Past Events

Seminar

QG Group meeting: D-branes of higher-spin gravity?

Monday, July 20, 2020 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "D-branes of higher-spin gravity?"

Research

*zoom*[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Mr. Ankur Dhar "Imaging Monopoles in Spin Ice via Electron Holography"

Monday, July 20, 2020 - 10:00 to 11:00
B250, Level B Center Bld **Please weare a face mask and keep 2 meters social distancing**

Presenter: Mr. Ankur Dhar

Supervisor: Professor Tsumoru Shintake

Co-Supervisor: Professor Nic Shannon

Seminar

[Zoom] IAS Users Meeting and Seminar: Flow Cytometry

Friday, July 17, 2020 - 13:00 to 15:00
Zoom / D014, Lab1

For OIST members:

Users meeting and Seminar are registration free. We look forward to your participation via Zoom.

For Non-OIST members:

Please contact ias@oist.jp for Seminar sign up. (Users meeting is an internal event.)

Workshop

E-workshop series: "Designing Your Life".

Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 13:00 to 15:00
Zoom

During this short course, you will use design thinking framework to develop a constructive and effective approach to designing your career. With a bias toward action, you will tackle life "wicked" problems, acquire tools to prototype 3 different careers that fit your skills, values, and passion.

CLICK HERE to register. Space is limited to 12 participants.
Seminar

Journal club seminar: A short review of N=2 SUSY Quantum Mechanics

Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - 14:00 to 16:00
E 01 (Lab 4)

Title :A short review of N=2 SUSY Quantum Mechanics

Abstract : We are going to SUSY Quantum Mechanics. The good review of the subject is a paper by F. Cooper, A. Khare, U. Sukhatme "Supersymmetry and Quantum Mechanics" . Mirian Tsulaia will lead the discussion.

Seminar

QG group meeting: Symplectic Reduction in Field Theory

Monday, July 13, 2020 - 14:00 to 16:00
E 01 (Lab 4)

Title: Symplectic Reduction in Field Theory

Speaker: Slava Lysov

Abstract: We will briefly review the symplectic recution in finite dimensional case and generalization to the field theory with possible inclusion of the edge modes. We will apply these ideas to the BF-model and compare the results with the predictions of algebraic topology.

Seminar

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Matthias Gohlke

Friday, July 10, 2020 - 13:30
Lab 4, E01

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Matthias Gohlke (Quantum what's the Matter). Title: "Kitaev's honeycomb model: an exactly solvable quantum spin liquid"

Research

Inter-Unit Neuroscience Journal Club (Zoom)

Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 16:30
Zoom

Catavitello et al (2018) " A kinematic synergy for terrestrial locomotion shared by mammals and bird " eLife, 7:e38190.

Reviewed/presented for the journal club by PhD student Salvatore Lacava from the Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit.

Please see internal neuroscience mailing list for Zoom details or contact the organisers.

Workshop

Interactive Webinar: "外部資金獲得に向けた申請戦略と研究計画の作成法", in Japanese ONLY.

Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 13:30 to 15:00
Zoom meeting.

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。

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE . Post-workshop survey SUMMARY .
Seminar

Journal club seminar: Recent Progress on Black Hole Information

Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 14:00 to 16:00
E 01 (Lab 4)

Title : Recent Progress on Black Hole Information

Abstract : We are going to discuss String Theory conference talk by J. Maldacena "Review: Recent progress on the black hole information paradox" . Slava Lysov will lead the discussion.

Seminar

[Zoom Seminar] "Harnessing Conformational Dynamics to Engineer New Enzymes" by Prof. Lynn Kamerlin, Uppsala University

Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 09:00 to 10:00
Zoom

Dr. Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, Professor of Structural Biology, Uppasala University, Sweden.

Seminar

Group Meeting Talk: Current Algebras and Celestial CFT Correlators

Monday, July 6, 2020 - 14:00 to 16:00
Lab4 E01

Title: Current Algebras and Celestial CFT Correlators

Speaker: Sudip Ghosh

Abstract: I will discuss the construction of a SL(2,C) current algebra using the subleading soft graviton theorem and the constraints imposed by this current algebra via null state relations on the spectrum of the putative CFT dual of Einstein gravity in (3+1)-d asymptotically flat spacetimes.

