Past Events
Seminar "Disorder Engineering: Nature's Way" by Nitin Upadhyaya
Dr. Nitin Upadhyaya, Assistant Professor, Flame University.
[PhD Thesis Presentation] -Hiroaki Hamada- Serotonergic Control of Brain-Wide Dynamic
Thesis Public Presentation
Presenter: Hiroaki Hamada
Title: Serotonergic Control of Brain-Wide Dynamic
Date&Time: December, 9:00am
Venue: B250, LevelB, Ctr Bldg
[Seminar] "How simple peptides enhance RNA polymerase ribozyme function" by Dr. Shunsuke Tagami
Dr. Shunsuke Tagami, Unit Leader, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
SCORE! Science in Okinawa: Research for Enterprise Science Fair
Science Presentation Competition for High School Students in Okinawa
Internal Seminar: Sander Lindeman, Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit
Internal Seminar, 4-5 pm, Friday, December 7, C700
[Seminar] "Exploring Gridworlds with State Complexes" by Tom Burns
Tom Burns, currently a rotation student in the Topology and Geometry of Manifolds (Tsvietkova) Unit, will present a talk on a research project done as part of his lab rotation. The title is "Exploring Gridworlds with State Complexes".
All are welcome.
Internal Seminar: Saahil Acharya, Membrane Cooperativity Unit
Internal Seminar, 4-5 pm, Friday, December 7, C700
[Seminar] "Counting vesicular release events in simple synapse recordings" by Dr. Alain Marty
Dr. Marty Alain, CNRS and Paris Descartes University
Introduction to Intellectual Property
Mr. Chris Tanner, Intellectual Property Attorney, FYPA, PLLC
Language: English
Open to all OIST community
[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Ribbon and string representations of finite subgroups of SU(2)" by Professor Scott Carter
[Seminar] "Flow equation, conformal symmetry and AdS geometries" by Dr. Shuichi Yokoyama
Speaker: Dr. Shuichi Yokoyama, Kyoto University
Tracing the origins and evolution of human microbiome investigations: from pursuit of earth’s earliest life forms to the etiology of Pouchitis
Tracing the origins and evolution of human microbiome investigations: from pursuit of earth’s earliest life forms to the etiology of Pouchitis
Speaker: Mitchell L. Sogin Ph.D.
Distinguished Scientist
The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole
Innovation Forum Okinawa
A launch event of Innovation Forum Okinawa will take place Monday, December 3rd in Room C209 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm, where we will be presenting the new Innovation Forum branch in Okinawa.
QG Group Meeting: Boundary<->Horizon maps for classical higher-spin gravity in de Sitter space
Quantum Gravity Group Meeting
Title: Boundary<->Horizon maps for classical higher-spin gravity in de Sitter space.
Speaker : Yasha Neiman, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)
Polycomb in gene activation
"Dr. Haruhiko Koseki, Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences. Language: English, no interpretation."
Expansion of Job Categories and Career Development - Seminar for People with Developmental Disabilities
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.
The Fourth English & Cross-culture Seminar
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.
Photonics Workshop
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.
Presidential Lecture - "Is There a Perfect Cipher?" by Prof. Artur Ekert
Speaker: Prof. Artur Ekert
Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK.
[Seminar] Active THz metamaterial photonics: From all-dielectrics to superconductors by Professor Ranjan Singh
[Seminar]
Title: Active THz metamaterial photonics: From all-dielectrics to superconductors
Speaker: Professor. Ranjan Singh
Institution: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
[Seminar] Genomics of uncultivable bacteria deciphers multilayered symbiotic system in the termite gut by Professor Yuichi Hongoh
Titile : Genomics of uncultivable bacteria deciphers multilayered symbiotic system in the termite gut
Speaker: Professor Yuichi Hongoh
Institution: School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Seminar: "High-power synchronized dual-channel laser enabling fast 2- and 3-photon in vivo brain imaging"
Seminar: "High-power synchronized dual-channel laser enabling fast 2- and 3-photon in vivo brain imaging" by Dr. Robert Riedel and Dr. Jan Heye Buss
[Seminar] Estimation of neural connections from partially observed neural spikes by Professor Noboru Murata
[Seminar]
Title: Estimation of neural connections from partially observed neural spikes
Speaker: Professor Noboru Murata
Institution: Waseda University, Japan
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[PhD Thesis Presentation] -Jessica Verena Schulze- Spatial and Modular Regularization in Effective Connectivity Inference from Neural Activity Data
Thesis Public Presentation
Presenter: Jessica Verena Schulze
Title: Spatial and Modular Regularization in Effective Connectivity Inference from Neural Activity Data
Date&Time: November 26th, 4:00pm
Venue: C209, C tr Bldg
Kyoto/NTU/OIST Fundamental Theory Workshop
Joint High Energy Theory workshop between Kyoto University, National Taiwan University and OIST. Additional external speakers are Song He, Eugene Skvortsov, Julian Sonner and Kazuya Yonekura. Program & Schedule in attached PDF.
