Speaker: Dr. Taketo Sano （RIKEN)

OIST members are welcome to join seminars by Prof. Goda (OIST) and Prof. Fukushima (Tokyo Institute of Technology) on June 17 (Mon); no registration is required.

Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope　

Seminar＆Demonstration

FV4000　“SilVIR”

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Erik De Schutter (Computational Neuroscience Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Tutorial sessions and meals are closed sessions (for registered participants only).

Rewards are often subject to chance, resulting in situations where animals might not receive them despite taking appropriate actions. Consequently, to maximize the acquisition of specific probabilistic rewards, animals need to develop strategies for coping with their absence, continuing their pursuit of rewards despite the disappointing outcomes. However, the neural mechanisms for developing such coping strategies are poorly understood. I will introduce our recent studies that reveal the distinct roles of dopamine circuits (Ishino et al., Science Advances, 2023) and basal forebrain acetylcholine circuits (Unpublished) for persistent pursuit of rewards.Rewards are often subject to chance, resulting in situations where animals might not receive them despite taking appropriate actions. Consequently, to maximize the acquisition of specific probabilistic rewards, animals need to develop strategies for coping with their absence, continuing their pursuit of rewards despite the disappointing outcomes. However, the neural mechanisms for developing such coping strategies are poorly understood. I will introduce our recent studies that reveal the distinct roles of dopamine circuaits (Ishino et al., Science Advances, 2023) and basal forebrain acetylcholine circuits (Unpublished) for persistent pursuit of rewards. https://sites.google.com/view/ogawagroup/english/masaaki-ogawa

This seminar is hosted by De Schutter Unit. "Ito cells : A novel cerebellar interneuron implicated in motor learning" by Prof. Professor George J. Augustine, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory. Ctr Bldg -B503, at 14:00-15:00

Lecture 8: N = 4 SUSY Yang-Mills III: BPS spectrum and S-duality.

June 23 is Okinawa Memorial Day. To mark the occasion, a special lecture on Okinawa's history and war will be held on June 12 (Wed) 15:00-17:00 in the OIST Auditorium.

Before the year 1590 nobody could have guessed that the remote fort and settlement of Edo on the Eastern Kanto plain would, a little over 100 years later, be the world´s largest city with 1.3 million inhabitants. Samurai lord Tokugawa Ieyasu chose Edo as his new capital, and 15 generations of Tokugawa ruled Japan as shogun from Edo Castle. Edo was populated by samurai and townspeople who developed a distinct culture of their own – kabuki, sushi and ukiyoe prints were all part of their lifestyle. Edo also was the first 100% sustainable city in early modern history – nothing was thrown away for good, everything found a place in recycling. Slowly much of what we experience as “typically Japanese” developed in this storied megacity.

This seminar is hosted by De Schutter Unit. "Illuminating links between neural circuit activity and behaviour" by Prof. Michael Häusser, University College London, UK, Ctr Bldg -C209, at 16:00-17:00

QG group meeting. Speaker: Keith Glennon. Title: "From Simple Division Algebras to Simple Lie Algebras, with Glimpses of Non-Simple Kac-Moody Algebras".

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第２回大学職員向け勉強会　「研究活動はどのように展開されているか」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Dr. Rony Huys, Professor, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, U.K.

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other, now in the Visiting Program (TSVP) office area in Lab 5 EF03

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

TSVP Talk "What We Can Learn From Fish: The Xiphophorus Evolutionary Model for Human Diseases" Speaker : Manfred Schartl (University of Würzburg, Texas State University) Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

MLDS unit seminar, Makoto Yamada (OIST), PhiNets: Brain-inspired Non-contrastive Learning Based on Temporal Prediction Hypothesis

Lecture 7: N = 4 SUSY Yang-Mills II: AdS/CFT

Title: Well-Being and Communication: Exploring Social Interaction and Neurodiversity

Speaker : Rieko Osu ( Waseda University ) Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration.

Career Talk: "How I Made My Living From Fish: The Balancing Act Between My Own Interests and the Interest of Others" by Manfred Schartl

Schedule

June 6 (Wed): Arrival

June 7 (Thu)-8 (Fri): Sessions open to the OIST community

June 9 (Sat): Brainstorming Session & Departure

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "R,C,H,O number systems, spinors, triality and spacetime".

Title: OIST Activities Fair

Date : Friday, May 31st.

