Past Events

Seminar

(Postponed, the new schedule is TBD) "Interdisciplinary Bioimaging with Coherent Raman Scattering and Optical Computing"

Friday, June 26, 2026 - 10:30
B503, Center Building, OIST

A talk by Kotaro Hiramatsu

Faculty of Science Department of Chemistry Professor in Kyushu University

Research

Strucshare meeting: Case Study

Friday, June 26, 2026 - 10:00
Seminar Room L4E01

Strucshare Meeting

Symposium

Workshop on the Neural Basis of Democracy (Postponed)

Friday, June 26, 2026 (All day)
Land neXus

Workshop on the Neural Basis of Democracy

This event is postponed due to the Typhoon no. 7.

Innovation

VC Mentoring Hours: Lifetime Ventures

Thursday, June 25, 2026 - 15:00 to 17:00
Zoom

In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.

The featured VC for this round is Lifetime Ventures .

Lecture

Measure-theoretical analysis, divergence-measure fields, and nonlinear PDEs of divergence form - Lectures 7-8, Gui-Qiang Chen & Monica Torres

Thursday, June 25, 2026 - 13:00 to 16:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Lecture by Gui-Qiang Chen & Monica Torres (2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations)

Lecture

Perron’s method and Wiener-type criteria in the potential theory of elliptic and parabolic PDEs – Lectures 7-8, Ugur Abdulla

Thursday, June 25, 2026 - 09:00 to 11:45
Seminar Room L4E48

Lecture by Ugur Abdulla (2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations)

Innovation

OIST Innovation Core 1st Anniversary Event

Thursday, June 25, 2026 (All day)
OIST Innovation Core1, Core2

Join us as we celebrate the first anniversary of OIST Innovation Core, the home of OIST Innovation and a hub for open innovation and deep-tech startup support.

Come and see how this facility brings together researchers, startups, industry partners, and supporters to spark new ideas, collaborations, and opportunities.

We look forward to celebrating this milestone with you! Please register for the event so that we can prepare enough coffee, drinks, and snacks for everyone. Don’t miss the Happy Hour sponsored by our partner, Suntory. Test Bed Bus will be running between the auditorim and Core 1 from 2:30-6:00 pm.

Innovation

学生対象・OISTキャンパスツアー&スタートアップ交流イベント2026

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 15:00 to 17:00
OIST

大学生向けのOISTキャンパスツアー&スタートアップ交流会

Lecture

Measure-theoretical analysis, divergence-measure fields, and nonlinear PDEs of divergence form - Lectures 5-6, Gui-Qiang Chen & Monica Torres

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 14:30 to 17:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Lecture by Gui-Qiang Chen & Monica Torres (2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations)

Research

Monthly Co-working by The Bioinformatics User Group

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 13:00 to 17:00
LAB5 L5DE13

Monthly Co-working space - by Bioinformatics User Group

Lecture

[Plenary Lecture] Multidimensional Riemann Problems and Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Lecture by Prof. Gui-Qiang G. Chen, Oxford University (2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations)

Innovation

What's Next? Innovation and Career Pathways for OIST Students

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 13:00 to 13:45
C209 (Center Building)

What does innovation look like at OIST? Discover innovation and career pathways beyond traditional academic research through short talks from students, alumni, founders, and members of the OIST Innovation team.

Seminar

[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2026 by Dr. Riku Green, University of Bristol

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 11:00 to 11:50
Seminar Room C209, Center Building OIST

Speaker: Mr. Riku Green , the University of Bristol

Title: Machine Learning for Forecasting Multiple Steps Ahead

Seminar

[Seminar] "The host/symbiont interface: tales from aphid models" by Prof. Alex C. C. Wilson

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 09:30 to 10:30
L4F01, Lab4

Prof. Alex C. C. Wilson, Professor of Biology; Department of Biology, University of Miami, USA

Lecture

Perron’s method and Wiener-type criteria in the potential theory of elliptic and parabolic PDEs – Lectures 5-6, Ugur Abdulla

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 09:00 to 11:45
Seminar Room L4E48

Lecture by Ugur Abdulla (2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations)

Symposium

The 3rd OIST-UO Joint Symposium on Emergent Functional Materials and Reactions

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 (All day) to Friday, June 26, 2026 (All day)
June 25–26 | Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)

The symposium talks and poster session are open to the OIST community. No registration is required.

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4E01
Ana Kontrec , RIMS, Kyoto University Title: On the structure of some subregular W-algebras
Training

【June 23rd】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【6/23】 旅費相談会

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
Meeting Room A151, Center Bldg

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

Innovation

Coffee Chat with Elise from Asia Startup Network

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
Gathering Space, OIST Innovation Core1

At OIST Innovation Incubator, some of the best moments happen over a cup of coffee...