[Seminar] Establishment of body axes: Animal-vegetal and left-right axis specification in ascidian eggs and embryos by Hiroki Nishida
[Seminar]
Title: Establishment of body axes: Animal-vegetal and left-right axis specification in ascidian eggs and embryos
Speaker: Professor. Hiroki Nishida
Institution: Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
"Graphene Nanoribbons as a New Family of Semiconductors," Dr. Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany
[Seminar] Alternative RNAs in the brain by Pedro Miura
[Seminar]
Title: Alternative RNAs in the brain
Speaker: Professor. Pedro Miura
Institution: University of Nevada
Presidential Lecture - "Is the Future Black ?" by Prof. Klaus Müllen
Speaker: Prof. Klaus Müllen
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
The 5th Asian Conference on Safety and Education in Laboratories
This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.
[Seminar] Genetic and functional dissection of neural circuits formation in the zebrafish visual system by Del Bene Filippo
[Seminar]
Title: Genetic and functional dissection of neural circuits formation in the zebrafish visual system
Speaker: Professor. Del Bene Filippo
Institution: INSERM/Institut Curie
[Seminar] Image and Shape Analysis of Biological Specimens by Daniel Baum
[Seminar]
Title: Image and Shape Analysis of Biological Specimens
Speaker: Professor. Daniel Baum
Institution: Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
[Seminar] Ultrafast Dynamics and Control in Quantum Materials by Richard Averitt
[Seminar]
Title: Ultrafast Dynamics and Control in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Professor. Richard Averitt
Institution: UC San Diego
3-day Leadership and Management Skills Course for Researchers
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Post-course survey SUMMARY
"The Dynamic Memory Connectome" by Dr. Ann-Shyn Chiang
All are welcome. Language: English. Dr. Ann-Shyn Chiang, Dean of College of Life Science, Directory of Brain Research Center, Distinguished Chair Professor of National Tsing Hua University
Please see attached PDF for details.
Contact President's Office for more information.
QG Group Meeting: Introduction to Quantum Error Correction
Quantum Gravity Group Meeting
Title: Introduction to Quantum Error Correction
Speaker : Henry Stoltenberg, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)
On the mechanism of biomolecular pattern self-organization for spatio-temporal control of cellular processes
Dr. Kiyoshi Mizuuchi, Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Language: English, no interpretation.
OIST SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2018
OIST Science Event, Open to the Public
Journal club seminar: Superselection Sectors of Gravitational Subregions
Discussion of the recent article by J. Camps "Superselection Sectors of Gravitational Subregions" by Tomonori Ugajin.
Seminar: “Micro- and macroevolution of fork tails in swallows” by Dr. Masaru Hasegawa
Speaker: Dr. Masaru Hasegawa, SOKENDAI, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
Coastal flows with living roughness
Marine Biophysics Unit (Mitarai unit) would like to invite you to seminar by Prof. Stephen Monismith from Stanford University.
Thursday Teatime
Thanks to teatime, Thursdays are now a reminder for the weekend being not far away. Join your friends and colleagues at Grano Level B for tea and snacks at 4.00pm this afternoon.
[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Neck Pinch Singularities in the Geometry of Surfaces" by Dr. John Loftin
Seminar " Neck pinch singularities in the geometry of surfaces" by Dr. John Loftin from Rutgers University
Deep Reinforcement Learning by Parallelizing Reward and Punishment using the MaxPain Architecture, Dr. Jiexin Wang
Dr. Jiexin Wang, a researcher at the department of Brain Robot Interface, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories.
Special Scientific Talk - "Induction of pancreatic beta-cell neogenesis" by Dr. Patrick Collombat
Dr. Patrick Collombat
Group leader at INSERM (France), working on pancreatic beta-cell regeneration.
WIPO Presidents' Summit for Intellectual Property
Reservation: Required via email to <yukiko.cooper[at]oist.jp>.
Language: English. No translation into Japanese.
QG group meeting: Black hole microstate counting for BTZ black hole
Quantum Gravity Group Meeting
Title: Black hole microstate counting for BTZ black hole
Speaker : Vyacheslav Lysov, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)