The OIST Language Section, POWER Club, and Okinawa International University are collaborating to organize a special edition of the Community Cooking Series. 20 students from Okinawa International University will be visiting Onna to participate in a language exchange, cooking class, and finally a Campus Tour of OIST.

Speaker:Fengrui Yang (University of Freiburg)

Speaker: Dr. Zetao Cheng (Tsinghua University)

Speaker: Dr. Gongping Niu (University of California San Diego)

Speaker:Prof. Lei Zhang (University of Florida)

Dr. Sean Patrick Douglas (University of Missouri)

Dr. Joshua Flynn , McGill University

Language: English

Language: English

Speaker: Dr. Animesh Biswas (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Dr. Becky Heath Research Associate Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/becky-heath

National holiday

Volunteers wanted for the Science Challenge workshop from February 17 - 23, 2024!

Support us with hands-on science activities, share your knowledge about poster presentation, essay writing or flash talk presentations with the participants or join a panel discussion about what is required to be successful as a PhD student / research intern at OIST.

Sign-up here , if you would like to support us and to get more information about the tasks we require your support!

National holiday

年末年始（12月29日から1月3日）はキャンパス見学はできません（自由見学含む）。ご理解のほどよろしくお願いいたします。

OIST Campus ArtWall Project

Speaker: Mr. Roy Siegelmann (Johns Hopkins University)

Title: A Recurrence-based Direct Method for Stability Analysis

Following the success of the previous ORC survey, and the Student Council surveys it was modeled on, the ORC Council is running the biannual survey (~5-10min) to gauge research employee satisfaction at OIST. Please fill the survey in this link: https://groups.oist.jp/ganjuu/oist-researcher-community-survey-2023 .

This workshop, jointly hosted by RIKEN Pioneering Projects "Prediction for Science" and OIST, aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between OIST and RIKEN researchers.

Speaker: Mr. Simon Goorney (Research Assistant from European Quantum Readiness Center, Aarhus University)

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

Visitor seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit

Speaker: Dr. Priyadarshini Pandit, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Title: Tensionless Strings and Compactification

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Bhatti, Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum Technologies, University of Stuttgart

This symposium is on quantum information science, which is a new interdisciplinary area of information science and quantum mechanics

SCORE!

Join us for our Winter Ganjuu Open House!

15th Dec. between 14 to 16 pm.

がんじゅうのオープンハウスのご案内。

12月15日（金）午後2時から4時まで。

2023年12月15日（金）、OIST Innovationと渋谷区で、スタートアップ・エコシステム構築について考えるイベントを開催いたします。（日英同時通訳あり）

We are planning to hold a UGM (Users Group Meeting) on Friday, December 15th, from 1pm at C700 . In the meeting, we will announce the timeline of the PacBio Revio System, and the latest information about the Illumina sequencers.

Speaker: Prof. Yohei Fujishima (Shizuoka University)

Title: Quasi self-similarity and its application to the global in time solvability of a superlinear heat equation

Speaker: Professor Yabing Qi , Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit Title: Surface sciences and perovskite solar cells Chair: Professor Evan Economo, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit , Dean of Faculty Affairs

https://oist.zoom.us/j/99462228135?pwd=YWRydDVWSXlUK1pBeVdCUFlEWmR0QT09

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

Speaker: Prof. Nao Hamamuki (Hokkaido University)

Title: Waiting time effects for the wearing process of a non-convex stone

Speaker 1: Ms. Kira Duesterwald, Ph. D Student, University College London

Title: Perceptual inference in an uncertain world: how you report matters

Speaker 2: Ms. Clea Mehnia Laouar, Ph. D Student, OIST

Title: Large scale similarity search with Optimal Transport

Language: English

Levitated quantum systems can be used to build ultra-precise sensors for use in technology but also to search for new fundamental types of forces and dark matter. In this seminar PhD student Trisha Madhavan from Mikhail Lukin's Nanomechanics subgroup at Harvard University will talk about her work on levitating tiny magnets and coupling them to NV defects in diamond.

Learn new skills, meet new people and enjoy the art of filmmaking with OIST's own professional videographer, Scotty!

Finished products will have the opportunity be featured on the OIST Vimeo account.

FY2023 Year-end closing briefing session will be held via Zoom./ 【2023年度の決算説明会】をオンラインにて開催いたします。

TSVP Talk ”Ecology and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in Bacterial Pathogens " by Rachel Wheatley 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).

Speaker: Dr. Siddhartha Santra, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Kaveh Mousavand, OIST Title: Some applications of bricks in classical and modern problems in representation theory

Speaker: Dr. Maria Quadeer, Nanyang Technological University

[Speaker] Dr. Céline Gabillet, Associate Professor (Fluid. Mech.), French Naval Academy /Ecole Navale

OIST innovation Monday 11 th organizes a seminar on Intellectual Property. What are patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets? How can you, as a researcher, protect and develop your innovative ideas? How can OIST innovation help you in this process? Join the seminar and learn everything you need to know about Intellectual Property and much more. This is a 90min introduction-level seminar open to everyone. Coffee and biscuits will be provided.

Speaker: Mr. Motoya Ohnishi

Title: Dynamics and Learning - Future of AI with Robotics Applications

Academic Job Market Series, Module 5, Writing Diversity Statements will be held next week, December 14 (Thursday), from 4:15-5:30.

Diversity statements are becoming an increasingly common part of job application materials. Knowing how to conceptualize and then write one can greatly improve overall chances of success in a competitive job market.

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Okinawa closer through a shared love of food. Each session will be focused on one dish, taught by someone with a personal connection to the recipe (perhaps you?).

8th ABiS Light Microscopy Course

Come and take the chance to learn professional tools & skills for documentary filmmaking from an OIST videography professional!

The deadline is approaching to submit a proposal for a concurrent session or poster at C-Hub's Symposium 2024: Inclusive Communication, to be held March 7-8, 2024.

The deadline is next Friday, December 8.

Please consider submitting a proposal for one of the following types of session:

panel discussion professional development birds-of-a-feather/shared interests poster

Here is the link to our Call for Proposals page, which includes full descriptions of each of the session types and links to submit a proposal.

Autoclave annual inspection

2023年12月7日（木）18:00、琉球大学のオープンイノベーション拠点「琉ラボ」とOIST Innovationの共催で、英語に苦手意識を感じる方に向けて英語プレゼンセミナーを開催いたします。（日本語のみの開催となります）