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Research Scientist, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Dr. Barbara Rhode, Minister Counsellor, Head of Science and Technology, EU Delegation to Japan, will explain the EU's new "Horizon2020" programme and how to participate. Language: English (no interpretation)

Dr. Andreas Ruschhaupt (Group Leader, Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Quantum Optics, University College Cork, Ireland)

Distinguished Professor Takuzo Aida, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo

Musical "OUR BLUE PLANET: Play with music based on the Earth Chapter" - Commemorating The UN Decade o Education for Sustainable Development

Join us for this June's first special edition of the Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Ecology and Evolution Unit (Alexander Mikheyev) and the Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Ibrahim Sowwan).

Dr. Mikas Remeika, Intel Corporation Semiconductor Technology Development Center, Oregon, USA

Professor Helmut Ritsch, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

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Join us for this May's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit (Qi Mikheyev) and the Computational Neuroscience Unit (Erik De Schutter).

Dr. Giulio G. Giusteri is Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Brescia, Italy

Prof Yun-Feng Xiao, State Key Lab for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, P. R. China

Connect with colleagues over refreshments.

Date/Time: Thu 22 May 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Seminar Room C210, Level C, Centre Bldg. Title: Theory of colloidal stabilization by unattached polymers Speaker: Mr. Alexey Shvets, Institut Charles Sadron, Université de Strasbourg, France

Date/Time: Tue 20 May 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Seminar Room C209, Level C, Centre Bldg. Title: Simplicial complexes as models of complex systems Speaker: Dr. Slobodan Maletic, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences

We are holding a scientific art contest and looking for science images that hold artistic value.

If you have any images, please submit to: doyouseeartinscience@gmail.com

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Date: Monday, May 19, 2014 Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Venue: Lab 1, Meeting Room C015 (Level C)

Speaker: 　 Dr. Noriko Yutsudo Affiliation: Kobe Pharmaceutical University

Title : “ fosB -null mice display impaired adult hippocampal neurogenesis and spontaneous epilepsy with depressive behavior ”

Abstract :

Patients with epilepsy are at high risk for major depression relative to the general population, and both disorders are associated with changes in adult hippocampal neurogenesis, although the mechanisms underlying disease onset remain unknown. The expression of fosB , an immediate early gene encoding FosB and DFosB/D2DFosB by alternative splicing and translation initiation, is known to be induced in neural progenitor cells within the subventricular zone...

Dr. Sachihiro Suzuki is in the Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington

Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit (Shintake Unit) would like to invite you to a seminar by Mr. Hans Tietz, Managing Director of Tietz Video and Image Processing Systems GmbH, Germany. We hope to see many of you at the seminar.

Speaker: Mr. Hans Richard Tietz, Managing Director, Tietz Video and Image Processing Systems GmbH, Germany

Title: Multi-Purpose CMOS Cameras for Electron and X-Ray detection; Sensitivity, Resolution, Dynamic Range, Speed.

Abstract: The development of digital cameras, which are applicable for a wide HV range, and which satisfy all criteria: including large detection area, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, spatial resolution, dynamic range and fast read out, is a challenge. TVIPS has designed CMOS based cameras with active pixel sensors. The cameras fulfil...

Dr. Hiromitsu Takeuchi (Lecturer, Osaka City University, Japan)

Admission free. Reservation required. English with Japanese simultaneous interpretation.

Over 50 photographic portraits of Nobel Laureates, complemented with interviews, videos and digital presentations.

"Dynamics of a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid: signatures of emergent Majorana fermions and fluxes" Dr. Johannes Knolle (MPI-PKS Dresden)

Title : “Analysis of the function of miR-124 during medaka neural development ”

Abstract :

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) comprise a group of small noncoding RNA molecules (about 22 nucleotides) thought to have contributed to the evolution of vertebrate brain homogeneity as well as diversity. The miRNA miR-124 is well conserved between invertebrates and vertebrates and is expressed abundantly in the central nervous system (CNS).

For my doctoral dissertation, I studied the function of miR-124 in Oryzias latipes (medaka). In this research, I collaborated with Dr. Rie Kusakabe and Prof. Dr. Kunio Inoue of Kobe University, Japan. We identified five candidate genes for medaka miR-124. The five genes are unlinked on four different chromosomes...

Greenery Day 2014 (observed)

National Holiday.

Constitution Memorial Day 2014

A public exhibition of large metalwork art.

Showa Day 2014

Quantum Systems Unit (Busch U) would like to invite you to a seminar by Dr. Adolfo del Campo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

An on-site survey for countermeasures against earthquakes will be conducted in late April. The objective of the survey is to develop a blue-print of earthquake countermeasures plan at OIST. The survey will be conducted by OIST safety and health committee and outside experts in earthquake countermeasures, and check the current conditions of arrangement of research equipment and office furniture, and anchoring of them to floor or wall in the laboratory spaces as well as administrative offices on campus. The survey is scheduled from April 21st through 24th.

Join us for this April's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature a collaboration between the Optical Neuroimaging (Bernd Kuhn) and Neural Computation (Kenji Doya) Units and the Marine Biophysics Unit (Satori Mitarai).

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Seminar by Prof. Ippei Danshita of Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University. Friday, April 18th at 13:30-14:30 (C016). All is welcome !

Theory of Quantum Matter Unit invites you to a seminar by Prof. Karlo Penc of The Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics to be held on Thu 17th at 13:00-14:30 in D014, Lab1. All is welcome !

2012 Nobel Prize in Physics

Dear All,

Neural Computation Unit (Doya Unit) would like to invite you to two seminars on neural basis for emotion and the basal ganglia circuit as follows. ------------------- Date: Monday, April 14, 2014 Time: 14:45-16:15 Venue: OIST Center Bldg. Seminar room B250 -------------------- Speaker: Prof. Kenji Doya 14:45-15:30 Title: How to cope with delayed rewards

Abstract: In our life, reward or punishment often comes after an uncertain delay. After seeing and trying many things, how can we tell what caused a good or bad result? This is a classic case of “temporal credit assignment” or delayed reward problem. The theory of reinforcement learning prescribes a number of strategies to cope with this problem: 1) look back...

Seminar by Mr. Marcus Gallagher-Jones, Ph.D. student, Liverpool University

Theory of Quantum Matter (Nic Shannon) unit invites you to a seminar by Dr. Ching-Yu Huang, Condensed Matter Department at MPI-PKS Dresden. All are welcome to attend !

IFREMER Maritime Strategy Senior Advisor, JAMSTEC Guest Researcher and OPRF Visiting Fellow. English with Japanese interpretation. 日英同時通訳付き。

Seminar by Dr. Olga Sikora, former member of Theory of Quantum Matter Unit, currently based in Taiwan at National Taiwan University.

Seminar by Dr. Kazunari Kohri of KEK.

Spring Equinox 2014

Co-hosted by OIST and CITI Japan Project

National Foundation Day

Coming of Age Day 2014

Emperor's Birthday 2013