Working in a Japanese company, Kaisha ( 会社 ) , as a foreigner is a very scary process that only few have attempted so far. Both the daunting hierarchy and bewildering Keigo ( 敬語 ) frighten most people away. On the other hand, Japanese companies are also famous in their generosity to provide a full range of career trainings and supports to their employees. To know how to get a entry ticket from Kaisha and how to survive in it, we invite you to join with us!!

*** The poster says B600 for the location but it is a typo, the location is B700, Lab3 ***

When: 13:30-15:30 on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016; Where: Lab 3, Seminar Room C700; Whom: OIST Postdoctoral Scholars and Scientists are strongly encouraged to attend; Instructors: Dr. Natalie Lundsteen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, USA; Registration: is required. Please fill out the form below; Registration deadline: Tuesday, Nov. 15; To register and read more about the workshop please go to https://groups.oist.jp/pcda/workshops-and-seminars

Members of the Indian community at OIST invite you all on the auspicious occasion of Diwali . Come, join hands and overwhelm yourself in a vibrant synergy of traditional Indian music, dance and sport. Rediscover the exotic taste of Indian food and switch your mind for some frivolous Bollywood action!

***Tickets for this event are 2000 JPY. Tickets are limited***

This is one of mulitple Diwali events this week. For more information, visit the website .

Members of the Indian community at OIST invite you all on the auspicious occasion of Diwali . Come, join hands and overwhelm yourself in a vibrant synergy of traditional Indian music, dance and sport. Rediscover the exotic taste of Indian food and switch your mind for some frivolous Bollywood action! This is one of mulitple Diwali events this week. For more information, visit the website .

Members of the Indian community at OIST invite you all on the auspicious occasion of Diwali. Come, join hands and overwhelm yourself in a vibrant synergy of traditional Indian music, dance and sport. Rediscover the exotic taste of Indian food and switch your mind for some frivolous Bollywood action! This is one of mulitple Diwali events this week.

Dr. Richard D. Wood, Professor The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis The Virginia Harris Cockrell Cancer Research Center https://gsbs.uth.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/faculty-profiles.htm?id=1347028

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to announce a seminar by Prof. Simon Brown

Speaker : Prof. Simon Brown, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, 8140, Christchurch, New Zealand

Title : Percolating Cluster Devices: Possible Neuromorphic Applications

Abstract :

When clusters (nanoparticles) are randomly deposited on a surface they produce percolating films which have remarkable electrical properties. [1] Here we will focus on devices that contain percolating films of Sn clusters, and especially those that are deliberately constructed so as to guarantee that the film is close to the percolation threshold (onset of conduction). In these devices quantum mechanical tunnelling...

Seminar by Prof. Keisuke Totsuka (YITP, Kyoto U), Tue 8th Nov 2-3PM at D015.

Animal Resources Section cordially invites researchers involved in laboratory animal experiment as well as other members to attend the annual memorial service for laboratory animals.​

Time: 12:30-14:00, Monday - Nov 7, 2016; Venue: Lab 3, SR C700; Coordinator: Dr. Cecilia Lu, Group Leader, Van Vactor Unit, OIST; To register and read more about the event, go to https://groups.oist.jp/pcda

10:00 am - 1:00 pm on Saturday, November 5th; Ctr Bldg - Seminar Room C210; Instructor: Bill Lindstaedt; Assistant Vice Chancellor, Career Advancement, International and Postdoctoral Services (CAIPS); University of California, San Francisco, USA; Please register on https://groups.oist.jp/pcda by Friday, October 28th

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

Internal Seminar: Yuuri Yasuoka, Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Genomics Unit (Satoh Unit)

Internal Seminar: Alexander Mikheyev, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolution Unit (Mikheyev Unit)

Title: "Magnetic Imaging by Lorentz TEM and electron holography"

Speaker: Prof. Hyun Soon Park

Affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Dong-A University, Busan, Republic of Korea

Abstract:

Observing and characterizing the magnetic microstructures on a nanometer scale are of vital importance for understanding material property and its application to engineering. Among the repertoire of so-called “magnetic imaging” methods, imaging techniques in transmission electron microscope (TEM) are Lorentz microscopy and electron holography, which can be implemented in a standard TEM. These techniques have been widely utilized to image magnetic microstructures and the magnetization process in situ. In the Fresnel (out-of-focus) method of Lorentz microscopy, domain walls (DWs), vortices and skyrmions (nanoscale spin...

12:30 - 2 pm on Friday, November 4th; Ctr Bldg - Seminar Room C210; Instructor: Bill Lindstaedt; Assistant Vice Chancellor, Career Advancement, International and Postdoctoral Services (CAIPS); University of California, San Francisco, USA; Please register on https://groups.oist.jp/pcda by Wednesday, November 2nd

10:00 - 11:30 am on Friday, November 4th; Ctr Bldg - Seminar Room C210; Instructor: Bill Lindstaedt; Assistant Vice Chancellor, Career Advancement, International and Postdoctoral Services (CAIPS); University of California, San Francisco, USA; Please register on https://groups.oist.jp/pcda by Wednesday, November 2nd

As OIST is encouraging researchers to obtain external funding, this is a unique occasion for JST, the second biggest funding agency in Japan, and OIST, to get to know each other. This meeting is open to ALL OIST RESEARCHERS and MEMBERS of the OIST community.

