Past Events

Graduate School

Grant Writing - (2 days series December 16th, 17th) Applying for research grants and scholarships

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 10:00 to 12:00
Webinar

Summary and objectives: These virtual workshops will provide practical insights and strategies to help researchers achieve this goal.

Seminar

[Seminar] Convective dissolution in confined porous media: An application to CO2 sequestration

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 17:00 to 18:00
Zoom

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Seminar

[Optics Seminars OIST] by Prof. Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 12:00 to 13:00
on Zoom

Speaker: Prof. Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop Director of Quantum Science Laboratory, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Australia

Title: From cold atoms to living cells with sculpted light

Professional Development

Interactive Webinar: "Responsible Conduct of Research".

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 11:00 to 12:30
Zoom meeting.

Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) webinar is an interactive session designed to acquaint researchers with the ethical and regulatory issues that arise in the context of responsible scientific research.

To register CLICK HERE .
Seminar

(ONOS seminar) Unraveling cortical circuits for perceptual decision making

Friday, December 11, 2020 - 16:00
Zoom

OIST Neuroscience Online Seminar (ONOS)

Prof. Seung-Hee Lee, Associate Professor, Sensory Processing Lab, KAIST

Unraveling cortical circuits for perceptual decision making Sensory information is a key environmental cue that makes animals guide their behavior. However, it is still unclear how cortical circuits permit appropriate responses to relevant sensory stimuli while inhibiting others. Here, we unraveled cortical circuits that are important for perceptual decision-making in mice performing Go/No-go tasks. We identified parietal and frontal circuits that show unique properties in integrating sensory information and guide action decisions. I will discuss how these circuits work in concert for animals to perform proper action decisions upon the sensory evidence.

ZOOM LINK : https://oist.zoom.us/j/99896092525?pwd=ZVpMcEQ4SjBISnk4UzJqaFpyeEdOZz09

Meeting ID: 998 9609 2525 Passcode: 931719

Seminar

[Optics Seminars OIST] by Prof. Kenji Ohmori

Friday, December 11, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:00
on Zoom

Speaker: Prof. Kenji Ohmori Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan

Title: Ultrafast quantum simulator with attosecond precision at ultracold temperatures

Professional Development

Language Seminar Series: Building Intercultural Business Relationships (Part 2 of 2)

Friday, December 11, 2020 - 11:00
https://oist.zoom.us/j/96470808716?pwd=enp6U05ZZ3VZQXJ2Ylp1NlhZL1RCUT09
Join us to understand and apply positive thinking when we meet people from other cultures for the first time.
Seminar

Synthetic Biology Journal Club

Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 17:00
Lab3 Level B one of the classrooms

A casual weekly SynBio Journal Club. This week the speaker is Gear.

Seminar

Inter-Unit Neuroscience Journal Club (ZOOM)

Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 16:30
ZOOM

Inter-unit journal club presentation by PhD student Thato Mokhothu, who will discuss a recent article from eNeuro entitled "Cerebellar Directed Optogenetic Intervention Inhibits Spontaneous Hippocampal Seizures in a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy"

Workshop

Kicks workshop_Dyadic interactions in a comparative perspective

Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 14:00 to 18:00
Zoom

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on social interaction in different disciplines to look for common patterns and to discuss future research directions.

Professional Development

QuickFix: "Interview skills".

Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 12:00 to 13:00
For RSVP only

“QuickFix”- improve your application materials in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!

To register CLICK HERE .
Seminar

FALL 2020 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series

Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 10:00 to 11:00
on Zoom
Professor Brett D. Wick , Washington University Title: Commutators and Bounded Mean Oscillation
Public Lecture

The Future of Oceans In An Era of Climate Change [Webinar]

Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 09:00 to 10:00
Zoom link will be provided upon registration

This webinar aims to focus on the impact that climate change is having on oceans and marine life and the effects this will have on the U.S., Japan, and the world. Panelists include Dr. Robert Dunbar, Professor, Earth System Science, Stanford University; Dr. Timothy Ravasi, Professor, Marine Climate Change Unit, OIST, and Dr. Alex Wegmann, Director of Science for the Palmyra Program, The Nature Conservancy.

Register here

Seminar

[Seminar] Exactly solvable spin-1/2 models with highly-degenerate, partially ordered, ground states

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

Professional Development

Survival Japanese:Going to the Doctor

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 16:00
Zoom- https://oist.zoom.us/j/98080668912

Learn how to check in and out of doctor's appointments, describe pain and symptoms, and speak in emergency situations, all 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/98080668912 )

Training

New Employee Orientation in English ( By Zoom )

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 09:30 to 14:20
Zoom (https://oist.zoom.us/j/98387336352?pwd=dFRST1pLOXRRVUMyUEFYK29wRHZiZz09 )

New employees are requested to attend the New Employee Orientation and take the on-line courses.

The Training and Education Section has sent invitation mail to the attendees, but if those who haven't receive one yet see this message, please contact training@oist.jp.

As a prevention of the spread of the COVID-19, we will have an on-line NEO by Zoom.

From this time, Ganju welbeing and University Community Service scheduled in the afternoon are available to everyone.

