Thursday Tea time- a sign that the weekend is just around the corner. Pop-in at Grano at 4.00pm today to meet and greet friends over cupfuls of hot tea.

[Seminar]

Title: Comparative Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Analyses of Retinal Müller Glia during Different Damage Paradigms in Zebrafish, Chick, and Mouse

Speaker: Professor David R. Hyde

Institution: University of Notre Dame

Seminar Venue: B503, Center Building

Gravity on large scales is relatively well understood. For galaxies, planets and apples: we have Einstein’s General Relativity with which to make accurate predictions. But on small scales, where quantum mechanics becomes important, gravity is more difficult to understand, and as a result we lack precise descriptions of various natural phenomena (such as black holes).

One way to make progress in in our search for quantum gravity is to start from the large scale theory we know and love (at the ‘bottom’), and look for ways in which it may be modified and improved as we zoom in to smaller scales (going ‘up’ to a more fundamental theory).

Recent progress in ‘Effective Field Theory’ may shed some light on the connections between large and small scale physics. By exploiting certain physical properties of scattering probabilities (e.g. that they are unitary, causal and local), one can derive an infinite number of constraints which any large scale theory must satisfy in order to admit a sensible small scale completion.

In this talk, I will provide an overview of these new ‘positivity constraints’, and discuss their implications for quantum gravity.

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "The complex action of GR and black hole entropy"

琉球大学の学生による地域連携セクションとメディアセクションでの３週間インターン。

This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.

National holiday.

All OIST students are welcome to attend this event.

Origami, the exquisite craft of folding paper into three-dimensional shapes, has been practiced for millennia by artists and lay people. Prof. Mahadevan will discuss some physical aspects of rigid and soft origami associated with the weak and strong deformations of thin sheets of any material. The efficient packing properties of folded matter suggest that it ought to occur naturally in physical and biological systems, and he will show that they do indeed appear on a range of scales, e.g. in drying gels, wings, leaves and even your gut as a self-organized pattern. These physical manifestations of origami suggest the question of how to design the number, location and orientation of folds to create complex shapes. Prof. Mahadevan will finish his talk with a description of attempts to solve this inverse problem, and its generalizations.

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Solving Word Problems in finitely presented groups" by Robert Tang

プロポーザルの基本とは、相手を適切に想定し、相手の聞きたいポイントを聞きたい順に提示していくことです。

本勉強会では、個々の持っている研究テーマについて、深く広く考え、その学術的な価値を再認識していただく事から始め、

伝えるべきポイント、伝え方についても学んでいただきます。

Speaker Dr. Tomoaki Matsuura, Associate Professor at Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University.

2018年8月4日（土）10:00-18:00 小学生・中学生対象 入場無料

Internal Seminar, Friday August 3rd, C700, 4-5pm

Internal Seminar, Friday August 3rd, 2018, 4pm

Mr. Asem Elarabi, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University

Language: English

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} Professor Satoru Kidoaki, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University

Laboratory of Biomedical and Biophysical Chemistry, IMCE, Kyushu University

This talk will take as a starting point the Skyrmions as baryons in large- N QCD. It is further assumed that at high density, the sextic term in derivatives becomes dominant at some large density. This assumption is based on the observation that the term behaves like a perfect fluid, which is welcome for nuclear matter at large density – an environment suitable for the studies of neutron stars. With very large masses and compact radii, neutron stars become the closes known stable objects to the critical line of gravitational collapse. With some phenomenological motivation in mind, we consider the possibilities of finding exact analytic solutions to a system which is approximated by the sextic derivative term and a potential; this system is called the BPS-Skyrme model. We find a condition for when the gravitating soliton equations can be solved exactly and deduce the phenomenological implications. We furthermore find that this system has the peculiarity of not having stable black holes, meaning that the soliton cannot become scalar hair of a black hole. This is somewhat surprising, because the Skyrme soliton with a fourth-order derivative term can become stable black hole hair. We write down a class of models with higher-order derivative terms and find 2 new models that can sustain stable hair and 2 new that cannot.

Finally, we consider the problem of the classical binding energies of the Skyrmions, which are far too large compared to nuclei and explain a solution to this problem based on holography. Interestingly the solution from holography relates the baryon to the instanton of a 5-dimensional theory and the moduli of the instanton become massive modes in the Skyrmion. These modes in addition to the zero modes of the Skyrmion are expected to describe the spectra of nuclei.

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: March 25, 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Tutorial sessions are closed (only for registered participants) - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/dnc/dnc2018 - DNC2018 Program: https://groups.oist.jp/dnc/dnc2018-program2

QG group meeting Speaker: Blaithin Power Title: Integrability and the quantum inverse scattering method

We are pleased to invite you to attend the seminar!

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard helped decipher the logic of the genes required to control early embryonic development. Based on her research, a plethora of transcription control genes was discovered and found to be conserved throughout evolution. In her talk she will discuss the basic mechanisms needed to establish a distinct pattern of cells during embryogenesis. She will also talk about the point of beauty in nature as well as why animals have patterns, a subject on which she has been writing a book. Her research laid the conceptual foundation for our understanding of organ formation and regeneration using the developmental control genes.

Neural Computation Unit (Doya Unit)

OISTブース出展　−うんな祭り−

サンゴの村宣言に併せてのサンゴの分類ワークショップ「See Coral, Know Coralーサンゴを見よう、サンゴを知ろう」

ジャズコンサート

入場無料　予約不要　雨天決行

If you have not yet heard of this innovative problem-solving strategy, or if you’ve heard about it and wonder if it could be useful to you and your team, this workshop is the answer. This interactive workshop introduces the design thinking process and gives you a hands-on opportunity to apply design thinking to a ubiquitous problem of today’s workplace .

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

Internal Seminar, Friday July 20th, 2018, 4-5pm C700

Internal Seminar, Friday July 20th, 2018, C700

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

The Library would like to invite you to the Institutional Repository (OISTIR) Seminar on July, 20 (Friday).

Last year, we held "Institutional Repository & Archival of Research Data" in cooperation with the Dean of Research Office.

This year, we would like to give information about Open Access and some updates related to OISTIR.

Date: July 20 (Friday)

Time: 10:00-10:25 (English)

10:30-10:55 (Japanese)

Venue: B250, Center Building

7/20(Fri) Seaside House lobby lightings repair/シーサイドハウスロビーの照明修繕作業

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

This seminar is open only to the OIST community

Seminar by Prof. Ariane Briegel, Professor of Ultrastructural biology

Ecology and Evolution seminar #6 Semiar by Prof. Tatiana Tatarinova (University of La Verne), July 18th (Wed) 2-3pm at B250. All is welcome.

Thesis Public Presentation

Speaker: Tsai-Ming Lu

Title: Comparative genomic studies on Dicyema japonicum : the phylogenetic position of dicyemids and the genomic adaptations to parasitic lifestyle

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky.

National holiday.

OIST students are invited to attend this month's Student Assembly Meeting (SAM) on Friday 13 July, starting at 5pm.

Dr. Andrés A León Baldelli, CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France. Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar

Speaker: Prof. Phan-Thien Nhan

Title: SPH modeling of fiber orientation in a 3D printing process

Institution: National University of Singapore

[Seminar]

Speaker: Dr. Xiangyu Hu

Titile: SPH modeling of fluid-structure interaction

Institution: Tehcnical University of Munich

Interactive orientation for Postdoctoral Scholars who joint OIST April -June 2018.

Thesis Public Presentation

Speaker: Chola Kalale

Title: Development of an SPH variant of implicit LES for studying wave energy transport

Dance performance by Kaori Asahiro -Von Einem, der die Steine belauscht-(About One Who Eavesdrops On The Stones)