Past Events

Research

QG Group Meeting: Boundary<->Horizon maps for classical higher-spin gravity in de Sitter space

Monday, December 3, 2018 - 15:30
A719, Lab 3

Quantum Gravity Group Meeting

Title: Boundary<->Horizon maps for classical higher-spin gravity in de Sitter space.

Speaker : Yasha Neiman, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)

Seminar

Polycomb in gene activation

Monday, December 3, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
C016 (Lab1, Level C)

"Dr. Haruhiko Koseki, Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences. Language: English, no interpretation."

External Events

Expansion of Job Categories and Career Development - Seminar for People with Developmental Disabilities

Saturday, December 1, 2018 - 10:00 to 16:30
OIST Conference Center, Auditorium

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

External Events

The Fourth English & Cross-culture Seminar

Saturday, December 1, 2018 - 09:30 to 16:00
OIST Conference Center, Meeting Room #1

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

External Events

Photonics Workshop

Friday, November 30, 2018 - 14:00 to Saturday, December 1, 2018 - 12:00
OIST Seaside House, Seminar Room

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

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture - "Is There a Perfect Cipher?" by Prof. Artur Ekert

Friday, November 30, 2018 - 13:30 to 15:00
B250, Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Artur Ekert

Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK.

Research

[Seminar] Active THz metamaterial photonics: From all-dielectrics to superconductors by Professor Ranjan Singh

Friday, November 30, 2018 - 10:30 to 11:30
D015, LevelD Lab1

[Seminar]

Title: Active THz metamaterial photonics: From all-dielectrics to superconductors

Speaker: Professor. Ranjan Singh

Institution: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research

[Seminar] Genomics of uncultivable bacteria deciphers multilayered symbiotic system in the termite gut by Professor Yuichi Hongoh

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 13:30 to 14:30
C700, Level C, Lab3

Titile : Genomics of uncultivable bacteria deciphers multilayered symbiotic system in the termite gut

Speaker: Professor Yuichi Hongoh

Institution: School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Seminar

Seminar: "High-power synchronized dual-channel laser enabling fast 2- and 3-photon in vivo brain imaging"

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
B503

Seminar: "High-power synchronized dual-channel laser enabling fast 2- and 3-photon in vivo brain imaging" by Dr. Robert Riedel and Dr. Jan Heye Buss

Research

[Seminar] Estimation of neural connections from partially observed neural spikes by Professor Noboru Murata

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:00
C700, Level C, Lab3

[Seminar]

Title: Estimation of neural connections from partially observed neural spikes

Speaker: Professor Noboru Murata

Institution: Waseda University, Japan

Workshop

QuickFix: Cover Letter

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 12:00 to 13:00
For RSVP only

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

To register CLICK HERE Post-workshop survey SUMMARY
Research

[PhD Thesis Presentation] -Jessica Verena Schulze- Spatial and Modular Regularization in Effective Connectivity Inference from Neural Activity Data

Monday, November 26, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
C209, Level C, Ctr Bldg

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Jessica Verena Schulze

Title: Spatial and Modular Regularization in Effective Connectivity Inference from Neural Activity Data

Date&Time: November 26th, 4:00pm

Venue: C209, C tr Bldg

Workshop

Kyoto/NTU/OIST Fundamental Theory Workshop

Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 14:00 to Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 15:00
Conference Center

Joint High Energy Theory workshop between Kyoto University, National Taiwan University and OIST. Additional external speakers are Song He, Eugene Skvortsov, Julian Sonner and Kazuya Yonekura. Program & Schedule in attached PDF.

Holiday

Labor Thanksgiving Day 2018

Friday, November 23, 2018 - 00:00

National holiday.

Research

[Seminar] Establishment of body axes: Animal-vegetal and left-right axis specification in ascidian eggs and embryos by Hiroki Nishida

Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 13:30 to 14:30
C700, Lab3

[Seminar]

Title: Establishment of body axes: Animal-vegetal and left-right axis specification in ascidian eggs and embryos

Speaker: Professor. Hiroki Nishida

Institution: Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University

Research

"Graphene Nanoribbons as a New Family of Semiconductors," Dr. Klaus Müllen

Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 10:30
C209

Klaus Müllen, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany

Research

[Seminar] Alternative RNAs in the brain by Pedro Miura

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
C210, Ctr Bldg

[Seminar]

