Past Events

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "From Space Time Quanta to the Quantum Cosmos" by Bianca Dittrich

Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 15:00
L5D23 and zoom

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Seminar

[Seminar] "Evolutionary losses of photosynthesis in eukaryotic microalgae" by Prof. Ryoma Kamikawa

Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 10:30 to 11:30
*Changed* C210, Center Bldg.

Speaker: Prof. Ryoma Kamikawa, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Symposium

Inclusive Communication Symposium 2024

Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 08:30 to Friday, March 8, 2024 - 16:00

C-Hub’s Annual Symposium brings together bold ideas and innovative thinkers to explore themes that enhance our ability to engender excellence through inclusion. Each year, we focus on a specific topic (2021: Inclusive Mentoring; 2022: Inclusive Leadership) to invite the broader community to share their work, insights, and practices.

Industry Relations

MENOPAUSE IN YOUR 40S? Empower Yourself and Others with Knowledge and Preparation

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:00
@Lab5 Atrium

Join us to gain insights and strategies for navigating the transformative journey of menopause. Learn how to understand and manage its effects while fostering supportive communities for women. Coffee and biscuits are provided! Feel free to bring your own lunch for our learn-over-lunch session. Connect, network, and enjoy some refreshments with us.

OIST Workshops

OIST Workshop "Sensorimotor Circuits for Limb Control"

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 (All day) to Friday, March 8, 2024 (All day)
OIST Main Campus, Seminar Room B250

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yutaka Yoshida (Neural Circuit Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Seminar

Seminar: Arcadia’s journey, building an invention factory

Monday, March 4, 2024 - 13:30
C700

Meet Arcadia and learn about their journey as a science company.

Seminar

Kyushu University x OIST Joint Event - What's your story?

Monday, March 4, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:00
Kyushu Univerersity Campus & Online

Kyushu University & OIST Joint Research PR Seminar "What's your story?"

Seminar

Seminar: "Evolution as a shortcut to useful inventions" by Arcadia Science

Monday, March 4, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
C210, Center Building and Zoom

Seminar is for OIST community.

Workshop

The Machine Learning Summer School in Okinawa 2024

Monday, March 4, 2024 (All day) to Friday, March 15, 2024 (All day)
OIST Conference Center

Summer school to promulgate modern methods of statistical machine learning and inference. For students keen to learn about machine learning and for researchers who want to apply machine learning methods to problems. No longer accepting new applications.

Workshop

OIST x iTHEMS workshop series - Will We Find Answers? Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe and Life - Series 1 | Cosmic ray and Life project |

Monday, March 4, 2024 (All day) to Wednesday, March 6, 2024 (All day)
L5D23

This Workshop Series, co-hosted by OIST and RIKEN iTHEMS, invites you to embark on a journey to challenge the enigmas of the universe and life. We go beyond traditional Astrobiology, welcoming researchers, and students from diverse backgrounds to explore the intertwined mysteries of space and life through an interdisciplinary approach. This program offers an opportunity for individuals with backgrounds in life sciences, medicine, astronomy, astrophysics, philosophy, engineering, marine sciences, chemistry, etc., to participate in the quest for understanding the cosmic and biological enigmas. Join us in seeking unknown answers and embracing this captivating journey.

While we may not be able to complete this journey, let's pave the way for the next generation!

Industry Relations

Okinawa Campus Idea Pitch Contest Grand Finale

Friday, March 1, 2024 - 14:00 to 17:15
STARTUP LAB RYUDAI (RYULAB) / 1F, Regional Innovation Research Building, University of the Ryukyus

The Okinawa Campus Idea Pitch Contest, an English idea pitch contest presented by RyuLab and OIST Innovation, invites you to witness ten visionary nominees vying for a chance to attend the esteemed "hello tomorrow Global Summit 2024" in Paris, a premier gathering for global deep tech startups.

Seminar

[Seminar] Dr. Junichi Ikenouchi "How are tight junctions different from other cell adhesion structures?"

Friday, March 1, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room L5D23

Dr. Junichi Ikenouchi

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University

Professional Development

Welcoming C-Hub`s Inaugural Visiting Fellow Dr. Taralyn Tan

Friday, March 1, 2024 - 09:00 to Friday, March 8, 2024 - 17:30
C-Hub

We are pleased to announce our inaugural C-Hub Visiting Fellow, Dr. Taralyn (Tari) Tan.

A university that maximally benefits from its diverse community places paramount importance on expanding its insights toward creating inclusive classrooms and research environments. For a creative, courageous institution like OIST, it is crucial for our students, faculty, researchers, and administrators to engage with bold international educators and innovators. C-Hub’s Visiting Fellow Program fosters exchange and synthesis in collaboration with distinguished educators and experts across the world. Visiting Fellows present seminars or workshops, and engage in discussions with the OIST community on topics of relevance to C-Hub’s mission. Visiting Fellows also have the opportunity to collaborate with C-Hub on a project or program that will benefit the OIST community and extend our capacity toward supporting justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Seminar

NTT R&D Seminar

Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:30
Lab4 F01

NTT R&D company information session.

