[Hybrid seminar] "Soft Robotics: Understanding Design Principles and the Implications of Soft Bodies" by Prof. Koh Hosoda, Kyoto University

QG group meeting. Speaker: Julian Lang. Title: "Emergent Supersymmetry from a Twistor Space description of the U(N) vector model".

Target audience

Interns, Students, PostDocs and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Speaker 1: Dr. Makoto Yamada, Associate Professor, OIST

Title: Approximating 1-Wasserstein Distance with Trees

Speaker 2: Ms. Terezie Sedlinska, PhD Student, OIST

Title: Reinforcement learning behavioral modeling: Two studies of Pavlovian and operant valuation in humans and rats

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "Self-dual GR in de Sitter space".

Andres Mejia Ramon

OIST, Postdoctoral Scholar, Froese Unit

[Seminar] "Asymptomatic: How Deciphering the Silent Spread of COVID-19 Can Help Prevent Pandemics to Come" by Prof. Joshua Weitz.

Speaker: Dr. Theerapat Tansuwannont

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

Speaker 1: Mr. Tobias Freidling, Ph. D. Student, University of Cambridge

Title: Sensitivity Analysis with the R^2-calculus

Speaker 2: Dr. Mohammad Sabokrou, Staff Scientist, OIST

Title: Deep Learning Advancements in Anomaly Detection for Computer Vision

QG group meeting. Speaker: Misaki Ohta. Title: Symmetries, Lattices, Groups.

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

Language: English

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

Patricia Ribes Metidieri, Radboud University: How ubiquitous is entanglement in quantum field theory?

QG group meeting. Speaker: David O'Connell. Title: Non-Hausdorff Vector Bundles (Part 2).

Seminar by Mr. En Watanabe, University of Otago

Title : Using a donut-shaped beam for the super-resolution of proteins

Date: June 28 (Wed)

Time: 11:00 - 12:00

Venue: C015 (Lab1)

"Brain-Motivated Computation: A Journey from Neural Circuitry to Cognitive Control Systems" by Dr. Alexander G. Ororbia II, Rochester Institute of Technology

[Speaker] Prof. Dr. Marc Avila, Director ZARM - Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, Professor of Fluid Mechanics, University of Bremen, Germany

Speaker: Dr. Mathias Mikkelsen, Kindai University, Osaka

June 23, 2023 10:00 - 11: 00 at C700, Lab 3

Prof. Suzanne Pfeffer, Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine

A kinase and a phosphatase: molecular basis of inherited Parkinson’s disease

Activating mutations in LRRK2 kinase cause Parkinson’s disease and activated LRRK2 phosphorylates a subset of Rab GTPases. We have discovered that Rab phosphorylation blocks primary cilia formation in specific neurons and astrocytes in the nigrostriatal circuit that are important for dopaminergic signaling in Parkinson's disease. This lecture will provide an update on our studies using purified LRRK2 and its counteracting PPM1H phosphatase to understand how the proteins become localized and activated on membrane surfaces. In addition, work will be presented related to the consequences of LRRK2 mutation for neurons and astrocytes in the dorsal striatum of mice and humans.

Dr. Robert Ecke, Los Alamos National Lab. Language: English.

Speaker 1: Mr. Guillaume Houry, Ph. D. Student, Universite Paris-Saclay

Title: Average complexity of Persitence Homology computing in Topological Data Analysis

Speaker 2: Yuxuan Wan, Ph. D. Student, Michigan State University

Title: Defense Against Gradient Leakage Attacks via Learning to Obscure Data

Seminar for general audience. Join us in L1C015 or via zoom.

QG group meeting. Speaker: David O'Connell. Title: Non-Hausdorff Vector Bundles (Part 1).

