Past Events

Seminar

Seminar: “Birdsong and human speech: parallels and neural mechanisms” by Prof. Sharon M. H. Gobes

Friday, May 18, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room D015, Lab1

Speaker: Prof. Sharon Gobes from Dept of Neuroscience Wellesley College, USA

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Seminar: “Realizing Your Career Potential as Researcher”

Friday, May 18, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:30
B503, Lab1

This session discusses various career paths open after a period as a postdoc , including Universities, Laboratories and the “Big Wide World”.

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Seminar: “Phenology: trees and birds under climate change ” by Ms. Eva Kolařova

Thursday, May 17, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
Meeting Room D015, Lab1

Speaker: Ms. Eva Kolařova, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Seminar: “Comparative biology of parental behaviour in birds” by Prof. Vladimír Remeš

Thursday, May 17, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room C700, Lab3

Speaker: Prof. Vladimír Remeš from Palacký University, Czech Republic

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【Seminar】Structural analysis of biological macromolecules using 3D cryo-electron microscopy

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
D014 (Lab1, Level D)

"Structural analysis of biological macromolecules using 3D cryo-electron microscopy"

by Jaekyung Hyun (PhD), Nano-Bio Electron Microscopy Research Group

Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)

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[Seminar] "Edge modes and entanglement in diffeomorphism-invariant theories" by Antony Speranza

Tuesday, May 15, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
A720, Lab 3

Speaker: Antony Speranza, University of Maryland Date : Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Time : 3:00pm-4:00pm

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Seminar "Synchrotron infrared spectroscopy: from spectroscopy to microscopy to nano spectroscopy" by Paul Dumas (Research Director CNRS)

Tuesday, May 15, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016, Level C, Lab1

Seminar by Paul Dumas (Research Director CNRS and Emeritat at Synchrotron Soleil)

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Seminar: “How parasites shape host behavior and evolution: mechanistic experiments to population-level comparisons” by Dr. Amanda Hund

Friday, May 11, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room C210, Center Building

Speaker: Dr. Amanda Hund, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

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Seminar: “Processes contributing to population divergence and hybridization: insights from barn and Pacific swallows” by Prof. Elizabeth Scordato

Friday, May 11, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room C210, Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Elizabeth Scordato, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA

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Seminar "Development of ESR measurement systems at University of Fukui" by Dr.Yutaka FujiiUniversity of Fukui

Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 14:30 to 15:00
C016, Lab1

Dr. Yutaka Fujii, University of Fukui

Language: English

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Seminar "Physics in two-dimensional electron system in quantum Hall regime - introduction of our recent research" by Dr. Akira Fukuda, Hyogo College of Medicine

Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 14:00 to 14:30
C016, Lab1

Dr. Akira Fukuda, Hyogo College of Medicine,

Language: English

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[Topology and Geometry Seminar] “ A suspension flow with a Plykin attractor” by Dr Linling Ru, and "On groups whose actions on finite-dimensional CAT(0) spaces have global fixed points" by Motoko Kato (Tokyo University).

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
Topology and Geometry Unit Space, Lab 2 B662 (to the right of the IT Section)

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

This week, we have two 30-mins talks. Dr Linling Ru (Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "A suspension flow with a Plykin attractor", and Motoko Kato (Tokyo University) will talk about "On groups whose actions on finite-dimensional CAT(0) spaces have global fixed points".

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[Seminar] "End to end approach for behavior generation in robot systems" by Prof. Tetsuya Ogata

Monday, May 7, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
C016, Lab1

"End to end approach for behavior generation in robot systems" by Prof. Tetsuya Ogata, Waseda University

Seminar

Seminar "Quantum sensing nano-NMR using a single NV center in diamond" by Prof. Junichi Isoya, University of Tsukuba

Thursday, April 26, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016, Lab1

Prof. Junichi Isoya, University of Tsukuba

Language: English

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[Seminar] "Geometric transport in Quantum Hall Effect" by Prof. Paul Wiegmann

Thursday, April 19, 2018 - 14:30
Lab3 Level C - C756

Seminar by Prof. Paul Wiegmann from University of Chicago

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Seminar "Improvement and application of ancient DNA methods to study spider radiations on Pacific islands" by Dr. Cotoras

Thursday, April 19, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016, Level C, Lab1

Dr. Cotoras, Entomology dept. California Academy of Sciences

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"Möbius Kaleidocycles --- A New Family of Ring Mechanisms" by Dr. Johannes Schönke

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 15:00
Lab 3, B700

The weekly Topology and Geometry Seminar, with Dr. Johannes Schönke (Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit)

Seminar

Regulation of cell-fate decisions by stress-responsive p38/JNK MAPK signaling pathways

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016 (Lab1, Level C)

"Dr. Mutsuhiro Takekawa, Professor, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo. Language: English, no interpretation."

