Speaker: Dr. Bing Wen Brunton, Professor of Biology and the Richard & Joan Komen University Chair at the University of Washington

Language: English

Title: Preservation of concavity properties by the Dirichlet heat flow and applications

Speaker: Prof. Paolo Salani (University of Florence)

Title: Initial traces and solvability of porous medium equation with power nonlinearity

Speaker: Prof. Kazuhiro Ishige (University of Tokyo)

Speaker: Dr. Steven L. Brunton, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington.

Language: English

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to another seminar in the OCQT Seminar series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Andreas M. D. Thomasen from QunaSys. He will deliver a talk on: "Architectures and algorithms for early FTQC"

Speaker: Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo

Speaker: Dan Kehila, Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit, OIST

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Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and Researchers interested in the field. Language: English Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

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

Language: English

Zoom link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92164277280?pwd=EtClSiF0mouaCFNocZaC4b5hz3GTRa.1&from=addon

TSVP visitor, Prof. Le Bin Ho, Tohoku University , will give a seminar "On the principle of quantum-enhanced multiphase metrology under the squeezing effect"

Dr. Paul Strohmeier, Group Leader in Max Planck Institute for Informatics Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

Prof. Martin Snoager Sloth, University of Southern Denamrk

Emerson Escolar, Kobe University

Dr. Buz Barstow is a physicist using synthetic biology to build sustainable energy technologies and is an assistant professor at Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University.

Dr. Piotr Łukasik, Associate Professor, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

A talk by Dr. Kim Palacios-Flores

Postdoctoral Researcher at Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Tomohito Noda

Ph.D. student The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Department of Biological Sciences

Fukatsu Lab at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Abstract: Intracellular symbiosis, in which a host organism harbors a microbial symbiont within its cells, has been widely observed across diverse lineages. This phenomenon is intriguing not only within the context of individual symbiotic relationships, but also more broadly, as the origins of mitochondria and chloroplasts are thought to trace back to microorganisms that were incorporated into host cells. Therefore, the study of intracellular symbiosis may provide insights to the understanding of a crucial trigger for the acquisition of novel biological functions and evolutionary modifications. Despite the wide interest in intracellular symbiosis, the mechanisms and adaptations required to harbor microbial symbionts remain largely elusive. One contributing factor is that the majority of symbiotic organs are highly specialized and distinct from the rest of the body, and thus lack a clear “non-symbiotic” subject to compare with.

Dr. Nozomi Ando is an associate professor at Chemistry and Chemical Biology in Cornell University.

"Synaptic Machinery for Protein Turnover" by Prof. Chao Sun, Aarhus University, Denmark

Talk by Javier Rey Dominguez, PhD School of Electronic and electrical engineering, University of Leeds. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to OIST community.

Mr. Yohei Nishino, Ph.D. student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Tokyo

"Geometric modular flows in 2d CFT and beyond" presented by Jacqueline Caminiti

Title: Does Synaptic Strength Encode Sleep Need?

Speaker: Dr. Shoi Shi, Principal Investigator, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS), University of Tsukuba

Language: English

Title: Micro- and Nanomotors Driven by Optical Forces and Torques

Speaker: Dr Mikael Käll, Professor, Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Title: Plasmonic Optical Tweezers: From Nanoparticles Trapping to Biomolecules Manipulation

Speaker: Dr Domna Kotsifaki, Assistant Professor of Physics, Duke Kunshan University, China

Title: Multipliers of orbital angular momentum of light

Speaker: Dr Georgiy Tkachenko, University of Bordeaux, France

Talk title: Bridging Science and Art: A Journey from Medicinal Chemistry to Photographic Expression

Speaker: Maya Beano, participating photographer in the Polar Blues, Island Hues exhibition at OIST with her images of Antarctica

Stefano Antonini

UC Berkeley

Title: Ultrasensitive ultrasound sensing with integrated optical microresonators

Speaker: Dr Beibei Li, Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Seminar by Prof. Valerio Orlando

Talk by Florian Meier, TU-Wien. Physical devices operating out of equilibrium are inherently affected by thermal fluctuations, limiting their operational precision. This issue is pronounced at microscopic and especially quantum scales and can only be mitigated by incurring additional entropy dissipation. Understanding this constraint is crucial for both fundamental physics and technological design.

Speaker: Asaki Kataoka Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Ph.D. course) - UTokyo WINGS-ABC Leading Research Assistant - Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Title: Towards understanding the learning rules for human-like neural representations

Hao Geng

Harvard University

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Ott, Assistant Professor, ECE, College of Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Please RSVP by 7 am on Thursday, Mar. 27 : https://forms.gle/FnWHrH62KEoiJUwv7

Speaker: Dr. Satoshi Takada, Associate Professor: Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.

language: English

Speaker: Philip Freund, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Title: Role of axonal importin β1 in presynaptic local translation and spatial memory

Speaker: Mike Fainzilber, Professor in Molecular Neuroscience, Head, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel [ website ]

Title: How does a neuron grow?

<Due to changing of flight schedule, this seminor got cancelled.>

Speaker: Javier Francisco MedinaProfessor & Brown Foundation Chair in Neuroscience Department of Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine

Speaker: Norbert Hoffmann (Hamburg University of Technology / Imperial College London)

Dr. Rejjak Laskar, Senior Research Fellow from Aliah University in India

[Speaker] Prof. Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Associate Professor, International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

[Affiliation] Research Fellow: Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Title: Nonlinear Photonics in High-Q Microcavities: From All-Optical Switches to Microresonator Frequency Combs

Speaker: Dr Takasumi Tanabe, Professor, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan

[Seminar] "Elucidation and Control of Advanced Photofunctions based on Triplet Excited States in Molecular Materials" by Prof. Kiyoshi Miyata