Professor Itai Shafrir , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Title: Minimizers of a variational problem for nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation in two dimensions

[Speaker] Prof. Masaki Satoh (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)

Language: English

Instructor: Kiku Doi is from Japan and excited to share her unique talent with you!

講師：土井 貴久子

For children ages 5-12 (limited to 6 participants)

対象年齢　5-12歳 (参加人数　6人まで）

OIST and Keio University, Japan's very first private institution of higher learning located in the center of Tokyo, are starting a series of short seminars (OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK) to introduce each other's researchers to promote future collaboration.

Do you start preparing for a presentation by creating your slides first or your script first? Join us to find out why you should start with a script and how to go about doing it.

Learn how to check in and out of doctor's appointments, describe pain and symptoms, and speak in emergency situations, all in Japanese.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link , then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )

沖縄県立芸術大学大学院造形芸術研究科によるアート展がトンネルギャラリーで行われます。この展示会は、2013年に始まったOISTと県立芸大の共同主催イベントで今年で5回目を迎えます。10周年記念事業の一環でもあります。

Prof. Dr. Julijana Gjorgjieva

Assistant Professor in Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Technical University of Munich

The emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits

How neural circuits become organized during early postnatal development based on patterns of spontaneous activity and different plasticity mechanisms. Prof. Julijana will show the emergence of organization at the sub-cellular and cellular level and discuss implications for computations implemented by these networks. These theoretical models and simulations are supported by experimental data and make numerous predictions for future experiments.

Zoom link

Passcode: 959053

Join Dr. Maya Soetoro, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Institute for Climate and Peace, and Ms. Juno Fitzpatrick, Advisory Committee Member, Institute for Climate and Peace, and Director of Human Rights and Oceans, Center for Oceans at Conservation International for a discussion about the intersection of climate and peace.

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The 27th East Asia Joint Symposium

~Reboot 2021: Explorling Life Science in the Post-Pandemic Era~

Professor Oscar Domingues Bonilla , The University of Lyon Title: John–Nirenberg spaces revisited Abstract:

We study John—Nirenberg-type spaces where oscillations of functions are controlled via covering lemmas. Our methods give new surprising results and clarify classical inequalities. Joint work with Mario Milman (Florida and Buenos Aires).

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

Speaker: George Seelinger , University of Michigan Title: Diagonal harmonics and shuffle theorems

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Speaker: Samuel Creedon, City, University of London

Title: Defining an Affine Partition Algebra

Language: English

Do you have a list of steps in your mind when you are asked to give a quick talk?

Join us to talk about what types of things should be discussed and how we should discuss them in a spontaneous one minute talk.

Learn how to call a taxi, give directions to a location, and describe a place with simple adjectives, all in Japanese.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )

PhD Public Presentation

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.

In the mathematics part, we will hear an exciting overview talk for a general audience. October speaker is Megumi Harada, Professor of McMaster University. In the discussion session, we will hear about the speaker's personal journey as a mathematician. You 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.

You can join Part I only or both parts of the colloquium. Please register before Oct 18th, 5 pm. Click here to register!

Seminar hosted by QG unit. Speaker: Jelle Hartong, The University of Edinburgh Title: Carroll Symmetry and Cosmology

The presenters talk about their new book, A Guide to Understanding Fundamental Principles of Environmental Management: It Ain’t Magic: Everything Goes Somewhere, and how it relates to climate change and other “sticky” natural resource management problems.

Presenters: Mr. Andrew Manale, Policy Analyst & Writer Mr. Bengt “Skip” Hyberg, President, H&H Conservation

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Dr. João Pedro Ramos , Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Title: STABILITY FOR GEOMETRIC AND FUNCTIONAL INEQUALITIES Abstract

Faculty Lunctime Seminar. Speaker: Eugene Kroll (STG). Title: "Knocking Out Cancer's Sweet Tooth".

Python is a popular, powerful programming language that is often used in scientific computing. You will get an introduction to the Python language and to common scientific libraries, and you will learn how to use Python in the OIST cluster environment.

What makes a good presentation good?

Join us as we consider the aspects of making memorable presentations.

Learn how to make a reservation at a restaurant, order food and ask for items, and order food for pickup, all in Japanese.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link, then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )

Join the Japan ICU Foundation and the OIST Foundation for this new webinar series focused on the Future of Education in Japan. Panelists: Prof. Monte Cassim (President, Akita International University), Dr. Peter Gruss (President, OIST), Dr. Kohei Itoh (President, Keio University), Dr. Shoichiro Iwakiri (President, ICU)

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Analysis on Metric Spaces Fall Seminar

Title: Quasiconformal and Sobolev mappings in metric measure spaces

Speaker: Panu Lahti, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Abstract: Starting from Gehring, the equivalence between the metric, geometric, and analytic def- initions of quasiconformality has been investigated by various authors. There are many results stating that if a mapping is metrically quasiconformal, perhaps only in a relaxed sense, then it is analytically quasiconformal, or at least a Sobolev mapping. In recent joint work with Xiaodan Zhou, we have shown an improved version of such a result, which seems to detect more Sobolev mappings than previous results in the literature. I will discuss these results as well as the general strategy of the proofs.

