Past Events

Seminar

[Seminar] "The enigmatic evolutionary relationships among decapodiform cephalopod lineages" by Dr. Fernando Ángel Fernández-Álvarez

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room L4E01, Lab 4

[Speaker] Dr. Fernando Ángel Fernández-Álvarez, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM), CSIC, Spain

OIST Workshops

[Hybrid] OIST Workshop "Potential theory and random walks in metric spaces"

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 (All day) to Friday, June 2, 2023 (All day)
Zoom and OIST Main Campus, Sydney Brenner Lecture Theatre (B250)

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Xiaodan Zhou (Analysis on Metric Spaces) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions.

OIST campus will be closed on Thursday and Friday due to the typhoon. All talks will be online on Thursday and Friday. You can obtain a zoom link from here.

Seminar

Self-similarity approach on the dynamical impact of solid sphere onto the viscoelastic surface, Dr. Hirokazu Maruoka.

Monday, May 29, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab4, Level E, L4E48

Dr. Hirokazu Maruoka, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University.

Language: English.

Seminar

Seminar: Cichlid fishes as a model for evolution of altruism in vertebrates

Monday, May 29, 2023 - 15:00
OIST Main Campus (C209)

We are inviting Dr. Shun Satoh from Kyoto University who calls himself as a "Fish Maniac" in his blog.For his details please check the link below. https://symphysodondiscus.wixsite.com/website-1/blank-3 Date: May 29th(Mon) Time: 15:00* - Room: C209 (Center Bldg) *The start time has been updated as of May 19th. sorry for the inconvenience.

Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94360778822?pwd=ZDlPZFY2d3luQWovcUdLZ1lvbGdpQT09 Meeting ID: 943 6077 8822 Passcode: 705537 If you have any questions, please contact egu@oist.jp.

Seminar

Seminar by Dr.YongKeun Park "Holotomography and artificial intelligence: label-free 3D imaging, classification, and inference of live cells and organoids"

Monday, May 29, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
Seminar Room F01, Lab 4

* Dr.Yong Keun Park, Physics Department of KAIST, South Korea

* Language: English (No interpretation)

Symposium

A recipe for scientific synergy -Series 4- “Advancing biotechnology through multidisciplinary approaches”

Monday, May 29, 2023 - 09:15 to 18:05
*On-site venue has been changed! The Center of Medical Innovation and Translational Research(CoMIT) building, Suita Campus, Osaka University/ Zoom for OISTers

Osaka University is one of OIST's strategic partners.

Since 2020, we have co-hosted a series called "Recipe for Scientific Synergy" to introduce researchers from both sides. In order to strengthen the network with a view toward more robust collaboration on bottom-up basis, we have decided to transform this series into an on-site symposium.

Seminar

[Seminar] Cavity Magnonics

Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room F01 - Lab 4

Prof. Yaroslav M. Blanter, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology.

Research

Joint Poster Session of OIST & ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project Members

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 16:00 to 18:00
outside B250

Open Poster Session (~20 posters by ERATO members and ~10 posters by OIST units)

Seminar

Genetic mutation in Escherichia coli genome during adaptation to the murine intestine is optimized for the host diet

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 15:20
B250

Seminar by Dr. Shinji Fukuda (Keio University and University of Tsukuba)

Seminar

Towards Prediction and Control of Microbial Evolution: Analysis of Phenotypic Constraints in Laboratory Evolution

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 14:40
B250

Seminar by Dr. Chikara Furusawa (RIKEN and University of Tokyo)

Seminar

QG group meeting: Higher Topological Quantum Mechanics

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Slava Lysov. Title: Higher Topological Quantum Mechanics.

