Past Events
[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Tsai-Ming Lu - Comparative genomic studies on Dicyema japonicum: the phylogenetic position of dicyemids and the genomic adaptations to parasitic lifestyle
Thesis Public Presentation
Speaker: Tsai-Ming Lu
Title: Comparative genomic studies on Dicyema japonicum : the phylogenetic position of dicyemids and the genomic adaptations to parasitic lifestyle
Conformal Bootstrap lecture series
Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky
[Seminer] Molecular and functional heterogeneity of cerebellar granule cell terminals expands temporal coding in molecular layer interneurons by Kevin Dorgans
Dr. Kevin Dorgans, Postdoc, Universite de Strasbourg. Language: English
[Seminar] "Dynamics and Constraints of Enzyme Evolution" by Prof. Nobuhiko Tokuriki
Prof. Nobuhiko Tokuriki, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
[SEMINAR] Hidden connection between CNSs and macroscopic phenotypes of eukaryotes
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Dr. Naruya Saitou, Professor, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima
Language: English, no interpretation
Conformal Bootstrap lecture series
Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky
Conformal Bootstrap lecture series
Conformal bootstrap lecture series organized by Aryeh Fortinsky.
Reef walk on Umi-No-Hi
To celebrate the national holiday designed to appreciate the ocean (Umi-No-Hi), members of UMI will be guiding people around the reef flats at Maeda.
Pakistani Kitchen" Peshawari Mutton Chop Polov"
Student Assembly Meeting
OIST students are invited to attend this month's Student Assembly Meeting (SAM) on Friday 13 July, starting at 5pm.
"Macro Resonance of Micro Resonators: Singular Upscaling in Acoustics"
Dr. Andrés A León Baldelli, CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France. Language: English, no interpretation.
[Seminar] SPH modeling of fiber orientation in a 3D printing process by Professor Phan-Thien Nhan
Seminar
Speaker: Prof. Phan-Thien Nhan
Title: SPH modeling of fiber orientation in a 3D printing process
Institution: National University of Singapore
[Seminar] SPH Modeling of Fluid-Structure Interaction by Dr. Xiangyu Hu
[Seminar]
Speaker: Dr. Xiangyu Hu
Titile: SPH modeling of fluid-structure interaction
Institution: Tehcnical University of Munich
New Postdoc Orientation
Interactive orientation for Postdoctoral Scholars who joint OIST April -June 2018.
[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Chola Kalale - Development of an SPH variant of implicit LES for studying wave energy transport
Thesis Public Presentation
Speaker: Chola Kalale
Title: Development of an SPH variant of implicit LES for studying wave energy transport
Dance performance by Kaori Asahiro
Dance performance by Kaori Asahiro -Von Einem, der die Steine belauscht-(About One Who Eavesdrops On The Stones)
Preparing a Résumé for the U.S. Job Market (Afternoon Session)
Instruction on how to write a resume that will appeal to English-based businesses, Michael Ardaiolo, Vice Consul, U.S. Consulate General Naha. Admission free. No reservation required. Session will be in English.
Preparing a Résumé for the U.S. Job Market (Morning Session)
Instruction on how to write a resume that will appeal to English-based businesses, Michael Ardaiolo, Vice Consul, U.S. Consulate General Naha. Admission free. No reservation required. Session will be in English.
Job Fair @OIST 2018
Learn about job opportunities at OIST and 5 local hotels. Participation free. No reservation required. No dress requirements. No age limits. No résume required. Campus tours available.
Internal Seminar: Teresa Iglesias, Preliminary observations of the sleep-like state in the broadclub cuttlefish, Sepia latimanus
Internal Seminar, Friday July 6th, 2018, 4-5pm, C700 (lab 3)
Internal Seminar: Hong Huat Hoh, 3D Tissue Culture Model for Study of Pancreatic Cancer
Internal Seminar: Friday, July 6th, 2018, 4-5pm, C700 (Lab 3)
Seminar: "Interlayer excitons confined in a moiré potential" by Prof. Xiaoqin E Li
Seminar: "Interlayer excitons confined in a moiré potential" by Prof. Xiaoqin E Li, UT-Austin.
