This is the weekly Journal Club seminar. Speaker: Reiko Toriumi. Title: The gravitational Wilson Loop and the non-Abelian Stokes' theorem.

Interactive orientation for Postdoctoral Scholars who joint OIST June -October 2019.

Yoshimitsu ITOH, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo

Professor Phil Burrows, Interim Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford, Royal Holloway University of London and Imperial College London.

National holiday

National holiday

Speaker: Xingya Xu (G0 Cell Unit)

Title: How do condensin and cohesin work: ‘hold-and-release(clip)’ or ‘ring’?

Speaker: Vivek Pareek (Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit)

More info on ISS site https://groups.oist.jp/iss

Speaker: Dr Scott A. Hale

Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Title: Learning from social data to study human behaviour

Tadashi Tokieda , Professor, Stanford University (Mathematics)

Language: English

Lily Peng, MD, PhD.

Dale webster, PhD, Google AI Healthcare

In 2017, she was listed as one of WIRED Next’s “20 People Who Are Creating the Future”

【SEMINAR】 by Prof. Carsten Sachse, Director of Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons ER-C-3: Structural Biology. 【* Schedule Changed 】

- Structural basis of p62/SQSTM1 polymers by Electron Cryo-Microscopy-

20th International Conference on System Biology | https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/icsb2019/ |

A series of tutorials and satellite workshops for the 20th International Conference on Systems Biology will be held at OIST on October 31st.

Speaker: Dr Alexander Ling, PI, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore

Sharepoint Open Hours

Location: B646

Time: 14:00-15:00

Title : Phase transitions in early vertebrate development

Speaker: Prof. Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Affiliation: Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Title: “Talking Rocks: Recent Rock Art Research in Chihuahua”

Author: Dr. Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta, Archaeologist

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.

Rory Cerbus (Staff Scientist in Chakraborty Unit)

This is the weekly Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speaker: Dorin Weissman. Title: Holography, effective strings and hadrons.

Speaker: Dr. Ezra Kassa, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Science Talk by OIST Students

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Keerthy Menon (Quantum Systems). Title: "Wave particle duality - the evergreen mystery".

This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.

"Seeing is believing" by Dr. Aris Fiser, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedica Research (FMI)

"Quantum microwaves with a DC-biased Josephson junction" by Dr. Iouri Moukharski, CNRS/CEA Saclay

Project Management - We will delve into traditional project management tools for aligning team members, managing schedules, creating and tracking budgets, and defining scope. In addition, we will explore the latest trends in Agile project management which can be better for projects with higher degrees of uncertainty and frequency of change.

Please register HERE :

* Max. # of 20 for each event

The Myers-Briggs Type Inventory ( MBTI ) is a career assessment tool that will allow you to discover your preferences in perceiving the world and making decisions. This session will require you to take the MBTI assessment tool in advance of the session, and our results will be presented and discussed by a licensed MBTI coach.

International Networking - At the end of this program you will feel more comfortable with both face-to-face and virtual networking experiences. You will also learn how to turn everyday encounters with other professionals into opportunities for your career.

Please register HERE .

Max. # of 20 for each event

* Participants should bring their laptops and a copy of their resume.

This workshop will give you an understanding of emotional intelligence concepts, and provide practical advices and tools to build your workplace 'people skills', having difficult conversations, giving and receiving feedback, making decisions, and managing conflict with colleagues, etc.

National holiday

This is the weekly Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speaker: Slava Lysov. Title: Deformations and cocycles.

Speaker: Dr Hsiang-Hua Jen, Assistant Research Scholar, IOP, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Talk title: Cooperative light emissions from many quantum emitters

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Dear OIST Workshop - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/acbd

Internal Seminar by Christopher Petoukhoff, Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit

Internal Seminar by Makoto Schreiber, Molecular Cryo-Microscopy (Wolf) Unit

Samaya Nissanke is an astrophysicist and the spokesperson of GRAPPA, the center of excellence in gravitation and astroparticle physics, at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology & Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

During this workshop participants will learn the foundation of a project management and how to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints.

Title : THz Spectroscopy: Studying Carrier Dynamics in Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion

Speaker: Charles Schmuttenmaer

Affiliation: Yale University, Department of Chemistry

Miklós Gyalai-Korpos a 'Plastic Pirate' is coming to OIST to present a short documentary on reducing plastic pollution and give a seminar to OIST and members of the public.

Bring your friends (and your lunch) along and enjoy this rare oppertunity

Prof. David Williams, European Space Agency (ESA)

Title: The Free Energy Principle: Challenges and Implications for Thinking about Life-Mind Continuity

Speaker: Dr. Michael D. Kirchhoff, University of Wollongong

Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology and Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University

Speaker: Matthew Edmonds (Postdoc, Keio University, Japan) Language: English