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 16:30 to 17:30
On Zoom
Speaker: Nicolas Jacon, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne Title: Cores of Ariki-Koike algebras
Training

New Employee Orientation in Japanese ( By Zoom )

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 09:30 to 14:20
Zoom ( https://oist.zoom.us/j/94680090817?pwd=anFsaElHRjNLQkNkeUtTcHVwelA5Zz09 )

新入職員はオリエンテーションへの参加及びOnlineでの受講が求められています。

参加予定者の方々には、事前に教育研修セクションより招待メールが届いております。

今回のオリエンテーションはコロナ感染拡大防止策の一環として、Zoomでの開催となりました。

参加者の皆様には、Zoom環境の設定をお願いいたします。

また、今回のオリエンテーションは午後に予定されております「がんじゅうサービス」と「 大学コミュニティ支援」は職員のみならずそのご家族やパートナーの方もご覧いただけます。

OIST Mini Symposium

OIST Mini Symposium "Partial Differential Equations under Various Metrics"

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 09:00 to Friday, December 11, 2020 - 11:30
Zoom and L4F01 (15 seats available in the classroom)

OIST Mini Symposium | Organizing unit: Analysis on Metric Spaces Unit (Xiaodan Zhou) | Website | Schedule | Abstracts | Register here (Open to the scientific community (registration required))

Campus Service

Memorial Service for Laboratory Animals

Friday, December 4, 2020 - 13:00 to 15:00
Animal Memorial Monument at east side of Center Court

The Animal Resources Section cordially invites all researchers involved in laboratory animal experiments, as well as other members, to attend the Annual Memorial Service for laboratory animals.

Professional Development

Language Seminar Series: Building Intercultural Business Relationships (Part 1 of 2)

Friday, December 4, 2020 - 11:00 to 12:00
ZOOM

Aims:

To understand the role of positive thinking when we meet people from other cultures for the first time.

To reconsider the approach we use to build relationships at work.

Particpants should have an upper intermediate level of English fleuncy.

Please visit this page closer to the date to download the attached handout.

Click here to join the meeting.

Seminar

Designing modular proteins by Dr. Fabio Parmeggiani

Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 17:30 to 18:30
Webinar

Speaker: Dr. Fabio Parmeggiani, University of Bristol

Seminar

Quantum Machines Seminar by Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy on Cavity optomagnonics: Quantum optics with magnons

Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 17:00

Quantum Machines Seminar by Group Leader Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light on Cavity optomagnonics: Quantum optics with magnons . Zoom - Please register to attend.

Seminar

FALL 2020 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series

Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
on Zoom
Dr. Adolfo Arroyo-Rabasa , University of Warwick Title: Higher-integrability estimates for systems of PDEs with a non-linear pointwise elliptic constraint
Lecture

[PhD Thesis Presentation_Zoom] - Ms. Sandrine Burriel - "Functional analysis of LMTK1 in lung adenocarcinoma"

Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 09:00 to 10:00
Zoom

PhD public presentation

Seminar

How the Brain Works for Effective Vocal Learning with Social Interactions in Juvenile Zebra Finches

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 17:30
Zoom

Dr. Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama , A ssociate Professor, OIST

Industry Relations

Science to Society: Dr. Sebastian Weidt - CEO Universal Quantum

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 17:00 to 18:00
C700

Dr. Sebastian Weidt will talk about why he chose to do both research on, and start a company developing, quantum computing technology.

Seminar

[Seminar] 30 years of Philip Anderson's RVB theory of high Tc superconductivity in cuprates: is it still relevant today?

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

Seminar

[SEMINAR – RSVP Only] The survival tactics of Plasmodium falciparum in erythrocytic stages

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room B503

Dr. Eri Hayakawa/Jichi Medical University

Seminar

[Seminar] The Anisotropic Generalized Kolmogorov Equations: A novel tool to describe complex turbulent flows

Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 17:00 to 18:00
Zoom

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Research

[Zoom Seminar] Tensor Field Theories: Renormalization and Random Geometry (Dr. Nicolas Delporte, Toriumi Unit)

Monday, November 30, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom or L4F01 (Lab 4, Floor F)

Title: Tensor Field Theories: Renormalization and Random Geometry

Abstract: In the talk, I will share an overview of my research during my PhD thesis. After a practically-minded introduction to renormalization and conformal field theories (CFT), we will see the essential tools developed for tensor models and their large-$N$ expansion. In the second part, I will focus on results of $d>1$ tensor field theories: melonic CFTs, breaking of symmetries. In the last part, we will revive an old approach to study and renormalize an interacting scalar quantum field theory on Galton-Watson random trees, through random walks, which may prove useful for tensor models to escape the melonic large-$N$ limit.

Zoom:

https://oist.zoom.us/j/94081328725?pwd=aFBTdkUvZTdXVU1BYTd6bTUvZHJKdz09

Meeting ID: 940 8132 8725 Passcode: 609087

Seminar

Virtual Seminar"Functional Nano-molecules & Nano-polymers"Zhihong Nie

Monday, November 30, 2020 - 15:00
Zoom

Language: English

Seminar

IAS Users Meeting and Seminar: Mass Spectrometry

Monday, November 30, 2020 - 14:00 to 16:00
Zoom / D015, Lab 1

For OIST members:

Users meeting and Seminar are registration free. We look forward to your participation via Zoom.