Seminar: Evolutionary predictions from biophysical models by Prof. Michael Laessig, University of Cologne
Prof. Michael Laessig, University of Cologne
Seminar: "Quantum Information Technology in the Near Future --- Hyper-sensitive MRI and Quantum Circuit Learning ---" by Masahiro Kitagawa
Speaker: Prof. Masahiro Kitagawa
Affiliation: Osaka Univerisy, Japan
Date: July 5, Thursday 2018
Venue: D013, Lab1
Quantum technology researches at NICT
OIST Presidential Lecture - "The Dark Side of the Universe" by Dr. Hitoshi Murayama
As a first of OIST Presidential Lecture Series, Dr. Hitoshi Murayama, Director of Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, the University of Tokyo, will talk about Dark Matter and Dark Energy, which are considered to make up 95% of the Universe.
[Seminar] "Discrete Scale Invariance in Topological Semimetals" by Prof. Robert Joynt
Seminar hosted by TQM unit
"Under pressure. Or, 101 uses for diamond (outside of bling) "
Dr. Joe Welch, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, UK. Language: English, no interpretation.
[Lecture] "Massless higher spins and cosmology" by Prof. Ergin Sezgin
We present a Freedman-Robertson-Walker solution of higher spin theory in four dimesions. It is obtained by employing a holomorphic factorization in noncommutative twistor space and gauge functions. We interpret the FRW solution in the context of inflationary cosmology. In interpreting the solution in terms of Fronsdal-type fields in spacetime, a field-dependent higher spin transformation is required, which is implemented at leading order. We also observe that the factorization method provides a convenient framework for setting up a perturbation theory around the exact solutions, and we propose that the nonlinear completion of particle excitations over FRW requires black hole-like states.
[Lecture] "Self-Duality and Chiral Higher Spin Theories" by Dr. Dmitry Ponomarev
In this talk I will review recent results revealing the connection between chiral higher spin theories and self-duality as well as discuss consequences of this connection.
[Lecture] "Soft hair on black hole and cosmological horizons in any dimension" by Prof. Daniel Grumiller
Starting from a generic near horizon expansion in any spacetime dimension greater than two we derive all near horizon symmetries and discover a wealth of novel results: 1. Any non-extremal horizon has an infinite set of near horizon symmetries and associated soft hair excitations. 2. The near horizon symmetries can be represented as generalization of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs algebra. 3. For horizons that are either flat or non-rotating the near horizon symmetries can be represented as Heisenberg algebras, with one quarter of the inverse of Newton's constant playing the role of Planck's constant. 4. Not only black holes, but also cosmological horizons are equipped with soft hair. We discuss implications of soft hair for horizon thermodynamics and entropy, and comment on open problems and further developments, including possible applications to higher spin theories.
"What is the Man from the 9 Dimensions?" Hirosi Ooguri (English)
English with no interpretation. Admission free. No reservation required. Suitable for general public audience. Part of "Strings 2018." Dr. Hirosi Ooguri is Professor at CalTech, President of the Aspen Center for Physics, and PI of the Kavli Institute at UTokyo.
[Lecture] "Supersymmetry and de Sitter Holography" by Gerben Venken
There is a no-go theorem stating that de Sitter space cannot be supersymmetric, unless the theory violates unitarity. The nonunitary can manifest itself for instance by the presence of ghost fields. We point out that Vasiliev higher spin gravity evades the assumptions of the no-go theorem and provide evidence that dS space can be consistently supersymmetrized. This relates to the fact that the supersymmetric AdS-Vasiliev/U(N) model duality can be consistently Wickrotated into a supersymmetric dS-Vasiliev/U(-N) duality, providing a concrete supersymmetric dS/CFT duality. Using dS/CFT, we compute the dS Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for a range of deformations. We show that the wavefunction is peaked at undeformed dS space and large deformations are supressed, indicating an absence of ghosts. We speculate on the possibility of a stringy interpetation of dS/CFT in terms of exotic string theories. Based in part on [1709.06024] JHEP 02 (2018) 024.
