Past Events

Seminar

Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of molecular-scale energy conversion

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Lab 4, level F, L4F01

Prof. Michael Jack, Department of Physics, University of Otago, New Zealand

Language: English.

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OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 - 16:30 to 17:30
L4E48 and online on Zoom
Kaveh Mousavand, OIST Title: Some applications of bricks in classical and modern problems in representation theory
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Seminar "Influence of bubbles on the hydrodynamic loading of marine structures" by Dr. Céline Gabillet

Monday, December 11, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

[Speaker] Dr. Céline Gabillet, Associate Professor (Fluid. Mech.), French Naval Academy /Ecole Navale

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Seminar: everything you need to know about Intellectual Property

Monday, December 11, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:30
Room C700 Lab 3 Level C
OIST innovation Monday 11 th organizes a seminar on Intellectual Property. What are patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets? How can you, as a researcher, protect and develop your innovative ideas? How can OIST innovation help you in this process? Join the seminar and learn everything you need to know about Intellectual Property and much more. This is a 90min introduction-level seminar open to everyone. Coffee and biscuits will be provided.
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[Seminar] "Dynamics and Learning - Future of AI with Robotics Applications" by Mr. Motoya Ohnishi

Monday, December 11, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Meeting Room D015 - Lab1 Bldg

Speaker: Mr. Motoya Ohnishi

Title: Dynamics and Learning - Future of AI with Robotics Applications

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苦手意識は妄想!?目からうろこの英語プレゼンセミナー

Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 18:00 to 19:00
STARTUP LAB RYUDAI(琉ラボ)

2023年12月7日(木)18:00、琉球大学のオープンイノベーション拠点「琉ラボ」とOIST Innovationの共催で、英語に苦手意識を感じる方に向けて英語プレゼンセミナーを開催いたします。(日本語のみの開催となります)

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Connecting Japan and Austria for Innovation: GIN Austria

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Lab 1 Seminar Room B503

Join representatives from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency and the Austrian Promotional Bank to learn about the Global Incubator Network Austria (GIN), a program to support global researchers, entrepreneurs, and startups.

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[Seminar] "Cancer diagnosis and therapy: deep learning-assisted cytopathology and foam-based immunotherapy for intraperitoneal metastasis" by Prof. Yen-Liang (Allen) Liu

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room F01 - Lab 4

Assistant Professor Yen-Liang (Allen) Liu

Master Program of Biomedical Engineering, China Medical University

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OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 16:30 to 17:30
L4E48 and online on Zoom
Eric Marberg, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Title: From Klyachko models to perfect models
Seminar

A micro-perfusion system for characterizing dense bacterial populations

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab5, Level D, L5D23

Prof. Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, The University of Tokyo

Language: English.

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Seminar: “Analyzing the evolution and diversification of Lepidoptera using multi-spectral images” by Dr. Wei-Ping Chan

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar room C209, Center Building

Speaker: Dr. Wei-Ping Chan, Rowland Institute at Harvard

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[Seminar] "Role of engagement fund: Does it have a relevance to you?" by Mr. Shoichi Oka, Partner Solaris Management Co., Ltd.

Monday, December 4, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
L4E48, Lab4

[Seminar] "Role of engagement fund: Does it have a relevance to you?" by Mr. Shoichi Oka, Partner Solaris Management Co., Ltd.

December 4, 2023, 11:00-12:00 @L4E48, Lab4

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[Online Machine Learning Insights and Innovations (MLII) Seminar Series] How to Detect Out-of-Distribution Data in the Wild? Challenges, Research Progress, and Path Forward, By Assistant Prof. Sharon Yixuan Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, December 1, 2023 - 10:00
Zoom https://oist.zoom.us/j/94680619697

Speaker: Dr. Sharon Yixuan Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Effects of group and individual rearing conditions on behavioral and autonomic thermoregulation during cold in mice

Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:00
Seminar Room F01, Lab 4

Title: Effects of group and individual rearing conditions on behavioral and autonomic thermoregulation during cold in mice

Speaker: Issei Kato, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Research Fellow (JSPS PD), Waseda University

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Detection of Anticipatory Dynamics Between a Pair of Zebrafish

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab4, Level E, L4E48

Prof. C. K. Chan, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Language: English.