For Non-OIST members:

Please contact ias@oist.jp for Seminar sign up. (Users meeting is an internal event.)

Lecture

[PhD Thesis Presentation_Zoom] ‐ Ms. Sakurako Watanabe - "Interaction of multiple inputs in plasticity of the corticostriatal synapses"

Monday, November 30, 2020 - 13:00 to 14:00
Zoom

Presenter: Ms. Sakurako Watanabe

Supervisor: Prof. Jeffery Wickens

Unit: Neurobiology Research Unit

Professional Development

Survival Japanese: Taxi and Directions

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 16:00
Zoom- https://oist.zoom.us/j/97075839903

Learn how to call a taxi, give directions to a location, and describe a place with simple adjectives, all 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/97075839903)

Seminar

What is OKEON? OIST Field Research on Okinawa’s Environment and Organisms

Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab 3 B700

Join in person or by Zoom (Meeting ID: 910 5926 8116 Passcode: 989063)

Seminar

TQA x OIST Quantum Meeting

Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - 09:00 to Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 12:15
Zoom Meeting

Tohoku Quantum Alliance (TQA) from Tohoku University and OIST research groups which focus on quantum physics will have a joint meeting to present their current work and explore future collaboration opportunities.

This will be mainly held at L4E48 on the 24th and C210 on the 25th following the “New Normal” guidelines. The number of seats at seminar rooms are limited and all seats are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Everyone else from both Tohoku and OIST research communities is welcome to join the seminar by Zoom For further detail, please visit https://groups.oist.jp/toq .
Holiday

Labor Thanksgiving Day 勤労感謝の日 2020

Monday, November 23, 2020 - 00:00

National holiday

Research

Visual information processing through the interplay between fast and slow pathways (ONOS)

Friday, November 20, 2020 - 16:00
Zoom (link to be announced)

Prof Si Wu of Peking University, China will give a talk for the OIST neuroscience online seminars (ONOS) series on the topic of "Visual information processing through the interplay between fast and slow pathways". Prof Wu is a PI of IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Center for Life Science at Peking University. He is also the Co-editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

Seminar

FALL 2020 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series

Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
on Zoom
Dr. Franz Gmeineder , University of Bonn Title:\(\mathscr{A}\)-quasiconvexity and partial regularity
Research

Aivia Image Analysis Workshop

Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 09:30
Room 209 Central building / also on Zoom

Image analysis workshop

Seminar

FALL 2020 Nonlinear Analysis Special Lecture

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:30
on Zoom
Associate Professor Dmitriy Stolyarov , St. Petersburg State University and St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute Title: Hardy--Littlewood--Sobolev inequality for p = 1 : Part 2, Proofs (ii).
Professional Development

Withコロナ時代「新たな多文化共生の地域づくりセミナー」

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 14:00 to 16:30
Online Seminar (ZOOM)

Withコロナ時代において、誰もが暮らしやすい持続可能な地域を創出する「新たな多文化共生の地域づくり」に必要とされることはどのようなことなのか。本セミナーでは、(一財)ダイバーシティ研究所代表理事の田村 太郎氏を講師として招聘し、Withコロナ時代における「これからの多文化共生の在り方」について考える機会を持ちます。

Conference

5th International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 (All day) to Friday, November 20, 2020 (All day)
Naha, Okinawa, Japan

Modern views on intelligent informatics and biomedical sciences: Track 1: Signal Processing, Computer Networks, and Telecommunications Track 2: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human-Computer Interaction Track 3: Bioinformaticsw, Medical Imaging, and Neuroscience

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 16:30 to 17:30
On Zoom
Speaker: Qi Wang, Osaka University Title: On τ -tilting finiteness of Schur algebras
Professional Development

QuickFix: "Crafting effective Resume".

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 12:00 to 13:00
For RSVP only

“QuickFix”- improve your application materials in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!

To register CLICK HERE . Post-event survey SUMMARY .
Seminar

QG group meeting - scalar^3 scattering in the dS static patch

Monday, November 16, 2020 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "Scalar^3 scattering in the dS static patch"

Graduate School

Project Management Program - 2020

Friday, November 13, 2020 - 13:30 to Friday, November 20, 2020 - 17:00
Online Zoom Session

Project Management Training - 2020 by Peason Japan, Nov 13 Fri & 20 Fri

Leading Agile Projects provides student participants with the experience of managing a project through a hands-on competitive simulation that puts them in the role of project manager.

Please register HERE

* Max. # of 16 for each event

Professional Development

Language Seminar Series: Fundamentals of Academic Writing (Part 2 of 4)

Friday, November 13, 2020 - 11:00 to 12:00
Zoom

Register and join us as we go over the absolute basics of academic writing.

This four part series will cover

Strategies, audiences, purpose, organisation, styles and flow

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