Title: Lectures on Capacities Speaker: Professor Daniel Spector, National Taiwan Normal University

Zoom registration: https://oist.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErce-tpj0jGNN5TM3gwMnRnGHaY5lNZ5Qk#/registration

Lecture 1 Tuesday, June 20 10 am Title: Riemann and Lebesgue Integration Abstract: The Riemann integral is perfectly suited for consideration of volume, surface area, arc length, and integration of functions in classical analysis - when the sets in question are smooth and the functions in question continuous. In this talk, we introduce these ideas and explain the progression from Riemann integration to Lebesgue integration, emphasizing in particular the powerful tools one obtains from this construction. Lecture 2 Wednesday, June 21st 10 am Title: Capacitary Integration Abstract: The Lebesgue integral provides one with a satisfactory tool for many purposes in mathematical analysis. Yet in the modeling of natural phenomena, with the introduction of partial differential equations, integrals which are not Lebesgue integral makes a prominent appearance - capacitary integrals. In this talk we discuss this motivation for capacitary integration, with examples, explain the differences with Lebesgue integration, and show the usefulness of these non-standard objects. Lecture 3 Thursday, June 22nd 10 am Title: Capacitary Sobolev Inequalities and Applications Abstract: The study of capacities and Capacitary Sobolev Inequalities is now more than half a century old, and yet there are still a number of open research questions to investigate concerning them. In this talk we discuss in more detail Capacitary Sobolev inequalities with an emphasis on a subject with the most recent activity - Capacitary Sobolev Inequalities around L1. Open problems will be mentioned.

Zoom link: TBA

Dr. Rebecca Ostertag, Professor of Biology, University of Hawai'i at Hilo. Language: English, no interpretation. Target audience: everyone at OIST and beyond. Seminar will be held in-person only.

Abstract: It is well-known that functions in critical Sobolev spaces embed into the space of functions of bounded mean oscillation (BMO) originating in the work of John and Nirenberg. Less well-known is the fact that they actually embed into BMO on subspaces of every smaller dimension. In this talk we introduce a class of spaces which are finer targets of these critical Sobolev embeddings than BMO that capture this phenomena, which we term beta-dimensional BMO. Interestingly, these spaces also gives an answer to the question of which BMO functions admit restrictions in BMO of subspaces. The key tool is a capacitary analogue of the John-Nirenberg inequality for the Hausdorff content, obtained recently in a joint work with You-Wei Chen.

Speaker 1: Mr. Haoyu Han, Ph. D. Student, Michigan State University

Title: Alternately Optimized Graph Neural Networks

Speaker 2: Mr. Weijie Liu, Ph. D. Student, Zhejiang University

Title: Robust Graph Dictionary Learning

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor. Michael A. Long

Title: Neural mechanisms of interactive communication

Join the ZOOM from the link here!

https://oist.zoom.us/j/91531249984?pwd=eFNldWNHRlN0by91WlZJVTI3djFNZz09

Zoom talk by Dr. Ferretti working at Big Data Institute, University of Oxford.

Talk targeted to a general audience, zoom link available or come to C15, Lab1.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia. Title: Interacting Black Holes and Massive Higher Spin Fields (part2).

Abstract Population genetics and phylogenetics are two main subfields of evolutionary genetics. The former investigates the genetic variations among populations within a species while the latter focuses on reconstructing phylogeny of many species using genetic data. In this presentation, I will present my previous work on the population genetics of an alpine ground beetle, Nebria ingens complex, in the Sierra Nevada in California and my current work on the deep evolutionary history of species radiation of Lepidoptera. In the alpine ground beetle study, I used genome-wide variants to characterize the population structure and demographic history. I found that the glacial refugia was in the low-elevation drainage basins of Sierra Nevada during the last glacial maximum, followed by the postglacial recolonization to the current high-altitude alpine zone. I also used genome-wide association approaches to identify the genes putatively associated with the postglacial elevational range shift, local adaptation to the heterogeneous environments, and the morphological variations. For the study of Lepidoptera species radiation, I use published high-quality lepidopteran genomes to explore the genomic evidence related to rapid diversification of modern lepidopteran lineages. The preliminary results suggest that the gene evolution involving host plant detection, phytocompound detoxification, and protein digestion play crucial roles in species diversification along with the Angiosperm radiation. Finally, I will provide my personal perspective on connecting population genetics (microevolution) and phylogenetics (macroevolution) for a more thorough understanding of evolutionary processes.