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Reflections on an epidemic: HIV in Japan and Okinawa today

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:30
C210

Part 1) A quick history of the HIV epidemic and key advances to end it: ART, U=U, PrEP

Part 2) Living a rich life in challenging times

Speakers: Ben Collins and Dr. Hideta Nakamura

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【Seminar】Phase-field Modeling of Geologic Fractures by Prof. Jinhyun Choo

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
C210 & Zoom

Jinhyun Choo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at KAIST.

Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
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Graduate School Mini Course: Julia for Open Quantum Systems Session 2

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 14:00 to 17:00
B700, Lab3

This Mini Course will introduce you to a cutting edge application of this high-level programming language .

Julia is a high-level , high-performance programming language designed to address the needs of computational science as well as to be effective for general purpose use. It aims to rival C and Fortran in terms of speed. It is an excellent alternative to MATLAB or Python in terms of syntax.

Seminar

Rational homotopy theory and computation of cohomology

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
L4E48

Speaker;

Dr. Shun Wakatsuki, Designated Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University

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OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 09:30 to 10:30
online on Zoom
Alexander Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title: Newell-Littlewood numbers
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Seminar "Combining quantum with critical metrology, and temperature enhanced critical metrology" Dr. Karol Gietka, The University of Innsbruck

Monday, November 27, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room C700, Level C, Lab 3

Speaker: Karol Gietka, Postdoc, University of Innsbruck, Austria

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Graduate School Mini Course: Julia for Open Quantum Systems Session1

Monday, November 27, 2023 - 14:00 to 16:00
B700, Lab3

This Mini Course will introduce you to a cutting edge application of this high-level programming language .

Julia is a high-level , high-performance programming language designed to address the needs of computational science as well as to be effective for general purpose use. It aims to rival C and Fortran in terms of speed. It is an excellent alternative to MATLAB or Python in terms of syntax.

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Seminar "Polarization control of radiation and energy flow in dipole-coupled nanorings" Dr. Laurin Osterman, University of Innsbruck

Monday, November 27, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room C700, Level C, Lab 3

Speaker: Laurin Ostermann, Senior Scientist, University of Innsbruck, Austria

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Seminar "Spin Squeezing for Ultracold Fermions in Optical Lattices", Prof. Gedminas Juzeliūnas, Vilnius Universiy, Lithuania

Friday, November 24, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room C700, Level C, Lab 3

Speaker: Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

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FY23 _Fixed Asset Inspection session 【2023年度 オンライン固定資産実査説明会】

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 14:00 to 14:30
on ZOOM

Dear RUA and Fixed Asset management staff

FY23 Fixed Asset Information session will be held via Zoom. Those in charge of fixed asset management are please participate in this session.

【2023年度固定資産実査説明会】をオンラインにて開催いたします。

固定資産実査を担当される方につきましては、ご参加のほど宜しく願い致します。

【Date】 November 22 (Wed)

【Time】 14:00-14:30

【Language】 Japanese

【ZOOM link】 Please access Zoom from the following link

【ZOOM link】 Please access Zoom from the following link

         https://oist.zoom.us/j/94246889699

Meeting ID > 942 4688 9699

【DFM site】 https://groups.oist.jp/ja/dfa/fixed-assets

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[Seminar] "Two Mysteries of the Bacterial Flagellum" by Shinichi Aizawa, in L5D23

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 11:00
L5D23

Shinichi Aizawa is Professor Emeritus at the Prefectural University of Hiroshima currently visiting OIST through the Visiting Program (TSVP). He is considered one of the world’s foremost experts in the structure and function of bacterial flagella. His contributions to solving flagellar polymorphism are very highly regarded, and his book “The Flagellar World” has become a standard textbook in the field.

