Seminar title: "Machine Learning of Motor Skills for Robots: From Simple Skills to Table Tennis and Manipulation"

Speaker: Prof. Jan Peters

Affiliation: Universität Darmstadt Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Abstract

Autonomous robots that can assist humans in situations of daily life have been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences. A first step towards this goal is to create robots that can learn tasks triggered by environmental context or higher level instruction. However, learning techniques have yet to live up to this promise as only few methods manage to scale to high-dimensional manipulator or humanoid robots. In this talk, we investigate a general framework suitable for learning motor...

Sculptor Rinus Roelofs. Language: English. No interpretation.

Professor Itaru HAMACHI Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Graduate School of Engineering Kyoto University, Kyoto and CREST/JST, JAPAN http://www.sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/hamachi-lab/index.php?members%2Fhamachi​

Internal Seminar: Bill Söderström, Postdoctoral Researcher, Structural Cellular Biology Unit (Skoglund Unit)

After receiving his BS and MS in 1987 and 1990, Bing Xu obtained his PhD in 1996. Notably, Xu lab pioneered the integration of enzyme transformation and self-assembly for developing molecular biomaterials, synthesized the first dimeric nanoparticle consisting of quantum dot and nanomagnet for exploring nanoscience inside cells, reported the first case of using dopamine to anchor molecules on iron oxide surface, and demonstrated the first case of using enzymatic transformation and self-assembly to inhibit cancer cells selectively. Being identified on the Thomson Reuters "highly-cited researchers 2014&2015" list, Bing Xu currently is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, and his research focuses on the applications of molecular engineering in materials, biology, and medicine.

Title: "Microfluidics & Organs on a Chip" by Prof. Shuichi Takayama

Organization: University of Michigan

Talk will bw open to all OIST students and researchers.

Dr. Jean Dalibard, Professor, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

This is a part of the summer school CQD2016

Speaker: Prof. Martine Collart

Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva

Title: Translational capacity of a cell is determined during transcription elongation via the Ccr4-Not complex

"Professor Mao-Pei Tsui, National Taiwan University, "Language: Engrish. No interpretation."

"Professor Chun-Chi Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, "Language: Engrish. No interpretation."

Dr David G. Hitlin, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology. Part 2 of 2. The first seminar is the previous day, September 13, from 11:00 in C209.

See demos, ask questions one-on-one, and get hands-on time with technology from EnginFrame.

Dr David G. Hitlin, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology. Part 1 of 2. The second seminar is the following day, September 14, from 11:00 in C209.

Speaker: Dr. Wolfgang Fritzsche

Nano Biophotonics Department, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT)

Title: Bioanalytics using single plasmonic nanostructures

Host: Mukhles Sowwan (Nanoparticles by Design Unit)

Date: Friday, September 9, 2016

Venue: C016, Lab1, Level-C

Time: 11am - noon [a talk of 45 minutes and Q&A session]

Speaker: Dr Robert Guetig

Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine. Theoretical Neuroscience

http://www.em.mpg.de/index.php?id=282&L=1

The library is hosting EndNote Seminar on September 9th. We will invite an expert of EndNote from its providing company. There are two sessions: Basic and Intermediate. Please register from the library webpage.

"Dr. Eckart Meiburg, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara", "Language: Engrish. No interpretation."

The library is hosting Web of Science Seminar on September 6 with training provided by an expert from Thomson Reuters. There are two sessions: Basic and Advance. You may choose to attend one or both sessions.

Prof Abner Soffer of Tel Aviv University

Dr Kosuke Hamaguchi, Department of Biological Sciences Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine

Prof. Paolo Milani

Dept. of Physics, University of Milano, Italy

Abstract

Stretchable functional materials are enabling ingredients for the fabrication of wearable electronics, smart prosthetics and soft robotics. These applications require the integration of electronic, optical and actuation capabilities on soft, conformable and biocompatible polymeric substrates [1].

Recently it has been demonstrated that neutral metallic nanoparticles produced in the gas phase and aerodynamically accelerated in a supersonic expansion can be implanted in a polymeric substrate to form a conductive nanocomposite with superior resilience and interesting structural and functional properties [2-4]. This approach is called supersonic cluster beam implantation (SCBI).

Here I present experimental and theoretical results about the production of devices based on...

