Dean of Research, Dr. Tadashi Yamamoto will attend the symposium as one of the panelists.

(This symposium will be held in Japanese.)

What separates your email's subject line from other spam type emails?

In this seminar we will look at what makes a good subject line, how we can maximise the way it is seen in email software and how we can make it more meaningful for the reader.

Speaker: Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita, Founder & CEO, Quality Electrodynamics | CTO, Canon Medical Systems Corporation, CT-MR Division | Member, OIST Board of Governors | Trustee and Health Innovation Ambassador, OIST Foundation | Honorary Consul General of Japan in Cleveland

In Japanese with English subtitles. Register here .

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

The Center for Professional Development and Inclusive Excellence (C-Hub) warmly welcomes you to join us to engage in inspirational discussions, explorations, and strategic thinking to explore how individuals and institutions can promote impactful, inclusive mentoring cultures in the sciences.

Please register for Global Women's Breakfast 2022 - Joint Kyoto U. and OIST event on February 16th, 2022.

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

Language: English

Annual Inspection_Ultracentrifuges

Speaker: Stephen Doty, Loyola University Chicago

Title: Schur-Weyl duality for braid and twin groups via the Burau representation

OISTトンネルギャラリーでのメイン展示に加え、沖縄県内各所及び東京にて巡回展を実施します。

今回の特別版OIST Caféは、国連が提唱する「科学における女性と女児の国際デー」を記念して行われます。OISTが女性研究者や学生をどう支援しているのかの紹介や、現在博士課程学生やポスドクとしてOISTに所属している女性がそれぞれの経験をシェアし、参加者と共に共通の課題や悩みについて議論する場となります。パネルディスカッションでは、参加者が直接登壇者にリアルタイムで質問できる機会を設けています。 また、今回はジョンズ・ホプキンス大学（米国）公衆衛生大学院 特別栄誉教授およびメリーランド大学特別栄誉教授である リタ・コルウェル博士 も登壇予定です。コルウェル博士は米国国家科学技術会議（NSF）にて、初の女性共同議長を務めました。

Quantum Birds: The Magnetic Compass Sense of night-migratory Songbirds

Prof. Henrik Mouritsen

Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University Oldenburg,

Prof. Mouritsen will present how night-migratory songbirds seem to use a quantum mechanical mechanism to sense magnetic compass information which they use to navigate with exquisite precision over thousands of kilometres (Mouritsen 2018). In the past years, evidence has mounted that migratory birds use a light-dependent, radical pair-based mechanism to sense the axis of the geomagnetic field lines (Hore & Mouritsen 2016). The magnetic compass of night-migratory birds is sensitive to anthropogenic electromagnetic field disturbances being ca. 1000 times weaker than the current WHO guideline limits (Engels et al. 2014; Schwarze et al. 2016). This result could be significant in relation to migratory bird conservation measures and strongly indicates that the basic sensory mechanism underlying the magnetic compass of night-migratory songbirds should be based on quantum mechanical principles rather than classical physics. Neuroanatomical data have shown that magnetic compass information is detected in the eye and then processed in a small part of the thalamofugal visual pathway terminating in the visual processing centre “Cluster N” (Mouritsen et al. 2005; Liedvogel et al. 2007; Feenders et al. 2008; Zapka et al. 2009). When Cluster N is deactivated, migratory European Robins can no longer use their magnetic compass, whereas their star compass and sun compass abilities are unaffected (Zapka et al. 2009). The lagena and associated pathways remained intact. Bilateral section of the trigeminal nerve had no effect on the birds’ ability to use their magnetic compass (Zapka et al. 2009). Very recently, we could also show that the light-sensitive protein Cryptochrome 4 from a night-migratory songbird is magnetically sensitive in vitro based on a radical-pair mechanism (Xu et al. 2021).

Zoom link

https://oist.zoom.us/j/97850326939

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Speaker: Daniel Tubbenhauer , University of Sydney Title: On weighted KLRW algebras

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

[Resume workshop] - Crafting an effective Resume

Join us for the “Crafting an effective Resume” workshop to discover how you can utilize these strategies to make your application more focused, tailored, and relevant.

