OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to host Prof. Jimmy Dooley from the department of biological sciences, Purdue University, USA. If you are interested in knowing how slight twitchy movements during your sleep in your infancy shape your brain, make sure to join the seminar!

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Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Connolly

Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Join us next week on Tuesday, April 18th in seaside lounge from 18:30!

Visitor Seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics Title: "BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras"

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Speaker: Nina Stiesdal, Institut of Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany

This is an externally organized event, For more information please go the conference website .

15:00 – 15:30 Special Talk: 多様な環境で活躍する研究者を支援する (Helping researchers thrive in a diverse environment)

You can't spell "Ukulele Club" without U! And also "bulk eel cul" but that's harder to interpret.

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Prof. Hiroki Takahashi, Assistant Professor of the Experimental Quantum Information Physics Unit

Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Dr. Marco Michel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Title: Quantum Informational Analogue Models of Black Holes: What Happens After Half Evaporation?

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

[Speaker] Prof. Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara

Dr. Eduardo Sampaio , Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December.

C-Hub 第１回 事務職員向け勉強会　「研究者の活動」　（日本語）

Speaker: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Speaker::Jonathan R. WOODWARD

Professor of University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Speciality: Physical Chemistry,Photochemistry,Spin Chemistry

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/people100335.html

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizers: Reiko Toriumi (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit) and Kento Osuga (University of Tokyo) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

DVSP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Onna closer through a shared love of food. Each session will be focused on one dish, taught by someone with a personal connection to the recipe (perhaps you?).

In this meeting we will discuss the proper method to cook and eat a soprano ukulele.

Speaker: Dr. Meiyong LIAO, a Chief Researcher at National Institute for Material Science

Zoom :

https://oist.zoom.us/j/96289625266?pwd=TFdtZmRqbG5HSUhCa0xseit5ellIZz09

Passcode: 313298

Professor emeritus Hans (=J.A.J.) Metz, Institute of Biology and Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Speaker: Dr. Romain Quidant

Professor, Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

アートインスタレーション　浮遊する海の生き物 -星の砂たち- 「科学とアートの交差展」が3月25日（土）から4月1日（土）まで開催されます。

沖縄の星砂をイメージした巨大なバルーンをキャンパスに設置します。

EF Polymer , an agritech startup has been working with local farmers in Okinawa to perform pilot tests of their technology. Their team wish to create an enjoyable event to help the farmers harvest the carrots, and also give back to the community. The OIST POWER Club is calling for volunteers to join this event to harvest carrots.

This presentation will cover a new perspective on the definition of chronic pain, coupled with the new brain studies postulating that emotional and physical pains share the same neural networks.

Sanshin classes by Satsuki Agena (January to March)

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Discussion of progress and roadmap for founding an OIST natural history collection.

In this meeting, we will present information about the new Environmental Science and Informatics section in RSD and ask for feedback from users or potential users of our services. In the interests of keeping the meeting manageable we would prefer to have one representative per unit.

Speaker: Dr. Hui Wang, Riken

Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

OIST x OYW Spring Camp 2023: 環境問題に関する課題解決に取り組む５日間

National holiday

Seminar by Kavan Modi (Monash), Mon Mar 20 2pm JST

Photographs taken by Noel Tovia Matoff of women mathematicians from around the world.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Reiko Toriumi (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

This is an externally organized event, For more information please go the conference website (Japanese language only).

Dr. Jun Okuda, Professor, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University. Language: English

Fun fact: Beyonce's famous "Single Ladies" is in fact a parody of an old Vaudeville song called "All the Ukuleles"!

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

[Speaker] Prof. Jun Sakakibara, Meiji University

Dr. Klaus Qvortrup , Professor at the Centre for Integrative Microscopy, Biomedical Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Title: Ultrafast measurements, extreme events, and fifty years of solitons in nonlinear fibre optics

Speaker: Dr. John Dudley Professor, Institut FEMTO-ST, Université de Franche-Comté-CNRS, France