OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: 21 May 2017 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/cqd/okinawa-school-physics-coherent-quantum-dynamics

Quantum gravity group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "AdS and CFT from twistor space"

Admission free. Reservations required.

National Holiday.

This hands-on workshop is designed for Postdocs, Technicians, Faculty members and Graduate Students (2nd Year +) who want to improve their technical writing skills.

Instructor: Dr. Steve Aird.

Prof. Ben Powell, University of Queensland, Brisbane. Language: English

Seminar by Prof. Yamasaki, Osaka University

This is a three-day international conference on mathematical aspects of continuum mechanics. It is the sequel of the conference series CoMFoS organized by Research activity group in JSIAM 'Mathematical Aspects of Continuum Mechanics' ('MACM').

Language: English, no interpretation.

Come and join a lively discussion with successful KAKENHI recipients. Everyone is welcome!

The Topology and Geometry Seminar aims to introduce current mathematical research topics starting from the very basics. Anyone interested in mathematics is welcome to attend.

This is the first talk in a series of 3 lectures on "Curves, surfaces, and symmetries" by Dr Robert Tang (postdoc in the Tsvietkova Unit).

QG group meeting Speaker: Tomonori Ugajin Title: "Black holes, holography and quantum information"

Seminar by Benjamin Pingault, Cambridge University, UK

National Holiday.

Admission Free, Reservation Starts on Fri, September 1st at 10am, Reserve at www.oist.jp/concert

OIST and Junku-do, the biggest book store in Okinawa will hold a series of monthly talks featuring OIST scientists whose origin is Okinawa. (Only in Japanese.)

Internal Seminar : Peter Bratby, Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Neuroscience Unit (Erik De Schutter Unit)

Internal Seminar : Girish Beedeesee, Student, Marine Genomics Unit (Satoh Unit)

Dr. Thomas Billam, Lecturer, Newcastle Univesity, UK

Dr. Miklos Lajko, Postdoctoral researcher at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland.Language: English

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Quantum Gravity group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "Twistor geometry, Penrose transform and higher-spin algebra in (A)dS_4"

Dr. Denis Vion, Research Director, CEA-Saclay, France, Language: English

Dr. Nobuo Tanaka, Professor at Institute for materials and systems for sustainability, Nagoya University. NIMS NOW No.6 (2015) in Japanese language only. http://www.nims.go.jp/publicity/nimsnow/vol15/hdfqf1000006xih3-att/NN_JP_2015_no6.pdf

Koji Ikuta Ph.D. Professor and Director of Biomicro Mechatronics and Robotics Lab. The University of Tokyo. 　Registration: NOT required.

Seminar

Quantum Gravity group meeting Speaker: Linqing Chen Title: "The Infrared story in QED: asymptotic symmetry charge, vacuum degeneracy, soft modes and memory effect"

Title: Skin-friction and vorticity fields in wall-bounded flows and the attached eddy hypothesis

Speaker: Prof. M.S. Chong (University of Melbourne)

Dr. Shunsuke C. Furuya, Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory RIKEN. Language: English

Join Dr. Marius Sudol, National University of Singapore, for a semi-informal talk about his experience with academic research, teaching and mentoring in the international environment.

Everyone is welcome! Registration is not required; however, if you have a specific question, CLICK HERE to submit.

Dr. Ludovic Jaubert, LOMA, University of Bordeaux. Language: English

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

Welcome Ceremony for Class of 2017 New Students

Instructor: Mr. Hideo Tanaka (Tomy Digital Biology) Language: English Sessions: 1) Search and Explorer using IPA @ 10:00 – 11:00 2) Omics Data analysis using IPA @ 11:00 – 12:00

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Dr. Tomonori Takeuchi, The University of Edinburgh. Language: English. Registration NOT required.

Seminar "Systems proteomics of liver mitochondrial activity" by Dr. Yibo Wu.

“ Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? ”

Neil Gaiman

Well unless you have actually completed that Doomsday Device, this week you do not have that kind of choice so you should just join everyone for tea, coffee and cookies at 16:00 on Thursday!

Talk Title: Towards an equation of motion for a worm Abstract and additional details available on the event page.

Talk Title: Controlling vorticity onset and growth with polymers Abstract and additional details available on the event page.

沖縄科学技術大学院大学発展促進県民会議　総会 The General Meeting of the Council for Promotion of OIST

外部主催イベントです。お問い合わせは主催側までお願いいたします。

Seminar

OIST International Summer Festival

Start:18：00 End:21：00 Detail: Upcoming Soon

This is an externally organized event. Language: Japanese. For more information contact the organizers at http://robonokai.blogspot.com/

National Holiday.

"I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time."

Rev. Sydney Smith

Please do not activate any Doomsday Device or Killer AI Program prior to 16:00 on Thursday until we all have had our tea, coffee and cookies, please. If you would be so kind to wait after the long weekend too, we would all be grateful.

Let's join together in the restaurant area of level B for comforting beverages, cakes and company!

An 30 min Introductory Workshop presentation - August 10, 13:00-13:30.

The Main workshop - September 22.

Special Campus Tour for 50 Elementary School Kids, Language: Japanese only, No Participation Fee, Registration required. The registration starts on Thursday, July 27th at 10am. Reservation call number: 098-966-2184.

沖縄修学旅行フェア2017in東京（OISTブース出展あり）

Summer Potluck Party - organized by Language Education Section