Date

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 - 11:30

A Seminar by Kazuhiro Nagata, Director General, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Takatsuki (Osaka). Hosted by Prof. Yamamoto.
Keywords: molecular chaperone, ER-associated degradation (ERAD), ERdj5, LLPS

Date

Thursday, March 12, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

Speaker:Dr. Hiroaki Matsunami,the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, the Duke University

Date

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 - 14:00

Speaker: Dr. Samuël Borza, University of Vienna

Title: Ollivier-Ricci curvature in non-smooth Lorentzian geometry and causal set theory

Abstract:

This talk will explore some aspects of non-smooth Lorentzian geometry, the mathematical framework underlying Einstein’s general relativity, which is currently being developed. Just as metric length spaces provide a synthetic generalisation of smooth Riemannian manifolds, the time-separation function plays the role of a “distance” in Lorentzian geometry. The need for a non-smooth Lorentzian framework appeared early on, most famously with Penrose’s singularity theorems. After introducing the basic concepts and some initial results in this synthetic setting, we will turn to causal set theory, a radical approach to quantum gravity in which spacetime is modelled as a discrete causal graph. I will formulate a new notion of curvature, inspired by Ollivier-Ricci curvature on metric graphs, using optimal transport between causal diamonds. We will see that it does recover Ricci curvature on smooth Lorentzian manifolds, and numerical examples will be presented.

Date

Thursday, March 5, 2026 - 11:00

Language: English

Date

Friday, February 13, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00

Dr. Jing Yan Haw, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to OIST members.

Date

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 - 10:00

A Seminar by Tamotsu Yoshimori, Professor Emeritus of Osaka University, Professor of The DAICEL Endowed Chair in Beyond Cell Reborn Research. Hosted by Prof. Yamamoto.
Keywords: Autophagy, Rubicon, Longevity, Awabancha

Date

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 10:00

QG Seminar (Zoom) 

Speaker: Nicolas Cresto (Perimeter)

Title: sw1+infinity asymptotic symmetries: Carrollian & Celestial lessons

Date

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:30

Speaker: Dr Lewis Picard, Caltech, USA

Title: Entanglement-assisted readout and cooling of neutral atom qubits in an optical tweezer array

Date

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 09:30 to 11:00

Speaker: Dr Scott Parkins, Associate Professor, The University of Auckland, NZ

Title: Nonclassical light – getting more of it out of a single atom

Date

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:30

Title: Neutral-Atom Based Quantum Computing with 171Yb Nuclear-Spin Qubits

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Pucher, Quantum Engineer at Atom Computing, Boulder, Colorado, USA

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