OIST researchers are welcome to attend the conference as an audience. Registration fee is not required for OIST members. Please register by October 18th.

Time: 11:10-12:00

Speaker: Dr. Alex Dornburg, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (USA)

Seminar: "Textile degradation in indoor cultural heritage" by Pauline Uring, LISA (Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR 7583 CNRS – University Paris Est and Paris Diderot)

Time: 10:10-11:00

Speaker: Prof. Lars Schmitz, W.M. Keck Science Center (USA)

Time: 9:20-10:10, Oct 23

Speaker: Dr. Matt Brandley, Department of Primary Industries, New South Wales, (Australia)

Quantum Gravity Group Meeting:

Title: Conformal Bootstrap at Finite Temperature

Speaker : Sudip Ghosh, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)

Dr. Steffen Kiel is senior scientist and curator at the Paleobiology Department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. He received is PhD in paleontology from the University of Hamburg in Germany, and continued his research at various institutions in the USA, England, Austria, and Germany. His main interests are the drivers of evolution on geologic timescales, biogeography, and the deep ocean.

Speaker: Dr. Patrick Tremblay, Senior Vice President and Corporate Development Officer Caprion Biosciences Inc.

Modern views on intelligent informatics and biomedical sciences: Track 1: Signal Processing, Computer Networks, and Telecommunications Track 2: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human-Computer Interaction Track 3: Bioinformaticsw, Medical Imaging, and Neuroscience

Discussion of the recent article in Nature by D. Frauchiger and R. Renner "Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself" by Henry Stoltenberg.

Dr. Scott Cummins, University of Sunshine Coast, Australia.

Key words : Marine Biology, Neurobiology, Chemical Ecology, Genomic, Proteomic

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

We're inviting several guests from Japan and overseas.

This event is registration-free, so please come and join us if you're interested!

OIST researchers are welcome to attend the talk and poster sessions of the OIST x CiNet workshop, from October 17th to 19th. Please register for poster presentation and attendance by September 24th.

Quantum Gravity Group Meeting

Title: Fine-tuning and the Second Law in our de Sitter universe

Speaker : Yasha Neiman

Internal Seminar, Friday October 12th, 4-5pm, B700

Internal Seminar, Friday October 12, 4-5pm, B700

This highly interactive 90-minute workshop covers the most common questions asked during job interviews and how to formulate the best responses.

Researcher registration - CLICK HERE. Students should register via Graduate School.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

Discussion on symmetries and charges in general relativity at null boundaries by Lin-Qing Chen.

This workshop covers the structure, organization, and delivery of scientific talks.

Researcher registration - CLICK HERE . Students should register via Graduate School.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

Speaker: Dr. Bruce Alberts

Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry & Biophysics for Science & Education. University of California, San Francisco.

[Seminar]

Title: Emergence of topological gauge theories from coupled arrays of wires

-- coupled-- wire construction demystified

Speaker: Professor Keisuke Totsuka

Institution: Kyoto University

Speaker: Prof. Akito Kawahara, Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, University of Florida

[Seminar]

Title: Trapping Visons in Kitaev’s spin liquid

Speaker: Professor Masafumi Udagawa

Institution: Gakushuin University

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

[Seminar] Speaker: Dr. Gary (I-Kang) Liu, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

[Cancelled] Speaker: Claudine Haroche, CNRS, Paris

This workshop will cover academic and non-academic job search strategies.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

To register CLICK HERE

This workshop will cover how to develop your personal brand and effectively communicate your value to important stakeholders.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

To register CLICK HERE

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Ray Xin Lee

Title: Nature and source of animal spontaneous behaviors : Insights from psycho behavioral development and neuronal population dynamics in mice

Date&Time: October 3rd, 9:00am

Venue: C700, Lab3

Speaker: Dr. Yutaro Shoji from Nagoya University Abstract: The electroweak vacuum is not absolutely stable in the standard model and various models beyond the standard model. This is due to an appearance of another deeper vacuum, into which the electroweak vacuum can decay. The decay proceeds through quantum tunneling and the rate is expressed with an exponential suppression factor and a pre-factor. The suppression factor has been calculated in many papers, but a naive dimensional analysis has been usually adopted for the pre-factor.

We have pointed out that such an evaluation can suffer from large quantum corrections and it is important to calculate the pre-factor as well.

To calculate the pre-factor, we had problems in a gauge sector; its gauge invariance is not explicitly shown, and there appear zero modes, which we could not deal with.

We have solved these problems and made it possible to determine vacuum decay rates precisely.

As applications, we analyzed the decay rates in the standard model and its fermionic extensions. We also provide a public code, which can be used for models that exhibit classical scale invariance at a high energy scale.

[Seminar]

Title: In vivo imaging of calcium and membrane potential signals in mouse hippocampal neurons

Speaker: Professor Tsai-Wen Chen

Institution: National Yang-Ming University

*Time & Venue are changed to 10:00-11:00 (Oct 2), C700-Lab3.

Seminar on One-loop tests of PM higher spin holography by Wenliang Li (Hikami Unit)

A paid trial of Wiley Online Books will be available until March 26, 2019.

QG Group Meeting

Title: Expansions of the Black Hole Solution in AdS(3)

Speaker : Nico Fischer, Research Intern, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)

Internal Seminar, Friday September 28th, 4-5 pm, C700

Internal Seminar, Friday, September 28th, 4-5pm, C700

[Seminar]

Title: Speedup of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm by Topological Cancellation

Speaker: Professor Robert Joynt

Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison

[Seminar]

Title: Spin-nematic state in two-dimensional frustrated spin systems consisting of ferromagnetic dimers

Speaker: Professor Toshiya Hikihara

Institution: Gunma University

Seminar by Dr. Markus Arndt, Professor of Quantum Nanophysics at University of Vienna

This is a part of the summer school CQD2018 hosted by Nic Chormaic Unit & Busch Unit.

Discussion on Black Hole Memory Effect by Tomonori Ugajin.

NEW TIME - 1pm

Dr. Eugene W. Myers Director & Founding Chair of Systems Biology Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

“QuickFix” - identify your transferable skills through in an interactive card sorting activity!

The workshop is going to be held on September 26, 2018,

International symposium on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion | All sessions are open to OIST faculty/staff/students. Please register online and include “OIST” in the remarks, or show your OIST ID at the registration desk. | Website: http://otecsymposium.okinawa/en/index.html | Program: http://otecsymposium.okinawa/en/program.html

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to our seminar.

[Language] English

Speaker: Dr. Eugene W. Meyers, Director, Center for Systems Biology Dresden Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

OIST Workshop -Application Open: around 15 March 2018 - Application Deadline: 20 May 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/cqd

"Developmental Robotics for Language Learning, Trust and Theory of Mind" by Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, University of Manchester and University of Plymouth