Past Events

Seminar

Internal Seminar: Christina Ripken, "Marine Micro-and Nanoplastic"

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 16:00
C700

Internal Seminar, Friday September 14th, 4-5pm, C700 (Lab3)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Nonsymmorphic crystal and topological phases of matters" by Prof. SungBin Lee

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 14:30 to 15:30
C016 (Lab1, Level C)

TQM unit is pleased to invete you to our seminar.

Seminar

Seminar by Dr Samir K Mondal 'Optical Fiber Nanoantenna: Nano-Photonics to Optical Tweezers'

Thursday, September 13, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
B700, Level B, Lab 3

Speaker: Samir K Mondal, Principal Scientist, CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh, India

Seminar

Seminar "Metal-Metal and Metal-Ligand Cooperation for Activating Small Molecules: Unprecedented Rate Acceleration for Oxygen Atom Transfer" by Dr. Graham de Ruiter, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Thursday, September 13, 2018 - 10:30 to 11:30
C210

Dr. Graham de Ruiter, Assistant professor, the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Language: English

Seminar

Panel: "Fellowship Writing - Advice From Your Peers"

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 12:00 to 13:00
C210, Central Building

Come and join a lively discussion with successful Japanese and non-Japanese Fellowship recipients.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!
Workshop

OIST Mini Symposium "Flow and Instability of Self-Assembled Systems"

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 09:00 to Friday, September 14, 2018 - 15:00
OIST Seminar Room C209

OIST Mini Symposium | Scientific sessions are open to all OIST members | For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate. | Website: https://groups.oist.jp/flow

Seminar

Seminar "Honey bee as an integrative study model to connect social behavior with crop pollination" by Prof. Walter Farina, University of Buenos Aires

Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
C209, Level C, Centre Building

Seminar by Prof. Walter Farina (School of Exacts and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Neurorobotics in the context of The Human Brain Project"

Monday, September 10, 2018 - 16:30 to 17:30

"Neurorobotics in the context of The Human Brain Project" by Dr. Florian Röhrbein, Technical University of Munich, now Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG

Seminar

QG group meeting: Fluid/gravity correspondence

Monday, September 10, 2018 - 15:30 to 17:00
A719, Lab 3

This is the weekly QG group meeting.

Speaker: Vyacheslav Lysov

Title: Fluid/Gravity Correspondence

Seminar

Seminar "SynPhos - New Concepts in Synthesis" by Prof. Jan J. Weigand, TU Dresden

Monday, September 10, 2018 - 10:30 to 11:30
C209

Prof. Dr. Jan J. Weigand, Professor, TU Dresden

Seminar

【Seimnar】Magnetic behaviour of substitutional pseudobinaries of CeFe21

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
C015, Lab1

SEMINAR: Magnetic behaviour of substitutional pseudobinaries of CeFe 2 1

by Rakesh Das ( Department of Applied Science, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia-721657, India)

Workshop

Workshop: "Project Management"

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - 09:00 to 12:00
For registered participants only

During this workshop participants will learn the foundation of project management and how to develop project management tools based on their personal strengths.

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE Post-event survey SUMMARY
Seminar

Seminar "The light-induced inter-Coulombic decay in quantum dots: a one- and twodimensional study" by Anika Haller, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
C016, Level C, Lab 1

Anika Haller (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany)

Seminar

Seminar "Theoretical Modeling of Heavy-Metal-Organic Frameworks and approximate Methodologies in the Simulation of their Core-Level Spectroscopies” by Georg Michelitsch,

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 11:30 to 12:30
C016, Level C, Lab 1

Georg Michelitsch, Technische Universität München, Germany

Seminar

Seminar "Time-resolved transport in quantum optoelectronic nanodevices" by Katawoura Beltako, Aix-Marseille University

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 09:30 to 10:30
C016, Level C, Lab1

Mr. Katawoura Beltako, Nanodevice Quantum Simulation (NQS Group) Aix-Marseille University, France

Research

QG group meeting: null hypersurface geometry

Monday, September 3, 2018 - 15:30 to 17:00
A719, Lab 3

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: Introduction to the geometry of null hypersurfaces

Graduate School

Welcome to Class of 2018 New Students

Monday, September 3, 2018 - 10:30
OIST Auditorium

Welcome Ceremony for Class of 2018 New Students

Culture

Indian Kitchen" Poha"

Saturday, September 1, 2018 - 18:00

Poha

Seminar

[Seminar] "TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS, DEFORMED LATTICES AND SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING" by Dr. Vincenzo Vitagliano

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
C756, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Vincnezo Vitagliano from Keio University Abstract: External conditions have a dramatic impact on the way dynamical symmetry breaking occurs. I will review some recent (and some less recent) results of symmetry breaking in curved spacetime. Flirting with the contemporary interest toward 2D engineered material, I will then move on potential applications on geometrically deformed lattices. In a curved background, the natural expectation is that curvature works toward the restoration of an internal symmetry. I will show instead that, for topological defects, the competing action of the locally induced curvature and of boundary conditions generated by the non-trivial topology allows configurations where symmetries can be spontaneously broken close to the core.

