Past Events
Seminar : Purely dipolar dimers in two dimensions
TQM unit is holding a Zoom seminar.
Food Drive - June 22nd - June 25th 2020
Food drive to help people in Onna Village in need! All collected items will be donated to Onna Village Welfare Council, which will then distribute the items to people in Onna Village.
E-Workshop: "Handling difficult conversations".
Discover how to handle difficult conversations every day to discuss what matters most.
To register CLICK HERE .Journal club seminar: Extended TQFT
Title : Extended TQFT
Abstract : This talk is the continuation of my TQFT discussion from last week. I am going to discuss the extended TQFT as an open-closed strings following the nice paper by Aaron D. Lauda, Hendryk Pfeiffer "Open-closed strings: Two-dimensional extended TQFTs and Frobenius algebras" . After that I am going to discuss 2-categories approach and compare it with asymptotic symmetries and edge modes.
Sharepoint Open Hours
Sharepoint Open Hours
Time: 14:00-15:00
Location B648 Meeting Room
QG group meeting: boundary locality vs. higher-spin symmetry
QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "Boundary locality vs. higher-spin symmetry"
2nd Admissions Workshop for 2020
2nd Admissions Workshop for 2020
OIST 2020 PRIDE "By the Letter" organized by The OIST LGBTQ+Allies Group
OIST 2020 Pride "By the Letter"
Sat. June 13 (T)rans TV: documentary watch -together 5PM@C700
Wed. June 17 (B)i myself: prompted discussion panel 5:30PM@C700
Sat. June 20 (L)ost in Lesbos: picnic get-together 4PM@OIST pond area
Wed. June 24 (A)ee of Hearts: book club discussion 5:30PM@C700
Sat. June 27 (G)rand Drag Karaoke: karaoke get-together 7PM@Seaside Lounge
Tue. June 30 (I)ntrospective: mini-docs watch-together 2020 5:30PM@C700
Inter-Unit Neuroscience Journal Club (ZOOM)
Anderson et al (2018) " Required growth facilitators propel axon regeneration across complete spinal cord injury" Nature, 561: 396-400.
Reviewed/presented for the journal club by PhD student Lina Koronfel from the Optical Neuroimaging Unit.
Zoom details will be announced closer to the date.
Journal club seminar:Strings from Massive Higher Spins: The Asymptotic Uniqueness of the Veneziano Amplitude
Title : Strings from Massive Higher Spins: The Asymptotic Uniqueness of the Veneziano Amplitude
Abstract : We are going to discuss the recent paper by Simon Caron-Huot, Zohar Komargodski, Amit Sever and Alexander Zhiboedov "Strings from Massive Higher Spins: The Asymptotic Uniqueness of the Veneziano Amplitude" . Dorian Weissman will be leading the discussion.
QG group meeting: TQFT and Asymptotic Symmetries
Title : TQFT and Asymptotic symmetries
Speaker : Vyacheslav Lysov
Abstract : I will provide an introduction to topological quantum field theories (TQFT) and their generalization - Extended TQFT. Using the TQFT framework I am going to discuss the behaviour of Hilbert spaces, associated to the boundary components, under the gluing.
The Future of Coral: Climate Change and Coral Reefs in the U.S. and Okinawa
Join the OIST Foundation for an on-line discussion about research in the U.S. and Japan on the impact of climate change on coral reefs featuring Dr. Timothy Ravasi, Professor of Marine Science, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) & Dr. Jose M. Eirin-Lopez, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University (Miami, Florida).
Stabilization of perceptual representations by thalamic input
This is the first seminar in the online seminar series OIST Neuroscience Online Seminar (ONOS). Dr. Lukas Ian Schmitt is a team leader of the distributed cognitive processing laboratory in RIKEN. Please join us using the following link
https://zoom.us/j/91423137155?pwd=NjlxeEhOdENXMmVBS3o2WGwrMSs5dz09 Meeting ID: 914 2313 7155 Password: 337917Webinar: "Nature Research Academies: Writing impressive grant applications"
These two 2-hrs webinar series aim to give attendees the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . After the workshop, attendees will be able to identify relevant research questions, find the appropriate grants, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research.
A registration link will be provided.Clothing Drive
Donate your unwanted clothes to help Okinawan people in need! All donations will be collected and given to HelpOki and Oki Hands Oki Heart non-profit organizations. Let's help our Okinawan community!
Webinar: "Nature Research Academies: Grant Writing. Before you begin"
These two 2-hrs webinar series aim to give attendees the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . After the workshop, attendees will be able to identify relevant research questions, find the appropriate grants, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research.
A registration link will be provided.Novel Perspectives in String Phenomenology
I will review the structure of the fermionic Z2xZ2 orbifolds that produced a large space of phenomenological three generation models. I will discuss the trial and error old school method that gave rise to the first known string derived MSSM models, as well as the more modern classification methods that enables the analysis of large spaces of vacua and extraction of some of the global properties underlying them, e.g. spinor--vector duality. I will discuss a new direction of research that was initiated over the past year. Since the mid-eighties it is known that in addition to the ten dimensional tachyon free heterotic-string vacua there exist tachyonic ten dimensional vacua. In the supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric tachyon free cases the ten dimensional tachyon are projected out by the same projection. I will discuss the construction of phenomenological tachyon free models starting from the tachyonic 10D vacua and their particular features.
E-Workshop: "What can your time do for you?"
Discover your productivity style and time management strategies to achieve your ambitious goals.