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Magnetic Raman spectra of quasi-one-dimensional frustrated antiferromagnets

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
L5D23
Speaker: Dr. Oliver Bellwood

Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

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Effective Team Dynamics (ETD) workshop 2

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 13:00 to 16:00
B700, Lab3

This in-person interactive workshop is for graduate students, post-docs, and other researchers. This ICOGS* workshop is offered by the Georgia Tech Effective Team Dynamics Initiative and will be facilitated by Prof Mary Lynn Realff (MSE). * (ICOGS) Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Graduate Students Working as part of a team, or group, comes with both benefits and challenges. The benefits include interacting with people who bring different viewpoints, expertise and experiences to the table. However, the challenges include communicating effectively with people who have different backgrounds and dealing constructively with conflict due to different viewpoints. The workshop will explore how diversity in a team can strengthen it, different approaches to dealing with conflict, how to have a “difficult conversation” with both peers and your supervisor, and strategies for avoiding communications problems. Take home tools to improve your team skills will be provided.

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Seminar "Function-valued adaptive dynamics and the evolution of flowering phenology" by Prof. Kalle Parvinen (University of Turku)

Monday, November 20, 2023 - 16:30 to 17:30
Seminar Room C209 & Zoom

Seminar by Kalle Parvinen, University Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland (All are welcome to attend).

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[QUAST Seminar] Bilyana Tomova - Asymptotic symmetries of gravity

Monday, November 20, 2023 - 16:00
L4 E01
Asymptotic symmetries of gravity,

Bilyana Tomova,

OIST

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Effective Team Dynamics (ETD) workshop1

Monday, November 20, 2023 - 13:00 to 16:00
B700, Lab3

This in-person interactive workshop is for graduate students, post-docs, and other researchers. This ICOGS* workshop is offered by the Georgia Tech Effective Team Dynamics Initiative and will be facilitated by Prof Mary Lynn Realff (MSE). * (ICOGS) Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Graduate Students Working as part of a team, or group, comes with both benefits and challenges. The benefits include interacting with people who bring different viewpoints, expertise and experiences to the table. However, the challenges include communicating effectively with people who have different backgrounds and dealing constructively with conflict due to different viewpoints. The workshop will explore how diversity in a team can strengthen it, different approaches to dealing with conflict, how to have a “difficult conversation” with both peers and your supervisor, and strategies for avoiding communications problems. Take home tools to improve your team skills will be provided.

Seminar

Controlling Ions in a Two-Dimensional Array

Monday, November 20, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Lab4, Level E, L4E48

Dr. Nathan Kenneth Lysne, PREP Postdoctoral Associate, CU Boulder, NIST

Language: English.

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[QUAST Seminar]: Elliott Gesteau - Large N von Neumann algebras and the renormalization of Newton's constant

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 16:00
L5 D23

Large N von Neumann algebras and the renormalization of Newton's constant

Elliott Gesteau

Caltech

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[Seminar] An evolving future for pandemic preparedness, by Alex Dornburg

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 10:00
Seminar Room C700

In this talk Dr. Dornburg will demonstrate the utility of comparative phylogenetic methods in providing a quantitative basis for otherwise unknown parameters that are fundamental to personal, clinical, and public health policy decision-making.

