Title: Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms

Speaker: Dr. Xitong Liang, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University.

Speaker : Reishi Maeta (Hiroshima University / McGill University) Title : Matrix Bootstrap Approximation without Positivity Constraint Date and time : 28 ^th April Tuesday at 9:00 Language: English

CAEE invited talk, Dr. Edmund R. R. Moody, University of Barcelona / University of Bristol

CAEE invited talk, Prof. Ben J. Woodcroft, QUT

CAEE invited talk, Prof. Anne-Florence Bitbol, EPFL

QG Seminar (Zoom)

Speaker: Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)

Title: Black hole thermodynamics at future null infinity

CAEE invited talk, Dr. Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès, UOC-TECH, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

CAEE invited talk, Dr. Masaru K. Nobu, JAMSTEC

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Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

CAEE invited talk, Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo

Seminar by Dr Masayuki Shiba and Dr. Poulami Chatterjee

CAEE invited talk, Dr. Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, University College London

CAEE invited talk, Prof. Tom A. Williams, University of Bath

CAEE Keynote, Prof. Phil Hugenholtz, University of Queensland

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Powers from Brown University

Title: Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers

Language: English

Dr. Bernard de Massy, Institute of Human Genetics Montpellier

Dr. Gaku Amada, a JSPS Research Fellow PD at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, mechanisms of maintaining plant biodiversity in permafrost environments.

Seminar by Dr. Piotr Ślęczkowski, Lodz University of Technology

QG seminar. Speaker: Richard van Dongen (University of Mons) Title: Self-dual holography

Dr. Guillaume Moissiard, LGDP UMR5096 CNRS/UPVD

Title: Horizontal mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group as scaling limit of an interacting particle system

Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Dirr (Cardiff University)

Professor Swaraj Shekhar Nande, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dresden University of Technology. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to OIST Community.

Seminar: A structural journey through molecular life, death and design by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hiller , the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland

Date-Time

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Description

Title: Dynamic nanoscale organization of AMPAR control short and long term synaptic plasticity

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Choquet

Research director at the CNRS

Bordeaux Imaging Center (Director)

Neuroscience Cluster of Excellence, Bordeaux University (Director)

Member of the National Academy

Website: https://www.iins.u-bordeaux.fr/en/teams/56854-dynamic-organization-and-function-of-synapses/

Dr. Daya Shankar Pandey, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Science

Banaras Hindu University

Date-Time

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

Description

Title: How synaptic plasticity regulates Intracellular Transport of AMPAR

Speaker: Dr. Françoise Coussen

Research Director at the CNRS

Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience (IINS)

University of Bordeaux and CNRS

https://www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/en/?s=Coussen

https://www.iins.u-bordeaux.fr/

Lecture title: Early life sleep shapes brain development and social behavior in the socially monogamous prairie vole

Speaker: Miranda M. Lim, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University.

[Hybrid Seminar] "Project RAISE, Real-World Adaptive Intelligence Generated through Soft Embodiment" by Prof. Koh Hosoda, Kyoto University

March 30 (Mon) 2026, 11:00-12:00 @L5D23, Lab 5

ZOOM

Meeting ID: 982 0243 6241 Passcode: 834475

Title : Objective Rates from Observation Structures: Continuum Mechanics in Constructive Tensor Theory

Speaker : Mr Hiroki Endo, PhD. Student, Nagaoka University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department

Speaker: Dr Ching Tat To, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tunghai University, Taichung City, Taiwan. Language: English

Title: Laser cooling of aluminium monofluoride molecules in the deep ultraviolet

Speaker: Dr Dylan Brown, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

Speaker: Prof. Antonio Celani from The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP

Title: Decoding behavior with minimal and interpretable agent models

Coffee/Tea & Cookies will be served before the seminar at 15:00 - 15:30.

Dr. Leandro Quadrana, Institute of Plant Science. University Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France

Title: Hot atomic vapors: From fundamental science to quantum technologies

Speaker: Dr Robert Löw, Deputy Director, 5th Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Title: Blow-up rate for the subcritical semilinear heat equation in non-convex domains

Speaker: Dr. Erbol Zhanpeisov (Tohoku University)

Talk by Dr. Nicola De Nitti, University of Pisa, March 17 (Tue) 9:00 - 10:00 am, L4E48

Recently, Lohvansuu (2023) introduced the p-modulus for families of k-dimensional Lipschitz chains and their dual families of (n-k)-dimensional chains. While he established an upper bound for the duality of these families on Lipschitz cubes, the corresponding lower bound remained an open question. Subsequently, Kangasniemi and Prywes (2025) developed dMod, a related notion of modulus based on differential forms, and successfully established a full duality result. In this talk, I will explore the implications of these developments and discuss related open problems.

This project is joint work with Nathan Albin, Joan Lind and Pekka Pankka. Our goal is to approximate planar p-capacity (or continuous p-modulus) in topological rectangles using discrete p-modulus defined on an approximating orthodiagonal map. To that end, I will first introduce the planar p-capacity problem we are interested in and then I will give an overview of the theory of p-modulus on finite graphs, describing various notions of duality, and establishing its relation to the discrete p-Laplacian and to non-linear flows.

Given a discrete graph and a family of objects (walks, spanning trees, edge covers, etc.) on the graph, p-modulus provides a mathematical way to quantify the "richness" or "robustness" of that family. Acting as a tunable metric, p-modulus generalizes classical graph metrics—such as shortest path, effective resistance, and minimum cut—to provide a multifaceted view of the graph's topology and geometry. Through the lens of modulus, we can explore a variety of structural properties of the graph. This talk will introduce p-modulus, describe its basic properties, connect it to well-known graph-theoretic quantities, and explore the powerful theory of Fulkerson blocking duality, which connects each family of objects to a natural dual family that provides deep insights into the graph's structural properties.

Dr Shahriar Esmaeili, Former Quantum Research Engineer, Toyota Research Institute of North America

Dr George Winstone, NorthWestern University, USA

Speaker:Dr. Hiroaki Matsunami,the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, the Duke University

Prof. Michael Lenhard, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany

Assistant ProfessorAlessia Antelmi, Computer Science assistant professor (RTD-A) at the University of Turin

Assistant Professor Mirko Polato

University of Turin, Department of Computer Science