Seminar

"Many-body quantum spectroscopies in extremes" by Prof. Kira, Univ of Michigan

Monday, August 27, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
C209, Center

"Many-body quantum spectroscopies in extremes" by Prof. Mack Kira, University of Michigan

Culture

Art Exhibition: Science of Bashofu - Scientific Analysis and the Wisdom of our Forefathers 芭蕉布の科学ー先人の知恵と科学的分析

Monday, August 27, 2018 - 09:00 to Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 17:30
Tunnel Gallery

Exhibition: 8/27 - 9/22;

Special Events on 9/22 (Sat): 1. Symposium (Japanese only) 2. Spcial Tour to the Electron Microscope Room, 3. Bashofu Thread Making Workshop

External Events

Waseda+AA School+OIST "Tropicality Workshop" Final Presentation

Saturday, August 25, 2018 - 10:00 to 13:00
OIST Auditorium

TROPICALITY workshop final film screenings and drawing presentation. From 10am to 1pm. The event is free and open to everyone.

Research

Talk by Dr. Manajit Hayer-Hartl “Chaperone machineries for the biogenesis and metabolic repair of RuBisCO, the most abundant enzyme in nature”

Friday, August 24, 2018 - 15:15
C209

Talk by Dr. Manajit Hayer-Hartl (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany) “Chaperone machineries for the biogenesis and metabolic repair of RuBisCO, the most abundant enzyme in nature” Venue: C209

Seminar

[Seminar] "Topological Invariant for Magnon Hall Systems with Disorder" by Prof. Yutaka Akagi

Friday, August 24, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Lab 1 , Level C - C016

Hosted by TQM unit.

Research

Talk by Dr. Franz-Ulrich Hartl “Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Proteome Maintenance”

Friday, August 24, 2018 - 10:30
C209

Dr. Franz-Ulrich Hartl (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany) Title: “Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Proteome Maintenance” Venue: C209

Research

Outward Bound Science! International Research and Graduate Programs at Academia Sinica

Thursday, August 23, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:30
C209

Dr. Yijuang Chern, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Director of Department of International Affairs; Dr. Chau-Hwang Lee, Research Fellow, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Deputy Executive Secretary of Central Academic Advisory Committee

Research

[Seminar] Two quantum phase transitions in nano-confined helium by Professor Keiya Shirahama

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
B700, Lab3

[Seminar]

Title: Two quantum phase transitions in nano-confined helium

Speaker: Professor Keiya Shirahama

Institution: Department of Physics, Keio University

Research

[Seminer] Plasmons in Metallic Nanostructures: Excitation, Propagation and Detection by Prof. Paul Leiderer

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:00
B700, Lab3

[Seminer]

Title : Plasmons in Metallic Nanostructures: Excitation, Propagation and Detection

Speaker : Prof. Paul Leiderer

Institution : University of Konstanz, Germany

Seminar

Seminar "Catalyst Design with Solid-supported Ligands and Metals" by Prof. Masaya Sawamura, Hokkaido University

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
B503, Lab 1, Level B

Prof. Masaya Sawamura, Professor, Hokkaido University. Language: English

Seminar

"Compressed Data Structures" & "Flow of Knowledge in Information Networks" By Dr. Baffier

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Meeting Room C016 - Lab1 Bldg

Neural Computation Unit (Doya Unit)

Research

[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Jui-Yin Lin - Transport properties of strongly correlated 2D electrons confined in microchannels

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 09:00 to 10:00
C210, Center Building

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Jui-Yin Lin

Title: Transport properties of strongly correlated 2D electrons confined in microchannels

Date&Time: August 21st, 9:00am

Venue: C210, Center Building

Graduate School

Science Communication is a 2-way Street

Monday, August 20, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
B700

Sarah McAnulty is a PhD candidate at UConn and is something of a SciComm powerhouse. She founded the successful Skype a Scientist program, which connects classrooms and researchers all over the world, she regularly gives general audience science talks and hosts science trivia nights, and she does an amazing job communicating her science through social media (she has 8,679 twitter followers). Sarah will come to OIST and give a talk or workshop about SciComm.

Seminar

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Stable Homotopy and Differential Topology" by Tirasan Khandhawit

Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 15:00
Lab 2 B662

Stable homotopy and differential topology

OIST Workshops

Collaborative Experimental Design and Analytics (CEDA) 2018

Thursday, August 16, 2018 (All day) to Thursday, August 23, 2018 (All day)
OIST Main Campus

OIST Workshop - OIST members are welcome to attend the data analysis presentation sessions held on August 23, 13:00-15:30 at L3-C700. Other sessions are exclusively for participants - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/grad/collaborative-experimental-design-and-analytics-ceda-2018

Campus

Thursday Teatime

Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 00:00
Grano Level B

Thursday Tea time- a sign that the weekend is just around the corner. Pop-in at Grano at 4.00pm today to meet and greet friends over cupfuls of hot tea.

