Past Events

Seminar

"Design proposals for hyper-redundant robotic arms and human-friendly robotic articulations"

Friday, June 21, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00

Mr. Rafael Ferrin, Iwate University. Languag: English, no interpretation

Seminar

Mathematical Physics seminar: Chern-Simons theory 7

Friday, June 21, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
B 712, Lab 3

Joint Math and Theoretical physics seminar on Chern-Simons theory, Knot invariants and Volume conjecture. Vyacheslav Lysov will be leading the discussion.

Research

Special Lecture - "Exploring Terra Incognita with the World’s Largest Penning Trap" by Dr. Lee Roberts

Friday, June 21, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
C700, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Bradely Lee Roberts, Professor in Physics, Boston University, USA

Research

ORC Assembly

Thursday, June 20, 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00
Seminar Room C700

Guest Speaker: Mary Collins, Provost.

Seminar

The Elevator Pitch: How to quickly introduce yourself and your research in English

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
c600B (English Classroom)

Time: Wednesday, June 19 th 15:00-16:00

Venue: c600B (English classroom)

This seminar is primarily aimed at students and post docs who are not native speakers of English, but all are welcome to attend.

Seminar

[Seminar] "Intention sharing based on shared goals and word learning: Social-Pragmatic Perspective to language development"

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 14:30 to 15:30
C016, Lab1

"Intention sharing based on shared goals and word learning: Social-Pragmatic Perspective to language development" by Prof. Harumi Kobayashi, Tokyo Denki University

Research

Recent Progress and Highlights from Taiwan’s cold neutron triple axis spectrometer SIKA at ANSTO

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
C015, Lab 1

Dr. Shin-ichiro Yano

National Syncrotron Radiation Research Centre, Hsinchu, Taiwan

E-mail of the presenter: yano.shin@nsrrc.org.tw

Seminar

Science Digest Chalk Talk: "Robots that Develop, Robots that Evolve"

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00
Room C700 (Lab 3, Level C)

Fabien Benureau, Postdoctoral Scholar (Tani Unit)

Research

Special Lecture - "Science without Borders" by Prof. Vincent Rivasseau

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 11:00
C209, Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Vincent Rivasseau

Graduate School

2nd Admissions Workshop 2019

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 (All day) to Thursday, June 20, 2019 (All day)
OIST Main Campus

Selection workshop for students seeking admission to the OIST PhD program in 2019

Seminar

QG group meetng - dS S-matrix status report

Monday, June 17, 2019 - 15:30 to 17:00
Lab 3, A719

QG Group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "dS S-matrix status report"

Seminar

[Seminar] Modular Deep Reinforcement Learning from Reward and Punishment for Robot Navigation

Monday, June 17, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab1 C015

Dr. Jiexin Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, ATR

Seminar

Seminar"Interplay of Electronic and Lattice Degrees of Freedom in Thermoelectric Materials"

Monday, June 17, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
C700, Lab3

Prof. David J. Singh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri

Workshop

NC, IBISML, MPS, BIO Joint Technical Workshop

Monday, June 17, 2019 - 13:00 to Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 17:00

Joint Technical Workshop on Neuro-Computing, Bioinformatics, Mathematical modeling & Machine Learning. Language: Most of the presentations is in Japanese, no interpretation.

Seminar

[Seminar] “Functional Benefit of Plastic Spiking Neural Networks for Information Processing" by Dr. Huang

Monday, June 17, 2019 - 10:00 to 11:00
Meeting room C016, Level D, Lab 1 Bldg.

Speaker: Dr. Xuhui Huang Title: Functional Benefit of Plastic Spiking Neural Networks for Information Processing Date: June 17th, 2019 - 10:00 to 11:00 Location: C016, Lab1

Public Lecture

LGBTQI+の子どもや家族を尊重し 迎え入れる 学校づくり Creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for LGBTQI+ students and their families

Saturday, June 15, 2019 - 10:00 to 12:00
Conference Center Auditorium カンファレンスセンター 講堂

During this session, educators can learn more about how to create an inclusive and welcoming environment for LGBTQI+ students and their families. After the lecture, there will be an optional networking lunch.

