Origami, the exquisite craft of folding paper into three-dimensional shapes, has been practiced for millennia by artists and lay people. Prof. Mahadevan will discuss some physical aspects of rigid and soft origami associated with the weak and strong deformations of thin sheets of any material. The efficient packing properties of folded matter suggest that it ought to occur naturally in physical and biological systems, and he will show that they do indeed appear on a range of scales, e.g. in drying gels, wings, leaves and even your gut as a self-organized pattern. These physical manifestations of origami suggest the question of how to design the number, location and orientation of folds to create complex shapes. Prof. Mahadevan will finish his talk with a description of attempts to solve this inverse problem, and its generalizations.

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Solving Word Problems in finitely presented groups" by Robert Tang

Dr. Sebastian Reinig, Postdoc, National Institute of Genetics. Language: English

"Ultra-strong light-matter interactions and super-radiant phase transitions" by Prof Motoaki Bamba, Osaka Univ

プロポーザルの基本とは、相手を適切に想定し、相手の聞きたいポイントを聞きたい順に提示していくことです。

本勉強会では、個々の持っている研究テーマについて、深く広く考え、その学術的な価値を再認識していただく事から始め、

伝えるべきポイント、伝え方についても学んでいただきます。

Speaker Dr. Tomoaki Matsuura, Associate Professor at Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University.

"Dr. Shugo Suwazono, Chief of the Division of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Okinawa Hospital. Language: English, no interpretation."

"Dr. Yuji Yamanashi, Professor, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo. Language: English, no interpretation."

QG group meeting Speaker: Henry Stoltenberg Title: Tales from PiTP 2018: Holography and Quantum Error Correction

"Broadband plasmonics in the optical and THz range" by Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta, DCMP&MS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

10:00-18:00 Saturday, August 4th 2018 Elementary School students and Junior High School students Admission Free

Internal Seminar, Friday August 3rd, C700, 4-5pm

Internal Seminar, Friday August 3rd, 2018, 4pm

Dr. Jafar Sharif, RIKEN IMS, Yokohama Japan

Topology and Geometry unit seminar

Mr. Asem Elarabi, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University

Language: English

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Laboratory of Biomedical and Biophysical Chemistry, IMCE, Kyushu University

This talk will take as a starting point the Skyrmions as baryons in large- N QCD. It is further assumed that at high density, the sextic term in derivatives becomes dominant at some large density. This assumption is based on the observation that the term behaves like a perfect fluid, which is welcome for nuclear matter at large density – an environment suitable for the studies of neutron stars. With very large masses and compact radii, neutron stars become the closes known stable objects to the critical line of gravitational collapse. With some phenomenological motivation in mind, we consider the possibilities of finding exact analytic solutions to a system which is approximated by the sextic derivative term and a potential; this system is called the BPS-Skyrme model. We find a condition for when the gravitating soliton equations can be solved exactly and deduce the phenomenological implications. We furthermore find that this system has the peculiarity of not having stable black holes, meaning that the soliton cannot become scalar hair of a black hole. This is somewhat surprising, because the Skyrme soliton with a fourth-order derivative term can become stable black hole hair. We write down a class of models with higher-order derivative terms and find 2 new models that can sustain stable hair and 2 new that cannot.

Finally, we consider the problem of the classical binding energies of the Skyrmions, which are far too large compared to nuclei and explain a solution to this problem based on holography. Interestingly the solution from holography relates the baryon to the instanton of a 5-dimensional theory and the moduli of the instanton become massive modes in the Skyrmion. These modes in addition to the zero modes of the Skyrmion are expected to describe the spectra of nuclei.

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: March 25, 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Tutorial sessions are closed (only for registered participants) - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/dnc/dnc2018 - DNC2018 Program: https://groups.oist.jp/dnc/dnc2018-program2

QG group meeting Speaker: Blaithin Power Title: Integrability and the quantum inverse scattering method

We are pleased to invite you to attend the seminar!

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard helped decipher the logic of the genes required to control early embryonic development. Based on her research, a plethora of transcription control genes was discovered and found to be conserved throughout evolution. In her talk she will discuss the basic mechanisms needed to establish a distinct pattern of cells during embryogenesis. She will also talk about the point of beauty in nature as well as why animals have patterns, a subject on which she has been writing a book. Her research laid the conceptual foundation for our understanding of organ formation and regeneration using the developmental control genes.

Neural Computation Unit (Doya Unit)

OIST Booth at Unna Festival

Workshop for categoerising corals for declaration of village declaration of coral "See Coral, Know Coral"

Prof. Jevon Longdell, Associate Professor, University of Otago.

Language: English

Jazz Concert

Free Admission　No Reservation Required　Rain or Shine

"Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaic and Light-Emission Applications" Prof. Sam Stranks, Cavendish Labratory, University of Cambridge

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

If you have not yet heard of this innovative problem-solving strategy, or if you’ve heard about it and wonder if it could be useful to you and your team, this workshop is the answer. This interactive workshop introduces the design thinking process and gives you a hands-on opportunity to apply design thinking to a ubiquitous problem of today’s workplace .

We provide the bin bags and you provide the free labour! Let's clean our local beaches and protect our ocean.

Internal Seminar, Friday July 20th, 2018, 4-5pm C700

Internal Seminar, Friday July 20th, 2018, C700

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

The Library would like to invite you to the Institutional Repository (OISTIR) Seminar on July, 20 (Friday).

Last year, we held "Institutional Repository & Archival of Research Data" in cooperation with the Dean of Research Office.

This year, we would like to give information about Open Access and some updates related to OISTIR.

Date: July 20 (Friday)

Time: 10:00-10:25 (English)

10:30-10:55 (Japanese)

Venue: B250, Center Building

7/20(Fri) Seaside House lobby lightings repair/シーサイドハウスロビーの照明修繕作業

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

Seminar by Prof. Ariane Briegel, Professor of Ultrastructural biology

Thesis Public Presentation

Speaker: Tsai-Ming Lu

Title: Comparative genomic studies on Dicyema japonicum : the phylogenetic position of dicyemids and the genomic adaptations to parasitic lifestyle

Ecology and Evolution seminar #6 Semiar by Prof. Tatiana Tatarinova (University of La Verne), July 18th (Wed) 2-3pm at B250. All is welcome.

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

Dr. Kevin Dorgans, Postdoc, Universite de Strasbourg. Language: English

Prof. Nobuhiko Tokuriki, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada

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Dr. Naruya Saitou, Professor, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima

Language: English, no interpretation

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky

Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky.

To celebrate the national holiday designed to appreciate the ocean (Umi-No-Hi), members of UMI will be guiding people around the reef flats at Maeda.

National holiday.

Dr. Andrés A León Baldelli, CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France. Language: English, no interpretation.