"What is Superstring Theory?" Hiroshi Ooguri (Japanese only)
This talk will be in Japanese only. A separate session will be held at 16:30 in Japanese. Admission free. Reservation required. Suitable for general public audience. Part of "Strings 2018." Dr. Hirosi Ooguri is Professor at CalTech, President of the Aspen Center for Physics, and PI of the Kavli Institute at UTokyo.
[Lecture] "Tensionless String Spectra in AdS_3" by Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar
We examine the spectrum of superstrings on backgrounds of the form AdS_3\times S^3\times M at their minimal radius (or tensionless limit). We focus on a very natural subsector which consists of states at the bottom of the so-called spectrally flowed continuous representations. We find that this entire subsector matches precisely with that of a symmetric product CFT. This can be viewed as a signature of an unbroken Higher Spin Square (HSS) symmetry at this point. This HSS symmetry had previously appeared at a very different tensionless point in the parameter space of the string theory on AdS_3.
Seminar "Double Warm-Core Structure of Typhoon Lan (2017) as observed through upper-tropospheric aircraft reconnaissance during T-PARCII" by Prof.Hiroyuki Yamada
Speaker: Prof. Hiroyuki Yamada,Department of Physics and Earth Sciences,University of the Ryukyus
Seminar "Improving tropical cyclone forecasts with aircraft missions" by Prof. Kosuke Ito
Speaker: Prof. Kosuke Ito, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of the Ryukyus
Innovation Seminar: Investors View on Pharma and Biotech by Dr. Hans Küpper
7th Innovation Seminar Series "Investors View on Pharma and Biotech - A Personal Review" Hans Küpper, Ph.D. Senior Venture Capital and Life Science Professional
[Seminar] Biomimetic Helical Polymers and Foldamers as Unique Chiral Materials by Prof. Eiji Yashima
Dr. Eiji Yashima, Professor, Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University http://helix.mol.nagoya-u.ac.jp/e/index.html
Panel Discussion: "Common Mistakes When Applying for Independent Funding" ( 科研費応募の際によくあるミスについて)
During this session, you will learn what "to do" and "not to do" from perspectives of 3 very experienced grant management specialists from OIST, Kyoto and Kumamoto universities.
このパネルディスカッションでは、 京都大学、熊本大学 そして OISTから 科研費について 経験値の高いスペシャリスト3名より “するべきこと”と”してはいけないこと“を学べます。
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!皆さんどうぞご参加ください。 お待ちしています。
[Seminar] "Random coefficients autoregressive processes and the PUCK model with fluctuating potential: application to the diffusion of market prices" - by Mr. Arthur Yamashita
Seminar by Mr. Arthur Yamashita (PhD student, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Strings2018
Strings is the annual international conference on string theory, which has been held every year since 1995. Strings 2018 will be hosted by Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University.
OCNC2018: OIST Computational Neuroscience Course
OIST Workshop - Application period: Jan 1 - Feb 3, 2018 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Tutorial sessions are closed (only for registered participants) - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/ocnc
Harii (Dragon Boat) Race
Harii Race Rescheduled on Sunday, June 24th
3 teamas from OIST
Internal Seminar: Jungsik Hwang, Visuomotor Learning for Achieving Cognitive Robot Behaviors
Internal Seminar, Friday June 22, 4:00-5:pm, B700 (Lab3)
Internal Seminar: Po-Shun Chuang, PhD Student, Marine Biophysics Unit
Internal Seminar, Friday, June 22, 4:00-5:00pm B700
[Seminar] "Generalization in Deep Networks" by Dr. Andrzej Banburski, MIT
Seminar by Dr. Andrzej Banburski, MIT
Technology Startup Accelerator Summit
Refreshments provided.
No registration required.
Interpretation available.
Workshop: "Time Management"
During this workshop, the participants will learn how to improve their personal time management through the implementation of established time management methods!
Post-event survey SUMMARY