Krener Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of California, Davis

Dr. Scott Brown, Scientist-Entrepreneur, will speak about his experiences in commercializing university discoveries and partnering with Asian companies. This event is restricted to OIST employees and students.

Opening ceremony to the exhibition.

Weekly teatime with a photo twist: have a cup of tea or coffee and enjoy gorgeous artwork

HEART All User Meeting ① January 13th (Wed) 9:30-12:00 @Lab3, C700 ② January 14th (Thur) 13:30-16:00 @Lab3, C700

The next Researcher Meeting will be held on Thursday January 14th from 12:00 to 13:00 in seminar room C209 center building. This meeting is intended for postdoctoral scholars and staff scientists.

Prof. Junko Ohkanda, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Kyoto University

Amazing photo exhibition of underwater creatures and hermit crabs with trash homes.

Prof. Takashi Suzuki, Professor, Osaka University

HEART All User Meeting ① January 13th (Wed) 9:30-12:00 @Lab3, C700 ② January 14th (Thur) 13:30-16:00 @Lab3, C700

Dr. Tomoko Ohyama, Postdoctoral fellow, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI

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

National Holiday.

Prof Tim Hunt (2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute

Prof. Ray-Kuang Lee, Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing-Hua University, China

Jointly-organzied workshop - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - website: https://groups.oist.jp/aws

National Holiday.

Language:English

National Holiday.

This is an externally organized event. For further information, please contact the organizers directly.

OIST students are invited to the 2nd Okinawa Student Summit, sponsored by Okinawa University Consortium.

English Workshop "Give a Killer Presentation" on Dec 18th 10:00-12:00 @B503 Language: English Registration required. Go to https://groups.oist.jp/hrtraining/give-killer-presentation

Professor Brian Seguin, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago. Language: English.

Stop by to see the demontration

Professor Gwynn Elfring, Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia

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.