Date/Time: Mon 23 February 2015 13:00 – 14:00 Venue: Seminar Room B503, Level B, Centre Bldg. Speaker: William Ryu, Associate Professor, Department of Physics Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto Title: Quantifying and modeling C. elegans exploratory behavior

Ms. Anna Frishman, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Join us for February's second Internal Seminar Series on Feb. 20, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit (Tomoyuki Takahashi) and the Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit (Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama).

Seminar by Professor Daisuke Takagi, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Prof. Makoto Tsubota, Osaka City University, Japan

Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit (Shintake Unit) would like to announce a seminar by Dr. Frank Zimmermann, Senior Scientist at CERN (Switzerland).

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Title: Future High-Energy Colliders / Charting the Unknown

Abstract: In 2012 the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider finally discovered the Higgs boson. For its prediction, made some 50 years earlier, Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Higgs boson exhibits a few unique features never before seen. Its close examination may provide answers to several fundamental questions, such as the origin of dark matter, the electroweak phase transition, and the “naturalness” of the...

[Seminar] 'Novel molecular targets for breast and lung cancer stem cells', Prof. Noriko Gotoh, Feb 18th.

3 days of lecture "Quantum Hydrodynamics and Turbulence" by Makoto Tsubota (Professor, Osaka City University, Japan)

Language: English. Open to the public. (1) “Introduction to OIST BNCT" by Profs. Kumada (Univ of Tsukuba) and Yoshioka (KEK, OIST), (2) "New Technology for X-ray and Gamma-ray Imaging" by Profs. Takahashi (JAXA) and Arai (KEK, OIST), and (3) "Our Future: Beyond Metastasis" by Prof. Sugawara (OIST).

Seminar: Prof. J. Paul Bolam, from the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit at the University of Oxford. Title: "Dopamine neurons, synapses and susceptibility in Parkinson’s disease"

Seminar: Prof Catharine Rankin from UBC talks on the complexity of habituation, the simplest form of learning

Language:English. No interpretation will be provided.

Hideyuki Saya, MD, PhD, Professor, Division of Gene Regulation, Institute for Advanced Medical Research, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University

Alessandro Villa. Ph.D. Professor and Associate Dean, Neuroeconomics and Computer Science, University of Lausanne ; President of the European Neural Network Society

Science and Technology Group invites you to a seminar by Ms.Melissa Carr from Masterwork Conservation.

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

Join us for February's first Internal Seminar Series on Feb. 6, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Cell Signal Unit (Tadashi Yamamoto) and the Physics and Biology Unit (Jonathan Miller).

Prof Timothy Ziman, ILL/Université Joseph Fourier Seminar on skew scattering of electrons including effects of critical spin fluctuations on anomalous and spin Hall effects in ferromagnetic alloys.

Leon Roose, HNEI, University of Hawaii

Seminar will be conductedin English and open to public.

Christian Peeters, CNRS Research Professor, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie Paris

Seminar by Prof. Furong Zhu, Department of Physics and Institute of Advanced Materials, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

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

Seminar by Dr. Shiyong Wang, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

Join us for January's second Internal Seminar Series on Jan. 23, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Chemistry and Chemical Bioengineering Unit (Fujie Tanaka) and the Quantum Systems Unit (Thomas Busch).

Seminar by Prof. Tae-Woo Lee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea

Seminar by Prof. Kilwon Cho, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea

Lecturer: Prof Fam Le Kien, TUV, Austria.

Klaus von Klitzing (1985 Nobel Prize Laureate) will give an introductory talk about his discovery at OIST Workshop DiRT2D. All are welcome!

*Seminar Time and Venue have been changed* "Influenza or Ebola– which is the greater threat?" Seminar by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka

OIST Workshop - All OIST members are welcome to attend the sessions

Daniel Sternheimer, Visiting Research Fellow, Rikkyo University, Tokyo. English with no Japanese interpretation.

Language: English Reservation is required. Local business people can register at the link below. https://groups.oist.jp/bds/2014-entrepreneurial-training-program-application-form-businesses

Professor Takashi Yonetani, University of Pennsylvania

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate. URL: https://groups.oist.jp/adna

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

Seminar by Prof. Henrik Ronnow (EPFL) on Jan 13th 2-4pm @ C016. All is welcome !

Join us for January's first Internal Seminar Series on Jan. 09, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Continuum Physics Unit (Gustavo Gioia) and the Computational Neuroscience Unit (Erik De Schutter).

Prof. Tuan Tran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Language: English. All are welcome.

[Seminar] 'Novel roles of ribosome ubiquitination in quality control systems', Prof. Toshifumi Inada, Dec 22nd.

Language: English Reservation is required. Local business people can register at the link below. https://groups.oist.jp/bds/2014-entrepreneurial-training-program-application-form-businesses

Prof. Hiroshi TOMODA, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University. Language: English. OKINAWA Intellectual Cluster Program

Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, New Zealand

Prof. Alexander Kusenko, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, and Senior Scientist, Kavli IPMU. English with no Japanese interpretation. Everyone is welcome (first talk is targeted for general audience), but content of the second seminar will be very specialized in physics.

President Hideyuki Nakashima, Future University Hakodate

Dr. Tomoharu Yasuda, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin. Dec 16(Tue) at C016. All are welcome.

Language: English Reservation is required. Local business people can register at the link below. https://groups.oist.jp/bds/2014-entrepreneurial-training-program-application-form-businesses

Join us for December's Internal Seminar Series on Dec. 12, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Brain Mechanism for Behavior Unit (Gordon Arbuthnott) and the Fluid Mechanics Unit (Pinaki Chakraborty).

Vires Acquirit Eundo "We gather strength as we move" The University of Tokyo - OIST Graduate University Joint Symposium 12-13 December, @C209, OIST Campus

Seminar by Prof. Ian Affleck (Uni. British Columbia) at C209, (Mon) Dec 8th 2-3pm. All is welcome !