Joint talk with Prof. Douglas Soltis, Distinguished Professor in the Florida Museum of Natural History and Department of Biology at the University of Florida, and Prof. Pamela Soltis Pam Soltis, Distinguished Professor and Curator, Polyploidy and plant phylogenetics.

Open Meeting on Strategy chaired by Dr. Ken Peach

Everyone is welcome

Abstract: Motivated by generalizations of the Ginsburg-Landau energy and the diffusion equation in which derivatives are replaced by fractional derivatives, Caffarelli, Roquejoffre, and Savin studied the minimizers of a fractional perimeter functional on sets involving a parameter between 0 and 1. Such minimizers have to satisfy a pointwise condition on their boundary, which can be used to define a notion of nonlocal mean-curvature. This definition only holds for surfaces which are the boundary of a set. I will describe how to define a nonlocal notion of mean-curvature for any surface by introducing a fractional area functional and considering its minimizers. Moreover, I will describe how these ideas can be extended to curves by defining a fractional length and an associated nonlocal curvature for a curve.

Seminar hosted by Theory of Quantum Matter Unit

Prof. Johannes Reuther, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany

Prof. Yu Shen, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Lectures and microscope demonstration : Super resolution microscopy (SIM, STORM/PALM, STED, etc.) Aberration correction, Labeling condition, Sampling rate, Denoising, etc.) Applications in research. etc. Registration reqired for demonstration. Language: English

１３：３０開場　１４：００開演

入場無料、要予約

会場: 名護２１世紀の森体育館（メインアリーナ） 　　　〒905-0015 沖縄県名護市大南２丁目１−１

参加費: 無料

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

Dr. Maxim Trushin, Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, NUS, Singapore

Speaker: Dr. Katja T.C.A. Peijnenburg 1) Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2) University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Abstract: The rational homotopy groups of the group Diff(S^4) of self-diffeomorphisms of S^4 with the C^\infty-topology. We present a method to prove that there are many 'exotic' non-trivial elements in the rational homotopy groups of Diff(S^4) parametrized by trivalent graphs. The proof utilizes Kontsevich's characteristic classes for smooth disk bundles and a version of clasper surgery for families. In fact, these are analogues of Chern-Simons perturbation theory in 3-dimension and clasper theory due to Goussarov and Habiro.

First Assembly of the ORC (OIST Researcher Community) with the new elected office.

Language: English

Speaker: Prof Ya Tang Yang - Jack; National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Language: English

沖縄県立芸術大学大学院造形芸術研究科展 at OIST。入場無料。

TQM unit is pleased to invite everyone to a seminar.

Seminar Language: English

The Tokuyasu cryo-sectioning method is a well-established technique in Cell Biology for the localisation of macromoleculs by immuno-gold labelling. We will teach the essentials like chemical fixation and its impact on the cellular ultrastructure, how to judge the quality of antibodies and to do immunolabelling.

Cooking Competition

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute https://www.mbari.org/bessho_manabu/

“QuickFix”- improve your application materials in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!

Abstract: In this talk, I will explain basics of the Seiberg-Witten equations and applications to topology. I will also mention about recent progress in the Seiberg-Witten Floer theory.

Seminar by Prof. Tuan Tran,School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: Adaptive nonlinear control and learning dynamics with spiking networks

Mr. Sajid Ali, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Universiry of Technology, Sydney

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Jhon González, Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU)-Material Physics Center (MPC)

Speaker: Dr. Lei-Han Tang, Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Complex Systems Division, Beijing Computational Science Research Center

Seminar

Speaker: Prof. Chao Tang, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University

Speaker: Prof. X.C. Xie, International Center for Quantum Materials and School of Physics, Peking University

Speaker: Prof. Enge Wang, International Center for Quantum Materials and School of Physics, Peking University & Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

OIST Jointly-funded Symposium organized by OIST (Marine Biophysics Unit) and Scripps Institution of Oceonography | All scientific sessions open to OIST members (working meals are closed sessions) | For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

National holiday

那覇のジュンク堂書店にて行われている、OISTの研究者らによるサイエンストークシリーズ「衣食住」。

第4回目となる1月は、G0細胞ユニットの佐二木健一研究員が、科学技術が発展する世界に「やちむん」が教えてくれること　について講演を行う予定です。

Kenji Katayama, Department of Applied Chemistry, Chuo University

Researchers and professors from universities as well as renowned energy companies from all over Japan come together to discuss their recent projects. All OIST members are welcome to attend. Presentations on Friday will be held in English, presentations on Saturday in Japanese.

Seminar by Prof. Matsueda, Vice President, NIT Sendai

The new issue of Kuroshio Magazine is out -- and available in print at today’s Teatime! Swing by Grano at 4pm to grab some tea, coffee and snacks and read up on the Current of OIST!

National holiday.

National holiday.

Katoori Chaat

Title: Maintenance of regulatory T cell stability by ubiquitin E3 ligases deltex1 and XIAP

Speaker: Professor Ming-Zong Lai

Affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sincia

When developing a drug, biomarker, or treatment approach, how will it actually work in patients, and how will it change the decisions that are made during treatment? Doctors, patients, and other stake holders each have different concerns about the costs/benefits at each stage of a medical treatment, and these concerns are not always effectively met. We focus on these issues in a teaching setting at Brown University (USA) as a lot of the tools for translating research into healthcare are generally relevant to how we do collaborative research.

Prof. Gordon Berman, Emory University

Host: Stephens unit

In this Innovation Forum hosted talk, Ginkgo Bioworks Associate Head of Metabolic Engineering, Dr. Massimo Merighi, will discuss several case studies of pathways developed by Ginkgo, in particular one involving the engineering of a substrate co-feed in Escherichia coli , including a history of how this design cycle has evolved over time to take advantage of new technological developments.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Title: The mouth, the anus and the blastopore. Their questionable developmental and evolutionary relationships and the origin of the animal gut

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Hejnol

Affiliation: Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Norway. Research Group Leader “Comparative Developmental Biology of Animals”