Speaker: Dr. S. R. Kulkarni

George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology Principal Investigator, Zwicky Transient Facility, Caltech

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: Oct 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/ncmb

Join the first OIST Science Speed Dating Event at the President House

Internal Seminar Series

Internal Seminar Series

Dr. Dr.Katarzyna Starowicz-Bubak, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences. Language: English

Speaker: Mr. Osuga is currently at his last year as a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta.

We are offering Q&A session today from 1pm – 3pm to answer your questions. Please take this opportunity to ask any questions.

Date: Feb. 14 ^th from 1pm to 3pm

Place: Meeting Room C15, Lab 1

Intended participants: all the SciFinder users

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Speaker: Mr. Osuga is currently at his last year as a Ph.D. student at University of Alberta, Canada.

"Dr. Toshio Kitamura, Professor, The Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo. Language: English. No interpretation."

Speaker: Prof. Simon Gardiner, Durham University, UK

Language: English

Speaker: Prof Chen‐Bin (Robin) Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Talk title: Optical vortex creation and nonlinear frequency conversion in plasmonic devices

Title: Cortical Circuits for Odor Coding

Speaker: Kevin Franks

Affiliation: Duke University

Joint Math and Theoretical physics seminar on Chern-Simons theory, Knot invariants and Volume conjecture. Vyacheslav Lysov will be leading the discussion.

"Dr. Hideyuki Saya, Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University. Language: English, no interpretation."

Speaker: Dr. Tiago J. Arruda, University of São Paulo, Brazil Language: English

"Dr. Nahum Sonenberg, Professor, McGill University. Language: English, no interpretation."

Internal Seminar Series

Internal Seminar Series

Speaker: Prof. Romain Bachelard, University of São Paulo, Brazil Language: English

Joint Math and Theoretical physics seminar on Chern-Simons theory, Knot invariants and Volume conjecture. Vyacheslav Lysov will be leading the discussion.

Prof Mark Tame, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Title: Genomic origins of Yaponesians, people on Japanese Archipelago

Speaker: Naruya Saitou

Affiliation: National Institute of Genetics

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Yafei Mao

Title: Whole-genome sequence analysis of the evolutionary history of the reef-building coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia, Cnidaria)

Date&Time: January 31st, 9:00-10:00

Venue: C700, LevelC, Lab3

Abstract: A CP^1-structure is a geometric structure on a (compact oriented) surface S and its holonomy is a homomorphism from the fundamental group of the surface into PSL(2, C). Moreover it corresponds to a holomorphic quadratic differential on a Riemann surface.

We consider a path C_t of CP^1-structures on S such that C_t diverges to infinity in its deformation space and yet its holonomy converges. We describe its asymptotic behavior of C_t under the assumption the Riemann surface structure on C_t is pinched along a single loop.

Anton Zabrodin, Deputy Head of the International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics, Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.

Joint talk with Prof. Douglas Soltis, Distinguished Professor in the Florida Museum of Natural History and Department of Biology at the University of Florida, and Prof. Pamela Soltis Pam Soltis, Distinguished Professor and Curator, Polyploidy and plant phylogenetics.

Open Meeting on Strategy chaired by Dr. Ken Peach

Everyone is welcome

Abstract: Motivated by generalizations of the Ginsburg-Landau energy and the diffusion equation in which derivatives are replaced by fractional derivatives, Caffarelli, Roquejoffre, and Savin studied the minimizers of a fractional perimeter functional on sets involving a parameter between 0 and 1. Such minimizers have to satisfy a pointwise condition on their boundary, which can be used to define a notion of nonlocal mean-curvature. This definition only holds for surfaces which are the boundary of a set. I will describe how to define a nonlocal notion of mean-curvature for any surface by introducing a fractional area functional and considering its minimizers. Moreover, I will describe how these ideas can be extended to curves by defining a fractional length and an associated nonlocal curvature for a curve.

Seminar hosted by Theory of Quantum Matter Unit

Prof. Johannes Reuther, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany

Prof. Yu Shen, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Discussion on recent article by Yaron Oz "Turbulence and Random Geometry" with Slava Lysov leading the discussion.

Dr. Maxim Trushin, Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, NUS, Singapore

Speaker: Dr. Katja T.C.A. Peijnenburg 1) Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2) University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Abstract: The rational homotopy groups of the group Diff(S^4) of self-diffeomorphisms of S^4 with the C^\infty-topology. We present a method to prove that there are many 'exotic' non-trivial elements in the rational homotopy groups of Diff(S^4) parametrized by trivalent graphs. The proof utilizes Kontsevich's characteristic classes for smooth disk bundles and a version of clasper surgery for families. In fact, these are analogues of Chern-Simons perturbation theory in 3-dimension and clasper theory due to Goussarov and Habiro.

Learn to summarize and present yourself and your research in a short time.

This seminar is aimed at intern students who are not native speakers of English, but all are welcome to attend.

Language: English. Venue: c600B. No need to register.

Dr. Masahiro Fukuda, Postdoc, Duke-NUS Medical School, Language: English

[Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar] David Gabai (Princeton University) will talk about the General 4 dimensional Light Bulb Theorem.

First Assembly of the ORC (OIST Researcher Community) with the new elected office.

Language: English

Title: A neuron-specific microexon implicated in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) controls subcellular localization of TAF1

Speaker: Dr. Jill R. Crittenden

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Dr. Hiroyuki Seimiya, Chief, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research. Language: English, no interpretation."

Speaker: Prof Ya Tang Yang - Jack; National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Language: English

Dr. Cindy Poo, Postdoc, Champalimaud Institute. Language: English

TQM unit is pleased to invite everyone to a seminar.

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Nilupaer Abudukeyoumu

Title: Cholinergic interneurons in striatal microcircuit dynamics studied with anatomical, and behaviora l methods

Date&Time: January 22nd, 13:00-14:00

Venue: C209, Level C, Ctr Bldg

Speaker: Dr. Jinseop Kim, Korea Brain Research Institute