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C3QS2018 Lecture "Event-ready loophole free Bell tests - From Foundations to Applications" Harald Weinfurter

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 11:15 to 12:00
B250, Level B, Center Building

Lecture title: Event-ready loophole free Bell tests - From Foundations to Applications Speaker: Prof. Harald Weinfurter, University of Munich, Germany

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

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Seminar "Loss of GABAB-mediated interhemispheric synaptic inhibition in stroke periphery" by Dr. Bojana Kokinovic

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
D015, Lab1

"Dr. Bojana Kokinovic, Postdoc, Umea University. Language: English"

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Ecology & Evolution seminar series 3 : "Towards an ancient finger print of Rossmann fold enzymes and the evolution of SAM methylation" by Paola Laurino

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:00
C700, Lab3

Prof. Paola Laurino (Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit, OIST). "Towards an ancient finger print of Rossmann fold enzymes and the evolution of SAM methylation", 10:00-11:00, April 18 (wed).

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C3QS2018 Lecture "Spin dynamics of individual neutral impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate" Artur Widera

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 09:45 to 10:30
B250, Level B, Center Building

Lecture title: Spin dynamics of individual neutral impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate Speaker: Prof. Artur Widera, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

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C3QS2018 Lecture "Semiclassical wave packet dynamics in quantum systems with loss and gain" Eva-Maria Graefe

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 09:00 to 09:45
B250, Level B, Center Building

Lecture title: Semiclassical wave packet dynamics in quantum systems with loss and gain Speaker: Dr. Eva-Maria Graefe, Imperial College London, UK.

This is a part of the workshop C3QS2018 organized by Quantum Systems Unit. Everyone from OIST commuity is welcome!

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Internal Seminar: Maeva Techer, Postdoc, Ecology and Evolution (Mikheyev Unit)

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 16:30 to 17:00
C700

Internal Seminar, Maeva Techer, Postdoc, Ecology and Evolution (Mikheyev Unit)

C700, 4:30-5:00 pm

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Internal Seminar: Sebastien Lapointe, PhD Student, Coordination and Chemistry Catalysis Unit

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 16:00 to 16:30
C700

Internal Seminar, Sebastien Lapointe, PhD Student, Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit

C700, 4:00-4:30 pm

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[Seminar] "Racemic hydrogels from self-assembling mirror image peptides: Predictions from Pauling and Corey" by Dr. Joel P. Schneider, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
C015, Lab 1, Level C

Dr. Joel P. Schneider, Chief of Chemical Biology Laboratory Head, Peptide Design and Materials Section Center for Cancer Research Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute, NIH

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Seminar "Reassessment of mechanism underlying cerebellar learning" by Dr. Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
Meeting room D014, Level D, Lab1

Speaker: Dr. Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Deputy laboratory head from Laboratory for motor learning control, RIKEN Brain Science Institute Language: English

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[Lecture series] "Field-theory approach to quantum many-body systems" by Prof. Masaki Oshikawa

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 10:30 to Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 17:00
Lab 3 Level B / B711, 712, 715, 717

Lecture of 10:30 and 15:30 starting on Friday 13th.

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"3-manifolds in trisections" by Dr. Dale Koenig

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 15:00
Lab 3, B700

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend

This week, Dr. Dale Koenig (Tsvietkova Unit) will talk on "3-manifolds in trisections".

Seminar

Transcriptional control of human embryo genome activation

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 13:30 to 14:30
D015 (Lab1, Level D)

"Dr. Juha Kere, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Karolinska Institute and Professor of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, King's College London. Language: English, no interpretation."

