These seminars examine the science of how to bring macroscopic (large) systems into the quantum regime. The preparation of large Schrodinger cats is one of the long sought goals of quantum science. Researchers seek to do this for many reasons – to see if it can be done at all – does quantum mechanics still hold for large objects – is there new science that appears when objects become large/massive? Can macroscopic/large quantum systems be useful as precision sensors – and how can we preserve/protect the large scale quantum properties in such systems. These series of talks (experimental and theoretical), will show some facets/aspects of how some researchers are aiming towards the building of large Quantum Cats. Coffee and Okinawan Donuts are supplied during the morning.

Business English communication skills may be essential in your work, or you may wish to improve your business English vocabulary, knowledge, and skills. This short series of 10 one-hour classes will help you work more effectively when using English. Each class will focus of a different aspect of business English communications. Classes will be at 3pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Dean Yates, Queen Mary University of London Title: Spin representations of the symmetric group

Title: A masing spin ensemble: temperature, light, amplifier, and diamond

Abstract:

I will start discussing two fundamental concepts in nature, temperature and light, followed by one of the indispensable basic components in the modern information society, amplifiers. Then I will try to show that combining these three concepts leads to our ongoing project, a heat-driven coherent microwave oscillator based on a spin ensemble in a diamond crystal.

Business English communication skills may be essential in your work, or you may wish to improve your business English vocabulary, knowledge, and skills. This short series of 10 one-hour classes will help you work more effectively when using English. Each class will focus of a different aspect of business English communications. Classes will be at 3pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Next meeting of the OIST ukulele club is Thursday, March 31 at 8:00 PM in the Seaside Lounge.

Business English communication skills may be essential in your work, or you may wish to improve your business English vocabulary, knowledge, and skills. This short series of 10 one-hour classes will help you work more effectively when using English. Each class will focus of a different aspect of business English communications. Classes will be at 3pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.

OISTサイエンストーク2021 vol.4

Title

島んちゅ科学者が語る学びの魅力～沖縄から世界へ～

Speakers

OIST量子情報物理実験ユニット　博士課程2年　太田守洋

株式会社リクルート　データサイエンティスト　大田祥子（OIST第1期生）

HiSci Labは、沖縄県内の女子高校生の理系分野への進路選択を支援する、毎年開催している科学教育アウトリーチプログラムです。

These two 2-hrs webinar series aim to give attendees the necessary skills to be an effective peer reviewer, from both an editor`s and author`s perspective . This webinar will provide practical insights and strategies to help attendees achieve this goal.

To register CLICK HERE.

OIST-ASJ QCS Seminar Series # 3, Dr. Carlos Cid on "Privacy-preserving Technologies: Cryptographic Techniques for Secure Computation", Wed, March 23 at 17:00 JST https://groups.oist.jp/quantum-future

Business English communication skills may be essential in your work, or you may wish to improve your business English vocabulary, knowledge, and skills. This short series of 10 one-hour classes will help you work more effectively when using English. Each class will focus of a different aspect of business English communications. Classes will be at 3pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.

John Murray, Maynooth University Title: A Schur-positivity conjecture inspired by the Alperin-Mckay conjecture

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

Language: English

Language: English

These two 2-hrs webinar series aim to give attendees the necessary skills to be an effective peer reviewer, from both an editor`s and author`s perspective . This webinar will provide practical insights and strategies to help attendees achieve this goal.

To register CLICK HERE .

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

Language: English

Is it Dear Smith, Dear John, Dear John Smith, Dear Doctor John Smith, Dear Professor Smith, Honourable Professor Smith OR Dear Sir?

First impressions are important in writing too. Join us as we discuss how to address people you know and those you do not. We will look at titles and learn how to make it clear who the email is intended for.

March 17 meeting of the OIST Ukulele Club

Virtual webinar with representatives from two area international schools: OCSI and Hope Academy

When : Wednesday, March 16, 1800-1930

Where : Zoom (click for link to register)

Target Audience : OIST parents/guardians/curious community members

A 2-day seminar held by Algorithms for Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (Gene Myers) Unit along with Genomics and Regulatory Systems (Nicholas Luscombe) Unit as the co-host.

In the seminar, entitled " OIST-UT Genomics Research Seminar ", we invite 3 Ph.D. students from The University of Tokyo (Shinichi Morishita lab) to OIST, and each of the 8 researchers in total from UT and OIST will give a 20 min talk on their work plus 10 min Q&A session.

The seminar will be held on site at OIST, although you can also join via zoom (link below). On each day, right after the seminar we will have time and place for further discussion and interaction with the presenters (while keeping distance).

Susumu Ariki, Osaka University

Title: Three lectures on modular Lie algebras (Part III)

A 2-day seminar held by Algorithms for Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (Gene Myers) Unit along with Genomics and Regulatory Systems (Nicholas Luscombe) Unit as the co-host. In the seminar, entitled " OIST-UT Genomics Research Seminar ", w e invite 3 Ph.D. students from The University of Tokyo (Shinichi Morishita lab) to OIST, and each of the 8 researchers in total from UT and OIST will give a 20 min talk on their work plus 10 min Q&A session. The seminar will be held on site at OIST, although you can also join via zoom (link below). On each day, right after the seminar we will have time and place for further discussion and interaction with the presenters (while keeping distance).

