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

Fireside chat with Dr. Solange Massa, the founder and CEO of Ecoatoms, a NASA supported company developing the next generation biomaterials, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices in space.

Biological Complexity Unit Seminar, open to everyone who is interested. In person or zoom. Lab 3 B712.

Title: "GC bias-aware abundance estimation from metagenomic data increases accuracy and replicability"

National holiday

Find out about the causes and effects of stress and hear about evidence-based ideas to help you improve and maintain wellbeing. Includes a talk by Dr. Yamamoto, OIST Occupational Doctor and Okinawan Psychiatrist about health and career balance based on the characteristics of Okinawa.

ストレスの原因とその影響について、また科学的根拠に基づいた心身の健康を向上させる方法についてお話します。OIST産業医であり、精神科医の山本先生による、沖縄の環境にあった健康とキャリアのバランスについてのお話もございます。是非ご参加ください。

In this session, staff/leaders will identify through work and discussion various situations in which they are prone to bias and how this affects their actions such as decision-making and communicating with others.

Loïc Poulain d'Andecy , University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne Title: KLR-type presentation of affine Hecke algebras of type B

The Provost Lecture Series 1 Title: My (perhaps too) challenging life in science and technology Speaker: Professor Ichiro Maruyama, Information Processing Biology Unit Chair: Professor Ulf Skoglund, Structural Cellular Biology

The 2nd Workshop on Nobel Turing Challenge

The second workshop on the Nobel Turing Challenge will be held at RIKEN Kobe campus in the hybrid onsite/online format organized by Nobel Turing Challenge Initiative. We will further develop the discussions that took place in the first full online workshop where we shared information on the current status of the field and what can be our possible high impact targets. A guided tour of RIKEN’s robotic biology laboratory is also planned for the onsite participants.

Dr Ad Spiers is the head of the recently founded Manipulation and Touch Lab of Imperial College London, which investigates various aspects of human and robotic upper limbs. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Everyone at OIST. Freely accessible to all OIST members without registration (also via Zoom).

Joint seminar: “Ecological Approaches to Anthropogenic Environment, from Basic to Applied” by Hirosaki University - Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicin - OIST - Tokushima University

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Are you a passionate inventor? Are you driven to invent technology to help people in need? Then you are going to be excited and inspired by listening to our next entrepreneur’s story!

Stephen Estelle is going to share his entrepreneurship story with the Innovators Society. Stephen is the CEO and founder of Estelle Ingenuity , and Technician in the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit at OIST.

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Speaker: Prof. Kauzhiro Kuwae (Fukouka University)

Title: Liouville theorem for V-harmonic maps under non-negative (m, V)-Ricci curvature for non-positive m

Did you know Open Access (OA) is more than just Open Access Journals? Please register for this webinar via Zoom if you would like to learn more about the different paths to Open Access to further the reach of your research. This webinar will be held in English and is hosted by the OIST Library.

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Speaker: Dr Alejandro Trujillo-Gonzalez, Principal Scientist, National eDNA Reference Centre, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Hosted by: Dr. Roger Huerlimann, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

Abstract: Globalisation is increasing the rate and complexity of trade connections between countries. This increasing network of interactions, in hand with the movement of both people and goods, puts countries at risk of invasive pests and diseases, constraining their capacity to protect economic, ecological, and social livelihood. Tackling the increasing influx of invasive pests and pathogens requires the use of biosecurity measures within diverse methodologies used to detect, eradicate, and minimize the inherent risks of these unwanted species. (...)

The EAJS was initiated as a joint research conference between the Institute of Medical Science of the University of Tokyo and the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Seoul National University (Korea) in 1994 and has been held annually for recent twenty-seven years. During the twenty-seven years, the EAJS has expanded by inviting other seven institutes.

Language: English

Reservation required

https://oist.zoom.us/j/95126835197 Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Speaker: Dr. Miguel Angel Garcia-March, Distinguished Researcher,Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain

Speaker: Mei Kobayashi, Research Engineer at EAGLYS, Adjunct Faculty Member at Tsuda University and Visiting Researcher at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Title: Introduction to Network Analysis and Applications

Speaker: Chun-Ju Lai, Academia Sinica

Title: Quasi-hereditary covers, Hecke subalgebras and quantum wreath product

Registration deadline for OIST-Kyoto University Joint Workshop -Challenges in Biomedical Complexity- is October 25th, 2022.