Venue: Lab4 F01

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in February 2024

Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 10:00
Online

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!

Symposium

OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations

Thursday, February 29, 2024 (All day)
February 29th @L4E48

The OIST-Kyudai Symposium brings together minds from OIST and Kyushu University to delve into the realms of bio-inspired wonders and energy innovations.

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 13:30 to 14:30
L4E48 and online on Zoom
Yuta Kimura, Osaka Metropolitan University Title: Classifying torsion classes of Noetherian algebras
Lecture

TSVP Talk: "The Dirichlet Problem and Boundary Regularity: How To Attain the Boundary Values in a Good Way" by Anders Björn

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 - 15:00
L4F01 and Zoom

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Seminar

[Seminar] A Lagrangian journey in compressible turbulence - Prof. Dhrubaditya Mitra

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
B503 (ctr bldg.)

language : English

Seminar

Policies for entanglement distribution in quantum networks: theory and practical performance analysis

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 - 10:30 to 11:30
L4E01

Speaker: Mr. Stav Haldar, Louisiana State University

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Han Yan "Designing Light in an Artificial Universe"

Monday, February 26, 2024 - 14:30 to 16:00
C209, Zoom

Join Zoom link

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Industry Relations

Teatime with BEENEXT and Silicon Valley Japan Platform

Monday, February 26, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
OIST Innovation Lounge Lab 3 Level A

Join us for a casual teatime with special guests Teruhide Sato, Founder & CEO of BEENEXT Venture Capital, and Takayuki Doi, Entrepreneur Project Director of Silicon Valley Japan Platform. Monday, Feb 26, 2024 | 11:00-12:00 | Lab 3 Level A

Industry Relations

[Call for Startups] OIST-Lifetime Pitch Elevate 2024

Monday, February 26, 2024 (All day) to Sunday, March 31, 2024 (All day)

We are calling for Healthcare & Sustainability Startups to participate in "OIST-Lifetime Pitch Elevate 2024", a VC-mentored pitch competition for idea-stage to seed/early-stage which takes place at OIST-Lifetime Startup Elevate held on April 25-26.

OIST Workshops

OIST Workshop "Manifolds in Nature"

Monday, February 26, 2024 (All day) to Friday, March 1, 2024 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Feb 26-29) and Seaside House (March 1)

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Gerald Pao | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions ( OISTer registration required). Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Symposium

[Registration Deadline] OIST x iTHEMS workshop series -Will We Find Answers? Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe and Life - Series 1 | Cosmic ray and Life project |

Sunday, February 25, 2024 (All day)

Registration deadline for OIST x iTHEMS workshop series -Will We Find Answers? Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe and Life - Series 1 Cosmic ray and Life project is February 25th, 2024.

Holiday

天皇誕生日 Emperor’s birthday

Friday, February 23, 2024 (All day)

National holiday

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 12

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
Speaker: Professor Yasha Neiman, Quantum Gravity Unit Title: Gravity just wants to spend more time with you. Chair: Professor Sam Reiter , Computational Neuroethology Unit
Seminar

【Seminar】Wavelet collocation methods for fractional optimal control problem.

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Zoom

Speaker: Kumar, Nitin Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,

Seminar

【Seminar】 The Neumann Problem for the bi-Laplacian in Infinite Sectors

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
ZOOM

Speaker: Kyeong, Jeongsu – PhD student at temple University

Seminar

[Seminar] Computational science of turbulence - Universality, intermittency, and connection to real turbulence phenomena

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
L5D23

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Seminar

【Seminar】Chemotaxis systems under Nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions.

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 08:00 to 09:00
ZOOM
Speaker :Mr. Le, Minh – PhD student at Michigan State University

Culture

Studium Generale by Prof. Till Weber (The University of the Ryukyus)

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 19:00 to 20:30
OIST Center Bldg C209

The Samurai – Japan´s history poster boys put into perspective – A tour through 800 years of political and cultural history

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Guiding Light to Non-Classicality' by Dr Philipp Schneeweiss

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
on Zoom

Title: Guiding Light to Non-Classicality

Speaker: Dr Philipp Schneeweiss, Humboldt University, Germany

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Ultrafast Rydberg experiments with ultracold atoms' by Dr Sylvain de Léséleuc

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
C209, Center Building

Presenter: Sylvain de Léséleuc Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki (Japan)

Sponsored by SPIE and Optica Student Chapters

Seminar

Seminar on legal control when importing/possessing biological samples 生物試料の輸入・所持規制に関するセミナー

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 13:30 to 15:00
B250

A seminar on legal control when importing/possessing biological samples will be held with speakers from Animal Quarantine Service Okinawa Branch Office and Naha Plant Protection Station.