Python is a popular, powerful programming language that is often used in scientific computing. You will get an introduction to the Python language and to common scientific libraries, and you will learn how to use Python in the OIST cluster environment.

Seminar hosted by QG Unit. Speaker: Karapet Mkrtchyan, Imperial College London Title: Duality-symmetric formulation of electrodynamics and (chiral) p-form generalizations

Speaker: Paul Wedrich , University of Hamburg Title: Knots and quivers, HOMFLYPT and DT

Professor Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester Title: Finite point configurations and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension Abstract:

The Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension was invented in 1970 to study learning models. This notion has since become one of the cornerstones of modern data science. This beautiful idea has also found applications in other areas of mathematics. In this talk we are going to describe how the study of the VC-dimension in the context of families of indicator functions of spheres centered at points in sets of a given Hausdorff dimension (or in sets of a given size inside vector spaces over finite fields) gives rise to interesting, and in some sense extremal, point configurations.

Theory of Quantum Matter Unit and Quantum Machines Unit joint Seminar.

Python is a popular, powerful programming language that is often used in scientific computing. You will get an introduction to the Python language and to common scientific libraries, and you will learn how to use Python in the OIST cluster environment.

RIMS x OIST Jointly-funded Workshop | Main organizer from OIST: Shinobu Hikami (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions | Application Form (Deadline Oct 4, 2021)

We ask for you understanding that the dates are subject to change due to the the current COVID-19 situation.

https://groups.oist.jp/recreation/iyengar-yoga-yasuko Yasuko -san will be offering two classes in two locations.

For more information and REGISTRATION , please visit our website.

Do you have a strategy for finishing your presentation?

Join us to leanr about some tried and tested techniques as we discuss microfanancing.

Learn how to have a basic conversation in Japanese, including speaking about likes, dislikes and the weather. You'll also learn some high-frequency phrases that you hear often in Japan.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link , then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )

This is the roundtable discussion following the film screening Chasing Coral, in a Q&A style.

Panelists: Prof. Robert Dunbar (Stanford University; OIST Foundation Climate & Ocean ambassador) / Prof. Timothy Ravasi (Marine Climate Change Unit) / Prof. Noriyuki Satoh (Marine Genomics Unit)

Register here

Come to watch (one more time) this epic award-winning documentary film about vanishing coral reefs around the world and climate change. Special introduction by Prof. Timothy Ravasi, Marine Climate Change Unit.

No registration required.

An online roundtable discussion and Q&A to further reflect about Ocean's health, climate challenge, coral reef research, and SDG - life below water, will follow on the next day (October 8). Registration separate.

Seminar hosted by QG Unit. Speaker: Prof. Augusto Sagnotti , Scuola Normale Superiore Title: On Broken Supersymmetry in String Theory

Language: English

Reservation required

Application Deadline: Sep 1 (Wed)

This is the second series of the OIST-RIKEN institutional level symposium.

FALL 2021 Nonlinear Analysis Online Seminar Seminar Series Sagun Chanillo , Rutgers University Title: Local Version of Courant's Nodal domain theorem. Abstract:

Consider a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold with no boundary, endowed with a smooth metric. A famous theorem of Courant states that the k-th eigenfunction for the Laplace-Beltrami operator can have at most k nodal domains. Nodal domains are the open and connected sets where the eigenfunction does not vanish. H. Donnelly and Fefferman obtained some 30 years ago a local version of this theorem. Improvements were made by Chanillo-Muckenhoupt and others. In this talk we obtain the optimal local version of the local Courant theorem. We also relate this result to conjectures of S.-T. Yau on nodal sets, that is the zero set of eigenfunctions. The results of our talk have been obtained jointly with A. Logunov, E. Mallinikova and D. Mangoubi.

R Package Development aims to provide you with the basic tools and knowledge to write your own high-quality R packages.

In this course, we aim to show you how to develop your own R packages. By doing so, you can take your R programming skills to the next level, becoming not just a user, but also a developer.

▼Target audience This course is suitable for people who:

Have some previous exposure to R (like Skill Pill: R ) Want to become active contributors to the R community through package development or Want to learn some advanced features of R

Amazon Web Service ( AWS )​​ is a very powerful cloud computing platform powering not only Amazon, but also many other web services across the globe. Scientists are now embracing the massive computing capacity of AWS to perform innovative scientific computing.

▼Target audience

The course requires basic knowledge of Python programming language. In addition, basic understanding of Linux command line is desired to run the hands-on tutorials.

No prior knowledge in cloud computing is needed, but if you know how to use Deigo that will help.

What makes a good presentation good?

Join us as we consider the aspects of making memorable presentations.

Learn how to ask questions about ingredients and allergens, ask about price and quantity of goods, and pay for your purchases at the register, all in Japanese.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link , then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )