Kay Jin Lim, Nanyang Technological University Title: Descent Algebra of Type A

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

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speakes: Julian Lang (Neiman Unit) Title: "Self-Dual Gravity"

Title: What makes human special? A molecular approach

Please welcome Prof. Pääbo, our Adjunct Professor, and join his very first faculty talk at OIST!

Yasha, Akiko, and the CPR team

Dr. Daniel Shiu, Chief Cryptographer of Arqit, a leading company with transformational quantum encryption technology, will speak on "Public-cryptography is bad for security".

Registration link: TUESDAY, 19 APRIL 2022, 5:00PM (JST) | OIST Groups

Dr. Chris Bowman, Reader, University of York. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: students and researchers from related fields. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration.

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

Language: English

The seminar aims to initiate interactions between international and Japanese researchers and students in the field of Ecology and Evolution. The 8th event is presented by Ryosuke Nakadai from National Institute for Environmental Studies.

Please register from the next link: https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar

Title: Individual-based temporal beta-diversity: Individual turnover and compositional shift in a community

Timeline 15:00~15:30: seminar 15:30~16:00: questions and discussion 16:00~: mixer

Abstract: As increasing the necessity to assess the influences of global climate change and anthropogenic disturbances on biodiversity, the concept of beta-diversity has been extended to a temporal context and has been intensively studied in recent years. In studies of temporal beta-diversity, methodologies used in spatial beta-diversity have often been used simply. However, temporal beta-diversity often includes "the same individual" between two communities implicitly, which has not been the case with spatial communities, so it is necessary to consider the effects of individual turnover and persistence for quantifying temporal beta-diversity. I focused on both individual identity and the persistence of individuals within a temporal beta-diversity framework and developed some novel indices. In my presentation, I will explain the novel indices which I recently developed and the concepts behind them, showing examples of analysis. I would also like to discuss the prospects for community assemblages through both time and individual identity.

The OIST Innovators Society is hosting a casual fireside chat with Koshu Kunii, Ryosuke Kimura and Kentaroh (Kenny) Awata, from Lifetime Ventures. Lifetime Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital firm based in Tokyo, that invests in talent to create businesses that will be loved and exist for a long time. Lifetime typically invests ~$50-500k in startups at the pre-seed or seed stage and provides hands-on support to its portfolio startups. This is an exciting opportunity to ask venture capitalists anything!

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speakers: Jonas Sonnenschein and Mirian Tsulaia. Title: "N=2 SUSY Quantum Mechanics and spectra of Non-SUSY Hamiltonians (part 1)"

Every Company has a "Day 1"

Join guests from the University of Tokyo Edge Capital to learn about their Founders Program that offers comprehensive support to teams in various stages of launching their deep-tech startups. In addition to investment funds, the program also offers grants to researchers in basic science. 12 April 2022 | 9:30-10:15 | Lab 4 Room E48

Careers in Venture Capital for PhDs

Join the Managing Partner and Investment Associates from the University of Tokyo Edge Capital to explore the topic of careers in venture capital for PhDs. Snacks will be provided. No registration required. 11 April 2022 | 17:00-18:00 | Room C210

[Neuroscience Club] Prof. Justus Kebschull, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University. Language: English.

We are excited to have an online seminar by Prof. Justus Kebschull from Johns Hopkins University. He is a world-leading researcher studying brain circuit evolution by using cutting-edge circuit tracing and viral tools. Everyone is welcome to join the seminar!

You can join the seminar via ZOOM

These seminars examine the science of how to bring macroscopic (large) systems into the quantum regime. The preparation of large Schrodinger cats is one of the long sought goals of quantum science. Researchers seek to do this for many reasons – to see if it can be done at all – does quantum mechanics still hold for large objects – is there new science that appears when objects become large/massive? Can macroscopic/large quantum systems be useful as precision sensors – and how can we preserve/protect the large scale quantum properties in such systems. These series of talks (experimental and theoretical), will show some facets/aspects of how some researchers are aiming towards the building of large Quantum Cats. Coffee and Okinawan Donuts are supplied during the morning.

Dean Yates, Queen Mary University of London Title: Spin representations of the symmetric group

Title: A masing spin ensemble: temperature, light, amplifier, and diamond

Abstract:

I will start discussing two fundamental concepts in nature, temperature and light, followed by one of the indispensable basic components in the modern information society, amplifiers. Then I will try to show that combining these three concepts leads to our ongoing project, a heat-driven coherent microwave oscillator based on a spin ensemble in a diamond crystal.

Join us for an informal lunchtime "fireside chat" with Shozo Kamiya , Founder of I'm Beside You , a startup developing multimodal AI systems to improve online communications and make them more personalized to the individual. 28 March 2022 | 12:00-13:00 | C210

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

Language: English

John Murray, Maynooth University Title: A Schur-positivity conjecture inspired by the Alperin-Mckay conjecture

Language: English

Speaker: Vyacheslav Lysov (Quantum Gravity). Title: Tropical Mirror Symmetry

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

Language: English

A 2-day seminar held by Algorithms for Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (Gene Myers) Unit along with Genomics and Regulatory Systems (Nicholas Luscombe) Unit as the co-host.

In the seminar, entitled " OIST-UT Genomics Research Seminar ", we invite 3 Ph.D. students from The University of Tokyo (Shinichi Morishita lab) to OIST, and each of the 8 researchers in total from UT and OIST will give a 20 min talk on their work plus 10 min Q&A session.

The seminar will be held on site at OIST, although you can also join via zoom (link below). On each day, right after the seminar we will have time and place for further discussion and interaction with the presenters (while keeping distance).

Speaker: Vyacheslav Lysov (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Introduction to tropical Gromov-Witten theory" (part 3)

Susumu Ariki, Osaka University

Title: Three lectures on modular Lie algebras (Part III)

A 2-day seminar held by Algorithms for Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (Gene Myers) Unit along with Genomics and Regulatory Systems (Nicholas Luscombe) Unit as the co-host. In the seminar, entitled " OIST-UT Genomics Research Seminar ", w e invite 3 Ph.D. students from The University of Tokyo (Shinichi Morishita lab) to OIST, and each of the 8 researchers in total from UT and OIST will give a 20 min talk on their work plus 10 min Q&A session. The seminar will be held on site at OIST, although you can also join via zoom (link below). On each day, right after the seminar we will have time and place for further discussion and interaction with the presenters (while keeping distance).

Susumu Ariki, Osaka University

Title: Three lectures on modular Lie algebras (Part II)

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "A new kind of Feynman rules: what is Higher Spin Gravity? (part 2)"

Susumu Ariki, Osaka University

Title: Three lectures on modular Lie algebras (Part I)

OIST x ASJ "Future of Energy and Climate" Seminar Series

Speaker: Vyacheslav Lysov (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Introduction to tropical Gromov-Witten theory" (part 2)

This talk discusses a generalized class of supersolutions, so-called \(p\)-supercaloric functions, to the parabolic \(p\)-Laplace equation. This class of functions is defined as lower semicontinuous functions that are finite in a dense set and satisfy the parabolic comparison principle. Their properties are relatively well understood in the slow diffusion case \(p>2\), but little is known in the fast diffusion case \(1

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

Language: English

Language: English

At our next Innovators Society meeting, we will be joined by Graham Garner, our resident Technology Licensing Specialist at OIST - to talk about Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and other research agreements you may need to use throughout your career.

Speaker: Vyacheslav Lysov (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Introduction to tropical Gromov-Witten thoery"

Speaker: Robert Spencer, University of Cambridge

Title:(Some) Gram Determinants for \(A_n\) nets

Seva will talk about string diagrams.

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

Language: English

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "A new kind of Feynman rules: what is Higher Spin Gravity?"

Cassie George is an RSD intern working with the Environmental Informatics Section in collaboration with the Takagi lab at Hokkaido University

Language: English

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Short stories by everyone.

演題 ： 沖縄のヘリウム再利用ネットワークを目指して 日時 ： 2022/02/22 (火) 15:00-16:00 発表機関 ： 沖縄科学技術大学院大学(OIST) 場所 ： ZOOMによるオンラインセミナー　(無料、事前登録が必要 講師 ： 　高田　一馬氏(OIST)　宗本　久弥氏(琉球大学) 言語 ： 　日本語

Title : Development of helium recycling network in Okinawa Date and time : Tuesday, February 22, 2022 15:00-16:00 Speakers : Kazuma Takada (OIST) , Hisaya Munemoto (University of the Ryukyus) Language : Japanese Registration required

Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit would like to invite you to a seminar!

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

Language: English

Speaker: Stephen Doty, Loyola University Chicago

Title: Schur-Weyl duality for braid and twin groups via the Burau representation

Language: English

Quantum Birds: The Magnetic Compass Sense of night-migratory Songbirds

Prof. Henrik Mouritsen

Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University Oldenburg,

Prof. Mouritsen will present how night-migratory songbirds seem to use a quantum mechanical mechanism to sense magnetic compass information which they use to navigate with exquisite precision over thousands of kilometres (Mouritsen 2018). In the past years, evidence has mounted that migratory birds use a light-dependent, radical pair-based mechanism to sense the axis of the geomagnetic field lines (Hore & Mouritsen 2016). The magnetic compass of night-migratory birds is sensitive to anthropogenic electromagnetic field disturbances being ca. 1000 times weaker than the current WHO guideline limits (Engels et al. 2014; Schwarze et al. 2016). This result could be significant in relation to migratory bird conservation measures and strongly indicates that the basic sensory mechanism underlying the magnetic compass of night-migratory songbirds should be based on quantum mechanical principles rather than classical physics. Neuroanatomical data have shown that magnetic compass information is detected in the eye and then processed in a small part of the thalamofugal visual pathway terminating in the visual processing centre “Cluster N” (Mouritsen et al. 2005; Liedvogel et al. 2007; Feenders et al. 2008; Zapka et al. 2009). When Cluster N is deactivated, migratory European Robins can no longer use their magnetic compass, whereas their star compass and sun compass abilities are unaffected (Zapka et al. 2009). The lagena and associated pathways remained intact. Bilateral section of the trigeminal nerve had no effect on the birds’ ability to use their magnetic compass (Zapka et al. 2009). Very recently, we could also show that the light-sensitive protein Cryptochrome 4 from a night-migratory songbird is magnetically sensitive in vitro based on a radical-pair mechanism (Xu et al. 2021).

Zoom link

https://oist.zoom.us/j/97850326939

Speaker: Daniel Tubbenhauer , University of Sydney Title: On weighted KLRW algebras