This time, we're joined by Elise, the founder & CEO of Asia Startup Network, a platform connecting entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators across Asia to drive collaboration, growth, and impactful ventures. Come join us to learn about the startup scene in Asia over great conversation and coffee!

Lecture

Measure-theoretical analysis, divergence-measure fields, and nonlinear PDEs of divergence form - Lectures 3-4, Gui-Qiang Chen & Monica Torres

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 - 13:00 to 16:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Lecture by Gui-Qiang Chen & Monica Torres ( 2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations)

Lecture

Perron’s method and Wiener-type criteria in the potential theory of elliptic and parabolic PDEs – Lectures 3-4, Ugur Abdulla

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 - 09:00 to 11:45
Seminar Room L4E48

Lecture by Prof. Ugur Abdulla (2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations)

Seminar

"Fiat Lux! Using chemistry to illuminate cellular and neuronal physiology"

Monday, June 22, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
B503, Center Building, OIST

A talk by Evan Miller

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology; Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology, UC Berkeley

Lecture

Measure-theoretical analysis, divergence-measure fields, and nonlinear PDEs of divergence form – Lectures 1-2, Gui-Qiang Chen & Monica Torres

Monday, June 22, 2026 - 13:00 to 16:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Lecture by Gui-Qiang Chen & Monica Torres (2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations)

Seminar

[Seminar] "The Higgs mode of a dipolar Supersolid: From Quantum carpets and experimental efforts" Malte Schubert, Lund University

Monday, June 22, 2026 - 10:30 to 11:30
C210, Level C, Center Building

Mr. Malte Schubert, Mathematical Physics and NanoLund, LTH, Lund University, Sweden Language: English Target audience: OIST members and guests

Lecture

Perron’s method and Wiener-type criteria in the potential theory of elliptic and parabolic PDEs – Lectures 1-2, Ugur Abdulla

Monday, June 22, 2026 - 09:00 to 11:45
Seminar Room L4E48
Lecture by Ugur Abdulla (2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations)
Outreach

OIST Kids Lecture "From Okinawa To Space -Girls Be Ambitious!-"

Sunday, June 21, 2026 - 14:00
OIST Science Studio (Yun-Lab Miraikan) 2901-1 Zakimi,Yomitan village

Okinawa to Space

Culture

Okinawa Memorial Day Public Talk 2026

Wednesday, June 17, 2026 - 14:00 to 16:00
OIST Auditorium

Learn About Okinawa's History: Irei No Hi (Battle of Okinawa) (Language: Japanese with simultaneous English translation) June 23 is Okinawa Memorial Day. To mark the occasion, a special lecture on Okinawa's history and war will be held on June 17 (Wed) 14:00-16:00 in the OIST Auditorium.

This is a valuable opportunity to learn about the history of the land and people of Onna Village.

We will welcome Takahiro Seto,from the Onna Village Museum, who will provide context on the Battle of Okinawa, combat zones in Onna Village, and how these events impacted local residents. In addition, Terunobu Yamauchi, who was born and raised in Onna Village, will join Mr. Seto in a dialogue to share his personal experiences of life in Nakadomari during that time.

Innovation

OIST-KEIO Biomedical Innovation Exchange Day

Monday, June 15, 2026 - 15:00 to 21:00
CRIK Shinanomachi, Tokyo

OIST–Keio Biomedical Innovation Exchange Day aims to connect researchers, startups, and industry collaborators from both universities to foster meaningful exchange in biomedical innovations.

Research

Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Quantum hypothesis testing in general von Neumann algebra

Friday, June 12, 2026 - 10:00 to 12:00
Lab 5 D23

A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.

Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "AI and Structural Biology: From Protein Structure to Molecular Design" by Alberto Perez

Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
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] Prof. Claudio Castelnovo "Spin-charge separation and resonant valence bond spin liquid in a kinetically-frustrated lightly-doped Mott insulator"

Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
L5D23 / Zoom

Join Zoom link

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

Seminar

[OCQT Seminar] Space-Time Classical and Quantum Metasurfaces

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 14:30 to 16:00
Seminar Room L5D23 (Lab 5, Level D)

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to the next installment of the OCQT Seminar Series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Diego Dalvit from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), who will deliver a talk entitled: “Space-Time Classical and Quantum Metasurfaces”

Seminar

QG Seminar: Flat band physics: The Carrollian way (Aritra Banerjee, Birla Institute of Technology and Science)