About Dr. Yi-Ming Weng: Yi-Ming was born and brought up in Taiwan. He graduated from National Chung-Hsing University for bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Entomology department. He is interested in insect biodiversity and evolution in general. For his master thesis, he studied phylogeography of alpine ground beetles in Taiwan, looking for sharing evolutionary history between the alpine ground beetle species with similar ecological niche and geographical distribution. Yi-Ming started his PhD carrier in the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017. He worked with Professor Sean Schoville to further study the evolutionary history of alpine ground beetle from the Sierra Nevada in California using genomic data. By the time he started to develop his skillsets in bioinformatics and genomics. Now Yi-Ming is working with Professor Akito Kawahara in the University of Florida as a postdoctoral researcher studying evolutionary genomics of Lepidoptera.

Despite Yi-Ming has been working mostly with computers for his bioinformatics analyses, he is most interested in outdoor activities and direct observation of insects. He believes that good biological questions usually come from the field, and stepping out to touch the insects gets the best inspiration.

Metric Recovery from Unweighted k-NN Graphs by Ryoma Sato (Kyoto University)

Speaker: Dr. Albrecht Wagner

Prof. Colin Jackson, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University

Speaker 1:Mr. Pengfei HE, Ph. D. Student, Michigan State University

Title: Probabilistic Categorical Adversarial Attack

Speaker 2:Mr. Yuki TAKEZAWA, Ph.D. Student, Kyoto University

Title: Beyond Exponential Graph: Communication-Efficient Topologies for Decentralized Learning via Finite-time Convergence

QG group meeting. Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia. Title: Interacting Black Holes and Massive Higher Spin Fields.

What is GPSS Group ? GPSS Group is Tokyo based and engaged in a wide range of energy businesses including solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and biogas, as well as a variety of other businesses to realize a sustainable society. We consider the gifts of nature such: as water, wind, and heat, which all exist in the local regions as the "local commons." To create a sustainable society together with the local communities, we utilize these potentials that are naturally replenished.

Seminar by Dr. Dolma Michellod (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany)

Ms. Hanna Tseran, MPI, "Expected Expressivity and Gradients of Maxout Networks"

Dr. Pedro Lopes, Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

[Speaker] Prof. Tuan Tran, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Date/Time: June 5 (Mon), 2023 / 12:00 - 13:00 (Postponed from June 1)

Location : L3 C700 and zoom

Speaker: Marcin Korecki, ETH Zürich

Title: The man behind the curtain: AI, Complexity and Social Systems

[Speaker] Dr. Eiichiro Yamaguchi, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, USA.

Speaker: Professor Giuseppe Tomassetti, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

QG group meeting. Speaker: Slava Lysov. Title: Higher Topological Quantum Mechanics on Graphs.

[Speaker] Dr. Fernando Ángel Fernández-Álvarez, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM), CSIC, Spain

Dr. Hirokazu Maruoka, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University.

Language: English.

We are inviting Dr. Shun Satoh from Kyoto University who calls himself as a "Fish Maniac" in his blog.For his details please check the link below. https://symphysodondiscus.wixsite.com/website-1/blank-3 Date: May 29th(Mon) Time: 15:00* - Room: C209 (Center Bldg) *The start time has been updated as of May 19th. sorry for the inconvenience.

Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94360778822?pwd=ZDlPZFY2d3luQWovcUdLZ1lvbGdpQT09 Meeting ID: 943 6077 8822 Passcode: 705537 If you have any questions, please contact egu@oist.jp.

* Dr.Yong Keun Park, Physics Department of KAIST, South Korea

* Language: English (No interpretation)

Prof. Yaroslav M. Blanter, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology.