Dr. Junko Furihata, Senior Conservator at the Conservation Science Laboratory of the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties

Professor Anil Hirani, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abnormal activation of transcription factor NF-kB by oncoprotein of Human T cell leukemia Virus 1 (HTLV-1), Prof. Junichi INOUE. The University of Tokyo.

Professor Anil Hirani, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

OIST Seminar by Prof. Ryugo Hayano, University of Tokyo - Language: English and Japanese with simultaneous interpretation - No registration required

Speaker: Prof. Thomas W. Holstein Molecular Evolution and Genomics, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Germany

Speaker: Professor Kyoko Nozaki, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo

Professor Michael Shats Head, Centre for Plasmas and Fluids Research School of Physics and Engineering The Australian National University

Lecture 3: Projection operator approach to the description of open quantum systems. Time local and time non-local quantum master equations. Examples of exactly solvable Open Quantum Systems.

Professor Michael Shats Head, Centre for Plasmas and Fluids Research School of Physics and Engineering The Australian National University

Lecture 2: Coherent states for bosonic and spin systems. Glauber-Sudarshan P representation for dissipative dynamics of bosonic and spin systems. Fokker-Planck equation and its solution.

Join us for this month's first Internal Seminars Series on February 12, from 17:30 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This seminar features the Computational Neuroscience Unit (Erik De Schutter).

Lecture 1: Quantum Master Equation in the Lindblad (GKSL)Form, derivation and simple examples. Kraus representation of the Open Quantum System dynamics.

Dr. Ilya Sinayskiy, Researcher, National Institute for Theoretical Physics and Centre for Quantum Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Nicola Lo Gullo (Post-doc, University of Padua, Italy)

Speakers: Mr. Yoshihiro Kamozaki (Deputy Secretary General, Japan Fundraising Association) Mr. Fumitaka Watanabe (Fundraising Staff, iPS Cell Research Fund, Kyoto University)

Professor Luca Celardo, Assistant Professor in Condensed Matter Theory at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Brescia, Itay)

Prof. Bruce R. Sutherland Director, Institute for Geophysical Research Depts. Physics / Earth & Atmospheric Sciences University of Alberta

Join us for this year's very first Internal Seminars Series (!) on January 29, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This seminar features the Dean's Research Unit and Mathematical Soft Matter Unit (Eliot Fried).

Seminar by Dr. Alexey Andreanov (Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea), 28th Jan (Thu) @ 2:30-3:30pm in C016, Lab1.

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

Dr Yun-Feng Xiao, Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory for Artificial MicroStructre and Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University

HEART All User Meeting ① January 13th (Wed) 9:30-12:00 @Lab3, C700 ② January 14th (Thur) 13:30-16:00 @Lab3, C700

Prof Tim Hunt (2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute

Prof. Ray-Kuang Lee, Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing-Hua University, China

Language:English

Professor Brian Seguin, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago. Language: English.

Professor Gwynn Elfring, Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia

Seminar by Prof. Susumu Yanagisawa "First-principles investigation on the electronic states of the organic single-crystals and the organic-metal interfaces: importance of accurate prediction of the crystal and the interface structures"

Associate Professor Taizo Hanai, Laboratory for Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Systems Life Science, Kyushu University

Join us for this years last Internal Seminars Series on December 11, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This seminar features the Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit (Amy Shen) and Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit (Tsumoru Shintake).

Professor Akemi Tomoda, Research Center for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui will be giving a talk on "Adverse sensory input of the abuse modified by early experience". (in English)

Professor Makoto Sato, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, will be giving a talk on "Oxytocin and more: what we have learned from the developmental disorders of the brain". (in English)

2-part seminar by Hitachi

Prof. Vladimir Ya. LEE, Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Join us for November's second Internal Seminar Series on November 27, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This month's second seminar features the Quantum Systems Unit (Thomas Busch) and the Bioinspired Soft Matter Unit (Ye Zhang).

"Dr. Naoki Mochizuki, Deputy Director, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) Research Institute", "Language: English. No interpretation.", "All OIST members are welcome"

Dr. Barry Cox, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

"Dynamics of perceptual decision-making under temporal uncertainty", Dr. Nestor Parga, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. No registration required.

Dr. Barry Cox, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

Genus Vigna -the Wild and Sexy- Speaker: Dr. Ken Naito Genetic Resource Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences

Dr. Tsunehide Kuroki from National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College. Language English.

Dr. Timothy Keitt, Associate Professor, Section of Integrative Biology The University of Texas at Austin

Roger T. Hanlon, Ph.D. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence RI, USA

Prof. Manjunatha Kini, National University of Singapore

Join us for November's first Internal Seminar Series on November 13, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C700 (Lab3). This month's first seminar features the Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit (Nicholas M. Luscombe) and the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit (Yabing Qi).

" Chemosensory function of desert toads" Prof. Takatoshi Nagai, Dept. Biology, Keio Univ. School of Medicine

Professor Mark Tame, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Seminar by Prof. Koji Yakabi (Vice Director of Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University Medical School) and Dr. Tomohisa Hattori (Director of the Kampo Scientific Strategies Division Tsumura Research Laboratories) - Language: English (no interpretation) - Open to all.

Institute of Cellular Physiology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México