To register CLICK HEREDomain Walls of N=1, D=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory
Title: How Domain Walls of N=1, D=4 SYM look like
Speaker: Dmitri Sorokin, University of Padua, Italy
Abstract: We review main features of the pure N=1, D=4 SYM with the gauge group SU(N) and its effective description by the Veneziano-Yankielowicz generalized sigma-model. We then indicate that the construction of BPS domain walls interpolating between different SYM vacua requires the presence of a dynamical membrane source. We will show how such a membrane is coupled to the SYM and present the explicit form of BPS domain walls which it creates in the Veneziano-Yankielowicz effective theory. In particular, we will describe 1/2 BPS domain wall configurations with |k| less than or equal to N/3, where k is the membrane charge that sets the "distance" between two distinct SUSY vacua.
Reductionism, physics, mathematics and the mind
General-audience geek-out Zoom talk. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "Reductionism, physics, mathematics and the mind".
The 28th Board of Governors Meeting
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Cancelled: Graduation Ceremony
The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who gradauted in the period May 2019 to April 2020, has been cancelled. Awardees will be prsented their degree at the ceremony in May 2021.
The 23rd Board of Councilors Meeting
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Quantization of folded strings in non-critical dimensions
Title: Quantization of folded strings in non-critical dimensions
Speaker: Dorin Weissmann
Abstract: I will talk about some problems that arise when attempting to quantize rotating strings semiclassically, in the critical and non-critical dimensions. The problems are divergences associated with folding points in the string. A rotating closed string is a basic system that suffers from this problem, and I show how we deal with it by treating the fold as a boundary and placing mass terms there. Based on an upcoming paper with J. Sonnenschein.
Seminar : Reaction-induced fingering in radial viscous flow in a homogeneous porous medium
CFF internal seminar
Interactive Webinar: "Career Planning in a Crisis"
The spiritual art of Calculus and the union of Heaven and Earth
Seminar for general audience, about mankind's discovery of magic. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "The spiritual art of Calculus and the union of Heaven and Earth".
Constitution Memorial Day 憲法記念日 2020 (observed)
National holiday
*Zoom*[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Ms. Farzana Rahman "Identifying the Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Alternative Reproductive Strategies in Simulated Robot Colonies"
Presenter: Ms. Farzana Rahman
Supervisor: Prof. Kenji Doya
Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Audience: OIST researchers and students
[Webinar] The Future of Higher Education in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons from Japan and the United States
As campuses are shuttered and classes moved online, the spread of COVID-19 poses mid-term and long-term uncertainties, as well as opportunities to implement innovation for positive change for the higher education industry.
[POSTPONED] Marine Microbial Diversity - Genomes to Communities
Due to the current situation with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the organizers have decided to postpone this workshop. We kindly ask for your understanding.
(Webinar) Expedition Japan: Commodore Perry's Hidden Interest in Science
Join this exciting OIST Foundation webinar to learn about the unknown scientific aspects of Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s exhibition to Japan. Featuring Dr. Matthew Perry, a wildlife scientist and descendent of Commodore Perry, the webinar will touch upon the ways in which this early US-Japan interaction formed a base for long-term US-Japan science diplomacy and exchange.
Clean hands and the Scientific Revolution
General geek-out Zoom Webinar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: Clean hands and the Scientific Revolution.
Interactive Webinar: "Effective Visual Communication of Science"
"Effective Visual Communication of Science" will teach you how to effectively communicate your own scientific ideas and results by applying best visual communication practices. As a bonus, you will be able to give and receive feedback on your own figures.
Click HERE to register. Past-event survey SUMMARY .*Zoom*[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Ms. Sona Roy "Design Integrin-targeted Molecular Self-assembling Peptides for Cancer Migration Inhibition"
Presenter: Ms. Sona Roy
Supervisor: Professor Ye Zhang
Co-supervisor: Professor Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Audience: OIST researchers and students
[CANCELLED] OIST Workshop "Ultracold Atoms Japan"
Due to the current situation with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the organizers have decided to cancel this workshop. We kindly ask for your understanding | Please visit the workshop's official website for more information.
[Postponed] Takeshi Takeuchi (Marine Genomics Unit)
Biweekly seminar series
SAM: How to cope with corona virus
The Student Assembly Meeting (SAM) for April is open to all students, interns, and special research students.
This month's SAM will be conducted via Zoom in light of COVID-19 concerns and will focus on COVID-19 as well.
[Postponed] Joel Perez Urquizo (Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit)
Biweekly seminar series
Colloquium: "Simplicial homology, part IV" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski
Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page )
[CANCELLED] OIST Workshop "RD2DS 2020: Recent Development in 2D Systems"
Due to the current situation with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the organizers have decided to cancel this workshop. We kindly ask for your understanding | Please visit the workshop's official website for more information.
The Coronavirus in the U.S. and Japan: Perspectives from the Health Sector (Webinar)
This public webinar will explore the evolving impact of the novel coronavirus in the United States and Japan and lessons we might learn from the experiences of our two countries.
[postponed] Wenliang Li, Strong Coupling Is Hard! Bootstrap to the Rescue?
[postponed! updated 2020-03-25] Following the campus-wide social distancing advice, we are postponing this seminar. Details will be announced later.
[postponed] Tsung-Yen Huang, With Hunger, Works Harder: How Does Cellular Metabolism Regulate the Function of TH17 Cells
[postponed! updated 2020-03-25] Following the campus-wide social distancing advice, we are postponing this seminar. Details will be announced later.
Global Women in Science: Emerging Voices in US - Japan Cooperation
Featuring: Afshan Jamshaid and Nina Harano. Both are students in the sciences, Afshan at OIST in Okinawa and Nina at Columbia University in New York City.
RSVP by March 24 http://tinyurl.com/oist2020
Sharepoint Open Hours
Sharepoint Open Hours
B646 14:00-15:00