OIST Alumni Talks

Name: Dr. Nino Espinas (Class of 2012) Talk Title: Reflection and Comparison of Postdoc Life in Japan and Europe

Theoretical Ecology Seminar/Discussion Series

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On-site Inspection by Board of Audit Japan

Online Admissions Selection for shortlisted PhD applicants from January 24th to February 11th, 2022.

Information sessions about PhD program, faculty talks and interviews all via zoom.

The event is targeted towards shortlisted applicants for our PhD program.

Please contact phd-selection@oist.jp for further details.

OISTサイエンストーク2021 vol.2

タイトル：好奇心からイノベーションへ

沖縄の研究室から生まれる発明を、沖縄の社会的・経済的に繋げるためには

登壇者：OIST 技術開発イノベーションオフィス シニアマネジャー 市川 尚斉

　　　　琉球大学工学部知能情報コース 教授　 玉城 絵美

The colloquium will be held once a month. It will be held online for the time being. Each event consists of a one-hour talk on mathematics followed by a one-hour diversity panel discussion session. Please register before January 14, 5 pm. Click here to register!

In the mathematics part, we will hear an exciting overview talk for a general audience. January speaker is Ade Irma Suriajaya from Kyushu University. 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.

Part I Expository math talk 3-4 pm

Speaker: Ade Irma Suriajaya Kyushu University

Talk Title : Goldbach’s Conjecture and the Riemann Hypothesis in Number Theory, and Their Relations to Zeta Functions

Abstract: Number Theory has a very long history that dates back to thousands of years ago. The main goal of this study is to understand properties of numbers which can essentially be reduced to understanding prime numbers. Number Theory has evolved over time and yet we are still left with several important old problems. Among, Goldbach’s conjecture which is celebrating its 280th anniversary this year (by the time of my talk in 2022) and the Riemann hypothesis which is now over 160 years old remain unsolved. In this talk, I would like to explain what these problems are about and briefly introduce a few recent works which are related to them, especially how the distribution of zeros of the Riemann zeta function comes into play. My talk will be given in the perspective of Analytic Number Theory.

Abstract: Part II Diversity Panel Discussion 4-5 pm

C-Hub warmly invites you to join us to learn how to effectively present your ideas or data visually.

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to our seminar!

Our speaker, Shigeru Taguchi will be talking on " A twisted loop between inside and outside: Searching for an appropriate image of consciousness based on phenomenology and enactivism ".

This Mini Course will be taught by engineers from MathWorks, the company developping MATLAB. The focus will be on accelerating MATLAB code, using different approaches: better general coding practices, using the Parallel Computing Toolbox, and using Deigo's resources.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for people with some experience with MATLAB. Ideally, the participants will already have some code that they are interested in speeding up.

Language: English

Organizers: Noriko Yui (Queen’s University at Kingston), Kyoji Saito (RIMS), Shinobu Hikami (OIST)

Date of Workshop : Saturday, January 8th - Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm

National holiday

Registration deadline: December 28th 2021

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CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the semianr!

■Date■

Monday, December 20, 14:00-15:00

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Cosmos episode 2: One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue

This Mini Course will be taught by engineers from MathWorks, the company developping MATLAB. The focus will be on accelerating MATLAB code, using different approaches: better general coding practices, using the Parallel Computing Toolbox, and using Deigo's resources.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for people with some experience with MATLAB. Ideally, the participants will already have some code that they are interested in speeding up.

Seminar talk on the James Webb Space Telescope mission by Dr. H. Philip Stahl, Space Optics Manufacturing Technology Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , AL 35812

Organized by the OIST Optics and Photonics Student Society

C-Hub warmly invites you to join us to hear about best practices for ensuring your teaching is engaging, transformative, and impactful.

Dr. Jason Heustis will articulate the essentials for creating a great course and discuss how to build a syllabus that will create clear, intentional pathways for teaching and learning. We will also discuss how “active learning” facilitates deep understanding and engages students from diverse backgrounds. Participants will also have the opportunity to consider different modes of assessment to measure student learning and mastery, and be strategic in development the assessments that will be aligned with your desired learning objectives.

Mr. Julian Weigt , Aalto University Title: Higher dimensional techniques for the regularity of maximal functions Abstract:

It has been an open question if maximal operators M satisfy the endpoint regularity bound \(mathop{\mathrm{var}}(Mf) \leq C \mathop{\mathrm{var}}(f)\). So far the majority of the known results has been in one dimension. I give an overview of the progress on this question with a focus on the techniques. Next I present the techniques used in the recent proofs of \(mathop{\mathrm{var}}(Mf) \leq C \mathop{\mathrm{var}}(f)\) for several maximal operators in higher dimensions. They are mostly geometric measure theoretic in the spirit of the relative isoperimetric inequality and involve a stopping time and various covering arguments.

Please click here to register *After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

Dr. David Beltran, University of Wisconsin – Madison Title: Endpoint Sobolev regularity of the fractional maximal function Abstract: Abstract: I will report some of the recent progress regarding the boundedness and continuity of the map \(f \mapsto |\nabla M_\beta f|\) from the endpoint space \(W^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}^d)\) to \(L^{d/(d-\beta)}(\mathbb{R}^d)\), where \($M_\beta\) denotes the fractional version of either the centered or uncentered Hardy--Littlewood maximal function. After contributions by several authors, the problem is now totally solved in an affirmative way. I will focus on my contributions, which correspond to the radial case (in joint work with J. Madrid), and also to the general case for the continuity of the map (in joint work with C. González-Riquelme, J. Madrid and J. Weigt). Please click here to register *After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Please click here to register *After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Mr. Julian Weigt , Aalto University Title: Higher dimensional techniques for the regularity of maximal functions Abstract:

It has been an open question if maximal operators M satisfy the endpoint regularity bound \(mathop{\mathrm{var}}(Mf) \leq C \mathop{\mathrm{var}}(f)\). So far the majority of the known results has been in one dimension. I give an overview of the progress on this question with a focus on the techniques. Next I present the techniques used in the recent proofs of \(mathop{\mathrm{var}}(Mf) \leq C \mathop{\mathrm{var}}(f)\) for several maximal operators in higher dimensions. They are mostly geometric measure theoretic in the spirit of the relative isoperimetric inequality and involve a stopping time and various covering arguments.

Please click here to register *After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Visit by Mr. Jules Irrmann, Consul General of France in Kyoto

Title: Helgason-Fourier analysis techniques on hyperbolic spaces and sharp geometric and functional inequalities Speaker : Professor Guozhen Lu, University of Connecticut Abstract : In this talk, we will report some recent progress on sharp geometric and functional inequalities by using the Helgason-Fourier analysis techniques on hyperbolic and symmetric spaces. These techniques allow us to establish sharp higher order Hardy-Sobolev-Maz'ya and Hardy-Adams inequalities on upper half spaces, complex Siegel domains and quaternionic and octanionic hyperbolic spaces. Some applications to PDEs will also be given. Click here to register.

パネリスト: 北野宏明教授（OIST教授、ソニーCSLのCEO)、ジョナサン・ソロモン氏（BiomX社のCEO)、佐竹晃太氏（CureApp社CEO、医師）、ギル・グラノットマイヤー副学長

モデレーター: ローレン・ハー准副学長

Zoom（要登録）

Speaker: Dr. Ben P. Harvey, Assistant Professor at the Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba

Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

Abstract: Human activities are rapidly changing the structure of coastal marine ecosystems, but the ecological consequences of these changes remain uncertain. Natural analogues of futuristic conditions are increasingly being used to assess the likely effects of rising atmospheric CO ₂ emissions on marine ecosystems. (...)

OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season 5: Understanding of superorganisms: collective behavior, differentiation and social organization