What do we want? Free Cookies!

When do we want it? Thursday between 16:00 and 16:03 (because there won't be any left after that)!

Join us for tea, coffee and catching up with everybody in the restaurant area on level B on the Central Building.

There will also be a short promotion by OIST students about their upcoming Science Mentoring Program with local high school students during summer break. Come listen to what they have to say and sign up if you are keen!

Kacper Zulinski, a graphic animator currently working in a prestigious 3D studio Platige Image in Warsaw, Poland is going to show us how to quickly model and render bacterial cells using Maya and Redshift software. He will demonstrate the modelling process live during his presentation and also explain how modelling parameters will affect subsequent render.

Seminar by Melissa Matthews, Ph. D. Candidate -University of California, Davis.

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

National Holiday.

National Holiday.

National Holiday.

National Holiday.

Thank you for attending the seminar, "Writing grants for fun and profit" by Prof. Mikheyev. Please see below for videos and materials presented at the seminar.

Sasha shares his tricks!

Speaker: Alexander (Sasha) Mikheyev

Title: Writing grants for fun and profit

Abstract: A strong record of obtaining funding is cornerstone of a competitive academic record. While you can view this fact as just one more thing to stress you out, writing grants can be a useful, and even fun exercise in its own right. While writing a grant, you are forced to focusing your research question and methods, while getting free...

Come to the last Thursday teatime before the Golden week!

Talk about your awesome holiday plans and make other people jealous!

Bargain for a lift to and back from the airport!

Free Tea! Free Coffee! Free Cookies*!

* Restricted quantities, first come first serve applies.

Speakers: Prof Cornelia Denz (University of Muenster, Germany) Prof Jesper Glückstad (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Prof Lene B. Oddershede (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Prof Takashige Omatsu (Chiba University, Japan) Dr Yoshihiro Arita (University of St Andrews, Scotland) Dr Viet Giang Truong (OIST Graduate University, Japan)

Language: English

Registration required (registration deadline: 2017/4/21). Register at sango2017@omc.co.jp Meeting language: Japanese (no interpretation). For more information contact the organizers.

Detai: Please see the attached file.

詳細は添付のPDFファイルをご確認ください。

This week we have a special Thursday teatime: as part of their PD projects, students will be performing a short skit based on a fairy tale (guess which one). Come support them!

Free cookies AND free entertainment! If that is not quality teatime, then we do not know what is.

As usual, it will take place at 16:00 in the restaurant area on level B of the center building.

Seminar by Dr. John Owen Benton (RIKEN), Thursday 20th at 2pm in C016.

* * * !!! * * * INPUT A SUMMARY! * * * !!! * * * such as "Dr. Jill Tanner, Distinguished Professor, Stanford University", "Language: Japanese. No interpretation.", "By invitation only.", "Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/reserve for more information."

Talk on Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics by Hideki Nakazawa, Language: English, Registration NOT required.

CSCWG Regular Meeting Speaker: Guillaume Vares (Sugawara Unit) Title: Highlights from AACR meeting 2017

FEI, developer of Amira, is coming to OIST to answer various questions about Amira software and introduce their new version 6.3.OIST IT provides network licenses of 4 Amira base licenses and its extensions as a central resource. Please embrace this opportunity to learn about this product.

The Open Hour is open to everyone and will be held from 14:00-16:00 on April 18, 2017, and if you would like to make a reservation, please contact it-help@oist.jp.

Date : April 18th (tue), 2017 Time : 14:00 - 16:00 Place : Lab2 B646 (Between IT section and Lab 2 main stairs)

Amira 3D product details; https://groups.oist.jp/it/amira

If you have any questions, please contact : it-support@oist.jp

We are looking...

Dr. Hirohide Saito, Professor, Department of Life Science Frontiers, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University Hirohide Saito Lab: http://www.cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp/saito/?page_id=1813

Dr Ivan Gusachenko, Research fellow, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom Language: English

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

Seminar by Mr. Ryosuke Shibato, CEO & Founder of academist, Inc .; Language: English.

Seminar

Seminar by Dr. Olga Sikora (Jagiellonian U ) on April 13th at 11am in C016, Lab1.

Dear All,

The Biodiversity and Biocomplexity (Economo) Unit would like to invite you to a seminar by Dr. Michael Staab.

Date: Thursday, April 13, 2017

Time: 11:00 - 12:00

Venue: Seminar Room C700, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Michael Staab , Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg

Title: Insects and their multi-trophic interactions in natural and experimental forests

Abstract:

It is now accepted in ecology that diversity in lower trophic levels (e.g. plants) begets diversity in higher trophic levels (insect consumers). However, this relationship has mostly been deduced from experimental grasslands. Forests, which...

