ENTER IMPORTANT DETAILS HERE, SUCH AS SPEAKER INFO, "Language: Japanese. No interpretation will be provided.", "Participation by invitation only.", "Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/reserve for more information and registration.", ETC.

Join us for November's 2nd Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Microbiology and Biochemistry of Secondary Metabolites Unit (Holger Jenke-Kodama) and the Formation and Regulation of Neuronal Connectivity Unit (David Van Vactor).

Seminar by Prof. Oleg Tchernyshyov (Johns Hopkins University), Thu 27th Nov @ 1:30pm (C015)

This is an external event. For information regarding this event, please visit the conference's website at http://mirlabs.net/isda14/

Seminar by Dr. Frank Pollmann (MPI-pks Dresden) : "Spin Liquids on the Kagome Lattice" Tue, 25th Nov @ 2-3pm (C016), All is welcome.

Learn to think from a business perspective and also work in teams to create a business plan for a new business rooted in Okinawa. The program will consist of 2 lectures on the design thinking process, 2 workshops to create prototypes for your businesses, and 1 final presentation. There will be participants from the University of Ryukyus and the Okinawa National College of Technology. Participants will also have the chance to get advice on their business plans from local business people as well as from the mentors. So if you want to learn the design thinking process, or want to create a business plan with your fellow teammates, this is your chance to do so!

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要予約。詳細は後ほど発表します。

Dear all,

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to announce a seminar by Dr. Renu Sharma, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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Date & Time: Thursday, Nov 20th, 13:00-14:00

Venue: D014, Lab 1

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Speaker: Dr. Renu Sharma, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Title: Correlative microscopy for in-situ characterization of catalyst nanoparticles under reactive environments

Abstract :

In recent years the environmental transmission scanning electron microscope (ESTEM) has been successfully employed to elucidate the structural and chemical changes occurring in catalyst nanoparticles under reactive environments. While...

入場無料。要予約（11/4予約開始）。

Join us for November's 1st Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C210. This month's seminars feature the Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Ibrahim Mukhles Sowwan) and the Structural Cellular Biology Unit (Ulf Skoglund).

This is an externally organized event. For more information on how to register and the latest program, please visit the official website: http://jscs.jp/sympo/28/ (Japanese only)

【Seminar 】Lecture 2: Inside story on the structure and function of a living nano-machine by Jonathan Trent, Ph.D. NASA Ames Research Center, UC. Santa Cruz.

Jonathan Trent, Ph.D, NASA Ames Research Center, UC. Santa Cruz. His second seminar, "Lecture 2: Inside story on the structure and function of a living nano-machine" will be on Wed Nov 12.

Seminar by Prof. Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK

Application open: June 24, 2014 Application close: July 20, 2014

"Population genomics and the nature of domesticated citrus and cassava" by Professor Daniel Rokhsar; Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at University of California, Berkeley

Speaker: Prof. Bruce W. Fouke (AAPG Distinguished Lecture) (Director, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center & Professor of Geology, Microbiology and the Institute for Genomic University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Professor in Oxford and Director of John Adams Institute

Culture Day 2014

外部団体主催のイベントです。

Join us for October's 2nd Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Collective Interactions Unit (Mahesh Bandi) and the Marine Genomics Unit (Nori Satoh).

Seminar by Prof. Andreas Laeuchli (Unv.Innsbruck), 2-3pm, Oct 31 (Fri) @ C016. All is welcome!

Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan

Public series of talks by six eminent marine scientists from around the world

Nick Ross is a well-known UK TV and radio presenter. This colloquium is open to public. The talk will be in English, but Japanese interpretation will NOT be provided.

Sarah Caplin is a TV executive with more than 30 years of broadcasting experience in factual programme production at BBC TV and at ITV, the UK’s main commercial broadcaster. English with no Japanese interpretation.

Seminar by Dr. Kazuhiro Nawa, ISSP, University of Tokyo. Oct 21 (Tue) at C016. All is welcome.

The use of field programmable gate arrays for implementing embedded vision algorithms.

29th International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) General Meeting

Join us for October's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in the Auditorium. This month's seminars feature the Developmental Signalling Unit (Mary Ann Price) and the Molecular Genetics Unit (Sydney Brenner).

How can physiology help to understand the ecology and climate change resilience of marine fishes?

OIST Workshop organized by Prof. Alexander Mikheyev (Ecology and Evolution Unit)

External event. Pre-registration required. Registration forms (Japanese only) at http://sigubi.ipsj.or.jp/seminar44/ & http://www.sighci.jp/events/sig/160.

Sports Day 2014

Dear all,

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to announce a seminar by, Prof. Ghaleb Husseini, American University of Sharjah.

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Date & Time: Friday, October 10, 10:00-11:00

Venue: C016, Lab 1

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Speaker: Prof. Ghaleb Husseini

American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates

Title: Drug Delivery and Ultrasound

Abstract : Chemotherapy is the most extensively used treatment in the fight against malignant neoplasms. Unfortunately, chemotherapy use is plagued with numerous side effects. These side effects are caused primarily because of the non-specific nature of the treatment as the drug is capable of killing normal and cancerous cells alike....

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10/8 (水) Open 18:30 Start 19:00 入場無料・要予約

講演概要

20世紀は「物理学の世紀であった」と言われる。世の中のすべての物質を構成する素粒子を研究するための装置は巨大化し、現代は地下100メートルに一周27kmのトンネルを建設し、その中で加速器を用いて実験を行うまでになった。このような実験は「巨大科学（ビッグサイエンス）」と呼ばれている。日本人研究者は国際協力を通じて素粒子研究に多大な貢献を行っている。これからの巨大科学を成功に導くには稲作民族に見られる集団行動の際の美質が鍵となる。

経歴

1967年名古屋大学大学院理学研究科博士課程修了。 京都大学理学部助手を経て、1980年に京都大学基礎物理学研究所教授。 1997年から2003年の間、京都大学基礎物理学研究所長を勤め、2003年に京都大学名誉教授に任命された。2010年以降、名古屋大学素粒子宇宙起源研究機構長を務める。 2008年ノーベル物理学賞受賞

Seminar 'Wiring the Functional Brain' Prof. Hisashi Umemori.

Professor, Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Application deadline: July 15, 2014

10/2 (Thu) 19:00　入場無料　要予約

Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga, World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan

Professor, International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, China

Seminar by Dr. Frank Abild-Pedersen from Stanford University 10:00-11:00, Oct 02

Vice-Chancellor & Professor of Psychology, University of Otago. English with no interpretation. 講演会は英語のみになります。

入場無料

Speaker: Dr. Harry Wilson, Academic Service section manager.

Speaker will be Taichiro Sakagami from OIST Open Biology Unit, who is from Kobe! スピーカーは神戸出身の坂上太一郎技術員（OISTオープンバイオロジーユニット）！

Prof. Naoyuki Haba, Department of Physics and Material Science, Shimane University.

Autumn Equinox 2014

Dr. Saar Kirmayer, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science