Language: English

Reservation required

Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)

Join the OIST information session with a cup of coffee! This session is for undergraduate students currently seeking for opportunities in PhD in STEM. The sessions will be done in English. The program consists of OIST general introduction, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by the panel discussion by 2 OIST PhD students currently in Theory of Quantum Matter Unit and Quantum Materials Science Unit.

Dr. Keiji Kuba, Professor, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine. Language: English, no interpretation.

Dr. Yumiko Imai, Project Leader, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN). Language: English, no interpretation.

Cody Bullett Stockdale , Postdoctoral Scholar, Clemson University Title: Sparse domination results for compact operators

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Language: English

Reservation required

Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)

Speaker: Mahir Can, Tulane University Title: Spherical Varieties and Combinatorics

Abstract: Let G be a reductive complex algebraic group with a Borel subgroup B. A spherical G-variety is an irreducible normal G-variety X where B has an open orbit. If X is affine, or if it is projective but endowed with a G-linearized ample line bundle, then the group action criteria for the sphericality is in fact equivalent to the representation theoretic statement that a certain space of functions (related to X) is multiplicity-free as a G-module. In this talk, we will discuss the following question about a class of spherical varieties: if X is a Schubert variety for G, then when do we know that X is a spherical L-variety, where L is the stabilizer of X in G.

We regret to inform you that CQD2020 has been cancelled due to the situation with COVID-19 | Website

PhD Public Presentation

This is the weekly QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "S-matrix vs. lightcone formalism in de Sitter space"

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Scattering in the causal diamond"

What kind of questions should I be asking when I meet someone from another culture for the first time? How do I avoid making a bad first impression? What kind of communication strategy should I have?

Please join us for the online round-table session, “Sharing is Caring”!

This online round-table session is designed for PhD students of consortium participating universities to get together and share experiences and resources in job search, life as PhD students, life in Japan, etc.

Anyone welcome.

More information and signup here.

Learn how genes from Neanderthals still influence us from one of the most outstanding leaders in the field of evolutionary genetics. Dr. Pääbo will discuss how Neanderthal gene variants influence fertility, pain sensitivity and severity of SARS-COV-2 infections in people today.

Svante Pääbo is Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Adjunct Professor at OIST.

Register here

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

To register CLICK HERE Post-event survey SUMMARY

Online meet-up session with Engineering Manager of image data processin.

◆Company information

PKSHA Technology was founded in 2012 as an artificial intelligence venture company from the University of Tokyo.

Name: PKSHA Technology Co.,Ltd Business Activities: Solution development and/or sales using algorithms (machine learning/deep learning, natural language processing, image recognition)...

More information and signup here.

Zoom seminar hosted by QG group. Speaker: Peter Woit (Columbia University). Title: Twistors and the Standard Model.

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

National holiday

National holiday

Language: English

Reservation required

Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)

Language: English

Reservation required

Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)

Who: English learners with intermediate or above skills What: Zoom discussion about current events in English When: 12-1 PM,every other Friday How: click to https://oist.zoom.us/j/93896302839 join at 12PM

How can we describe the cultures of others? More importantly how do we describe our own culture? Join us to find out some language that you can use to answer these questions.

https://oist.zoom.us/j/96204657749?pwd=eGxvWktiNHhKY3pCMXlSeXF2U3k4UT09

Conversation practice for Advanced Japanese speakers!

Thursdays at 17:00

September 17th - December 10th, 2020

Zoom link- https://oist.zoom.us/j/93424948586

Dear PATO (Parent Association for Tedako at OIST) Members,

We are holding a General PATO Meeting to elect new committee members for the 2020-2021 term. We will be talking about upcoming events and discussing any current concerns or issues. We hope that you can join us!

You can join the meeting via Zoom

TQM unit is pleased to inviet you to a online seminar.

We are pleased to announce that this public webinar is rescheduled to Wednesday, September 16 (JST).

Dr. Rita Colwell, one of the most eminent scientists of our time and a member of OIST's Board of Governors, will share her insights into global challenges facing the planet today ranging from the health of oceans to climate change to disease. In addition, she will highlight elements of her new book, A Lab of One’s Own , about the challenges women face in the field of science and how this can be changed.

Register here .

(Please kindly note that you will need to re-register even if you previously signed up for this event.)

JLPT (日本語能力試験）practice for all levels!

Every Tuesday from 5-6 PM

Zoom link to join- https://oist.zoom.us/j/98765166720

Speaker: Chris Bowman, University of Kent Title: Tautological p-Kazhdan–Lusztig Theory for cyclotomic Hecke algebras Abstract: We discuss a new explicit isomorphism between (truncations of) quiver Hecke algebras and Elias–Williamson’s diagrammatic endomorphism algebras of Bott–Samelson bimodules. This allows us to deduce that the decomposition numbers of these algebras (including as examples the symmetric groups and generalised blob algebras) are tautologically equal to the associated p-Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials, provided that the characteristic is greater than the Coxeter number. This allows us to give an elementary and explicit proof of the main theorem of Riche–Williamson’s recent monograph and extend their categorical equivalence to cyclotomic Hecke algebras, thus solving Libedinsky–Plaza’s categorical blob conjecture.

