Speaker: Dr. Dionysios Anninos, University of Amsterdam Date : Friday, March 23, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

"Effective Visual Communication of Science: how to visualize your scientific ideas and help your audience effortlessly grasp the essence of your research". This 2 day workshop is especially valuable for PostDocs, PhD students and other researchers who have to communicate complex ideas and results

Registration is required. Space is limited to 24 participants. Priority will be given to Postdocs.

seminar by Dr Goda on March 20

Emergence of Intelligence through End-to-End Reinforcement Learning and Chaos-based Reinforcement Learning towards the Emergence of "Thinking" by Dr. Katsunari Shibata, Oita University

Speaker: Lashmi Piriya Ananda Babu

Title: Functional roles of microtubules in a giant presynaptic terminal

Speaker: Dr. Henrique von Gersdorff from Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: Jan 15, 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/mtpu/oist-symposium-bootstrap-approach-conformal-field-theories-and-applications

Internal Seminar: Maki Thomas, PhD Student, Marine Biophysics (Satoshi Mitarai Unit)

4:00-4:30 PM, C700

Seminar "Phytoplankton swimming in a flow" by Massimo Cencini (CNR-ISC), Mar 15 (thu) 2-3pm

Dr. Rieko Ohki, Laboratory Head of Fundamental Oncology, National Cancer Center Research Institute. Language: English, no interpretation.

The ecology & evolution seminar series #3: Prof. Evan Economo, Wed 14th March at 10:00 (C210)

Millions of people around the world secretly worry they’re not as smart or talented as other people “think” they are. The so-called Impostor Syndrome impacts both men and women in a variety of disciplines and is especially rampant in academia. This special seminar will teach you what Impostor Syndrome is, how to recognize and handle it.

This Session is for Researchers, OIST Staff and Faculty Members ONLY. Seminar for Graduate Students will be held later in the afternoon.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE .

Dr. Shiki Okamoto, Second Department of Internal Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Hematology, Rheumatology), Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, JAPAN. Language: English

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

This week, Dr Tirasan Khandhawit (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "Gauge theory and topology of manifolds".

Speaker: Professor Jörg Schumacher, Fluid Mechanics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany

"Dr. Nobumoto Watanabe, Unit leader, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science. Language: English, no interpretation."

Seminar by Professor Gul Dolen, Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Wolfgang Bangerth, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, US. Language: English, no interpretation.

Learn more about the competitive research funding programs around the world. For more information, please visit here .

Internal Seminar : Davide Chiuchiu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Biological Complexity Unit (Simone Pigolotti)

Internal Seminar: Leonidas Georgiou, Stargazing the brain

4:30pm, C700

Refreshments will be served following the seminar.

Dr. Ben Torben-Nielsen, Demiurge technologies, Switzerland. Language: English.

Dr. Michiel Ten Brinke, Erasmus MC, Netherlands. Language: English.

Language: Simultaneous English and Japanese interpretation Registration required. Go to https://groups.oist.jp/tdic/international-symposium-okinawa-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-summit-2018 for more information

Prof. Kaylene Young, Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia. Language: English

Prof. Yosef Yarom, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Israel. Language: English

Dr. Keisuke Kataoka, Chief of Division of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Center Research Institute. Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar: “Global change and the stability of ecosystems” by Prof. Ian Donohue, Trinity College Dublin

Discover your Strengths using Gallup StrengthFinder Assessment.

This course will help you better understand yourself and your unique talent s. You will learn how to productively apply your talents for greater personal and professional success.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE .

Dr. Maya Kiskinova from Elettra Laboratory

Speaker: Priscila Romagnoli, Ph.D. Seminar Title: Graphene on Transparent Dielectric Substrates for Photonics Applications Language: English

Speaker: Dr. Satoshi Okano, Nihon University Date : Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Time : 10:30am-11:30am

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: Spinor-helicity variables for the de Sitter causal patch

Seminar: Discrete-time quantum machines with neutral atoms in optical lattices Speaker: Dr. Andrea Alberti, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bonn

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the seminar.

Quantum Systems Unit (Busch U)

"Action Prediction and Object Bootstrapping: A Neurocognitive View onto a Robotics Problem"by Prof. Dr. Florentin Wörgötter, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

During the seminar, Dr. Steve Aird, OIST's Technical Editor, will explain techniques for writing scientific manuscripts. The talk focuses on principles and procedures that enable authors to turn research data into a well-composed scientific narrative.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE

"Individual differences in nonlinear neural dynamics and human behavior" by Dr. Keiichi Kitajo, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center

The OIST Researcher Community (ORC) would like to invite all researchers at OIST at our Q&A session with Dr Mark Daly , Nature Publishing Group Associate Editor and OIST's very first graduate.

Title: Rapid evolution of a costly form of parasite resistance in threespine stickleback

by Dr. Daniel I. Bolnick , Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin.

Speaker : Prof. Guido Boffetta from Department of Physics, University of Torino

Seminar by Dr. Shotaro Shiba (Post-doctoral Fellow, KEK)

Speaker: Dr. Stefano Musacchio, Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

Titile: Split energy cascade in turbulent thin fluid layers

The seminar aims to introduce research topics in topology, geometry and its interactions with other sciences. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

This week, Dr Linling Ru (visiting researcher in the Tsvietkova Unit) will speak on "Plykin attractor on the plane".

Seminar "Evolution of complex asexual reproductive strategies in jellyfish" by Simone Pigolotti

Prof. A. Jeffrey Giacomin, Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Canada. Language: English, no interpretation.

TQM is pleased to invite you to our seminar!

Speaker : Dr. Owen Benton from RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science

Join a lively discussion panel about scientific peer-reviews and editorial process for publication . The panel consists of a former Senior Editor and 3 Reviewers / OIST Faculty members.

Everyone is welcome! No registration is required!

Speaker: Aidan Chatwin-Davies, California Institute of Technology Date : Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Time : 3:30pm-4:30pm

Fluid Mechanics Unit is pleased to invite you to a seminar on "Bifurcations in rotating plane Couette flow at moderate Reynolds numbers". Speaker: Prof. Masato Nagata, Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China