There's a limit to how much you can grow your hair out in a week, but we're going to ask you to try.

Speaker: Prof. Bernd Kawohl (University of Cologne)

Title: On Reuleaux and Cohn-Vossen, or buttons and balls that cannot run away

Speaker: Marios Sergides, Ph. D Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Title: Optical manipulation applications from soft matter to biomechanics

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).

Learn the skills neccessary to enter the water safely, through ocean risk assessment and management.

Come learn how to communicate your impactful ideas visually and engage audiences with poster presentations, an important skill set not only for scientists, but for all presenters! Poster presentations are an interactive, effective format for showcasing research or sharing ideas, programs, and projects.

Prof. Joe Yuichiro Wakano: Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences (IMS), Meiji University, Japan

Vegan and plant-based cuisine have been attracting attention for their potential both as a developing market and as a sustainable choice. Haruko Kawano of VegeProject Japan will tell us about global trends, the context of this rising demand, and how to incorporate veganism into our diets.

14:00-15:00 Presentation followed by Q&A at B250 15:00-15:30 Food tasting at foyer and wood deck next to B250

AIEN and Yun-Taku will also sell vegan snacks and sweets after the talk

Prof. Kalle Parvinen: University Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland

Dr Xiaozi Liu: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Marine Research, Norway

Prof. Mikko Heino: Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, and also affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Friday, December 9th *4:00-5:30 PM*

Please join us for tea, coffee, and home baking! Bring yourself, your colleagues, your families and share some time, talk and listen to others. Come and see our new location! All are welcome :)

*Our location is now at the Former President's House by faculty housing and Lab 5.

Dr Anna Shchiptsova: Researcher in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-Natural Systems Research Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Title:

Programming electronic and spin states in 2D supramolecular architectures by modifications on the single atomic or molecular level

Dr. Jaideep Joshi: Researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Guest Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

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

Prof. Karol Opara: Assistant professor at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Prof. Raul Primicerio: Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

"Towards Hierarchical Motor Control" by Dr. Steve Heim, Postdoc, Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT

Seminar by Mio Murao, Professor at Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Universty of Tokyo, Languate (English)

This talk will introduce two major forms of cold-water biogenic habitats. Deep-sea coral reefs are extensive in the NE Atlantic region due to high food availability and high carbonate saturation levels. Maerl beds are calcified seaweed habitats and are the oldest biogenic habitat type found in shallow waters of the region. (...)

Dr. Orestes Rivada-Wheelaghan, Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Instituto the Investigaciones Químicas (IIQ) at Universidad de Sevilla (Spain).Language: English

Dr. Nao Terasaki, Team Leader, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Language: English

Abstract: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which is a fundamental result in quantum mechanics, and related inequalities such as the hydrogen and Hardy uncertainty principles, belong to the family of geometric inequalities known as the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities. In this talk, we discuss some recent results about the optimal uncertainty principles, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities, and their quantitative stability. The talk is based on recent joint works with C. Cazacu, J. Flynn and G. Lu.

With new songs! Probably!

Talk 1: 15:00-16:00

Speaker: Prof. Shigeaki Koike (Waseda University)

Title: ABP maximum principle with upper contact sets for fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs

Talk 2: 16:00-17:00

Speaker: Prof. Michiaki Onodera (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Title: A perturbation theory of overdetermined problems

Curious about Intellectual Property? Please join our introductory seminar, hosted by TDIC alongside guest Patent Lawyer Gregory Kirsch.

This is an introduction-level seminar open to everyone at OIST.

Language: English

Neural Computation Unit will hold an OIST / Humanoids 2022 joint workshop at Auditorium. If you are interested in joining, please register.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: Locality of higher-spin gravity from anomalous dimensions of double-trace operators.

We will take a closer look at the autonomic nervous system and the way our biology helps us navigate daily life, how we respond to cues of safety and danger below the level of conscious thought, and how this guides the way we move through the world, from turning toward and backing away, to connecting and other times isolating.

This mini-symposium will allow the leading researchers on termite phylogeny and evolution to present their latest results. It will help determine the gaps in our understanding, and design approaches to fill them. In particular, this mini-symposium will provide a platform for researchers to determine the necessary steps to take to create a new termite classification, that takes into account phylogenetic evidences.

Speaker: Prof. Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Vilnius University

Between Nov 28th (Mon) and Dec 9th (Fri) the Resource Center will accept food donations. These will later be sent to the local non-profit organization “Second Harvest Okinawa,” which will distribute them to families in need.

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?).

FY22 _Fixed Asset Inspection session will be held via Zoom.Those in charge of please participate in this session.

Workshop on Life Mind Continuity

The aim: We attempt to deepen understanding of mind through discussions of various issues including life mind continuity, theory of mind, embodied mind, phenomenal consciousness, alife and artificial intelligence.

Date: 1pm - 5:35pm, November 25th, 2022

Location: Room1, OIST Conference Center

Organized by Kazuo Okanoya, Takashi Ikegami, and Jun Tani

Dr. Mog Stapleton, East China Normal University. 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).

Interpreting systems as solving POMDPs: a step towards a formal understanding of agency.

Martin Biehl, senior research scientist at Cross Labs.

Four projects on Intrinsic Motivation, Embodiment, Creativity & Videogames.

Christian Guckelsberger, Computer Scientist, Art Historian and Assistant Professor in Creative Technologies at Aalto University.

Okinawa Christian School International (OCSI) will hold their Open House for prospective families on November 23rd, 2022. Events like this tend to fill up quickly, so if it is a school you are interested in for your children, I recommend you register early.

National holiday

"Collective Intelligence in Living/Non-Livings Populations" Workshop 2022. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Invited Guests.

What is an agent?

Nathaniel Virgo, Associate Professor at Earth-Life Science Insitute (ELSI) in Tokyo.

Various topics of ladder polymer science will be covered mainly from the perspectives of synthetic organic and polymer chemistry, including the synthesis of novel conjugated ladder polymers and nanocarbon molecules and their characterizations and properties.

OIST Orators meet every two weeks to practice public speaking. No matter your level or experience, everyone is welcome to come and learn together! Our meetings typically consist of prepared talks, impromptu topics to practice speaking on the spot, and a short seminar on some aspect of oratory.