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[CANCELLED] [Seminar] Membrane-reshaping by myosin-lipid interactions and single molecule studies of myosin regulation by Prof. Claudia Veigel

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room F01 - Lab 4

Prof. Dr. Claudia Veigel

Department of Cellular Physiology (chair) and Centre for Nanosciences (CeNS), Biomedical Centre (BMC)

Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) München Munich, Germany

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[Seminar] Single molecule studies of vascular damage and DNA damage repair pathways by Prof. Justin E. Molloy

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room F01 - Lab 4

Prof. Dr. Justin E. Molloy

Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, Warwick University

Visiting Scientist: The Francis Crick Institute

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[Seminar]Domain-specific Large Language Models: Case Studies in Educational and Medical Fields by Dr. Irene Li, Assistant professor, the University of Tokyo, Seminar Room L5D23

Monday, November 13, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Lab5, Seminar Room D23

Speaker: Dr. Irene Li, Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo, Seminar Room L5D23

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Company Info Session (QunaSys)

Friday, November 10, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:30
L4E01

Company overview: QunaSys builds software for quantum computing to achieve its full potential through our algorithm development to product engineering. We engage in R&D for a future where quantum computers can be used as a disruptive tool in industries such as materials, chemistry, drug discovery, and many more.

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[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor. Alexander Mathis: Modeling sensorimotor circuits with task-driven & reinforcement learning

Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 17:00
ZOOM

Modeling sensorimotor circuits with task-driven & reinforcement learning

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[Seminar] "Forecasting fish growth to prepare for climate change scenarios" by Dr. Mollie Brooks (DTU Aqua)

Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 14:00
Lab 4, E48

Dr. Mollie Brooks is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Danish Technical University.

All are welcome, especially those with interests in: fish, climate change, and statistical forecasting!

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[Seminar] Models and Truth in Phylogenomics, by Rob Lanfear

Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 13:00
Seminar Room C700

Dr. Lanfear will talk about his group's efforts to improve phylogenetic inference in a world of increasingly large data sets.

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How to create a successful university startup

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 13:00
Lab4 E48

Join us for an enlightening journey into the world of entrepreneurship with Mr. Kiichi Kubota, co-founder of PeptiDream and current CEO of KSP Get ready to uncover the secrets behind his remarkable success and invaluable insights from his experience. Don't miss this opportunity to fuel your own entrepreneurial aspirations. Save the date: Nov 8 (Wed) 13:00-15:00 at OIST Campus. Free Admission. Registration is required. See you there! #EntrepreneurTalk #SuccessUnveiled #Inspiration #EntrepreneurshipJourney

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OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 16:30 to 17:30
Ulrich Thiel, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau Title: The rank one property for free Frobenius extensions
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Basic Knowledge for Startups / Guidelines for Startup Grants

Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 14:00
Lab4 E48

Essential information towards startup success! OIST Innovation hosts a seminar by the Okinawa Industrial Promotion Corporation on basic knowledge and grants for entrepreneurs.

Don't miss this opportunity to fuel your own entrepreneurial aspirations. Tue, 7 Nov 14:00-16:00. Free Admission. Registration required.

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[Seminar] "Why we should study protists: what the understudied majority eukaryotes can tell us about eukaryotic evolution and the origin of animals" by Dr. Michelle Leger

Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:30
L4F01

Dr. Michelle Leger, Postdoc, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona, Spain

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[Seminar] "How to Publish with Impact" by Antony Galea, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Monday, October 30, 2023 - 16:30 to 17:30
L4E48

Target Audience: OISTers interested in publishing in the field of chemistry. 40 minutes talk + Q&A.

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QUAST seminar: Francesco Sartini

Monday, October 30, 2023 - 16:00
L4E01

Francesco Sartini (OIST): Hidden symmetry in cosmology and black holes

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[Seminar] “Physiology and pathology of neurons as deciphered from the dynamics of Tau” by Prof. Hiroko Bannai

Friday, October 27, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room C700, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Hiroko Bannai, Waseda University, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Title: Physiology and pathology of neurons as deciphered from the dynamics of Tau

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[Seminar] "Existence theorem of Brakke's mean curvature flow" by Prof. Yoshihiro Tonegawa

Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4F01

Speaker: Prof. Yoshihiro Tonegawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Title: Existence theorem of Brakke's mean curvature flow

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