Research

[Seminar] Comparative Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Analyses of Retinal Müller Glia during Different Damage Paradigms in Zebrafish, Chick, and Mouse by Professor David R. Hyde

Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room B503, Center Building

[Seminar]

Title: Comparative Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Analyses of Retinal Müller Glia during Different Damage Paradigms in Zebrafish, Chick, and Mouse

Speaker: Professor David R. Hyde

Institution: University of Notre Dame

Seminar Venue: B503, Center Building

Seminar

[Seminar] "Constraining Quantum Gravity from the Bottom-up" by Dr. Scott Melville

Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
A720, Lab 3

Gravity on large scales is relatively well understood. For galaxies, planets and apples: we have Einstein’s General Relativity with which to make accurate predictions. But on small scales, where quantum mechanics becomes important, gravity is more difficult to understand, and as a result we lack precise descriptions of various natural phenomena (such as black holes).

One way to make progress in in our search for quantum gravity is to start from the large scale theory we know and love (at the ‘bottom’), and look for ways in which it may be modified and improved as we zoom in to smaller scales (going ‘up’ to a more fundamental theory).

Recent progress in ‘Effective Field Theory’ may shed some light on the connections between large and small scale physics. By exploiting certain physical properties of scattering probabilities (e.g. that they are unitary, causal and local), one can derive an infinite number of constraints which any large scale theory must satisfy in order to admit a sensible small scale completion.

In this talk, I will provide an overview of these new ‘positivity constraints’, and discuss their implications for quantum gravity.

Research

QG group meeting - the complex action of GR and black hole entropy

Monday, August 13, 2018 - 15:30 to 17:00
Lab 3, A719

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "The complex action of GR and black hole entropy"

OIST Internship Program for University of Ryukyu Students

Monday, August 13, 2018 - 09:00 to Friday, August 31, 2018 - 17:30
Communication and Public Relations Division

Inetern as Media Section and Community Relations Section for 3 weeks.

External Events

Waseda+AA School+OIST "Tropicality Workshop"

Saturday, August 11, 2018 - 10:00 to Saturday, August 25, 2018 - 14:00
OIST Conference Center - Meeting Rooms 1-4

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

Holiday

Mountain Day 2018

Saturday, August 11, 2018 - 00:00

National holiday.

Graduate School

Student Assembly Meeting

Friday, August 10, 2018 - 17:00
C700

All OIST students are welcome to attend this event.

Presidential Lecture

OIST Presidential Lecture - "Origami - Mathematics, Science and Technology" by Prof. Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan

Friday, August 10, 2018 - 10:00
B250, Level B, Center Building

Origami, the exquisite craft of folding paper into three-dimensional shapes, has been practiced for millennia by artists and lay people. Prof. Mahadevan will discuss some physical aspects of rigid and soft origami associated with the weak and strong deformations of thin sheets of any material. The efficient packing properties of folded matter suggest that it ought to occur naturally in physical and biological systems, and he will show that they do indeed appear on a range of scales, e.g. in drying gels, wings, leaves and even your gut as a self-organized pattern. These physical manifestations of origami suggest the question of how to design the number, location and orientation of folds to create complex shapes. Prof. Mahadevan will finish his talk with a description of attempts to solve this inverse problem, and its generalizations.

Seminar

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Solving Word Problems in finitely presented groups" by Robert Tang

Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 15:00
Lab 2 B662

[Topology and Geometry Seminar] "Solving Word Problems in finitely presented groups" by Robert Tang

Seminar

[Seminar]"Functional activity of the descending dopaminergic system in zebrafish" by Dr. Sebastian Reinig

Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
D015, Lab1

Dr. Sebastian Reinig, Postdoc, National Institute of Genetics. Language: English

Seminar

Ultra-strong light-matter interactions and super-radiant phase transitions by Prof. Motoaki Bamba, Osaka Univ

Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - 10:30 to 11:30
B503

"Ultra-strong light-matter interactions and super-radiant phase transitions" by Prof Motoaki Bamba, Osaka Univ

Workshop

Study Session: "外部資金獲得に向けた申請戦略と研究計画の作成法" Japanese ONLY

Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - 10:00 to 12:00
For RSVP only

プロポーザルの基本とは、相手を適切に想定し、相手の聞きたいポイントを聞きたい順に提示していくことです。

本勉強会では、個々の持っている研究テーマについて、深く広く考え、その学術的な価値を再認識していただく事から始め、

伝えるべきポイント、伝え方についても学んでいただきます。

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE . Post-event survey SUMMARY
Seminar

[Seminar] Bottom-up approach for an artificial cell synthesis by Prof. Tomoaki Matsuura, Osaka University

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:00
C700, Level C, Lab 3

Speaker Dr. Tomoaki Matsuura, Associate Professor at Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University.

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