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Round-table with OIST Alumni

Date: May 20 (Thu.), 2021 Time: 13:30-14:30 (tentative) Venue: Lab4 E48

Let’s gather around in casual setting, and please help us support OIST students in their professional and career development.

・Date: May 20 (Thu.), 2021 ・Time: 10:00-11:00 (tentative) ・Venue: Lab4

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Speaker: Dr. Tadashi Kozuno RLAI Lab, University of Alberta Title: Revisiting Peng's Q(λ): Good Old-Fashioned Algorithm for Modern Reinforcement Learning

The Future of Women in Science Virtual Discussion and Launch of The Rita R. Colwell Impact Fund for the Advancement of Women in Science. Registration required.

Oksana Burduzhan is a mother and an aspiring artist. Her passion and interest is in art, and her educational background is in Economics. Some OIST members may have taken her adult art classes. She will now open classes for children ages 6-14.

Mini Course: Asymptote will let you draw things with your keyboard!

◆Target audience Everyone interested in learning how to draw beautiful vector graphics. Some familiarity with LaTeX is useful but not a requirement.

Seminar hosted by QG unit. Speaker: Luca Buoninfante, JSPS postdoctoral fellow Title: "Towards a Ghost-free Theory of Quantum Gravity"

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

Celebrate the International Day of Light Live, Streamed from OIST starring Cephi the Cephalopod

Title: Natural \(p\)-means for the \(p\)-Laplacian in Euclidean space and the Heisenberg Group Speaker: Professor Juan J. Manfredi

Want to practice your conversation skills with other Japanese learners? Join us for Advanced Conversation in Japanese every Thursday from 16:00 - 17:00 during the summer semester.

The topic will change every week.

Yasuko-Sensei is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher and she will be teaching on Thursday afternoons in the Ocean View Room from 12:00pm-1:00pm. She is certified in Iyengar Yoga level 1 and level 2. She completed the RYT-200 program in Ashtanga style in Doha, Qatar in 2014 and has been practicing yoga since 1998. Come take a break from work and check it out! Yasuko Rudisel will be giving Iyengar Yoga lessons at lunch time. Instruction will be given in English and Japanese.

A photography exhibition by the OIST Community. (The OIST campus is currently not open to visitors.)

Language: English

Stories of the great fanfictions on the 3 Abrahamic religions, their writers, their collisions with the anti-intellectual atmospheres of the day, the role of fear, and the uncanny inflammability of manuscripts.

Speaker: Yasha Neiman.

沖縄科学技術大学院大学（OIST）財団は「仲宗根松郎・ツル子基金」の設立を記念し、オンライン特別イベントを開催する。日時は５月５日午前１０時。対象は小学生以上の児童・生徒。参加は無料。同基金はハワイ州在住のロバート・ナカソネ氏（元世界ウチナーンチュ・ビジネス会議ハワイ会長）のOIST財団への寄付金5万ドルにより設立された。

National holiday

National holiday

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Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Spinor-helicity variables in Yang-Mills theory".

National holiday

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.

Speaker: Mark Wildon , Royal Holloway, University of London Title: Plethysms, polynomial representations of linear groups and Hermite reciprocity over an arbitrary field

Zoom seminar hosted by QG unit. Speaker: Andrei Marshakov , Professor of Mathematical Physics Title: "Cluster integrable systems and supersymmetric gauge theories"

SCIENCE TALK　沖縄から世界に羽ばたく未来の科学者トーク vol.4

As in previous years, the Management Development Program will continue to provide valuable training for OIST managers. 前年度に引き続きマネジャーデベロップメントプログラムは、OISTマネジャーにとって有益な研修を提供していきます

The first meeting of the club!

Associate Professor Jean Van Schaftingen , Université catholique de Louvain Title: Vortex dynamics for the lake equations

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

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Dr.Takemasa Miyoshi

Team Leader, Data Assimilation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Computational Science

This Mini Course will sell Z shells on the Z shore. The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.

◆Target Audience This course is suitable for people who have used Unix terminals before.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Dorin Weissman. Title: "Cubic Vertices for N=1 Supersymmetric Massless Higher Spin Fields in Various Dimensions".

Language: English

Join the OIST Foundation and Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth for a virtual program that will examine aging through the lenses of biology, philosophy, and policy with a goal of shedding light on ways to live longer, healthier lives.

Register here .

The World Quantum Day is obviously celebrated on April 14, as 4.14 are the rounded first digits of Planck’s constant (in units of eV.s). It aims at engaging the general public in the understanding and discussion of Quantum Science and Technology around the world.This year’s launch event is a presentation by Prof. Alain Aspect (Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Université Paris-Saclay) on one of the fundamental mysteries of quantum mechanics: the duality between waves and particles. We invite you to watch Prof. Aspect’s presentation (and join a discussion) on Thursday, April 15th at 1pm in B250 (new normal rules and regulations apply). Language: English Audience: General public Title: From Einstein to Wheeler: Wave-Particle duality of a single photon

Crystallizing Time in a BEC - Prof. Peter Hannaford, Optical Sciences Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Prof. Meheboob Alam, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Language: English, no interpretation.

Title: Engineering light-matter interactions for optical nanotweezers and for chip-scale infrared microspectrometers

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Crozier Physics and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Speaker: Stacey Law , University of Cambridge Title: Sylow branching coefficients and a conjecture of Malle and Navarro

In this session, Jeremie Gillet will have a hands-on introduction to Elm, a functional programming language for building safe web applications. Intall Elm in advance.

Zoom seminar hosted by QG unit. Speaker: Shahin Sheikh-Jabbari, IPM (Tehran). Title: "Null Boundary symmetries".

Screening of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean"

Quantum Trivia Zoom Quiz! Join us for a fun online LIVE Trivia Quiz about the quantum world! Open to all OIST and Public in Okinawa.

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: David O'Connell (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Principal G-Bundles".

Tell Me Something I Don't Know lunchtime event. All are welcome, but must be prepared to tell a cool science story.

Language: English

This seminar is registration free. We look forward to your participation via Zoom.

Join the OIST Foundation, in partnership with the Smart City Institute Japan, for a virtual roundtable that will discuss the ways in which universities can have a positive impact on local communities and future generations through the formation of innovation parks and smart cities.

Register here .