Title: Alternative RNAs in the brain

Speaker: Professor. Pedro Miura

Institution: University of Nevada

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture - "Is the Future Black ?" by Prof. Klaus Müllen

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 10:30 to 12:00
B250, Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Klaus Müllen

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

External Events

The 5th Asian Conference on Safety and Education in Laboratories

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 10:00 to Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 17:00
OIST Conference Center

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

Conference

ACSEL2018: The 5th Asian Conference on Safety and Education in Laboratory

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 (All day) to Thursday, November 22, 2018 (All day)
OIST main campus

The 5th Asian Conference on Safety and Education in Laboratory "Promoting Innovation and Adcanced Interdisciplinarity through Environmental Safety Science"

Research

[Seminar] Genetic and functional dissection of neural circuits formation in the zebrafish visual system by Del Bene Filippo

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
B700, Lab3

[Seminar]

Title: Genetic and functional dissection of neural circuits formation in the zebrafish visual system

Speaker: Professor. Del Bene Filippo

Institution: INSERM/Institut Curie

Research

[Seminar] Image and Shape Analysis of Biological Specimens by Daniel Baum

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 13:30 to 14:30
C700, Lab3

[Seminar]

Title: Image and Shape Analysis of Biological Specimens

Speaker: Professor. Daniel Baum

Institution: Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany

Research

[Seminar] Ultrafast Dynamics and Control in Quantum Materials by Richard Averitt

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 10:30 to 11:30
D015, LevelD Lab1

[Seminar]

Title: Ultrafast Dynamics and Control in Quantum Materials

Speaker: Professor. Richard Averitt

Institution: UC San Diego

Workshop

3-day Leadership and Management Skills Course for Researchers

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 (All day) to Thursday, November 22, 2018 (All day)
President's House, OIST

3-day Science Leadership and Management course provided by highly sought after trainers from hfp consulting . A course Certificate is available upon completion.

Post-course survey SUMMARY

Research

"The Dynamic Memory Connectome" by Dr. Ann-Shyn Chiang

Monday, November 19, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:30
C209

All are welcome. Language: English. Dr. Ann-Shyn Chiang, Dean of College of Life Science, Directory of Brain Research Center, Distinguished Chair Professor of National Tsing Hua University

Please see attached PDF for details.

Contact President's Office for more information.

Research

QG Group Meeting: Introduction to Quantum Error Correction

Monday, November 19, 2018 - 15:30
A719, Lab 3

Quantum Gravity Group Meeting

Title: Introduction to Quantum Error Correction

Speaker : Henry Stoltenberg, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)

Seminar

On the mechanism of biomolecular pattern self-organization for spatio-temporal control of cellular processes

Monday, November 19, 2018 - 13:30 to 14:30
C016 (Lab1, Level C)

Dr. Kiyoshi Mizuuchi, Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Language: English, no interpretation.

OIST SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2018

Saturday, November 17, 2018 - 10:00 to 16:00
OIST Campus

OIST Science Event, Open to the Public

Seminar

Journal club seminar: Superselection Sectors of Gravitational Subregions

Friday, November 16, 2018 - 15:00 to 17:00
A613, Lab 2

Discussion of the recent article by J. Camps "Superselection Sectors of Gravitational Subregions" by Tomonori Ugajin.

Seminar

Seminar: “Micro- and macroevolution of fork tails in swallows” by Dr. Masaru Hasegawa

Friday, November 16, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room C700, Lab3

Speaker: Dr. Masaru Hasegawa, SOKENDAI, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan

Seminar

Coastal flows with living roughness

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 14:00
C210 (Level C, Center Bldg.)

Marine Biophysics Unit (Mitarai unit) would like to invite you to seminar by Prof. Stephen Monismith from Stanford University.

Campus

Thursday Teatime

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 09:45 to 16:00
Grano Level B

Thanks to teatime, Thursdays are now a reminder for the weekend being not far away. Join your friends and colleagues at Grano Level B for tea and snacks at 4.00pm this afternoon.

Seminar

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Neck Pinch Singularities in the Geometry of Surfaces" by Dr. John Loftin

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab 3 B700

Seminar " Neck pinch singularities in the geometry of surfaces" by Dr. John Loftin from Rutgers University

Seminar

Deep Reinforcement Learning by Parallelizing Reward and Punishment using the MaxPain Architecture, Dr. Jiexin Wang

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:00

Dr. Jiexin Wang, a researcher at the department of Brain Robot Interface, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories.