This event is free and open to the community. Please register at the link below to reserve your seat.

https://groups.oist.jp/ged/creating-inclusive-and-welcoming-environment

教育に携わる方々がLGBTQI+の子どもたちやご家族をどう受け入れ、支援するかについて講演いたします。講演会終了後、ネットワークランチを予定していますのでよろしければご参加ください。

本イベントはどなたでも無料でご参加いただけます(申し込み要)。

Seminar

Yuto Momohara, New Insights of Neuronal Properties in C. elegans

Friday, June 14, 2019 - 16:30 to 17:00
Lab3 C700

Internal Seminar Series

Seminar

Agneesh Barua, Many Options, Few Solutions: Over 60 Million Years Snakes Converged on a Few Optimal Venom Formulations

Friday, June 14, 2019 - 16:00 to 16:30
Lab3 C700

Internal Seminar Series

Seminar

Nature´s GPS: the magnetic map sense of migratory birds

Friday, June 14, 2019 - 10:00
Seminar Room C016, Lab1

Speaker: PhD Candidate Dmitry Kobylkov, AG Neurosensorik/Animal Navigation, IBU, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Seminar

Seminar "From Beating Hearts to Fluttering Wings: Flow Physics and Computation at the Intersection of Mechanics and Bioengineering" by Prof. Rajat Mittal

Thursday, June 13, 2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab3 B700

[Speaker] Prof. Rajat Mittal, Professor Mechanical Engineering and School of Medicine (secondary), Johns Hopkins University

Research

[Seminar] " Solitons, vortices, and quantum solitons in ultracold atomic gases" by Prof. Joachim Brand

Thursday, June 13, 2019 - 10:00 to 11:00
C016, Lab 1

seminar by GS

External Events

Student Happy Hour Welfare Actvities Donation

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 17:00

Student Happy Hour

Sharepoint Open Hours

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 16:15
B648

Sharepoint Open Hours

Location : B648

Time: 14:00-15:00

Research

Inter-unit Neuroscience Journal Club

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 16:00
B700, Lab 3

Open to all staff and students.

Paper: Hawkins and Ahmad "Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex" Fronteirs in Neural Circuits, 10:23

Presenters: Tom Burns and Mohamed Tabbal

Seminar

SEMINAR "Subtropical Reef and Watershed Complexes Through Time: the little things that rule the world" by Dr. Jack (John B.) Sculley

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 13:30 to 14:30
B503 (Level B, Center Bldg.)

Dr. Jack (John B.) Sculley, Dr., Fellow of the University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, Fellow of the National Tropical Botanical Gardens, Fellow of the Centre for Palaeoclimatology Research, Ritsumeikan University, Founder and Director of the Archipelago Center for Science and Sustainability.

Research

[Seminar] Microstructure of DNA-cross-linked hydrogels from time-temperature-superposition by Prof. Hill

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 10:00 to 11:00
C700, Level C, Lab 3

Title : Microstructure of DNA-cross-linked hydrogels from time-temperature-superposition

Speaker : Prof. Reghan J. Hill

Affiliation : Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University

Sharepoint Open Hours

Monday, June 10, 2019 - 14:00
B648

Sharepoint Open Hours

Time: 13:00-14:00

Location: B648

Date: 6/10/2019

OIST Workshops

RIMS x OIST Joint-workshop: “On the problem of resolution of singularities and its vicinity”

Monday, June 10, 2019 (All day) to Friday, June 14, 2019 (All day)
OIST Seaside House

OIST x RIMS Joint-workshop - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - More details: https://groups.oist.jp/mtpu/workshop-%E2%80%9C-problem-resolution-singularities-and-its-vicinity%E2%80%9D

Sharepoint Open Hours

Friday, June 7, 2019 - 14:00
Sharepoint Open Hours

Sharepoint Open Hours

Location: B648

Time: 14:00-15:00

Research

[PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Sho Kasumie - Whispering Gallery Resonators for Sensing and Nonlinear Optics

Friday, June 7, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
C700, Level C, Lab3

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Sho Kasumie

Title: Whispering Gallery Resonators for Sensing and Nonlinear Optics

Supervisor: Professor Sile Nic Chormaic

Unit: Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit

Workshop

New Postdoc Orientation

Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00
C700, Lab 3

Interactive orientation for Postdoctoral Scholars who joint OIST March -May 2019.

Public Lecture

Public Lecture - "Can we extend our healthy life span? ~The Okinawa way ~" by Dr. Makoto Suzuki

Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 10:30 to 12:00
B250, Level B, Center Building

Speaker: Dr. Makoto Suzuki, Professor Emeritus, the University of the Ryukyus, and Director of the Okinawa Research Center for Longevity Science

Research

Open Strategy Meeting

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 15:00 to 17:00
B250

Open Strategy Meeting

Sharepoint Open Hours

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 14:00
B646

Sharepoint Open Hours

Location: B646

Time: 14:00-15:00

Seminar

Seminar "Stretching of viscous threads" Jonathan Wylie

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 14:00
C016 (Level C, Lab1)

Language: English

External Events

OIST Chand Raat Girls Night 2019

Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - 18:00

Girls Night

Research

[PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Thomas Nieddu - Optical Nanofibers for Multiphoton Processes and Selective Mode Interactions with Rubidium

Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
C700, Level C, Lab3

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Thomas Nieddu

Title: Optical Nanofibers for Multiphoton Processes and Selective Mode Interactions with Rubidium

Date&Time: June 4 2019 14:00 - 15:00

Venue: C700, Level C, Lab3

Sharepoint Open Hours

Monday, June 3, 2019 - 14:00
B648

Sharepoint Open Hours

Location: B648

Time: 14:00-15:00

OIST Workshops

Optical Nanofibre Applications: From Quantum to Bio Technologies (ONNA2019)

Monday, June 3, 2019 - 09:00 to Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 18:00
OIST Seaside House

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: 31 Jan, 2019 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/onna

Seminar

Jelena Katic, How Social Interactions Affect Attention and Song Perception in Juvenile Zebra Finches During Song Learning

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 16:30 to 17:00
Lab3 C700

Internal Seminar Series

Seminar

Nadine Wirkuttis, Predictive Brains and Embodied Social Interaction: A Neurorobotics Approach

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 C700

Internal Seminar Series

Sharepoint Open Hours - Cancelled

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 14:00
B646

Sharepoint Open Hours Cancelled Today

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture - "Lipid rafts and lipidomics for health and disease" by Prof. Kai Simons

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 13:30 to 15:00
B250, Level B, Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Kai Simons, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and CEO of Lipotype GmbH, Germany

Seminar

Seminar"Scalable superconducting quantum annealing machine based on 3D packaging technology and application specific architecture"

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
C210

Dr. Shiro Kawabata, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Seminar

Seminar "Subaru weak lensing Survey of Dark Matter Subhalos in nearby clusters of galaxies" by Prof. Toshifumi Futamase

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00
C016, Lab1

Prof. Toshifumi Futamase, Department of Astropysics and Atmospheric Science, Kyoto Sangyo University

Seminar

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Rory Cerbus

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 15:45
Lab 1, B503

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Rory Cerbus (Fluid Mechanics), "Kolmogorov’s phenomenology and universality of the small scales in 3D turbulence"

Sharepoint Basic Training (English)

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 15:00

1st Session:

Location: Seminar Room B250 (Center Building)

Date: 2019/5/28

Time: 14:00-15:00

Signup Link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=jfvA2Fa7u0SfSsWOdGVlLr3GBK6mHKVMsHAUKPUgqL9URVhUSEwzQTRTVzJJT05BRUZJQzcwTEYzVi4u

(No limit on users but if we exceed the user limit of the room I will schedule more sessions and inform the users)

Seminar

[Seminar] “On the way to the automated discovery of novel patterns and dynamics in physical and chemical systems by intrinsically motivated deep learning. ” by Dr. Reinke

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar room B503, Level B, Lab1 Bldg.

Speaker: Dr. Chris Reinke Title: On the way to the automated discovery of novel patterns and dynamics in physical and chemical systems by intrinsically motivated deep learning. Date: May 30th, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00 Location: B503, Lab1

Seminar

Technician Networking Lunch 第2回技術員交流ランチ会開催のお知らせ

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00
Seminar Room C210, Center Building

The next RUT Networking lunch is coming up, Thursday the 30th May, 12PM in C210 . Japanese translation will also be provided.

The theme is Changing Fields/Labs and Promotions.

In addition, we have been asked by the DFA to get current technicians' opinion on the evaluation system for Technicians, so we will be leading a short discussion after the talks.

本日は来週 5 月 30 日(木)、 12:00~13:00 にセンター棟 C210 セミナー室 にて開催される

「リサーチユニット技術員交流ランチ会」についてのお知らせです。

今回は2名の技術員の方が、「異なる研究分野 / ラボへの移動(異動)・昇進」というテーマで

ご自身の体験をもとに、この交流会中にお話ししてくださることになっています。

加えまして、我々 ORC は現在勤務している技術員の皆様から、業務評価システムのあり方について

意見を収集してもらえないかと、教員担当学監オフィスから要請を受けております。

Seminar

Lecture: "Persuading other people"

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 12:00 to 14:00
C700, Lab 3

This lecture offers a rational approach to persuasion that should prove useful both at work and at home!

Everyone is welcome! Post-event survey SUMMARY

Pages