We will hold a demo session for OIST staff members to see the SAP's (new OIST ERP system) user interface and work-flow. HEART - SAP Demo Session ① August 20 (Thursday) 14:00-16:00 in room C210 ② August 25 (Tuesday) 10:00-12:00 in room C210

Dr. Sergey Ryazantsev, from California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles

Carlo Barenghi ( Professor, Newcastle University, UK)

Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Kakenhi Administration Seminar 科研費事務説明会（7/24&8/12） Target audience: Kakenhi PIs, Unit RAs, and Admin staff who would like to learn administrative procedures for Kakenhi Language: Japanese

Seminar by Dr. Byung-wook Park, Konkuk University, South Korea

Join us for August's first Internal Seminar Series on August 7, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C210. This month's first seminar features the Neurobiology Research Unit (Jeff Wickens) and the Information Processing Biology Unit (Ichiro Maruyama).

Seminar by Dr. Judit Romhanyi (MPI-FKF) / Aug 5th, 10:30-11:30 in D014, Lab1

Shizuya Saika, Ph.D., Professor of Department of Ophthalmology Wakayama Medical University, "Language: English No interpretation."

Shinsuke Kawai, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.

Speaker: Prof. Thierry Mora, Département de Physique, École Normale Supérieure, France Title: Learning the collective dynamics of biological systems, from neurons to flocks

Prof. Jordi Mompart (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Speaker: Prof. Aleksandra Walczak, Département de Physique, École Normale Supérieure, France Title: Diversity Generation in Immune Receptor Repertoires

OIST Seminar New Horizons in Science Education – Motivating Young Students to take the Challenge

Join us for July's second Internal Seminar Series on July 24, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's second seminar features the Plant Epigenetics Unit (Hidetoshi Saze) and the Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit (Shinobu Hikami).

All are welcome.

Kakenhi Administration Seminar 科研費事務説明会（7/24&8/12） Target audience: Kakenhi PIs, Unit RAs, and Admin staff who would like to learn administrative procedures for Kakenhi Language: Japanese

Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit (Dani Unit) would like to invite you to a seminar on July 22nd from 11:00 to 12:00 at C 700 (Lab3) by Dr. Kenneth Burch, Associate Professor at Boston College.

Title: "Insights into Optimizing Topological and Thermoelectric Materials from Optics

Abstract: Thermoelectrics and Topological Insulators offer unique opportunities to improve power efficiency of devices and recover lost heat. A key difficulty is understanding the interplay between electronic structure, phonons, disorder, doping, nano-confinement and transport. In this talk I will outline our groups efforts to understand this interplay using various optical spectroscopies (Infrared and Raman) and as well mechanical exfoliation.

Dear Research Administrators and Admin staff members, Due to the typhoon, the HEART RA/Admin session has been rescheduled as below. Time & Date： July 16, Thursday 10:30-12:00 ＠B250

Talk on PET Imaging at Stanford MIPS by Prof. Craig S. Levin. Professor of Radiology, and by courtesy, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Seminar and Demonstration by Olympus

Seminar by Prof. Yukitoshi Motome (Univ. of Tokyo) July 13th, 15:30-16:30 (D015, Lab1)

Prof. Yu Shen, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Join us for July's first Internal Seminar Series on July 10, from 17:30 to 18:00 in B250. This month's first seminar features the Theory of Quantum Matter Unit (Nic Shannon).

Dr. Naoki Mochizuki, Deputy Director, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) Research Institute, "English; no interpretation"

We would like to invite you to the second HEART RA/Admin session. Target audience: RA and Admin staff. Explanation in Japanese with slides in English

We would like to invite you to the second HEART RA/Admin session. Target audience: RA and Admin staff. Explanation in Japanese with slides in English

"Neural circuit formation underlying locomotor and skilled movements."

A series of 3 lectures on "Light interaction with three-level systems:Coherent Population Trapping, Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage” by Prof. Jordi Mompart, Department of Physics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

A series of 3 lectures on "Light interaction with three-level systems:Coherent Population Trapping, Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage” by Prof. Jordi Mompart, Department of Physics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

A series of 3 lectures on "Light interaction with three-level systems:Coherent Population Trapping, Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage” by Prof. Jordi Mompart, Department of Physics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Takashi Yanagisawa, Chief Senior Researcher, Electronics & Photonics Research Institute National Institute, AIST Language: English

JSPS staff will explain the overview of JSPS programs, followed by Q&A session.

Prof Justin Dauwels, Nanyang Technological University Seminar 2

Professor Justin Dauwells, Nanyang Technological University

Randy M. Bruno, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center

Join us for June's second Internal Seminar Series on June 26, from 17:30 to 18:00 in B250. This month's second seminar features the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit (Yabing Qi).

Prof Hans Blom, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Seminar Title Super-resolution imaging in neuroscience and nephrology

Prof. Nobuchika Okada, Assistant Professor, Particle Astrophysics, The University of Alabama

Seminar by Dr. Andrew Smerald (EPFL, Lausanne), June 23rd @ 10AM in D015, Lab1.

A seminar on a unique microscope system developed by Akihiko Nakano and his team at University of Tokyo/ RIKEN Institute. OIST member only.

We, in the Grants and Research Collaborations Section, hope that this series of Salons will jump-start your thinking about research proposal presentations – the key to a well-funded research career.

Webinar by: Dr. Gerald Donnert, CEO of Abberior Instruments GmbH, Göttingen, Germany

National Autonomous University of Mexico

Seminar by Prof. Karlo Penc (Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics), Wed 17th June @ 11:00am in D014, Lab1.

Seminar: Science Communication: Take Charge of It! by Dr. Matteo Rini

Radostin Danev Ph.D., Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, one of the key developers of the modern phase plate for electron microscopy. If you want to know what's hot in biological electron microscopy, please come hear his talk!

Join us for June's first Internal Seminar Series on June 12, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's first seminar features the Developmental Neurobiology Unit (Ichiro Masai) and the Marine Biophysics Unit (Satoshi Mitarai).

Seminar by Dr. Ipsita Mandal (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) on Friday, 12th June at 13:30 in C016 (Lab1).

Seminar: Prof. Thomas Nevian from University of Bern, talks on "Plasticity of neuronal networks and single cell properties in the anterior cingulate cortex induced by neuropathic pain"