Making a good first impression is always difficult, and it becomes even more difficult when meeting people from other cultures. Join us to learn more about how to manage this situation successfully.

Friday, July 30th, 12 PM

Friday, August 6th, 12 PM

https://oist.zoom.us/j/97256113827

Miya Taillefer - Sensei

Miya-san is certified by the Japan Yoga Therapists Association & the Indian Central Government-accredited by Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samshana (S-VYASA). She is a certified yoga instructor (YIC) and yoga/therapist (YTIC). Miya can focus on areas for maternity, after childbirth, handicapped children, people with diseases, as well as regular courses.

Her classes will be taught in Japanese and little English. The Language exchange is welcomed!

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The best writers have a few basic guidelines for making their sentences easy to read.

Join us to find out the rules for writing simple, easy to read sentences that will provide the clarity reviewers are looking for.

Elm is A delightful language for building reliable web applications. It is a language that: has no runtime exceptions, makes refactoring easy, is easy to read, has friendly error messages and is fast. Elm is a functional language for front-end programming that compiles to JavaScript.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for anyone with basic programming experience. No web experience required.

The Imposter Syndrome - Why successful people often feel like frauds

Tuesday 13th July 2021, 3:00 - 4:00pm

C700 (also available on Zoom)

https://oist.zoom.us/j/92671423880?pwd=T3NlVGtWWndZWVJEbXdvREE3cW43dz09

Meeting ID: 926 7142 3880 Passcode: 793097

Are you curious about how to develop your technology into a business? Dr. Khaled will talk you through the principles of how you would create a plan to do that. His talk will be tailored to the needs of researchers taking their first steps in this area.

Przemek-san is a long time practitioner and teacher of Ashtanga Yoga, devoted to the traditional teachings of this method. A dynamic practice of Asanas (positions), involving deep concentration and meditation, with emphasize on all the aspects of Yoga and how to apply them off the mat. With over 18 years of experience in and out of India, he would like to share his philosophy on his personal practice of Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation.

The best writers have a few basic guidelines for making their sentences easy to read.

Join us to find out the rules for writing simple, easy to read sentences that will provide the clarity reviewers are looking for.

This 2-part seminar is an introduction to Intercultural Communication.

We will explore

what culture means how to describe it how to develop flexible thinking how to support flexibile thinking in others

All are welcome.

Intermediate or above English recommended.

Come and join us for an exciting and fulfilling meeting on building better communication skills through impromptu speaking exercises, listening to prepared speeches, and providing constructive feedback. We run our meetings at lunchtime every other Friday. Email oist.tm@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to receive further information.

What inspires people to start their own company? Why do post-docs transition to becoming entrepreneurs? What are the highs, the lows, and how are researchers suited to entrepreneurship? If you are interested in these questions and more, then please come to this panel talk where 3 founders will discuss their thoughts and experiences on starting their own companies.

What do you do before finally submitting your text? We will discuss some strategies and reviewers responses.

Ever had someone say that your writing is difficult to read? In this seminar we will look at how to write in a way that makes your texts flow.

Come and join us for an exciting and fulfilling meeting on building better communication skills through impromptu speaking exercises, listening to prepared speeches, and providing constructive feedback. We run our meetings at lunchtime every other Friday. Email oist.tm@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to receive further information.

Magali Soumillon, Co-Founder of Flexomics, will talk about how she has developed a genomic analysis technology, and why she developed it first in an academic and then as an entrepreneur.

Ever had someone say that your writing is difficult to read? In this seminar we will look at how to write in a way that makes your texts flow.

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

In this seminar we will look at verbs, noun phrases and the types of choices that you will need to make to suit your discipline's specific style.

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

After Mini Course: Graphic Design in Science, your beautiful graph will make people forget about your poor fashion sense.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for anyone.

These two 2-hr webinar series provided attendees with the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . Upon completion of this workshop series, attendees were able to articulate relevant research questions, search for appropriate grant opportunities aligned with their research focus, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research to enhance their career.

To register CLICK HERE.