Research

Special Scientific Talk - "Induction of pancreatic beta-cell neogenesis" by Dr. Patrick Collombat

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 10:30 to 11:30
C209, Center Building

Dr. Patrick Collombat

Group leader at INSERM (France), working on pancreatic beta-cell regeneration.

Conference

WIPO Presidents' Summit for Intellectual Property

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 (All day) to Thursday, November 15, 2018 (All day)
Seminar Room B250, etc

Reservation: Required via email to <yukiko.cooper[at]oist.jp>.

Language: English. No translation into Japanese.

Research

QG group meeting: Black hole microstate counting for BTZ black hole

Monday, November 12, 2018 - 15:30
A719, Lab 3

Quantum Gravity Group Meeting

Title: Black hole microstate counting for BTZ black hole

Speaker : Vyacheslav Lysov, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)

External Events

2018 5th International Conference on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Engineering (ICBBE 2018)

Monday, November 12, 2018 - 10:00 to Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 18:00
OIST Canference Center, Meeting Room#1, Meeting Room#2

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

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Sahar Hejazi, Quantum Systems Unit

Friday, November 9, 2018 - 16:30
Lab3, C700

Internal Seminar Series, 4-5 pm, Friday, November 9, C700

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Marine Le Gal, Marine Biophysics Unit

Friday, November 9, 2018 - 16:00
Lab3, C700

Internal Seminar Series, 4-5 pm, Friday November 9, C700

Seminar

Journal club seminar: Holographic Quantum Error Correction

Friday, November 9, 2018 - 15:00 to 17:00
A613, Lab 2

Discussion of the recent article by A. Almheiri "Holographic Quantum Error Correction and the Projected Black Hole Interior" by Henry Stoltenberg.

Seminar

[Thursday, Topology, and Tea] Topological gravity and intersection theory by Prof. Shinobu Hikami (OIST)

Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab 2, B662, Topology and Geometry of Manifolds unit space

This is a seminar by Topology and Geometry of Manifolds Unit, occasionally on Thursday. It will be followed by tea after the semiar at the unit space.

Abstract: Topological gravity, defined on Riemann surface or Teichmuller space with handles and holes, has recently interesting developments. The intersection numbers on the moduli space for p-spin curve are evaluated with handles and holes. Some problems of a super Riemann surface are discussed.

Seminar

Imaging and single-cell analyses of sensory nerves in barrier-impaired, itchy skin

Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
C016 (Lab1, Level C)

Dr. Takaharu Okada, Team Leader, RIKEN. Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar

Faculty Perspectives: "Five rules of thumb for a successful scientific career"

Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 12:00 to 13:00
C700, Lab3

Join Dr. Simone Pigolotti, Associate Professor, OIST for a very informal and interactive talk about "Five rules of thumb for a successful scientific career".

Everyone is welcome!

Post-event survey SUMMARY
Seminar

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] Morse functions and singularities of product maps

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab 3 Room B700

"Morse functions and singularities of product maps" by Professor Kazuto Takao from Kyoto University

Seminar

"STARTUP STEADY SHEAR FLOW FROM THE OLDROYD 8-CONSTANT FRAMEWORK"

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 14:00 to 14:30
C015, Level C, Lab1

Prof. Jeffrey Giacomin, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University. Language: English, no interpretation.

Research

[Seminar] LRP2 mediates retinoid homeostasis to prevent myopia by Brian A. Link

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
B700, Lab3

[Seminar]

Title: LRP2 mediates retinoid homeostasis to prevent myopia

Speaker: Professor. Brian A. Link

Institution:

Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Medical College of Wisconsin

Seminar

"The New Physics of Fluids"

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:00
C015, Level C, Lab1

Prof. Jeffrey Giacomin, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University. Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar

[Seminar] "Artificial cell reactor technology for digital bioassay, enzyme screening, and system reconstitution" by Prof. Hiroyuki Noji

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
D015, Lab1

Dr. Hiroyuki Noji, Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Language: English

Seminar

"Phase-field chemomechanical modeling of dislocation interaction with precipitates and solutes in metallic alloys"

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C015, Level C, Lab1

Prof. Bob Svendsen, RWTH Aachen University. Language: English, no interpretation

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