Dr. Norbert Bodendorfer, Faculty of Physics, LMU, Munich, Germany

* * * !!! * * * INPUT A SUMMARY! * * * !!! * * * such as "Dr. Jill Tanner, Distinguished Professor, Stanford University", "Language: Japanese. No interpretation.", "By invitation only.", "Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/reserve for more information."

Internal Seminar: Rory Cerbus, Postdoctoral Scholar, Fluid Mechanics Unit (Chakraborty Unit)

Internal Seminar: Shivani Sathish, Student, Micro/Bio/Nano fluidics Unit (Shen Unit)

Yu Takagi, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Registration NOT required.

* * * !!! * * * INPUT A SUMMARY! * * * !!! * * * such as "Dr. Jill Tanner, Distinguished Professor, Stanford University", "Language: Japanese. No interpretation.", "By invitation only.", "Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/reserve for more information."

Speaker: Dr. Matthew J. Lake, Institute for Fundamental Study, Naresuan University

Seminar : Image Contrast in Single Particle Cryo-EM by Prof. Nikolaus Grigorieff Group Leader at Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus, Visiting professor at Brandeis University

Seminar "What is the Fluorescence for Flow Cytometry", Dr. Naomi Sakata, Tomy Digital Biology Co., ltd.

Prof. Gwénaël Rapenne, Professor, University Paul Sabatier and NanoSciences Group, CEMES-CNRS. Langueage: English.

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: Feb 13, 2017 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/hmm

"Prof. Victor Calo, Western Australian School of Mines, Faculty of Science & Eng, Curtin University", "Language: English. No interpretation."

Internal Seminar: Georgy A. Filonenko, Postdoctoral Scholar, Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit (Khusnutdinova Unit)

Internal Seminar: Tsai-Ming Lu, RA Student, Marine Genomics Unit (Satoh Unit)

Seminar "Identification of a novel p53 downstream pathway important in neuroendocrine tumor development.", Dr. Rieko Ohki.

Date : March 28 ^th (Tue), 2017} Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm Venue: D015 (Lab1, Level D) Speaker: Prof. Takeshi Matsumoto Department of physics, Kyoto University

Title: SO (3) decomposition: case studies as an end-user Abstract: Please see tha attached seminar flyer.

We look forward to seeing many of you at the seminar.

"Prof. Elliott Ginder, Research Institute of Electronic Science Hokkaido University", "Language: English. No interpretation."

Date : March 27 ^th (Mon), 2017 Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm Venue: D015 (Lab1, Level D) Speaker: Professor Fernando Ponta (Michigan Technological University)

Title: Analyzing the Aeroelastic Dynamics of Wind Turbine Rotors in Rapid Pitch-Control Actions Abstract: Pitch control comprises a significant proportion of current wind turbine load-control approaches. Collective pitching is used in restricting the overall power generation at high winds, whereas individual pitching has the added advantage of mitigating cyclic loads that are detrimental in fatigue damage of the turbines. Currently, there are many studies on conventional pitching control that account for long-term variations in wind speeds and associated high loads, but a smaller number of studies in short-term pitch action.

The present study focuses...

Date : March 27 ^th (Mon), 2017 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Venue: D015 (Lab1, Level D) Speaker: Prof. Takeshi Matsumoto Department of physics, Kyoto University

Title: Reversal of a large-scale flow in a randomly forced two-dimensional turbulence in a square domain Abstract: When a turbulent flow is somehow sustained in a closed container, a large-scale coherent flow often emerges. Moreover, in some situations, the direction of the large-scale flow changes randomly. A numerical setting for such reversal phenomena in two-dimensional flow was proposed by Molenaar, Clercx and van Heijst (2004). We numerically study the flow due to Molenaar et al. with emphasis on modeling the typical time scale between reversals.

We look forward...

Dr. Noriko Tsuji, National Institute of Advanced Industry and Science Technology (AIST)

A science program for female high school students in Okinawa. Language: Native-level Japanese. Application has closed.

seminar

Language: English

Date : March 24 ^th (Fri), 2017 Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm Venue: C016 (Lab1, Level C) Speaker: Prof. Tuan Tran (Nanyang Technological University)

Title: Universality of oscillating boiling in Leidenfrost transition

Abstract: The Leidenfrost transition leads a boiling system to the boiling crisis, a state in which the liquid loses contact with the heated surface due to excessive vapor generation. Here, using experiments of liquid droplets boiling on a heated surface, we report a new phenomenon, termed oscillating boiling, at the Leidenfrost transition. We show that oscillating boiling is resulted from the competition between two effects: separation of liquid from the heated surface due to localized boiling, and rewetting. We argue theoretically that the Leidenfrost transition...