Seminar

E. coli evolves into an insect mutualist in real-time

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 14:00
B250

Seminar by Dr. Takema Fukatsu (AIST, University of Tokyo, and University of Tsukuba)

Seminar

An evolutionary perspective on symbioses from the alvinocaridid shrimp family

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 11:00
L4E48
Seminar by Dr. Pierre Methou (JAMSTEC)

Seminar

[Seminar] Disorder effects in the Kitaev-Heisenberg model

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
L4E48 and Zoom

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Seminar

[Seminar] "Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein dynamics and function" by Dr. Yuji Sugita

Monday, May 22, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:30
C700, Lab3

Dr. Yuji Sugita, Team Leader, Laboratory for Biomolecular Function Simulation, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research

Research

[Seminar] Coral reef ecology and restoration research at the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory, Singapore

Friday, May 19, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Lab3 C700 Seminar Room

Speakers: Dr. Jani Tanzil, the Deputy Director of the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory and a Senior Research Fellow at the Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI), National University of Singapore Dr. Lionel Ng, Research Fellow at TMSI, National University of Singapore Mr. Ow Yong Wei Long, Research Assistant with the Coral Team at TMSI, National University of Singapore

Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

This talk will a broad overview of marine science research conducted in Singapore, with a focus on coral reef ecology and restoration efforts. This talk will also share more about Singapore’s only offshore marine research facility, the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory (SJINML), as a research infrastructure open to all marine science researchers, both local and international ( https://sjinml.nus.edu.sg/ ).

Research

Come chat with Serge!

Friday, May 19, 2023 - 10:00
L5DE18
Come chat with Serge…

Please join us for an informal discussion with Prof Serge Haroche…Serge was joint awardee of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”!

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "People, Environments, Sensors: Cyber Opportunities for Exploring Human Mobilities" by Christophe Claramunt

Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4E48, Zoom

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Seminar

Decoding the chemical language of plants

Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 10:30
L4F01

Seminar by Dr. Tomas Pluskal (IOCHB, Prague, CZ)

Research

Aivia Workshop Hands-on @ Lab4F14

Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 10:00 to Friday, May 19, 2023 - 18:00
Lab1 B503 & Lab4 L4F14

Aivia Workshop: Image Analysis Software

Seminar

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor. Andrew Miri : Firing dynamics organization of motor cortical influence

Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 09:30

Firing dynamics organization of motor cortical influence

ZOOM LINK

Seminar

Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers", Prof. Koshimizu

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room L4E48, Lab 4

Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers" by Professor Masanori Koshimizu.

Seminar

"BRST formalism of Weyl conformal gravity in Weyl geometry" Prof. Ichiro Oda, University of the Ryukyus

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 14:00
Lab 4, Seminar room L4E01

Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Prof. Ichiro Oda, University of the Ryukyus Title: BRST formalism of Weyl conformal gravity in Weyl geometry

Seminar

OIST x the University of Tokyo -Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging

Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:30
C209 for OISTers/Zoom *Registration is required for on-site participants.

OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging. *Please register in advance if you are participating onsite.

Symposium

OIST Science 100 Symposium

Monday, May 15, 2023 - 08:30 to 17:15
Auditorium & Conference Center / Zoom

OIST Science 100 Symposium: Mapping OIST's Scientific Expansion to 100 PIs.

The symposium will explore OIST's current scientific standing in each field and encourage an exchange of ideas about the future direction. Additionally, it will offer an opportunity for colleagues and community members to connect and contribute to driving forward OIST's research and collaboration for achieving the university mission.

Open to all OIST members.

Registration required

Seminar

"The dragonfly’s superpowers: from predictive visual guidance and wing aerodynamics sensing to bio-inspired robotics" by Dr. Huai-Ti Lin

Monday, May 1, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4F01

Dr Huai-Ti Lin, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering

Lecture

Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)

Friday, April 28, 2023 - 09:00 to 10:00
C209

Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)

Seminar

Soft Matter in Opto-Thermal Gradients : Evolutionary Dynamics and Pattern Formation, Prof. Pavan Kumar Gopalapura Venkataramu.

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
Center, level B, B503

Prof. Pavan Kumar Gopalapura Venkataramu, IISER PUNE.

Language: English.