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 14:00
L4E01

QG Seminar Speaker: Aritra Banerjee (Birla Institute of Technology and Science) Title: Flat band physics: The Carrollian way

Seminar

[OCQT Seminar] Scientific Applications of Quantum Annealer Hardware

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:30
Seminar Room L5D23 (Lab 5, Level D)

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to the next installment of the OCQT Seminar Series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), who will deliver a talk entitled: “Scientific Applications of Quantum Annealer Hardware”

Professional Development

Let's talk about Identities: Understanding Queer Terminologies

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 12:10 to 13:00
Lab4 Level E Room 01 L4E01
Let’s Talk About Identities: Understanding Queer Terminologies

Seminar

Seminar "Computational Fluid Dynamics for hazardous gas release: from open environments to confined spaces" by Nicolò Mazzetti

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 10:15 to 11:00
Center Bldg. B503

[Speaker] Mr. Nicolò Mazzetti , PhD Candidate , Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Seminar

[OCQT Seminar] Quantum Radar with Undetected Photons

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:30
Seminar Room L5D23 (Lab 5, Level D)

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to the next installment of the OCQT Seminar Series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Diego Dalvit from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), who will deliver a talk entitled: “Quantum Radar with Undetected Photons”

Seminar

Inside a Venture Studio How Fujitsu Launchpad Turns Technology and Ideas into Businesses

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 10:00
Lab 4 E01

We are pleased to invite the OIST community to a seminar by Fujitsu Launchpad (FLP) , Fujitsu’s internal venture-building studio dedicated to transforming advanced technologies and emerging market opportunities into viable new businesses.

During this session, Javier Mata and Toshio Akagi will provide a behind-the-scenes perspective on how a corporate venture studio operates at the intersection of research, engineering, entrepreneurship, and market creation.

Seminar

Seminar "Experimental and numerical characterization of multiphase flows for CO₂ capture in bubble columns: from local dynamics to global flow behaviour" by Nicolò Varallo

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 09:30 to 10:15
Center Bldg. B503

[Speaker] Dr. Nicolò Varallo, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Seminar

[Seminar] On human emergence, Prof. Gentaro Taga, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 16:00 to 17:00
B503, Center Bldg.

June 9 (Tue), 2026 16:00 - 17:00 @B503, Center Bldg.

On human emergence, Prof. Gentaro Taga, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4E01 and online on Zoom
Evgeny Mukhin , Indiana University Title: An explicit construction of admissible gl(n) modules
Seminar

[Seminar] From spontaneous to intentional action: measuring and modelling 3-month-olds’ behavior during environmental interaction, Dr. Ryo Fujihira, National Institute for Physiological Sciences

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
B503, Center Bldg.

June 9 (Tue), 2026 15:00 - 16:00 @B503, Center Bldg.

From spontaneous to intentional action: measuring and modelling 3-month-olds’ behavior during environmental interaction, Dr. Ryo Fujihira, National Institute for Physiological Sciences

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 14:45 to 15:45
L4E01 and online on Zoom
Bim Gustavsson, University of Birmingham Title: Sylow branching coefficients and counting linear constituents
Seminar

Seminar"Epigenetic variation and its possible role in adaptation and plant breeding"

Monday, June 8, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00
C700, Lab 3

Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zurich, Switzerland Guest Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

OIST Workshops

[OIST Workshop] Solid State Systems for Quantum Information Processing (SQuIP)

Monday, June 8, 2026 (All day) to Friday, June 12, 2026 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250) and Seminar Room L4E48

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: William Munro (Quantum Engineering and Design Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Innovation

OIST Venture Mentoring Service — Call for Researchers & Startups

Friday, June 5, 2026 - 12:00 to Sunday, June 21, 2026 - 23:55

The OIST Venture Mentoring Service (VMS) connects OIST-affiliated startups with a diverse network of seasoned mentors — entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders who are committed to helping you navigate the challenges of building a company.

Applications are now open for the next round of mentor matching.

Seminar

[Seminar] "Convexity: from the Euclidean space to Riemannian and sub-Riemannian manifolds" by Prof. Federica Dragoni

Friday, June 5, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
L4E01

Title: Convexity: from the Euclidean space to Riemannian and sub-Riemannian manifolds

Speaker: Prof. Federica Dragoni (Cardiff University)

Research

Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Crossed products and noncommutative L^p-spaces over von Neumann algebras

Friday, June 5, 2026 - 10:00 to 12:00
Lab 5 D23

A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.

Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "(A)Symmetry and Complexity in Neural Systems" by Luis F Seoane

Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
L5D23 and zoom
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).

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