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[Seminar] "The ground states of two-dimensional SU(N) Heisenberg models" by Prof. Karlo Penc

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 14:30
C015 (Lab1, Level C)

Seminar by Prof. Karlo Penc from Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest

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Seminar by Dr Mondal 'Application of contactless micromanipulation using one- and two-color femtosecond lasers in force and fluorescence spectroscopy'

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
C210, Centre building

Speaker: Dr Dipankar Mondal, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India

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[Seminar] "Aspects of Spinning Witten Diagrams" by Prof. Heng-Yu Chen

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 10:30 to 11:30
C756, Lab 3

Speaker: Prof. Heng-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University Date : Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

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Seminar by Mr Sylvain de Léséleuc 'Experimental many-body physics using arrays of individual Rydberg atoms'

Friday, April 6, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
B503, Level B, Centre Building

Speaker: Mr Sylvain de Léséleuc, Institut d'Optique - Orsay, France

Seminar

"Geometric algebras: from the wedge product to higher-spin holography" By Dr. Yasha Neiman

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 15:00
Lab 3, B700

The weekly Topology and Geometry Seminar, with Dr. Yasha Neiman.

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Seminar "Exploring human brain with single-cell transcriptional and epigenetic measurements" by Prof. Peter Kharchenko

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 14:45 to 15:15
C209, Level C, Center building

Prof. Peter Kharchenko, Department of Biomedical Informatics of the Harvard Medical School, US

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Seminar "Signals from the brain and olfactory epithelium control shaping of the face" by Prof. Igor Adameyko

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 14:15 to 14:45
C209, Level C, Center building

Prof. Igor Adameyko, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Seminar

Role of actin dynamics in reprogramming and fate determination of cells

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016 (Lab1, Level C)

"Dr. Hideyuki Saya, Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University. Language: English, no interpretation."

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Seminar "PRE-NEURONAL SEROTONIN: A NEW OLD FUNCTION OF ANCIENT MOLECULE" by Dr. Evgeny Ivashkin

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 13:30 to 14:00
C209, Level C, Center building

Seminar by Dr. Evgney Ivashkin

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Seminar "X-midge: cell and tissue-specific mechanisms of tolerance to complete desiccation in a unique insect." by Dr. Oleg Gusev

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 13:00 to 13:30
C209, Level C, Center building

Seminar by Dr. Oleg Gusev

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Seminar by Dr Yang 'Introduction of surface nanoscale axial photonics (SNAP)'

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 11:00 to 11:30
C209, Level C, Centre building

Speaker: Dr Yong Yang, Senior research fellow, Institute of Photonics, Aston University, UK

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"Circuit mapping with novel molecular genetic tools" by Dr Cetin

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:00
B503, Level B, Lab 1

Dr Cetin, Senior Manager, Allen Institute for Brain Science and Assistant Professor (affiliate faculty), Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington School of Medicine

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Internal Seminar: Alex Tang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit

Friday, March 30, 2018 - 16:30
C700

Internal seminar: Alex Tang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit

C700, 4:30-5:00pm

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Internal Seminar: Cindy Esporlas, PhD Student, Light-Matter Interactions Unit

Friday, March 30, 2018 - 16:00
C700

Internal Seminar: Cindy Esporlas, PhD Student, Light-Matter Interactions Unit

4:00-4:30pm, C700

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Seminar "What to do with two dozen (and counting) amphibian genomes" by Austin B. Mudd

Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 15:45 to 16:45
C210, Center Building

Speaker: Austin B. Mudd Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley Date : Thursday, March 29, 2018 Time : 3:45pm-4:45pm Venue: C210, Center Building

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Seminar "Long-read de novo genome assembly of Xenopus species: A practical introduction" by Jessen V. Bredeson

Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 14:30 to 15:30
C210, Center Building

Speaker: Jessen V. Bredeson Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley Date : Thursday, March 29, 2018 Time : 2:30pm-3:30pm Venue: C210, Center Building

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"Waves in lattices - opportunities and challenges"

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
C016, Level C, Lab1

Prof. Anasavarapu Srikantha Phani, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Canada. Language: English, no interpretation.

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Seminar "Genomics illuminates the origin, evolution and domestication of citrus fruits" by Dr. G. Albert Wu

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 15:45 to 16:45
C209, Center Building

Speaker: Dr. G. Albert Wu U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute Date : Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Time : 3:45pm-4:45pm Venue: C209, Center Building

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[Topology and Geometry Seminar] “Introduction to Seiberg-Witten invariant” by Dr Tirasan Khandhawit

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab 3, B700

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

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