OIST Workshop organized by Prof. Alexander Mikheyev (Ecology and Evolution Unit)

Dear all,

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to announce a seminar by, Prof. Ghaleb Husseini, American University of Sharjah.

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Date & Time: Friday, October 10, 10:00-11:00

Venue: C016, Lab 1

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Speaker: Prof. Ghaleb Husseini

American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates

Title: Drug Delivery and Ultrasound

Abstract : Chemotherapy is the most extensively used treatment in the fight against malignant neoplasms. Unfortunately, chemotherapy use is plagued with numerous side effects. These side effects are caused primarily because of the non-specific nature of the treatment as the drug is capable of killing normal and cancerous cells alike....

Seminar 'Wiring the Functional Brain' Prof. Hisashi Umemori.

Professor, Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Application deadline: July 15, 2014

Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga, World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan

Professor, International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, China

Seminar by Dr. Frank Abild-Pedersen from Stanford University 10:00-11:00, Oct 02

Vice-Chancellor & Professor of Psychology, University of Otago. English with no interpretation. 講演会は英語のみになります。

Prof. Naoyuki Haba, Department of Physics and Material Science, Shimane University.

Dr. Saar Kirmayer, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science

Join us for September's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Quantum Dynamics Unit (Denis Konstantinov) and the Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit (Matthias Wolf).

OIST Special Seminar by Prof Alain Aspect, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France. Everyone is encouraged to attend and take advantage of this very special chance.

Prof. Yosuke Mukoyama, Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Neuro-Vascular Biology, Genetics and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Shioko Kimura, Laboratory of Metabolism, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA

Harrison Leong, Sr. Staff Engineer, Software, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., U.S.A.

Date/Time: Tuesday 26 Aug 2014, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Meeting Room C016, Level C, Lab 1 Speaker: Ms. Maika Takita, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University Title: Clocked electron transport across surface of superfluid helium: Towards single electron control

Dr. Pei-Yuan Qian, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Join us for August's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit (Tsumoru Shintake) and the Information Processing Biology Unit (Takashi Murayama).

Harrison Leong is Sr. Staff Software Engineer, ThermoFisher Scientific Inc.

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Ryohei Seto is Research Associate of Benjamin Levich Institute at The City College of New York.

Reza Pakzad is Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Chen Xu, EM Facility Manager, Brandeis University. Language: English. No interpretation will be provided. No Registration required.

Dr. Shinichi Nakagawa, Associate Chief Scientist, RIKEN, Nakagawa RNA biology Laboratory, Saitama, Japan

Prof. Yukio Kawahara, Department of RNA Biology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University

Dr. Pengfei Wang, Senior Research Fellow, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland

Seminar by Prof. Peter Holdsworth, ENS Lyon. All are welcome.

Dr. Mitsuhiro Terakawa, Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University

Dr. Rastko Joksimovic, Tohoku University

Francisco Fabregat-Santiago and Iván Mora-Seró are Associate Professors at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Spain

Prof. Kimitoshi Kono, Low Temperature Physics Laboratory, RIKEN. All are welcome to attend.

Associate Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Join us for July's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit (Shinobu Hikami) and the Neurobiology Research Unit (Jeff Wickens).

Prof Kishan Dholakia, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, Scotland, U.K.

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The Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit invites you to a post-Ultrafast Phenomena 2014 workshop on Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems to be held at OIST on July 11-13th 2014.

Research Associate, Newcastle University, UK

Seminar by Dr. Atsushi Shimada on July 7th. "Structural biology of clathrin-mediated endocytosis"

Hideyuki Okano, Professor, Dean, Keio University Graduate School of Medicine, Professor & Chair, Department of Physiology, Keio University, School of Medicine

[OIST Seminar Series] Prof Hirosi Ooguri, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (U of Tokyo)

Prof. Bhanu Pratap Das, Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics Group, Indian Institute of Astrophysics

Dr. Bo Zhang, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Andrew Smerald, a former member of Shannon Unit, currently at EPFL Lausanne

Join us for this June's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Theory of Quantum Matter Unit (Nic Shannon) and the Plant Epigenetics Unit (Hidetoshi Saze).

Research Scientist, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Dr. Barbara Rhode, Minister Counsellor, Head of Science and Technology, EU Delegation to Japan, will explain the EU's new "Horizon2020" programme and how to participate. Language: English (no interpretation)

Dr. Andreas Ruschhaupt (Group Leader, Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Quantum Optics, University College Cork, Ireland)

Distinguished Professor Takuzo Aida, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo

Join us for this June's first special edition of the Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Ecology and Evolution Unit (Alexander Mikheyev) and the Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Ibrahim Sowwan).