Abstract: Whitney extension results characterize when one can extend a mapping from a compact subset to a smooth mapping on a larger space. Lusin approximation results give conditions under which one can approximate a rough map by a smoother map after discarding a set of small measure. We first recall relevant results in the Euclidean setting, then describe recent work extending them to horizontal curves in the Heisenberg group. We focus on C^m curves.

Zoom : https://oist.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpduGtqzooG9PA85LMRCwswpo5ODm2nU49

Biological Complexity Unit Seminar, open to everyone who is interested. In person or zoom. Lab 3 B712.

Title: "GC bias-aware abundance estimation from metagenomic data increases accuracy and replicability"

This is a joint workshop between OIST and Kyoto U on Imaging, Life Science.

Loïc Poulain d'Andecy , University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne Title: KLR-type presentation of affine Hecke algebras of type B

The Provost Lecture Series 1 Title: My (perhaps too) challenging life in science and technology Speaker: Professor Ichiro Maruyama, Information Processing Biology Unit Chair: Professor Ulf Skoglund, Structural Cellular Biology

The 2nd Workshop on Nobel Turing Challenge

The second workshop on the Nobel Turing Challenge will be held at RIKEN Kobe campus in the hybrid onsite/online format organized by Nobel Turing Challenge Initiative. We will further develop the discussions that took place in the first full online workshop where we shared information on the current status of the field and what can be our possible high impact targets. A guided tour of RIKEN’s robotic biology laboratory is also planned for the onsite participants.

Dr Ad Spiers is the head of the recently founded Manipulation and Touch Lab of Imperial College London, which investigates various aspects of human and robotic upper limbs. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Everyone at OIST. Freely accessible to all OIST members without registration (also via Zoom).

Joint seminar: “Ecological Approaches to Anthropogenic Environment, from Basic to Applied” by Hirosaki University - Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicin - OIST - Tokushima University

Speaker: Prof. Kauzhiro Kuwae (Fukouka University)

Title: Liouville theorem for V-harmonic maps under non-negative (m, V)-Ricci curvature for non-positive m

Did you know Open Access (OA) is more than just Open Access Journals? Please register for this webinar via Zoom if you would like to learn more about the different paths to Open Access to further the reach of your research. This webinar will be held in English and is hosted by the OIST Library.

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

Language: English

Speaker: Dr Alejandro Trujillo-Gonzalez, Principal Scientist, National eDNA Reference Centre, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Hosted by: Dr. Roger Huerlimann, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

Abstract: Globalisation is increasing the rate and complexity of trade connections between countries. This increasing network of interactions, in hand with the movement of both people and goods, puts countries at risk of invasive pests and diseases, constraining their capacity to protect economic, ecological, and social livelihood. Tackling the increasing influx of invasive pests and pathogens requires the use of biosecurity measures within diverse methodologies used to detect, eradicate, and minimize the inherent risks of these unwanted species. (...)

The EAJS was initiated as a joint research conference between the Institute of Medical Science of the University of Tokyo and the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Seoul National University (Korea) in 1994 and has been held annually for recent twenty-seven years. During the twenty-seven years, the EAJS has expanded by inviting other seven institutes.

Language: English

Reservation required

https://oist.zoom.us/j/95126835197 Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Speaker: Dr. Miguel Angel Garcia-March, Distinguished Researcher,Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain

Speaker: Mei Kobayashi, Research Engineer at EAGLYS, Adjunct Faculty Member at Tsuda University and Visiting Researcher at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Title: Introduction to Network Analysis and Applications

Speaker: Chun-Ju Lai, Academia Sinica

Title: Quasi-hereditary covers, Hecke subalgebras and quantum wreath product

Registration deadline for OIST-Kyoto University Joint Workshop -Challenges in Biomedical Complexity- is October 25th, 2022.

Dr. Shinobu Onoda, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Japan

Zoom info: https://oist.zoom.us/j/93447448076?pwd=dDBIYmtkTU1IbGVtTXZZZkdvbE56Zz09&from=addon

Meeting ID: 934 4744 8076 Passcode: 458251

Biodiversity plays a central role in humankind’s interaction with the biosphere, lying at the heart of all ecosystem structure and functioning. Biodiversity describes the variability and connectivity of life across different levels (from bacteria to plants and animals) and dimensions (from genetic to ecological and from taxonomic to functional):

This workshop will bring together practitioners and enthusiasts of biodiversity research from Tohoku University and OIST to illuminate this fascinating theme from multiple angles, with the aim of discovering complementary perspectives and collaborative opportunities.

Imagine you’re about to present at a conference (or symposium, seminar, or panel discussion…). You know your research well and could generally talk about it for hours, but… somehow the setting makes you stumble. Well, whether we like it or not, presenting one’s research in front of an audience is a key skill all scientists need to master. At OIST Orators Club we have found it helpful to practice public speaking in a supportive environment and would like to extend what we’ve learned in the past few years to the rest of the researchers’ community.

Science communication and outreach, especially to global audiences in English, is taking off in Japan. Japan Scicom Forum brings together communicators, writers, scientists, journalists and select experts from abroad to inspire and boost the cohesion of scicomm in Japan, learn new skills and inform the community with best practices. Keynote talks will reflect on research-media interactions from the perspectives of both scientists and press professionals. Workshops will provide hands-on training to support communicators and scientists working in Japan as they engage in global outreach. Open discussion and networking opportunities are spread over the program. Registration is free and the event will be in English.

This year, OIST is honored to host virtually this event.

Title : Korevaar-Schoen-Sobolev spaces and critical exponents on metric measure spaces Speaker: Fabrice Baudoin , University of Connecticut Abstract: We will review some of the recent developments in the theory of Korevaar-Schoen-Sobolev spaces. While this theory is equivalent to that of Cheeger and Shanmugalingam if the space supports a Poincare inequality, it offers new perspectives in situations, like fractals, where such inequalities are not available. Registratio n : https://oist.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlduurpz0jHty8bIhim2hVnIG8CsEJVAJ7

[Neuroscience Club] Prof. Hiroshi Makino, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University. Language: English.

A Swiss startup company called QNAMI - will be visiting OIST to showcase their quantum sensing technology. They develop scanning magnetometers which can map out nanoscale sized magnetic fields.

OIST - Osaka University: A Recipe for Scientific Synergy-Series 3 by Dr. Kazumasa Tanaka and Dr. Qingbo S. Wang

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

Language: English

Seminar "Experimental Realization of Qubit Thermometry" by Dr. Lemziakov Sergei, Aalto University Language: English

Title: Potential Theory, Kolmogorov Problem and the Legacy of Norbert Wiener This talk is open to everyone at OIST Faculty Lunchtime Seminar Coordinator/ FAO

Language: English

Reservation required

Social AI .

Justine Cassell, Dean’s Professor of Language Technologies in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, chair at the PRAIRIE AI Institute in Paris, and director of research at Inria Paris.

Speaker: Dr. Dmitrij Dedukh, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, CAS CZ, Libechov, Czech Republic

Title: "Breaking the rules: Alterations of gametogenic pathways in hybrid “asexual” vertebrates."

Beach microbiology - from a single cell to the community

Speaker: Prof. Mikko Parviainen (University of Jyväskylä)

Title: Stochastic tug-of-war type games and partial differential equations

Speaker: Prof. Dirk Linke, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Norway

E-mail: dirk.linke@ibv.uio.no

Language: English

Dr. David Vuono, Assistant Research Professor, Colorado School of Mines.

Language: English, no interpretation. All are welcome to attend.

Title: Convexity in Partial Differential Equations

Abstract: It is well known that the notion of convexity plays a key role in optimization, control theory, mathematical economics and many other areas of science. This talk is a friendly introduction to convex analysis for partial differential equations. After going over a few basic properties about convex sets and convex functions, we will focus on the preservation of spatial convexity of solutions, which is one of the most important geometric properties of numerous evolution equations. Several examples will be given. We will also discuss some recent developments on this topic.

This talk is open to everyone at OIST

Faculty Lunchtime Seminar coordinators & FAO

Speaker: Dr. Yuko Harayama, Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University. Target audience: Everyone at OIST.

Speaker: Dr. Kasaoui SAID (AIST) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan,

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

Language: English

Haralampos Geranios , University of York Title: On self-extensions of irreducible modules for symmetric groups

Title: Cantor Julia sets

Speaker : Vyron Vellis,University of Tennessee

Abstract: The Julia set of a meromorphic function is the set of “chaotic points”, i.e., the set of all points that have no neighborhood under which the iterates of the function form a normal family. In absence of a rich holomorphic function theory in higher dimensions, the right substitute in complex dynamics are uniformly quasiregular (UQR) maps. Which Cantor sets can appear as Julia sets of UQR maps? How (topologically) complex can such sets be? This talk is based on joint works with Alastair Fletcher and Daniel Stoertz.

Dr. Kyoji Saito, University of Tokyo / Kyoto University. 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).

Speaker: Dr. David Labonte, Imperial College London

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

Language: English

Speaker: Prof. Yuri Fujii, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

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

Language: English

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Marco Terenzio (Molecular Neuroscience Unit) | This lecture is open to entire OIST community | Website

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Marco Terenzio (Molecular Neuroscience Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - contact organizer for details | Website | Program