Dr. Shinobu Onoda, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Japan

Zoom info: https://oist.zoom.us/j/93447448076?pwd=dDBIYmtkTU1IbGVtTXZZZkdvbE56Zz09&from=addon

Meeting ID: 934 4744 8076 Passcode: 458251

Biodiversity plays a central role in humankind’s interaction with the biosphere, lying at the heart of all ecosystem structure and functioning. Biodiversity describes the variability and connectivity of life across different levels (from bacteria to plants and animals) and dimensions (from genetic to ecological and from taxonomic to functional):

This workshop will bring together practitioners and enthusiasts of biodiversity research from Tohoku University and OIST to illuminate this fascinating theme from multiple angles, with the aim of discovering complementary perspectives and collaborative opportunities.

OIST Beach Clean Club hosts a beach clean-up on October 23rd, 2022.

Imagine you’re about to present at a conference (or symposium, seminar, or panel discussion…). You know your research well and could generally talk about it for hours, but… somehow the setting makes you stumble. Well, whether we like it or not, presenting one’s research in front of an audience is a key skill all scientists need to master. At OIST Orators Club we have found it helpful to practice public speaking in a supportive environment and would like to extend what we’ve learned in the past few years to the rest of the researchers’ community.

Science communication and outreach, especially to global audiences in English, is taking off in Japan. Japan Scicom Forum brings together communicators, writers, scientists, journalists and select experts from abroad to inspire and boost the cohesion of scicomm in Japan, learn new skills and inform the community with best practices. Keynote talks will reflect on research-media interactions from the perspectives of both scientists and press professionals. Workshops will provide hands-on training to support communicators and scientists working in Japan as they engage in global outreach. Open discussion and networking opportunities are spread over the program. Registration is free and the event will be in English.

This year, OIST is honored to host virtually this event.

Title : Korevaar-Schoen-Sobolev spaces and critical exponents on metric measure spaces Speaker: Fabrice Baudoin , University of Connecticut Abstract: We will review some of the recent developments in the theory of Korevaar-Schoen-Sobolev spaces. While this theory is equivalent to that of Cheeger and Shanmugalingam if the space supports a Poincare inequality, it offers new perspectives in situations, like fractals, where such inequalities are not available. Registratio n : https://oist.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlduurpz0jHty8bIhim2hVnIG8CsEJVAJ7

Dr. Mark Wildon, University of London. 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).

[Neuroscience Club] Prof. Hiroshi Makino, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University. Language: English.

A Swiss startup company called QNAMI - will be visiting OIST to showcase their quantum sensing technology. They develop scanning magnetometers which can map out nanoscale sized magnetic fields.

OIST - Osaka University: A Recipe for Scientific Synergy-Series 3 by Dr. Kazumasa Tanaka and Dr. Qingbo S. Wang

言語教育セクションでは、上級者向けの会話セッションを開始します!

対象： 日本語能力試験 N１レベル合格者

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

Oct/19/2022 (Wed) @C210 Center Bldg. 14:00-15:00

Seminar "Experimental Realization of Qubit Thermometry" by Dr. Lemziakov Sergei, Aalto University Language: English

Title: Potential Theory, Kolmogorov Problem and the Legacy of Norbert Wiener This talk is open to everyone at OIST Faculty Lunchtime Seminar Coordinator/ FAO

Dr. Najwa Aaraj, chief Researcher, Technology Innovation Institute. Language: English. Open to all.

Language: English

Reservation required

Social AI .

Justine Cassell, Dean’s Professor of Language Technologies in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, chair at the PRAIRIE AI Institute in Paris, and director of research at Inria Paris.

These seminars are aimed at OISTers who may have missed the opportunity to join our regular Basic 1 classes.

Seminars will be held on Tuesdays st C600B in Lab2 from 11AM to Noon.

Speaker: Dr. Dmitrij Dedukh, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, CAS CZ, Libechov, Czech Republic

Title: "Breaking the rules: Alterations of gametogenic pathways in hybrid “asexual” vertebrates."

Beach microbiology - from a single cell to the community

Dr. Victor Sucasas, Director Crytophraphy Engineer, Dr. Eduardo Soria, Senior Cryptographer, Technology Innovation Institute. Language: English. Open to all.

Speaker: Prof. Mikko Parviainen (University of Jyväskylä)

Title: Stochastic tug-of-war type games and partial differential equations

Speaker: Prof. Dirk Linke, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Norway

E-mail: dirk.linke@ibv.uio.no

Language: English

Dr. David Vuono, Assistant Research Professor, Colorado School of Mines.

Language: English, no interpretation. All are welcome to attend.