Title: Shared Autonomy: The Future of Interactive Robotics

Speaker: Professor Sethu Vijayakumar

Affilication: University of Edinburgh

Speaker: Prof. Ben L. Feringa

Title: The evolutionary origin of synaptic signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

Speaker: Professor Pawel Burkhardt

Affiliation: Sars International Centre for Molecular Marine Biology

"Dr. Toru Hirota, Chief, Cancer Institute of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research. Language: English, no interpretation."

Prof. Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate in chemistry 2009, Weizmann Institute of Science

Language: English

Disruptive innovations based on cutting-edge research results produced at universities and research institutes are gathering worldwide attention by those who are involved in the areas such as drug discovery, biotech, new materials, renewable energy, robotics and IoT. These innovations are referred to as “Deep Tech” as they often struggle to find initial funding because of their complex nature and the longer time scale necessary to produce results compared to the other types of startups. Academic cities such as the areas around Boston and London area are rapidly gathering momentum and interests by venture capitals and startups to establish an innovation ecosystem based on “Deep Tech”.

In this forum the keynote speakers and panelists will discuss the visions, missions and roles of universities, and how hi-tech and cutting-edge scientific research can contribute to the establishment of a Deep Tech innovation ecosystem.

Seminar by Chushun Tian, Professor at Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. All is welcome.

Prof. Andrzej Cichocki

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SKOLTECH), Moscow

"Tensor Decomposition and Tensor Networks and their applications, especially in Brain Computer Interface and recognition of Human Emotions"

Speaker: Mr. Sadovski is currently in his last year as a Ph.D. student at Universidad Federal Fluminense, Brazil.

Internal Seminar Series

Internal Seminar Series

Professor Sergiusz Jóźwiak, Warsaw Medical University, and The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland. Language: English

OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/fpua2019

Open to all interns as well as other interested people. Bring a poster if you have one!

Dr. Aleksandra Budra, Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam. Language: English

"Dr. Sei Sai, Senior Researcher, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology. Language: English, no interpretation."

Speaker: By Dr Joshua Goldberg, Department of medical Neurobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem http://joshgoldberg.ekmd.huji.ac.il

Seminar by George Elliott (University of Toronto). All is welcome. Feb.27, 2019, 14:00-16:00 (C210)

Everybody is welcome to attend the OIST Researcher Community (ORC) Assembly .

"Dr. Kentaro Semba, Professor, Waseda University. Language: English, no interpretation."

Title: Trap-induced shape resonances in an ultracold system of an atom and static impurities

Speaker: Zbigniew Idziaszek

Affiliation: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw

Title: Evolutionary Approaches to Antibiotic Resistance

Speaker: Professor Michael Baym

Affiliation: Harvard Medical School

Title: Spin-orbital-angular-momentum coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

Speaker: Professor. Yunbo Zhan

Affilication: Shanxi University

Dear Research Unit Technicians

We woul d like to announce the start of 2019 quarterly networking lunches for the Research Unit Technicians (RUT) at OIST. This year we will run these through ORC , and w e w ould like to have your input on anything related to working as a technician at OIST.

Date: Tuesday 26th February

Venue: C2 09 (Center Bldg.)

Time: 12:00-13:00

Speaker: Prof. Peter Zoller, Managing and Research Director, Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Austria

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Irina Reshodko

Title: State engineering in one-dimensional quantum gases

Date&Time: February 26th, 9:00-10:00

Venue: C700, Level C, Lab3

Discover your Talens using Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment .

This course will help you better understand yourself and your unique talents . You will learn how to productively apply your talents for greater personal and professional success .

To register CLICK HERE Post-workshop survey SUMMARY

Abstract: The sphere packing problem in d dimensions asks for the densest packing of spheres in d-dimensional Euclidean space R^d. Prior to 2016, the problem had only been solved in dimensions 2 and 3 (with the solution in dimension 3 being Hales's famously complicated solution to Kepler's conjecture), and solutions in most other dimensions were thought to be out of reach, except for dimensions 8 and 24 where overwhelming numerical and theoretical evidence supported the conjectures pointing at specific lattices as the optimal packings. In a breakthrough in 2016, Maryna Viazovska published a stunning proof for the 8-dimensional case, followed up shortly with a proof for the 24-dimensional case with several coauthors. The solutions work by using a previous reduction of the problem (due to Henry Cohn and Noam Elkies) to a problem in harmonic analysis, and ingeniously solving that analysis problem using number-theoretic tools - specifically, the mathematics of modular forms. In this talk I will give a quick survey of these developments and the beautiful new challenges and opportunities that they open up for attacking this classical geometry problem. I will also discuss my own recent results on infinite series representations for the Riemann xi function and explain how Viazovska's work, which appears not strongly related to the problem I was studying, nonetheless provided me with useful inspiration.

Speaker: Prof. Peter Zoller of Physics with tenure, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria, vice dean of studies (2001-2004), Head of the Institute of Theoretical Physics (1995-1999)

Speaker: Dr. Farnsworth currently holds a Postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

Dr. Çağlar Girit, French National Research Agency (CNRS) & College de France

An ORC officer will be available every Monday from noon to 1pm in room B705a.

Egyptian Kitchen

Participating teams will pitch their business plans to potential partners and venture capitalists.

Sponsored by the Bank of Ryukyus and Okinawa Times

By Invitation Only.

Language: Japanese with interpretation.

Prof. Rieko Osu, Waseda University

"Skill and choice – implication from stroke rehabilitation"

Speaker: Prof. Amin Chabchoub, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, The University of Sydney

Speaker: Prof. Henrik Krehenwinkel, Universität Trier, Germany

Speaker: Dr. Susan Kennedy, the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit (Economo Unit)

We're inviting Professor Matsuki from Osaka University, and Dr. Takahashi from JEOL Resonance, Inc.

These seminars are registration-free, and you can attend both or either of them.

*If you're not an OIST member, please contact Kazuo Yamauchi( kazuo.yamauchi@oist.jp ) for registration.*

Title: Neural coding in the developing zebrafish brain

Speaker: Geoffrey Goodhill

Affiliation: The University of Queensland

Special Lecture by Prof. Noriko Yui (Queens University). All is welcome.

[Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar] Ramified covering maps of spheres and arboreal polygons by Dr. Michael Kapovich (UC Davis)

Dr. Lernard Khirug, Research Director, Univeristy of Helsinki. Language: English

Dr. Jasper Poort, Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge. Language: English

Join Dr. Leonard Khiroug, Co-founder and CSO at Neurotar Ltd and Adj. Prof. at University of Helsinki for a very informal Q&A about Faculty Career at OIST.

Everyone is welcome!

Speaker: Dr. Shuichi Yokoyama, Kyoto University

During the seminar, Dr. Steve Aird, OIST's Technical Editor, will explain techniques for writing scientific manuscripts. The talk focuses on principles and procedures that enable authors to turn research data into a well-composed scientific narrative.

To register CLICK HERE

Dr. Andrea Giovannucci Assistant Professor in Neural Engineering UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

[Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar] Dr. Jennifer Schultens (UC Davis) will talk about the Kakimizu Complex of Seifert fibered spaces.