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

These two 2-hr webinar series provided attendees with the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . Upon completion of this workshop series, attendees were able to articulate relevant research questions, search for appropriate grant opportunities aligned with their research focus, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research to enhance their career.

To register CLICK HERE.

After Mini Course: Graphic Design in Science, your beautiful graph will make people forget about your poor fashion sense.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for anyone.

Teacher: Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ogarrio

Juan Carlos is a professional photographer and researcher from the Autonomous University of Mexico City, UACM. He has 28 years of experience. He began working on photography before the digital era. He learned the analog techniques and worked reproducing paintings for professional catalogs. He specialized in lab printing techniques. Currently, he is a researcher in the Autonomous University of Mexico City, UACM and belongs to the Communication and Culture Academy. He is specialized in narratives and photobook solutions.

Learn to see that there are common patterns for writing academic texts. We will consider response letters and look at the problem-solution pattern as an example before discussing others.

You have a green idea? You want to create impact and scale this idea? You should apply to the EU backed initiative Climate Launchpad. Christian Schmitz, Founder/CEO of PDIE Group will tell us about this exciting program.

Selection workshop for students seeking admission to the OIST PhD program in 2021

Learn about the different purposes and strategies of different academic texts and see how this effects the vocabulary, the grammar and other characteristics.

Fireside chat with Dr. Tadahisa “Hardy” Kagimoto, MD, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Healios K.K., a biotechnology company leading the development of stem cell derived regenerative therapies.

Learn how to introduce yourself, answer questions about your nationality and speak about your job in Japanese.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link , then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link:https://oist.zoom.us/j/95811989706)

[Postponed: Rescheduled Date to be Annonced] INNOVATION SEMINAR : Leap Before you Look - Why One Autophagy Researcher Launched a Startup

Professor Tamotsu Yoshimori Graduate School of Frontier Bioscience/Medicine Osaka University

Parenting Series Lunch - Keeping Children Safe: Child abuse and how to talk to children about this.

This will be a lunchtime presentation and discussion session for parents or anyone interested in the topic.

Bring your lunch and come and join us to learn about and discuss this important topic.

Mini Course: Asymptote will let you draw things with your keyboard!

◆Target audience Everyone interested in learning how to draw beautiful vector graphics. Some familiarity with LaTeX is useful but not a requirement.

A beginner's introduction to using the clusters and other computing resources at OIST. This is the first, introductory session.

Free online wellbeing event

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who gradauted in the period May 2019 to April 2021.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Round-table with OIST Alumni

Date: May 20 (Thu.), 2021 Time: 13:30-14:30 (tentative) Venue: Lab4 E48

Let’s gather around in casual setting, and please help us support OIST students in their professional and career development.

・Date: May 20 (Thu.), 2021 ・Time: 10:00-11:00 (tentative) ・Venue: Lab4

Oksana Burduzhan is a mother and an aspiring artist. Her passion and interest is in art, and her educational background is in Economics. Some OIST members may have taken her adult art classes. She will now open classes for children ages 6-14.

Mini Course: Asymptote will let you draw things with your keyboard!

◆Target audience Everyone interested in learning how to draw beautiful vector graphics. Some familiarity with LaTeX is useful but not a requirement.

Come and join us for an exciting and fulfilling meeting on building better communication skills through impromptu speaking exercises, listening to prepared speeches, and providing constructive feedback. We run our meetings at lunchtime every other Friday. Email oist.tm@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to receive further information.

Want to practice your conversation skills with other Japanese learners? Join us for Advanced Conversation in Japanese every Thursday from 16:00 - 17:00 during the summer semester.

The topic will change every week.

Yasuko-Sensei is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher and she will be teaching on Thursday afternoons in the Ocean View Room from 12:00pm-1:00pm. She is certified in Iyengar Yoga level 1 and level 2. She completed the RYT-200 program in Ashtanga style in Doha, Qatar in 2014 and has been practicing yoga since 1998. Come take a break from work and check it out! Yasuko Rudisel will be giving Iyengar Yoga lessons at lunch time. Instruction will be given in English and Japanese.

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