Your presentation skills are just as important as the information you are presenting. Learn how to present online clearly and effectively to get your message across the audience.

To register CLICK HERE . Post-workshop survey SUMMARY

Presenter: Mr. Adrian David

Supervisor: Professor Shinobu Hikami

Co-supervisor: Professor Yasha Neiman

Title: The three-body problem from Newton to gravitational waves

Speaker: Dr. Alessandro Alberto Trani

Abstract:

The gravitational few-body problem is one of the oldest conundrums in astronomy and classical mechanics. Yet, its simplest instance, the three-body problem, has no general analytical solution and only a partial statistical solution has been achieved so far. With the birth of gravitational wave astronomy and the rise in exoplanet discoveries, the three-body problem is again becoming central to explaining astrophysical phenomena.

I will first describe our recent efforts in deriving a complete statistical solution to the non-hierarchical, chaotic three-body problem. I will then review the status of gravitational wave detections and our current understanding of their origin, and show how three-body interactions play a key role in several formation pathways of gravitational wave events.

Language: English

Reservation required

Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)

Language: English

Reservation required

Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)

Join the OIST information session with a cup of coffee! This session is for Japanese students currently seeking for opportunities in PhD in STEM. The sessions will be done in Japanese. The program is consisted of OIST general introduction, PhD & Research Internship admission process followed by the OIST graduate from Neural Computation Unit.

Thursday, September 10th, at 12:00 in C209 and on Zoom , Nobuaki Mizumoto (Evolutionary Genomics Unit led by Tom Bourguignon) will give a Talk on "Evolutionary perspectives of collective behavior in termites"

Senior Prof. Jun-ichiro Inoue, The University of Tokyo

This is a webinar to introduce new technologies and products for 3D bioprinting .

Date : Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Time : 16:00-17:00 JST

Presenter : Ryo Asada, Ph.D (CELLINK KK, Kyoto Japan)

Please visit the link and register.

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8714001693678805008

PhD thesis public presentation

Presenter: Mr. Andrew Justin Wichester

Supervisor: Professor Keshav Dani

私もOISTの英語の講座に 無料で参加できますか?

ジャスティン先生たちが英語のクラスについて説明します.あなたにぴったりの講座を見つけましょう。 13 時まで、個別面談を受け付けています。ぜひお越しください。

I can study English at OIST free of charge?

Join us for an individual Q & A session between 12 and 1 PM and together we will find a course that suits you perfectly.

Assistant Professor Kei Takahashi, The University of Tokyo

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to our seminar!

*Postponed due to typhoon* Monday, August 31 2020, at 12:00 in C210 and on Zoom , Nobuaki Mizumoto (Evolutionary Genomics Unit led by Tom Bourguignon) will give a Talk on "Evolutionary perspectives of collective behavior in termites"

You are invited to C700 on Friday 28th of August at 5.30PM for this open forum. It will be a safe space to discuss any shortcomings that you have noticed at OIST and wish could be fixed, any topic under diversity is welcome.

PhD Public Presentation

An OIST neuroscience online seminars (ONOS) talk.

Abstract

The visual system is a complex, hierarchically-organised information processing network. Counter-intuitively, successive areas contain less information about a scene, but neural activity is structured to better represent specific information. For example, neurons in primate area MT convey little colour information, but motion direction can be linearly decoded from their activity. The ongoing activity of individual neurons is highly variable, meaning reliable computation depends on collaborative processing across neural populations. However, it remains unclear how visual information is reliably represented across neurons within an area, and how these representations are transformed between areas to extract specific stimulus properties. To address this, we record visually-evoked activity simultaneously from dozens of neurons in V1 and MT in marmosets.

We use decoding techniques to predict stimulus orientation or direction from activity across a neural population. This has allowed us to show that neural representations are affected by stimulus history: recent motion biases predictions in a manner consistent with perceptual illusions; and luminance and contrast changes affect orientation coding, again in a manner consistent with human sensitivity.

We study inter-area communication by comparing the timing of action potentials in V1 with local field potentials (LFP, a population measure of local dendritic activity) in MT. We have shown that action potentials preferentially occur at specific phases of the LFP, and that motion information is best communicated from V1 to MT at specific phases.

Collectively, this suggests that hierarchical information processing depends on action potentials in privileged subsets of neurons occurring in privileged time windows.

Zoom details

Zoom Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/95700149323?pwd=VWQxY0FGQmxVQmtUTVZ2SXRnMGx6dz09

Meeting ID: 957 0014 9323 Passcode: 855303

PacBio provides Sequel2 Analysis Webinar at 27 Aug.