Time : 4:00-6:00pm

Location: Conference Center Meeting Room#1~4

We want to help new members and old members find their community at OIST!! We look forward to your participation.

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第１回大学職員向け勉強会　「科学技術と研究者」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

We will discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plans for Okinawa, focusing on the partnership system that recognizes sexual minority couples as equivalent to married ones. In February 2024, Okinawa Prefecture announced that the issuance of certificates to publicly certify a couple's relationship, currently limited to residents of Naha and Urasoe cities, will soon be expanded to all areas of the prefecture. The public services provided based on the certificates will be left to the judgment of each municipality and private company. However, the details of the system, including the contact point for issuing the certificates, are still under consideration. The panelists will address the current issues being faced.

Title: Quantum Time-Dilation in Qubit Hypersurfaces

Abstract: The use of quantum spin systems to study the phenomenon of quantum time dilation leads to new insights into the quantum description of gravity. The basis of this description is the Page and Wootters mechanism, where entanglement between two quantum systems allows one to act as a clock for the other, influencing its time evolution. Intriguingly, when the clock system experiences a "gravitational-like interaction", the resulting time evolution can be described by a Time-Dilated Schrödinger equation. This equation includes a "redshift operator," a purely quantum effect that mimics gravitational time dilation. Here we discuss a novel, finite-dimensional framework in which a network of qubit systems can be used as a "global" clock for another non-interacting component of the universe. The result is the Time-Dilation induced Interaction Transfer (TiDIT) mechanism. TiDIT describes how time dilation due to the interaction of a qubit effectively changes the interaction between previously non-interacting parts of the universe. We will explore this concept with a practical example using two coupled qubits as a model for the quantum clock.

Lecture 6: N = 4 SUSY Yang-Mills I: basic properties. Superconformal invariance.

The command line is the primary way to use the high performance computing resources at OIST. Here we quickly learn the basics we need to become comfortable and productive.

Speaker: Prof. Masashi Misawa (Kumamoto University)

Title: Regularity for doubly nonlinear parabolic type equations

Seminar : Fostering Innovation from Science: Effective Academic-Industry Collaborations in Japan | Kenji Takeda, PhD | Chief Technology Officer, Corundum Innovation | 29 May 2024 | 3:00pm-4:00pm | Lab 5 D23

Speaker : Professor Neal Bez, Saitama University Title : The Brascamp-Lieb Inequality

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A beginner's introduction to using the clusters and other computing resources at OIST. This is the second, hands-on session.

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Denis Konstantinov (Quantum Dynamics Unit) | Website | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants.

This training course will show you how to make best use of the high-performance computing resources at OIST. In the first session we show you how computing clusters are organized and introduce the fundamental concepts of parallel computing.

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Presidential Lecture by Prof. Reiko Kuroda on the topic, "Left and right in nature. Does it matter?"

Keyence Demo

*Seminar Time Changed to 14:30-15:30* Dr. Shinichiro Maruyama, Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops.

May 2, 2024,10am~,Online(Zoom),Language:English, Target:Prospective students

The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers developed and hosted annually by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin in November. In 3–minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin.

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Lecture 4: Multiplets of N = 1 supersymmetry in four dimensions. Superfields. Constructing invariant Lagrangians.

Speaker: Prof. Ugur Abdulla （OIST)

Weekly QG group meeting. Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia. Title: "Cubic Action for Spinning Black Holes".

Haarii Dragon Boat Race Introduction

Speaker: Professor Jana Björn , Linköping University and OIST TSVP Visiting Scholar Title: The Dirichlet Problem and Boundary Regularity for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations

Abstract: As shown by Serrin in 1964, the growth at an isolated singularity of solutions to the elliptic equation div A(x, ∇u) = 0 in Rn (including p-harmonic functions with p > 1) is exactly determined by the dimension n and the parameter p associated with the equation. In this talk, I will discuss growth and integrability properties for p-harmonic Green functions and their gradients on weighted Rn, with a p-admissible weight, as well as on complete metric spaces equipped with a doubling measure supporting a p-Poincar´e inequality. In these situations, the dimension n is replaced by the local growth of the underlying measure near the isolated singularity, and the obtained growth and integrability exponents are sharp.

SEMINAR : Innovations along microscaled liquid-liquid interfaces - research, translation and commercialization in Hong Kong | Professor Anderson Shum | University of Hong Kong | 3:00pm May 14, 2024 | C209