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "From Gravity to Quantum Clocks (And Rulers!)" by Artur Tsobanjan

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:10
L4E48, Zoom

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Seminar

Seminar: "Spectroscopy of Topological Josephson Junction Circuits" by Dr. Çağlar Girit

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
L4E01
Seminar: "Spectroscopy of Topological Josephson Junction Circuits" by Dr. Çağlar Girit, CNRS and CEA-Saclay, France.
Seminar

[Seminar] Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network by Prof. Mariko Okada, Osaka University

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
C700, Lab 3

Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network

Prof. Mariko Okada

Laboratory for Cell Systems, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University

Seminar

[Seminar] Weakly first-order quantum phase transition between Spin Nematic and Valence Bond Crystal Order in a square lattice SU(4) fermionic model

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
C209 and Zoom

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Symposium

Public Lecture: Metaverse and Virtual Reality by Anatole Lecuyer and Shunichi Kasahara

Friday, April 21, 2023 - 17:15 to 18:30
B250 (Center), Zoom

Public Lecture on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture in the evening

Workshop

French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds”

Friday, April 21, 2023 - 09:00 to 17:00
B250 (Center), Zoom

One day French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture and Lab tours in the evening

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 7

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:45
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
Title: Smelling flexibly Speaker: Professor Izumi Fukunaga , Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit Chair: Professor Simone Pigolotti, Biological Complexity Unit

Research

Quantum networks based on diamond spin qubits - Prof T Taminiau [QUTech]

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 16:00

Prof Tim Taminiau from QuTech in Delft, Netherlands, is an experimentalists who studies the use of defects in diamond continaing electron and nuclear spins for quantum technology. In this talk he will discuss recent progress in controlling such electron-nuclear spin systems for quantum networks and for distributed quantum computations and simulations.

Seminar

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor Jimmy Dooley : How movements during sleep teach infant brains how their bodies move

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 10:00
ZOOM

OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to host Prof. Jimmy Dooley from the department of biological sciences, Purdue University, USA. If you are interested in knowing how slight twitchy movements during your sleep in your infancy shape your brain, make sure to join the seminar!

ZOOM LINK

Seminar

Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
C209

Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Connolly

Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Seminar

"BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras", Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 14:30
Lab 4, Seminar room L4E01

Visitor Seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics Title: "BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras"

Seminar

[Seminar] Dynamics of spin nematics in a magnetic field: A comparison with canted antiferromagnets

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 14:30 to 15:30
L4E48 and Zoom

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Waveguide QED with Rydberg superatoms' by Nina Stiesdal (Bonn)

Monday, April 17, 2023 - 17:00 to 18:00
on Zoom

Speaker: Nina Stiesdal, Institut of Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Robot Learning: Where Science Meets Fiction" by Jochen Steil

Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:10
B250 (Center), Zoom

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Seminar

[Seminar] Optical fiber Fabry-Perot cavities: Production and applications - Prof Takahashi, PI of the EQIP Unit

Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room C209 - Ctr Bldg

Prof. Hiroki Takahashi, Assistant Professor of the Experimental Quantum Information Physics Unit

Seminar

Quantum Informational Analogue Models of Black Holes: What Happens After Half Evaporation?, Dr. Marco Michel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 14:00
Lab 4, Seminar room L4E01

Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Dr. Marco Michel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Title: Quantum Informational Analogue Models of Black Holes: What Happens After Half Evaporation?

Seminar

What Makes a Great Entrepreneur - Dr. Serg Bell

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Center Building C209
What Makes A Great Entrepreneur

Dr. Serg Bell is a Singaporean scientist, tech entrepreneur, and investor with over 350 patents and 400 publications. He has founded over 20 global IT companies, venture capital firms, and science institutions.

Seminar

[Seminar] Diffuse-interface framework for boiling flows with contact-line model

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
C209

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Seminar

Seminar "Exploring multiphase flow processes via particle-resolving simulations" by Prof. Eckart Meiburg

Friday, April 7, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 C700 / Zoom

[Speaker] Prof. Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara

Seminar

"Multidimensionality of leadership and emergent feedback mechanisms revealed by interspecific groups" by Dr. Eduardo Sampaio

Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4F01

Dr. Eduardo Sampaio , Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Seminar

MiS Seminar Series: Quantum Biology: radical pairs under the microscope

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
L4E01

Speaker::Jonathan R. WOODWARD

Professor of University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Speciality: Physical Chemistry,Photochemistry,Spin Chemistry

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/people100335.html

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