Seminar "Targeted approaches for studying ecology important microbial eukaryotes"

Speaker: Prof. Karla Heidelberg

Affiliation: University of Southern California

Abstract: Microbes represent the single largest source of evolutionary and biochemical diversity on the planet. They are the major agents for cycling carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and other elements through ecosystems. Most attention for studying environmental microbes has focused on the bacteria, and to a lesser extent on the archaea and viruses, because of the relative ease with which these assemblages can be analyzed and studied genetically. In contrast, single-celled, eukaryotic microbes (the protists) have received much less attention, in part due to large and complex genomes and comparatively sparse public databases of known genes. In this talk I will...

Workshop: "Put your PhD to work: Planning for a successful career in science" - 13:30-15:30 on Friday, October 28 - Ctr Bldg, SR C210 - Instructor: Dr. Philip Clifford, University of Illinois, USA - Registration required on groups.oist.jp/pcda - Registration deadline: Tuesday, October 25

Dr Yannick Saintigny. French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Research Laboratory and Open Facility for Radiation Biology with Accelerated Ions (LARIA). Large Heavy Ion National Accelerator (GANIL).

Workshop: "Fostering scientific careers with individual development plans" - 13:30-14:30 Thursday, October 27 - Lab 3 - Seminar Room C700 - for OIST Faculty (This event is not open to others) - Instructor: Dr. Philip Clifford, University of Illinois, USA - Please read more on www.groups.oist.jp/pcda

Seminar "Origins of Algal Plastids"

Speaker: Professor Hwan Su Yoon

Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Abstract:

Organellogenesis and its associated endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT) are driving forces of eukaryote genome evolution. However, little is known about early events in plastid origin because the primary plastid endosymbiosis in Plantae (red, green, and glaucophyte algae and plants) occurred >1 billion years ago. In this seminar, I will introduce red algal diversity and evolutionary history as a major primary endosymbiosis group, then compare a recent case of another primary endosymbiosis in photosynthetic Paulinella to better understand early stage of algal origin.

Red algae (Rhodophyta) include more than 7,000 species thrive in...

Dr. Sergey Taskaev, Leading Researcher, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. Language: English.

Dr. Alexander Ivanov, Deputy Director, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. Language: English.

"Orientation session for OIST New Postdocs and Staff Scientists"; 11:30-12:30 on Monday, Oct. 24; Lab 3 - Seminar Room C700; Postdoctoral Scholars and Staff Scientists hired between June-October 2016; No registration required. More info on https://groups.oist.jp/pcda

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: Aug 21, 2016 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - website: https://groups.oist.jp/mtpu

Internal Seminar: Angela White, Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantum Systems Unit (Busch Unit)

Internal Seminar: Georgy Filonenko, Postdoctoral Researcher, Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit (Khusnutdinova Unit)

Intro to GPU Programming by Jan Moren (OIST HPC Team)

"Professor Jemal Guven, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, "Language: Engrish. No interpretation."

LabVIEW Seminar by Ryuji Kuwashima (National Instruments Japan Corporation)

Seminar: "Negative resistance and other wonders of viscous electronics in graphene" by Prof. Gregory Falkovich

Allinea Hands-on Session by Florent Lebeau (Allinea Software Ltd.)

Enhance research production using Allinea Performance Reports

Presenter: Florent Lebeau (Allinea Software Ltd.)

Seminar title: "Machine Learning of Motor Skills for Robots: From Simple Skills to Table Tennis and Manipulation"

Speaker: Prof. Jan Peters

Affiliation: Universität Darmstadt Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Abstract

Autonomous robots that can assist humans in situations of daily life have been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences. A first step towards this goal is to create robots that can learn tasks triggered by environmental context or higher level instruction. However, learning techniques have yet to live up to this promise as only few methods manage to scale to high-dimensional manipulator or humanoid robots. In this talk, we investigate a general framework suitable for learning motor...

Sculptor Rinus Roelofs. Language: English. No interpretation.

12:30-14:00 on October 17, 2016; SR C700; Whom: OIST Postdoctoral Scholars and Scientists; Instructor: Laura Sanger, Clinical Psychologist, Ganjuu Wellbeing Service; Registration is required. Please register on PCDA website: https://groups.oist.jp/pcda

Mr. Paul Hildebrandt, Inventor of Zometool, Language: English. Interpreters exists. Registration required: e-mail to naoko.tokumoto[at]oist.jp

The workshop is open to the research community for participation.

Please come, grab some sweets, and talk about your IT problems. Unless we hear about your issues, we won’t be able to solve it. あなたが抱えている、 ITに関する問題を共有しましょう。 問題が起こっている事を教えて頂く事が 解決への第一歩になります。

Time: Noon-13:00, Thursday - Oct 13, 2016; Venue: Lab 3, SR C700; Coordinator: Dr. Cecilia Lu, Group Leader, Van Vactor Unit, OIST; Read more on https://groups.oist.jp/pcda

Professor Itaru HAMACHI Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Graduate School of Engineering Kyoto University, Kyoto and CREST/JST, JAPAN http://www.sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/hamachi-lab/index.php?members%2Fhamachi​