Dr Mark Sadgrove, Associate Professor, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan

Language: English

BIO: Dr. Shuichiro MIWA earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University in 2008, 2012, respectively. He earned his B.S. in Civil/ Environmental Engineering at Purdue in 2005. Following his doctorate, he joined the Division of Energy and Environmental Systems at Hokkaido University as an assistant professor and conducting research at the laboratory of nuclear system safety. His research interests include nuclear thermal-hydraulics, gas-liquid two-phase flow experiments and modeling, and Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning support.

Ruth A Byrne, PhD; Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

For the last ten years, Dr. Byrne has studied cephalopods at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, universities in the USA and Israel, and beneath the pristine waters of the Caribbean. She first investigated behavioral lateralization and arm use in the Common Octopus, and subsequently the complex body pattern communication system of the Caribbean Reef Squid. Most recently, she has been working on human cell biology.

Host: Michael Kuba ( michael.kuba@oist.jp) , Physics and Biology Unit.

Ms. Erika Kawakami, Delft University of Technology, Language: English

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Seminar by Andrew Smerald (EPFL, Lausanne) on Friday, July 15th at 3pm. Location: C016, Lab1.

This seminar with the OIST Media Section explores how your research can get visibility on the OIST Website and on the Internet.

Seminar July 15th (C016) : 10:00-11:00 "Triggering of earthquakes: a review” , Prof. Takahiro Hatano (Unv.Tokyo) , 11:00-12:00 “High precision prediction of catastrophic mechanical phenomena”, Prof. Tetsuo Yamaguchi (Kyushu Univ.)

Seminar by Yuan Wan (Perimeter Institute) on July 14th (Thu) 11:00-12:00 in D014, Lab1.

Seminar by Prof. Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN) on Monday 11th at 15:30 in B250, as part of OIST-iTHES-CTSR workshop.

Dr. Vienna Kowallik, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie

Seminar by Prof. Zinn-Justin,CEA Saclay, on July 7th at 3pm in C209.

Seminar "The physiological role of poly(A)-binding protein-interacting protein 1" Dr. Akiko YANAGIYA.

This event is open to all. Event in English (no interpretation). For details contact organizers.

Maiko Furubayashi is a Postdoctoral Associate in Chris Voigt lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in Engineering from Chiba University in 2014 under the supervision of Daisuke Umeno, working on non-natural pathway construction by directed evolution.

Seminar "Screening of phosphorylation dependent protein-protein interaction inhibitors" Dr. Takahisa Nakamura.

Seminar by Tomonari Mizoguchi (Univ. Tokyo) on Tue, 21st June at 2-3pm in C016.

Date : June 10 ^th , 2016 (Fri)

Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Venue: D015 (Lab 1, Level D)

Speaker: Prof. Tamer A. Zaki (Johns Hopkins University)

(Title) Boundary layer transition beneath free-stream turbulence: Linear precursors of nonlinear breakdown

Abstract: The manner in which infinitesimal disturbances can cause organized fluid motion to become chaotic is an intriguing phenomenon. In addition to being of great theoretical interest, laminar-to-turbulence transition is of significant engineering importance due to its role in heat transfer, its influence on momentum mixing, and its effect on drag. In this work, we present complementary theoretical analysis and high-fidelity direct numerical simulations of transition to turbulence in boundary layers. The...

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Prof. B. Sriram Shastry, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz. Restricted to OIST members.

Prof. B. Sriram Shastry, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz Restricted to OIST members.

Speaker: Prof. Masashi Yamanaka

Professor at KEK (KEK, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Director of the Mechanical Engineering Center at KEK

Language: English

Symposium on food and science (registration required, English simultaneous interpretation provided) and open-air food bazaar (registration NOT required)

Seminar by Prof. Susumu Fukatsu, Unv. of Tokyo on May 25th, Wednesday at 11am.

This event is open to all. Event in English (no interpretation). For details contact organizers.

Please join us for our last Internal Seminar of the spring session on Friday May 20, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This seminar features the Chemistry and Chemical Bioengineering Unit (Fujie Tanaka) and the Marine Biophysics Unit (Satoshi Mitarai).

Pro.f Yoshihiko Takano, MANA, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Language English

Katsuhiko Ariga WPI-MANA, Natl. Inst. Mater. Sci. 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan E-mail: ARIGA.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp