Past Events

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Bill Soederstroem, Postdoctoral Researcher , Structural Biology Unit

Friday, October 12, 2018 - 16:30
B700

Internal Seminar, Friday October 12th, 4-5pm, B700

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Larisa Sheloukhova, Molecular and functional dissection of ancestral glia

Friday, October 12, 2018 - 16:00
B700

Internal Seminar, Friday October 12, 4-5pm, B700

Workshop

Workshop: "Interview Skills"

Friday, October 12, 2018 - 15:30 to 17:00
C700, Lab3

This highly interactive 90-minute workshop covers the most common questions asked during job interviews and how to formulate the best responses.

Researcher registration - CLICK HERE. Students should register via Graduate School.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

Seminar

Journal club seminar: Symmetries and Charges of General Relativity at Null Boundaries

Friday, October 12, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:30
A 719, Lab 3

Discussion on symmetries and charges in general relativity at null boundaries by Lin-Qing Chen.

Workshop

Workshop: "Speaking about science"

Friday, October 12, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:30
C700, Lab3

This workshop covers the structure, organization, and delivery of scientific talks.

Researcher registration - CLICK HERE . Students should register via Graduate School.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture - "Science, Biology and the World's Future" by Dr. Bruce Alberts

Friday, October 12, 2018 - 13:30 to 15:00
B250

Speaker: Dr. Bruce Alberts

Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry & Biophysics for Science & Education. University of California, San Francisco.

Research

[Seminar] Emergence of topological gauge theories from coupled arrays of wires - coupled-wire construction demystified by Professor Keisuke Totsuka

Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 14:30 to 15:30
C209, Ctr Bldg

[Seminar]

Title: Emergence of topological gauge theories from coupled arrays of wires

-- coupled-- wire construction demystified

Speaker: Professor Keisuke Totsuka

Institution: Kyoto University

Seminar

Seminar: “Evolution and Diversification of Butterflies and Moths: Anti-Bat Ultrasound Jamming, Acoustic Deflection, and Visual Lures” by Prof. Akito Kawahara

Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room C209, Center

Speaker: Prof. Akito Kawahara, Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, University of Florida

Research

[Seminar] Trapping Visons in Kitaev’s spin liquid by Professor. Masafumi Udagawa

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 14:30 to 15:30
C700, Lab3

[Seminar]

Title: Trapping Visons in Kitaev’s spin liquid

Speaker: Professor Masafumi Udagawa

Institution: Gakushuin University

Workshop

"QuickFix: CV Content"

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 12:00 to 13:00
For RSVP only

“QuickFix”- improve your application materials in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!

To register CLICK HERE Post-event survey SUMMARY

Seminar

"Field-Induced Dipole-Dipole Interaction for the Condensation of Spin-Orbital Coupled Polar Molecules" Dr. Gary Liu

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:00
Meeting Room C016, Level C, Lab1

[Seminar] Speaker: Dr. Gary (I-Kang) Liu, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

Holiday

Sports Day 2018

Monday, October 8, 2018 - 00:00

National holiday.

Research

[Cancelled] Special Scientific Talk - "Thinking, feeling and interacting in an accelerating world" by Dr. Claudine Haroche

Friday, October 5, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:00
C700, Lab 3

[Cancelled] Speaker: Claudine Haroche, CNRS, Paris

Workshop

Workshop: "Developing Job Strategies for Academia and Industry"

Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 15:00 to Friday, October 5, 2018 - 17:00
C700, Lab3

This workshop will cover academic and non-academic job search strategies.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

To register CLICK HERE

Workshop

Workshop: "Branding - Effective Communication Skills"

Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 12:00 to 13:00
C700, Lab3

This workshop will cover how to develop your personal brand and effectively communicate your value to important stakeholders.

Sponsored by OIST Graduate School.

To register CLICK HERE

The 23rd Board of Governors Meeting

Thursday, October 4, 2018 (All day) to Friday, October 5, 2018 (All day)

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Research

[PhD Thesis Presentation] -Ray Xin Lee- Nature and source of animal spontaneous behaviors : Insights from psycho behavioral development and neuronal population dynamics in mice

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - 09:00 to 10:00
C700, Lab3

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Ray Xin Lee

Title: Nature and source of animal spontaneous behaviors : Insights from psycho behavioral development and neuronal population dynamics in mice

Date&Time: October 3rd, 9:00am

Venue: C700, Lab3

Seminar

[Seminar] "Vacuum decay rate in the standard model and beyond" by Dr. Yutaro Shoji

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
A720, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Yutaro Shoji from Nagoya University Abstract: The electroweak vacuum is not absolutely stable in the standard model and various models beyond the standard model. This is due to an appearance of another deeper vacuum, into which the electroweak vacuum can decay. The decay proceeds through quantum tunneling and the rate is expressed with an exponential suppression factor and a pre-factor. The suppression factor has been calculated in many papers, but a naive dimensional analysis has been usually adopted for the pre-factor.

We have pointed out that such an evaluation can suffer from large quantum corrections and it is important to calculate the pre-factor as well.

To calculate the pre-factor, we had problems in a gauge sector; its gauge invariance is not explicitly shown, and there appear zero modes, which we could not deal with.

We have solved these problems and made it possible to determine vacuum decay rates precisely.

As applications, we analyzed the decay rates in the standard model and its fermionic extensions. We also provide a public code, which can be used for models that exhibit classical scale invariance at a high energy scale.

Research

[Seminar] In vivo imaging of calcium and membrane potential signals in mouse hippocampal neurons

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
B700 Lab3

[Seminar]

Title: In vivo imaging of calcium and membrane potential signals in mouse hippocampal neurons

Speaker: Professor Tsai-Wen Chen

Institution: National Yang-Ming University

Seminar

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Spacetime Singularities -An Introduction-" by Makoto Narita

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Lab 3 B717
"Spacetime Singularities -An Introduction-" by Professor Makoto Narita from Okinawa National College of Technology
Seminar

Seminar "One-loop tests of PM higher spin holography" by Wenliang LI (Hikami Unit)

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 10:00 to 11:00
C700, Lab3

*Time & Venue are changed to 10:00-11:00 (Oct 2), C700-Lab3.

Seminar on One-loop tests of PM higher spin holography by Wenliang Li (Hikami Unit)

Research

Wiley Books Online Trial

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 09:30 to Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 12:00
Anywhere with OIST network

A paid trial of Wiley Online Books will be available until March 26, 2019.

Research

QG group meeting: Expansions of the Black Hole Solution in AdS(3)

Monday, October 1, 2018 - 15:30
A719, Lab 3

QG Group Meeting

Title: Expansions of the Black Hole Solution in AdS(3)

Speaker : Nico Fischer, Research Intern, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)

Public Lecture

New Insights on Global Climate Change from Coral Reefs by Prof. R. Dunbar

Monday, October 1, 2018 - 11:00
C700

New Insights on Global Climate Change from Coral Reefs

Prof. Rob Dunbar

Stanford University

Culture

Kazakhstan Dumplings "Manti"

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 18:00
Community Kitchen

Manti

Graduate School

OIST Café #8 in Tokyo CANCELLED

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 14:00 to 17:00
FabCafe Tokyo (Shibuya, Tokyo)

CANCELLED

Reservation required: https://groups.oist.jp/grad/oist-cafe-8. Open to anyone interested in PhD and Research Internship at OIST. Max 30 participants.

Culture

【台風のため中止】公開トーク:「七色の橋を渡る」[Cancelled] Public Talk: "Crossing the 7 Bridges of Color"

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 14:00
セミナールームC210 C210 in the Center Building

本イベントは台風24号が接近しているため、中止となりました。[Cancelled]

言語:日本語(英語通訳なし)  Language: Japanese (No English Interpretation)

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Ivan Koludarov, Neofunctionalization precedes duplication in the evolution of Pla2g2 genes

Friday, September 28, 2018 - 16:30
C700

Internal Seminar, Friday September 28th, 4-5 pm, C700

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Yuka Suzuki, Relating explicit spatial structure with biodiversity in metacommunity

Friday, September 28, 2018 - 16:00
C700

Internal Seminar, Friday, September 28th, 4-5pm, C700

Research

Speedup of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm by Topological Cancellation

Friday, September 28, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
C016, Lab1

[Seminar]

Title: Speedup of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm by Topological Cancellation

Speaker: Professor Robert Joynt

Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Culture

Sense of Wonder Opening Ceremony センス・オブ・ワンダー展オープニングセレモニー

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 16:15
Tunnel Gallery

Special Tea Time to open the art exhibition "Sense of Wonder"

Research

[Seminar] Spin-nematic state in two-dimensional frustrated spin systems consisting of ferromagnetic dimers

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 14:30 to 15:30
C700, Lab3

[Seminar]

Title: Spin-nematic state in two-dimensional frustrated spin systems consisting of ferromagnetic dimers

Speaker: Professor Toshiya Hikihara

Institution: Gunma University

Seminar

"Experiments to Probe Quantum Linearity with Massive Nanoparticles" Markus Arndt

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 14:30 to 16:00
B250, Level B, Center Building

Seminar by Dr. Markus Arndt, Professor of Quantum Nanophysics at University of Vienna

This is a part of the summer school CQD2018 hosted by Nic Chormaic Unit & Busch Unit.

Seminar

Journal club seminar: Black hole memory effect

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
A 613, Lab 2

Discussion on Black Hole Memory Effect by Tomonori Ugajin.

Research

Special Scientific Talk - Towards Perfect de novo DNA assembly

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:30
C209, Center Building

NEW TIME - 1pm

Dr. Eugene W. Myers Director & Founding Chair of Systems Biology Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Workshop

"QuickFix: Transferable Skills"

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 12:00 to 13:00
For RSVP only

“QuickFix” - identify your transferable skills through in an interactive card sorting activity!

To register CLICK HERE Post-event survey SUMMARY
Culture

Art Exhibition: Sense of Wonder 美術展 センス・オブ・ワンダー

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 09:00 to Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - 17:00
Tunnel Gallery, Level C Corridor in the Center Building

Art Exhibition by 7 Okinawan artists.

Special Talk on 9/29 (Sat) at 14:00 in C210. Japanese only, no English interpretation

Workshop

2018 Okinawa Future Semiconductor Technical Committee

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 13:00 to 17:30
Seminar room C209, Center building

The workshop is going to be held on September 26, 2018,

Conference

6th International OTEC Symposium

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 09:00 to Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 12:00
OIST Conference Center

International symposium on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion | All sessions are open to OIST faculty/staff/students. Please register online and include “OIST” in the remarks, or show your OIST ID at the registration desk. | Website: http://otecsymposium.okinawa/en/index.html | Program: http://otecsymposium.okinawa/en/program.html

Seminar

[Seminar] "Applications of quantum lattice model solver HΦ to frustrated magnets" by Dr. Takahiro Misawa from Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
C016 (Lab1, Level C)

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to our seminar.

[Language] English

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture "Towards Image-Based Systems Biology" Dr. Eugene W. Meyers

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 10:30 to 12:00
B250, Level B, Center Building

Speaker: Dr. Eugene W. Meyers, Director, Center for Systems Biology Dresden Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

OIST Workshops

Okinawa School in Physics 2018: Coherent Quantum Dynamics (CQD2018)

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 (All day) to Thursday, October 4, 2018 (All day)
OIST Seaside House

OIST Workshop -Application Open: around 15 March 2018 - Application Deadline: 20 May 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/cqd

Holiday

Autumn Equinox 2018

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 00:00

National holiday.

External Events

Guided reef walk

Sunday, September 23, 2018 - 11:00
Maeda flats

Let Marine scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) guide you around the intertidal ecosystem of Okinawa. Specifically the Maeda flats on the 23rd of September at 11:00.

Culture

芭蕉布の科学展スペシャルイベント Special Events for Science of Bashofu

Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 10:00
OIST Main Campus OISTキャンパス

Symposium (Japanese only) : 10:00 - 12:35 at B250, Level B, Center Buildig シンポジウム(日本語のみ):10:00-12:35、センター棟B階B250 セミナールーム

Seminar

[Seminar] "Developmental Robotics for Language Learning, Trust and Theory of Mind" by Prof. Angelo Cangelosi

Friday, September 21, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
D014, Lab1

"Developmental Robotics for Language Learning, Trust and Theory of Mind" by Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, University of Manchester and University of Plymouth

Seminar

[Seminar] "Body perception under the free energy formulation for robots and humans" by Dr. Pablo Lanillos

Friday, September 21, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
D014, Lab1

"Body perception under the free energy formulation for robots and humans" by Dr. Pablo Lanillos, Technical University of Munich

Seminar

Journal club seminar: Wormholes

Friday, September 21, 2018 - 15:00
A 613, Lab 2

Discussion on Wormholes and Extra Dimensions by Vyacheslav Lysov.

Graduate School

Student panel discussion: thesis proposal exam

Friday, September 21, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C700

Student panel discussion about thesis proposal exam

Research

[Seminar] Genetic Connectivity and Speciation of Coral Reef Benthos

Friday, September 21, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
C700, Lab3

[Seminar]

Title: Genetic Connectivity and Speciation of Coral Reef Benthos

Speaker: Professor Nina Yasuda

Institution: Department of Marine Biology and Environmental Sciences, Miyazaki University

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