiative program (WPI) of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The seminar is open to all OIST members; Language: English

OIST Mini Symposium - All OIST members are welcome to attend.

Admission Free 15:00-17:00

Dr. Benjamin Yellen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University. English only; no interpretation will be provided.

Dr. Benjamin Yellen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University. English only; no interpretation will be provided.

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 11th, 16:00-17:00 Venue: C016, Floor C, Lab1

Speaker: Prof. Sami Tantawi (Stanford University/ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Title: Advanced RF Acceleration

Abstract: For decades conventional RF accelerators have been built and operated with ever increasing capability thru a few tens of gigahertz in frequency. More recent research takes advantage of the continuing development of high peak power short pulse lasers to drive accelerator structures at optical frequencies. This jump from RF to optical frequencies skips four orders of magnitude in wavelength. With recent experiments that demonstrate high gradients in metallic structures at millimeter wavelengths one is compelled to consider the viability of new approaches for acceleration in the millimeterwave to...

Prof. Masayuki ODA, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University. Language: English

Prof. Sonia A. G. Oliveira School of Mechanical Engineering Federal University of Uberlândia - Brazil

Seminar by Yan Jiang, PhD student, Key laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, ICCAS, China

Language:English

Application required. Go to https://groups.oist.jp/grad/oist-science-challenge-2015 for more information and application.

OIST Concert Series Admission Free 19:00-21:00

Join us for March's first Internal Seminar Series on Mar. 6, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Trans-Membrane Trafficking Unit (Fadel Alexis Samatey) and the Ecology and Evolution Unit (Alexander Sergeyevich Mikheyev).

Abstract

We present the derivation of the macroscopic equations for systems with a dynamic preferred direction, which can be axial or polar in nature.

In addition to the usual hydrodynamic variables we introduce the time derivative of the local preferred direction [1] or the macroscopic velocity associated with the motion of the active units [2] as a new variable and discuss their macroscopic consequences [1,2]. Such an approach is expected to be useful for a number of biological systems including, for example, the formation of dynamic macroscopic patterns shown by certain bacteria such as Proteus mirabilis, shoals of fish, flocks of birds and migrating insects.

As a concrete application we set up a macroscopic model of...

Prof. Kazunori Kataoka, Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Date/Time: Thursday, March 5th, 14:00-15:00 Venue: C016, Floor C, Lab1

Speaker: Dr. Walter Wuensch (CERN)

Title: Introduction to the CLIC linear collider study and associated development of high-gradient accelerating structures

Abstract: The CLIC collaboration is studying the design of a TeV-range electron-positron linear collider and developing key technology for it. I will give an overview for the motivation for CLIC, introduce the accelerator concept and then go on describe the development of high-gradient accelerating structures - which have a very strong influence on both performance and cost of the whole machine. The accelerating structures are in turn limited by vacuum breakdown and I will finish by describing research into the fundamental physics and...

Prof. Peter Engels, Washington State University, USA

Speaker : Dr. Tatsuo Azeyanagi (LPTENS, Paris) Title : Anomalies, Chern-Simons Terms and Black Hole Entropy Abstract : Quantum anomalies enable us to access to some important information about quantum field theories in a robust way. Recently, the hydrodynamic limit of the systems with the anomalies has been actively investigated, together with its dual holographic description by gravitational theories with Chern-Simons terms. In this presentation, I will start with a review on the effect of the anomalies in the hydrodynamic limit of conformal field theories. Then I would like to explain how the beautiful property of Chern-Simons terms helps us to compute in detail various quantities relevant to the anomalies through the dual gravitational description. I will also discuss the...

This is an externally organized event.

Focused vertical system for proton irradiation of a single cell for radiobiological research

Dr. Mitchell Sogin is a MBL Distinguished Scientist and Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University. His work focuses on microbial evolution and diversity. *Open to public

Speaker: Dr Tomas Cizmar, Reader in Physics and Life Sciences, University of Dundee Seminar title: Multimode Fibres: Seeing through chaos

at Okinawa Prefecture Museum and Art Museum Admission Free

OIST Public Lecture "Eat Play Collide!" Admission Free

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

Date/Time: Th 26 Feb 2015 15:00-16:00 Venue: Meeting Room C016, level C, lab 1 Speaker: Dr. Katarzyna Bożek, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology Title: Machine learning and comparative methods in the study of HIV and human evolution

Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Seminar "Roles of a mitochondrial respiratory supercomplex assembly factor in muscle, fat and cancer metabolism."　Prof. Satoshi Inoue

Speaker: Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Prof. Kazimierz Rzazewski, Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Speaker: Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science

Date/Time: Mon 23 February 2015 13:00 – 14:00 Venue: Seminar Room B503, Level B, Centre Bldg. Speaker: William Ryu, Associate Professor, Department of Physics Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto Title: Quantifying and modeling C. elegans exploratory behavior

Ms. Anna Frishman, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

No Registration Required

Join us for February's second Internal Seminar Series on Feb. 20, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit (Tomoyuki Takahashi) and the Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit (Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama).