Biweekly Internal Seminar Series

This informal discussion focuses on supporting and promoting women at the workplace. Please join us and learn how!

Speaker: Prof. Leo Radzihovsky

Affiliation: University of Colorado, Boulder

Audience: OIST researchers and students

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

Dr. Hiroshi Nishihara, Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo.

Speaker: Prof. Tadashi Takayanagi

Affiliation: Yukawa Institu te for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University

Audience: OIST researchers and students

PhD thesis public presentation by Mr. Han Yan

Supervisor: Professor Nic Shannon

Co-Supervisor: Professor Hirotaka Sugawara

Audience: OIST students and researchers

"Dr. Peter K. Vogt, Professor, The Scripps Research Institute. Language: English, no interpretation."

Algebraic Topology is a classical branch of mathematics. Its origins are combinatorial, based on triangulations of topological spaces. In the later developments major algebraization of the subject has taken place, leading to the introduction of many algebraic invariants as we know them today.

​The Mini Course will be taught by Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov, PI of the Applied Topology Unit. His unit is interested both in developing the formal theory, as well as in applying it outside of the field, for example to Theoretical Distributed Computing.

More information and sign up here.

Dr. Dong-Sheng Guo, Professor, College of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials (Ministry of Education), Nankai University

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

Vote online to choose your new Researcher Representatives!

https://groups.oist.jp/orc/orc-office-elections

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Riccardo Martini (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory). Title: "Renormalization methods in quantum gravity".

Speaker: Mr. Ryusei Maeda is a 3rd year undergratuate student at University of Tokyo and is currently visiting OIST as a research intern.

Prof. Li Cai

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Dr. Fumihiko Sugino, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea

CANCELLED. Dr. Naihe Jing, Professor, Principal Investigator, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Language: English, no interpretation.

This half-day workshop aims to give attendees the necessary skills to successfully write a Cover letter to the editors . After the workshop, attendees will have completed a cover letter that they will be able to use when submitting their manuscripts to a target journal.

Speaker : Dr. Tatsuya Haga, Laboratory for Neural Coding and Brain Computing, RIKEN Center for Brain Science

"Dr. Toru Hirota, Chief of the Experimental Pathology Department, Cancer Institute of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Language: English, no interpretation."

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

Prof. Susan Coppersmith, School of Physics, The University of New South Wales

Dr. Luyuan Li, Professor of Pharmacology, Nankai University

Title : BMS Symmetry and OPE of Celestial CFTs

Speaker: Sudip Ghosh

Abstract: The holographic dual of quantum gravitational theories in asymptotically flat spacetimes has recently been conjectured to be the so called celestial conformal field theories whose correlation functions are Mellin transforms of bulk scattering amplitudes. In this talk I will discuss aspects of a derivation of the OPE in these CFTs from the collinear singularities of graviton scattering amplitudes and the constraints of BMS symmetries on the OPE coefficients.

This event has been cancelled due to changes in the host's schedule. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Seminar "A data-driven approach to identify synergistic and emergent phenomena in multivariate time series" by Fernando E. Rosas, Imperial College of London.

Internal &External workshop

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Alistair Graham (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Measuring Chaos in General Relativity".

Prof. Andrei N. Lupas, Director, Department of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

Speaker: Steve Campbell (Assistant Professor, University College Dublin, Ireland) Language: English

Title : Implications of Symmetry and Pressure in Friedmann Cosmology

Abstract : We will continue the discussion of the recent paper by K. S. Croker and J. L. Weiner "Implications of Symmetry and Pressure in Friedmann Cosmology" . Carlos Octavio Villalpando Vargas will be leading the discussion.

"Dr. Nobumoto Watanabe, Team Leader, RIKEN. Language: English, no interpretation."

Innovation Seminar: Thomas Ishoey, Ph.D.

From Single Cells to Biotechnology Innovation

Microorganisms represent the oldest living forms and reside in virtually all environments capable of supporting life on the planet. The seminar will focus on how establishing basic understanding of microbes in their environment can lead to commercial opportunities across diverse industries.

I will present two examples in which the behavior of canonical models from statistical mechanics are controlled using growth. These examples were initially motivated by thinking about growth in living systems, but the results presented are applicable to growing active matter in general.

Ales Bucek (Postdoctoral Scholar in Bourguignon Unit) (bring your own lunch)

[Speaker] Prof. Takeshi Matsumoto, Department of Physics, Kyoto University

Title: Implications of Symmetry and Pressure in Friedmann Cosmology

Speaker: Vilalpando Vargas Carlos Octavio

[Speaker] Dr. Ashley Willis, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, U.K.

Speaker: Sourav Ballav from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

Speaker: Prof. Martine Collart

Affiliation: The University of Geneva

Audience: OIST researchers and students

Speaker: Dr. Arnab Priya Saha, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India

PhD public presentation

Speaker: Prof. Séraphin

Affiliation: University of Strasbourg

Audient: OIST students and reserchers

Title : Unitarity methods in AdS/CFT

Abstract : We are going to discuss the recent paper by David Meltzer , Eric Perlmutter and Allic Sivaramakrishnan "Unitarity methods in AdS/CFT" . Sudip Ghosh will be leading the discussion.

New Biology and Medicine Derived from Human Protein Synthesis Enzymes

Dr. Sunghoon Kim

Professor and Director Medicinal Bioconvergence Research Center Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology College of Pharmacy Seoul National University Korea

TQM unit is pleased to invite everyone to attend this seminar!

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

Dr. Seth Fraden, Professor of Physics at Brandeis University.

Dr. Shuhei Furukawa, Associate Professor (Principal Investigator) at Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University.