動物検疫所沖縄支所及び那覇植物防疫事務所から講師を招いて、生物試料の輸入・所持規制に関するセミナーを開催します。

Lecture

[Mini-Course] Metric Embeddings - What, How and Why? Professor Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Jyväskylä)

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 10:00 to Friday, March 1, 2024 - 12:00
L4F01 + Zoom

Title: Metric Embeddings - What, How and Why? Speaker: Professor Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Jyväskylä)

Lecture 1 Feb 21, Wednesday 10:00-12:00 L4F01 Lecture 2 Feb 26, Monday 14:00-16:00 L4F01 Lecture 3 Feb 28, Wednesday 14:00-16:00 L4F01 Lecture 4 Mar 1, Friday 10:00-12:00 L4F01

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Embeddings as a Problem Solving Technique" by Sylvester Eriksson-Bique

Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 15:00
L5D23 and zoom

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Symposium

COI-NEXT Annual Symposium: Cutting-edge Science Toward Social Implementation

Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 10:00
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)

We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming COI-NEXT Annual Symposium on "Cutting-edge Science Toward Social Implementation," organized by The Global Bioconvergence Center of Innovation at OIST. Don't forget to register to join the event!

Symposium

[Poster Application Deadline] OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations

Tuesday, February 20, 2024 (All day)

Poster Application deadline for OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations is February 20th, 2024.

Symposium

[Registration Deadline] OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations

Tuesday, February 20, 2024 (All day)

Registration deadline for OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations is February 20th, 2024.

Seminar

(Cancelled) MLDS Unit seminar, Porf. Alex Orailoglu (University of California, San Diego), Seminar Room C210

Monday, February 19, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room C210, Ctr Bldg

Seminar by Prof. Orailoglu (UCSD). Algorithm-Centric Design of Reliable and Efficient Deep Learning Processing Systems

Seminar

Class2022 PCD Group Project Final Presentation

Friday, February 16, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4E48

Let’s vote for Class 2022 Group Project Awards!

Class 2022 OIST students have been working on group projects for about 10 months as a part of their Professional and Career Development Program (PCD) , completion of a group project is mandatory for all students in their Year 1-2 , and at the end, students give a presentation on their project.

Each group puts a tremendous amount of time and energy to create great projects. Please join and see their presentation and vote for;

The Best Project Award: Most ‘Wow-factored’ project Community Award: Most ‘community engaged’ project People’s Choice Award: Just because you LOVE it!

Thank you for your participation and support for the Class 2022!

Campus Service

OIST Innovation open-hours

Friday, February 16, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Innovation Lounge (Lab3 level A)

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Throwing Balls to Make Microscopic Waves" by Travis Scrimshaw

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 15:00
B250 and Zoom

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Robert Joynt "Adaptive quantum optimization algorithms for ising-like models"

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:30
C210 Center, and Zoom

https://oist.zoom.us/j/99423081186?pwd=QjVmY3lYSDJER2dPa2JCaEsrYjlRdz09&from=addon

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Quantum computing with optical tweezer trapped arrays of neutral atoms' by Dr Ratnesh Kumar Gupta

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
on Zoom

Speaker: Dr Ratnesh Kumar Gupta, 5th Quantum Institute, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Research

[PhD Thesis Public Presentation_C700, Lab3_Zoom is also available] ‐ Hsiao-Chiao Chien- "JunB is Essential for Chromatin Regulation in Pathogenic Th17 Cells"

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
C700, Lab3 Level C ( Zoom is also available)

Presenter: Hsiao-Chiao Chien

Supervisor: Prof. Hiroki Ishikawa

Training

Introduction to HPC and scientific computing - Session 2

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 13:00 to 15:00
B503

A beginner's introduction to using the clusters and other computing resources at OIST. This is the second, hands-on session.

Seminar

Seminar - Quantum Optics with Spins and Superconducting Cavities

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:30
Seminar Room 23 - Lab 5, D Floor

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) cordially invites to a seminar featuring:

Speaker: Prof. Johannes Majer

Affiliation: Division of Quantum Physics and Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China

Title: Quantum Optics with Spins and Superconducting Cavities

We look forward to your participation.

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Rico Pohle "Ground state of the S=1/2 pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnet: A quantum spin liquid emergent from dimensional reduction"

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
C210 Center, and Zoom

https://oist.zoom.us/j/92847993223?pwd=U01KYURSdVJvWXhVVytZWXVMNGpBZz09&from=addon

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

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