Title: "Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation”

Speaker: Professor Stefan Hoppler

Institution: Prof. Stefan Hoppler, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Speaker: Dr. J. Michael Herrmann Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Part III: Introduction to the numerical libraries Numpy, Scipy and Matplotlib. Bring a laptop, and make sure you can access Sango and Tombo.

ファミリー向け科学イベント、入場無料、サイエンスカフェは要予約

Updates from Executive meetings and Open Forum

The Mechanical Engineering and Microfabrication Support Section would like to invite you to the Mechanical Engineering User Group meeting on Friday the 20th of April.

Seminar by Prof. Paul Wiegmann from University of Chicago

The weekly Topology and Geometry Seminar, with Dr. Johannes Schönke (Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit)

Part II: A few common uses for Python on the Cluster. Bring a laptop, and make sure you have access to Sango and Tombo clusters.

Lecture title: Event-ready loophole free Bell tests - From Foundations to Applications Speaker: Prof. Harald Weinfurter, University of Munich, Germany

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

Prof. Paola Laurino (Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit, OIST). "Towards an ancient finger print of Rossmann fold enzymes and the evolution of SAM methylation", 10:00-11:00, April 18 (wed).

Lecture title: Spin dynamics of individual neutral impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate Speaker: Prof. Artur Widera, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

Lecture title: Semiclassical wave packet dynamics in quantum systems with loss and gain Speaker: Dr. Eva-Maria Graefe, Imperial College London, UK.

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

JST representatives will visit OIST to explain about CREST/PRESTO. Date： Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Time: 11：00-12：00（Japanese session） 13：00-14：00（English Session） @ C210 Seminar Room, C Floor, Center bld. Speaker： Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Representatives Dr. Hideki Yamazaki & Dr. Tomohisa Hamada/ Senior Staff, Department of Innovation Research, JST , No registration required . Contact: grant@oist.jp Grants and Research Collaborations Section,

Part I: Introduce the Python language. Bring a laptop, and ask for access to Sango and Tombo clusters beforehand.

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: January 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/c3qs

Dr. Joel P. Schneider, Chief of Chemical Biology Laboratory Head, Peptide Design and Materials Section Center for Cancer Research Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Speaker: Prof. Remi Munos

Date,Time,Venue: April 13, Friday from 14:00-15:00 @B711, Lab3

Title: "Several challenges of deep Reinforcement Learning"

Affiliation: INRIA (currently visiting Google DeepMind) Lille, France (London, UK)

Lecture of 10:30 and 15:30 starting on Friday 13th.

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend

This week, Dr. Dale Koenig (Tsvietkova Unit) will talk on "3-manifolds in trisections".

Seminar by Prof. Karlo Penc from Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest

Speaker: Dr Dipankar Mondal, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India

Speaker: Prof. Heng-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University Date : Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: A phase space in your phase space

Speaker: Mr Sylvain de Léséleuc, Institut d'Optique - Orsay, France

The weekly Topology and Geometry Seminar, with Dr. Yasha Neiman.

Seminar by Dr. Evgney Ivashkin

Seminar by Dr. Oleg Gusev

Speaker: Dr Yong Yang, Senior research fellow, Institute of Photonics, Aston University, UK

Internal seminar: Alex Tang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit

C700, 4:30-5:00pm

Speaker: Austin B. Mudd Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley Date : Thursday, March 29, 2018 Time : 3:45pm-4:45pm Venue: C210, Center Building

Speaker: Jessen V. Bredeson Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley Date : Thursday, March 29, 2018 Time : 2:30pm-3:30pm Venue: C210, Center Building

Prof. Anasavarapu Srikantha Phani, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Canada. Language: English, no interpretation.

Speaker: Dr. G. Albert Wu U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute Date : Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Time : 3:45pm-4:45pm Venue: C209, Center Building

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

Speaker: Dr. Therese Mitros University of California, Berkeley Date : Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Time : 2:30pm-3:30pm Venue: C209, Center Building

Neural Computation Unit will hold an internal workshop at Seaside House. By invitation only

Seminar by Prof. Murat Kazanci from Istanbul Medeniyet University.

Speaker: Prof. Tadashi Takayanagi, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University Date : Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

Seminar " Onset of Random Matrix Behavior in Scrambling Systems" by Masanori Hanada (Kyoto/Colorado) Mar 26 (Mon) 11:00-12:00 C015, Lab1, English

Select female high school students from Okinawa will learn about cutting edge science by participating in fun, hands-on workshops.

Speaker: Dr. Dionysios Anninos, University of Amsterdam Date : Friday, March 23, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

"Effective Visual Communication of Science: how to visualize your scientific ideas and help your audience effortlessly grasp the essence of your research". This 2 day workshop is especially valuable for PostDocs, PhD students and other researchers who have to communicate complex ideas and results

Registration is required. Space is limited to 24 participants. Priority will be given to Postdocs.

Click HERE to register. Post-event survey SUMMARY

National holiday.

Emergence of Intelligence through End-to-End Reinforcement Learning and Chaos-based Reinforcement Learning towards the Emergence of "Thinking" by Dr. Katsunari Shibata, Oita University

Speaker: Lashmi Piriya Ananda Babu

Title: Functional roles of microtubules in a giant presynaptic terminal

Speaker: Dr. Henrique von Gersdorff from Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University

Mr. Terry O’Connor, Communications Director for the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: Jan 15, 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/mtpu/oist-symposium-bootstrap-approach-conformal-field-theories-and-applications

On Friday, March 16th, the last event of the OIST Science Talk Series featuring OIST scientists from Okinawa will take place. The talk series was very popular and well received by the public, so we decided to have an extra event in March in which five of the six speakers will get together and respond to questions come from the public. The event will start from 18:30-19:30 at Junku-do Book Store in Naha (1-19-29 Makishi, Naha-city). *The talk is in Japanese only.