Seminar

Seminar : Room-temperature Half-skyrmions and Bimerons in an antiferromagnetic insulator via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism

Friday, July 3, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

TQM UNIT is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

Research

"Adult-neurogenesis for memory consolidation during sleep" by prof. Masanori Sakaguchi, M.D., Ph.D. (ONOS seminar series)

Thursday, July 2, 2020 - 04:30
ZOOM

The second seminar in the OIST Neuroscience Online Seminars (ONOS), we will host Prof. Masanori Sakaguchi from International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS). He will give us a talk about

" Adult neurogenesis for memory consolidation during sleep".

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99572966347?pwd=RHBDV2pCNFBaQjk0d2dsTTdRaGlLUT09

Meeting ID: 995 7296 6347

Password: 562866

"fsdafds"Adult-neurogenesis for memory consolidation during sleep"Adult-neurogenesis for memory consolidation during sleep"

Seminar

Seminar : How hard is it to learn a quantum state? by Prof. Roger Melko

Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - 21:00 to 22:30
Zoom Seminar

We are pleased to invite you to our seminar.

Seminar

Science Digest Talk: Distinct behavioral effects of cannabinoids in 3D motion capture of freely moving mice

Monday, June 29, 2020 - 12:00
Room C700 (Lab 3), Zoom

Speaker : Bogna Ignatowska-Jankowska (Postdoctoral Scholar at Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit led by Marylka Yoe Uusisaari)

Location : C700 (Lab 3), Zoom

Title : Distinct behavioral effects of cannabinoids in 3D motion capture of freely moving mice

OIST Workshops

[CANCELLED] OCNC2020: OIST Computational Neuroscience Course

Monday, June 29, 2020 (All day) to Thursday, July 16, 2020 (All day)
OIST Seaside House

We regret to inform you that OCNC2020 has been cancelled due to the situation with COVID-19 | Website

Seminar

Theoretical Physics Seminar: 'Hannes Schoenke

Friday, June 26, 2020 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: 'Hannes Schoenke (Mathematics, Mechanics, Materials, and other aspects of M Theory). Title: "A glimpse into the beauty of algebraic geometry (examples included!)"

Seminar

Journal club seminar: AdS3 gravity and random CFT

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 14:00
E 01 (Lab 4)

Title : AdS3 gravity and random CFT

Abstract : We are goin to discuss the recent paper by Jordan Cotler and Kristan Jensen "AdS3 gravity and random CFT" . Yasha Neiman will lead the discussion.

Seminar

Deigo Migration Information Session

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 13:00 to 15:00
C700, Zoom

Our new Deigo Cluster is coming! Learn all about the migration, and ask us any questions you may have.

Seminar

Group Meeting Talk: Large N Phase Transitions and Small AdS-Schwarzschild Black Holes

Monday, June 22, 2020 - 15:30 to 17:00
Lab4 E01

Large N Phase Transitions and Small AdS-Schwarzschild Black Holes

Speaker: Sudip Ghosh

Abstract: We will discuss aspects of small AdS-Schwarzschild Black Holes in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular we will consider issues related to dynamical instabilities of small black holes and their dual interpretation in the boundary gauge theory at large N.

Seminar

Seminar : Purely dipolar dimers in two dimensions

Monday, June 22, 2020 - 15:00 to 16:00
Zoom Seminar

TQM unit is holding a Zoom seminar.

Workshop

E-Workshop: "Handling difficult conversations".

Thursday, June 18, 2020 - 13:00 to 16:00
Zoom meeting.

Discover how to handle difficult conversations every day to discuss what matters most.

To register CLICK HERE .
Seminar

Journal club seminar: Extended TQFT

Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 14:00
E 01 (Lab 4)

Title : Extended TQFT

Abstract : This talk is the continuation of my TQFT discussion from last week. I am going to discuss the extended TQFT as an open-closed strings following the nice paper by Aaron D. Lauda, Hendryk Pfeiffer "Open-closed strings: Two-dimensional extended TQFTs and Frobenius algebras" . After that I am going to discuss 2-categories approach and compare it with asymptotic symmetries and edge modes.

Seminar

QG group meeting: boundary locality vs. higher-spin symmetry

Monday, June 15, 2020 - 15:30
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "Boundary locality vs. higher-spin symmetry"

Seminar

Journal club seminar:Strings from Massive Higher Spins: The Asymptotic Uniqueness of the Veneziano Amplitude

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - 14:00
E 01 (Lab 4)

Title : Strings from Massive Higher Spins: The Asymptotic Uniqueness of the Veneziano Amplitude

Abstract : We are going to discuss the recent paper by Simon Caron-Huot, Zohar Komargodski, Amit Sever and Alexander Zhiboedov "Strings from Massive Higher Spins: The Asymptotic Uniqueness of the Veneziano Amplitude" . Dorian Weissman will be leading the discussion.

Seminar

QG group meeting: TQFT and Asymptotic Symmetries

Monday, June 8, 2020 - 15:30
E01 (Lab 4)

Title : TQFT and Asymptotic symmetries

Speaker : Vyacheslav Lysov

Abstract : I will provide an introduction to topological quantum field theories (TQFT) and their generalization - Extended TQFT. Using the TQFT framework I am going to discuss the behaviour of Hilbert spaces, associated to the boundary components, under the gluing.

Seminar

Stabilization of perceptual representations by thalamic input

Thursday, June 4, 2020 - 16:00
ZOOM Online

This is the first seminar in the online seminar series OIST Neuroscience Online Seminar (ONOS). Dr. Lukas Ian Schmitt is a team leader of the distributed cognitive processing laboratory in RIKEN. Please join us using the following link

https://zoom.us/j/91423137155?pwd=NjlxeEhOdENXMmVBS3o2WGwrMSs5dz09 Meeting ID: 914 2313 7155 Password: 337917
Workshop

Webinar: "Nature Research Academies: Writing impressive grant applications"

Thursday, June 4, 2020 - 13:00 to 15:00
Webinar

These two 2-hrs webinar series aim to give attendees the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . After the workshop, attendees will be able to identify relevant research questions, find the appropriate grants, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research.

A registration link will be provided.
Workshop

Webinar: "Nature Research Academies: Grant Writing. Before you begin"

Tuesday, June 2, 2020 - 13:00 to 15:00
Webinar

These two 2-hrs webinar series aim to give attendees the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . After the workshop, attendees will be able to identify relevant research questions, find the appropriate grants, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research.

A registration link will be provided.
Seminar

Novel Perspectives in String Phenomenology

Monday, June 1, 2020 - 17:00
Zoom Meeting Link https://oist.zoom.us/j/99829544220
Title: Novel Perspectives in String Phenomenology Speaker: Alon E. Faraggi, University of Liverpool, UK Abstract:

I will review the structure of the fermionic Z2xZ2 orbifolds that produced a large space of phenomenological three generation models. I will discuss the trial and error old school method that gave rise to the first known string derived MSSM models, as well as the more modern classification methods that enables the analysis of large spaces of vacua and extraction of some of the global properties underlying them, e.g. spinor--vector duality. I will discuss a new direction of research that was initiated over the past year. Since the mid-eighties it is known that in addition to the ten dimensional tachyon free heterotic-string vacua there exist tachyonic ten dimensional vacua. In the supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric tachyon free cases the ten dimensional tachyon are projected out by the same projection. I will discuss the construction of phenomenological tachyon free models starting from the tachyonic 10D vacua and their particular features.

Workshop

E-Workshop: "What can your time do for you?"

Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 13:00 to 16:00
Zoom meeting.

Discover your productivity style and time management strategies to achieve your ambitious goals.

To register CLICK HERE
Seminar

Domain Walls of N=1, D=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory

Monday, May 25, 2020 - 16:00
Zoom Meeting Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92036574793?pwd=RXp5YzdvdFZZVTQzRFR0ckl3a3Fwdz09

Title: How Domain Walls of N=1, D=4 SYM look like

Speaker: Dmitri Sorokin, University of Padua, Italy

Abstract: We review main features of the pure N=1, D=4 SYM with the gauge group SU(N) and its effective description by the Veneziano-Yankielowicz generalized sigma-model. We then indicate that the construction of BPS domain walls interpolating between different SYM vacua requires the presence of a dynamical membrane source. We will show how such a membrane is coupled to the SYM and present the explicit form of BPS domain walls which it creates in the Veneziano-Yankielowicz effective theory. In particular, we will describe 1/2 BPS domain wall configurations with |k| less than or equal to N/3, where k is the membrane charge that sets the "distance" between two distinct SUSY vacua.

Seminar

Reductionism, physics, mathematics and the mind

Friday, May 22, 2020 - 14:00
https://oist.zoom.us/j/91129184057

General-audience geek-out Zoom talk. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "Reductionism, physics, mathematics and the mind".

Seminar

Quantization of folded strings in non-critical dimensions

Monday, May 18, 2020 - 15:30 to 17:00
Lab3 C700

Title: Quantization of folded strings in non-critical dimensions

Speaker: Dorin Weissmann

Abstract: I will talk about some problems that arise when attempting to quantize rotating strings semiclassically, in the critical and non-critical dimensions. The problems are divergences associated with folding points in the string. A rotating closed string is a basic system that suffers from this problem, and I show how we deal with it by treating the fold as a boundary and placing mass terms there. Based on an upcoming paper with J. Sonnenschein.

Seminar

Seminar : Reaction-induced fingering in radial viscous flow in a homogeneous porous medium

Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - 17:00 to 18:30
https://oist.zoom.us/j/94565528196?pwd=T094NmtuT2Z4QmtQQmNsMkdtME5udz09

CFF internal seminar

Workshop

Interactive Webinar: "Career Planning in a Crisis"

Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - 12:00 to 14:00
GoTo Meeting

In this webinar, we will discuss the strategy and tactics of career planning during a crisis, the foundation of which is you being resourceful, and as helpful as you can.

Everyone is welcome! Click HERE to register. Post-workshop survey SUMMARY .
Seminar

The spiritual art of Calculus and the union of Heaven and Earth

Friday, May 8, 2020 - 14:00
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86812718439?pwd=NGF5WjU4alNnUVFDZVhVdldrR0RGUT09

Seminar for general audience, about mankind's discovery of magic. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "The spiritual art of Calculus and the union of Heaven and Earth".

Research

*Zoom*[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Ms. Farzana Rahman "Identifying the Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Alternative Reproductive Strategies in Simulated Robot Colonies"

Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
C210, Level C Center Bld.

Presenter: Ms. Farzana Rahman

Supervisor: Prof. Kenji Doya

Unit: Neural Computation Unit

Audience: OIST researchers and students

Workshop

[POSTPONED] Marine Microbial Diversity - Genomes to Communities

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 09:00 to Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 17:30
OIST Main Campus C209 and Seaside House

Due to the current situation with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the organizers have decided to postpone this workshop. We kindly ask for your understanding.

Seminar

Clean hands and the Scientific Revolution

Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 14:00
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85103875765

General geek-out Zoom Webinar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: Clean hands and the Scientific Revolution.

Workshop

Interactive Webinar: "Effective Visual Communication of Science"

Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 13:00 to 17:00
Zoom meeting

"Effective Visual Communication of Science" will teach you how to effectively communicate your own scientific ideas and results by applying best visual communication practices. As a bonus, you will be able to give and receive feedback on your own figures.

Click HERE to register. Past-event survey SUMMARY .
Research

*Zoom*[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Ms. Sona Roy "Design Integrin-targeted Molecular Self-assembling Peptides for Cancer Migration Inhibition"

Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:00
C210, Center Bld.

Presenter: Ms. Sona Roy

Supervisor: Professor Ye Zhang

Co-supervisor: Professor Mitsuhiro Yanagida

Audience: OIST researchers and students

OIST Workshops

[CANCELLED] OIST Workshop "Ultracold Atoms Japan"

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 (All day) to Friday, April 17, 2020 (All day)
OIST Seaside House

Due to the current situation with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the organizers have decided to cancel this workshop. We kindly ask for your understanding | Please visit the workshop's official website for more information.

Seminar

[Postponed] Takeshi Takeuchi (Marine Genomics Unit)

Friday, April 10, 2020 - 16:30 to 17:00
Lab3 C700

Biweekly seminar series

Seminar

[Postponed] Joel Perez Urquizo (Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit)

Friday, April 10, 2020 - 16:00 to 16:30
Lab3 C700

Biweekly seminar series

Colloquium

Colloquium: "Simplicial homology, part IV" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski

Friday, April 10, 2020 - 14:30 to 16:30
via Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page )

OIST Workshops

[CANCELLED] OIST Workshop "RD2DS 2020: Recent Development in 2D Systems"

Monday, April 6, 2020 (All day) to Saturday, April 11, 2020 (All day)
OIST Seaside House and Main Campus

Due to the current situation with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the organizers have decided to cancel this workshop. We kindly ask for your understanding | Please visit the workshop's official website for more information.

Seminar

[postponed] Wenliang Li, Strong Coupling Is Hard! Bootstrap to the Rescue?

Friday, March 27, 2020 - 16:30 to 17:00
C210 (Center bldg.)

[postponed! updated 2020-03-25] Following the campus-wide social distancing advice, we are postponing this seminar. Details will be announced later.

Seminar

[postponed] Tsung-Yen Huang, With Hunger, Works Harder: How Does Cellular Metabolism Regulate the Function of TH17 Cells

Friday, March 27, 2020 - 16:00 to 16:30
C210 (Center bldg.)

[postponed! updated 2020-03-25] Following the campus-wide social distancing advice, we are postponing this seminar. Details will be announced later.

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