Susumu Ariki, Osaka University

Title: Three lectures on modular Lie algebras (Part II)

OIST サイエンスチャレンジ 2022ではOIST教員、ポスドク、博士課程学生による数々のセミナー(英語)を受講し、OISTで行われている研究を体験します。国際的な環境で博士課程において必要なスキル、より充実した博士課程の生活を送るための秘訣等を学びます。ワークショップ期間で学んだ内容を踏まえ、最後にスライドプレゼンテーション、 "Diversity in Science" を更に練り上げ、一人ずつ英語でプレゼンテーションを行います。このワークショップが、それぞれの参加者の科学に対する情熱をより高め、次のステップに進むためのきっかけとなればと考えています。

参加者の往復航空券、空港からの送迎、ワークショップ期間中の宿泊及び食事は、OISTが提供します。

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "A new kind of Feynman rules: what is Higher Spin Gravity? (part 2)"

Susumu Ariki, Osaka University

Title: Three lectures on modular Lie algebras (Part I)

-This event will be held in Japanese-

Dean of Research, Dr. Tadashi Yamamoto will attend this forum.

OIST x ASJ 「エネルギーと気候の未来」セミナーシリーズ

Version up your workplace English!

Ten zoom classes for basic/pre-intermediate business English.

March 9th (More) Useful Email language follow up Emails.

This talk discusses a generalized class of supersolutions, so-called \(p\)-supercaloric functions, to the parabolic \(p\)-Laplace equation. This class of functions is defined as lower semicontinuous functions that are finite in a dense set and satisfy the parabolic comparison principle. Their properties are relatively well understood in the slow diffusion case \(p>2\), but little is known in the fast diffusion case \(1

Speaker: Professor Asuka Takatsu, Tokyo Metropolitan University Title: Curvature and Optimal transport Abstract

In this series of lectures, I first review the notion of curvature (Gaussian curvature and Ricci curvature). In particular, I recall some comparison theorems (Toponogov's triangle comparison theorem, Bishop--Gromov volume comparison theorem etc). Then I introduce a generalized notion of curvature in non-smooth spaces.

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

Language: English

Cosmos episode 3: The Harmony of the Worlds

Kyenote Lecture for CryoEM Course

Speaker: Robert Spencer, University of Cambridge

Title:(Some) Gram Determinants for \(A_n\) nets

Seva will talk about string diagrams.

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

Language: English

Internal and External workshop

OISTサイエンストーク2021 vol.3

タイトル：SDGs未来都市沖縄の役割とは？

登壇者：OIST 研究科長オフィス　副研究科長　タカバヤシ　ミサキ

恩納村役場SDGｓ推進事務局　松原 廣幸

恩納村役場企画課企画係長　當山香織

恩納村役場企画課企画係主事　冨着　開

相手を尊重しながら自分の気持ちや考えを率直・誠実に表現するコミュニケーション法を学びます。ペアワークやグループディスカッションを多用した参加型の研修です。

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "A new kind of Feynman rules: what is Higher Spin Gravity?"

Cassie George is an RSD intern working with the Environmental Informatics Section in collaboration with the Takagi lab at Hokkaido University

The best writers have a few basic guidelines for making their sentences easy to read.

Join us to find out the rules for writing simple, easy to read sentences that will provide the clarity reviewers are looking for.

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Short stories by everyone.

Monge-Ampère type equations are fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations that arise when considering the deformation of volume induced by some kind of transformation. In this talk I will discuss two such cases, the optimal transport problem, and geometric optics problems. The former discusses the most efficient way of transporting some resource to another location, and the second is a simplified model for optical instruments (such as lenses or mirrors) in which light is treated as a particle rather than a wave. I will attempt to focus more on heuristics rather than technical details; no knowledge of PDEs is assumed. A portion of this talk is based on joint work with N. Guillen. Please register before February 17, 5 pm. Click here to register! The colloquium will be held once a month online. Each event consists of a one-hour talk on mathematics followed by a one-hour diversity panel discussion session. February speaker is Jun Kitagawa from Michigan State University .

In the mathematics part, we will hear an exciting overview talk for a general audience. In the discussion session, we will hear about the speaker's experience as a mathematician. Y ou can take inspiration from them and exchange ideas with other participants in a small group. After the sessions are over, there will be a tea time where participants can chat freely.

演題 ： 沖縄のヘリウム再利用ネットワークを目指して 日時 ： 2022/02/22 (火) 15:00-16:00 発表機関 ： 沖縄科学技術大学院大学(OIST) 場所 ： ZOOMによるオンラインセミナー　(無料、事前登録が必要 講師 ： 　高田　一馬氏(OIST)　宗本　久弥氏(琉球大学) 言語 ： 　日本語

Title : Development of helium recycling network in Okinawa Date and time : Tuesday, February 22, 2022 15:00-16:00 Speakers : Kazuma Takada (OIST) , Hisaya Munemoto (University of the Ryukyus) Language : Japanese Registration required

Title : Context-dependence and generality in community ecology - two sides of the same coin?

Abstract : Community ecology is often derided for its lack of general theory. Factors limiting one population's growth can be insignificant elsewhere. While this flavor of context-dependence clearly impedes a predictive theory of ecology, it also paradoxically functions as a very general mechanism that maintains biodiversity. I will review how a context-dependent competition theory can clarify the general mechanisms underlying species coexistence and geographic range limits. I'll then riff on the theme of ecological context-dependence as it pertains to our unit members' work on carnivorous plants, pestiferous bats, and noxious roadside weeds.

https://groups.oist.jp/faculty-lunch

Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit would like to invite you to a seminar!