Discover how coffee can spark unexpected connections and innovation. Experience a live demonstration of Matsuyashiki Coffee, a unique brewing style from Nagoya featured at Toyota's Café Black Hole.

Speaker: Dr. William Hughes, The University of Southampton

Prof. Matthias Buck, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Currently: LT JSPS Fellow in Hiroaki Suga Lab., Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo

Daisie Rock , KU Leuven Title: From discrete representation to continuous representations

Dr. Cigdem Yumusak, Senior Researcher, Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS), Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. 第３回　「研究リソースと研究支援」 (2026年9月７日（月）15:00-16:00) 60分 座学＆QA Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai & Chikako Doi, Learning & Development Section

Welcome Ceremony for new faculty members joining OIST, and PhD students joining the Class of 2026.

The ceremony is open to all OIST community members and will be held at the Auditorium.

This one-day workshop will be held during the same week as the Autumn School and will feature talks by leading women researchers. It will bring together experts from a broad range of research areas in Geometry, Topology, and Mathematical Physics.

This Autumn School is part of TSVP Thematic Program “New Frontiers in Gauge Theory, Topology, and Physics” (TP26GT) *OIST members and visiting students/researchers are welcome to attend all scientific sessions without registration.

Public Lecture : "3-Manifolds and Langlands Duality" by Tasuki Kinjo (RIMS, Kyoto University) Open to all interested in the topic! OISTにて開催される Tasuki Kinjo 氏による公開講演に、ぜひご参加ください。

Prof. Myung-Gil Kim, School of Advanced Materials Science & Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University

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).

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. 第２回　「研究活動の内幕と背景」 (2026年9月2日（水）15:00-16:30) 90分　 座学＆ディスカッション Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai & Chikako Doi, Learning & Development Section

Talk by Atsunobu Kotani ( University of California, Berkeley )

We are now accepting applications from healthcare and deep-tech startups for the OIST-Lifetime Pitch Elevate 2026, a VC-mentored pitch competition for idea-stage to seed/early-stage startups. The competition will take place as part of the OIST-Lifetime Startup Elevate 2026 on November 4 and 6 at OIST.

As this is a highly competitive pitch competition, not all applicants will be selected. However, if you are a local startup based in Okinawa or a spin-out from PARKS, you may still have the opportunity to present at a dedicated local startup pitch event held alongside the main program.

We encourage all eligible local startups to apply and look forward to receiving your applications.

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. 第１回大学職員向け勉強会　「科学技術と研究者」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, Learning & Development Section

This Autumn School is part of TSVP Thematic Program “New Frontiers in Gauge Theory, Topology, and Physics” (TP26GT)

*OIST members and visiting students/researchers are welcome to attend all scientific sessions without registration.

OIST Café Information Session at the OIST Science Studio in Yomitan, Okinawa! Join us for a casual science information session introducing the OIST PhD and Research Internship program!

OIST Graduate School staff will be happy to meet you and answer all your questions regarding the application and admissions process for our programs. In addition, current PhD students will share more about their academic journey and student life at OIST.

Darius Dramburg , Kavli IPMU Title: Isomorphisms of graded semiconnected algebras

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).

Date and time: 11:00-12:00 Aug 27th, 2026

Venue: L5D23 and Zoom

Meeting ID: 924 8922 1462

Passcode: 756702

Speaker: Prof. Mark Blumenthal, University of Cape Town

Titile :Pumping Single Electrons in Cape Town (English)

[Analysis and PDE Seminar of the University of California, Berkeley] Prof. Ugur G. Abdulla (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Mō Ashibi | OIST Innovation Meetup

OIST Innovation is hosting “Mō Ashibi,” a casual networking event. Enjoy snacks and drinks while connecting with OIST Innovation Incubator tenants, startups, members of the OIST community, and others you may not usually have the chance to meet.

Participation is free, and no registration is required. Feel free to drop by after work!

Date and Time: Friday, August 21, 2026, 17:00–18:30

Venue: OIST Innovation Core 1

Please do not drive or ride a motorcycle after consuming alcohol.

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!

Droplet Physics Across Scales for Energy and Sustainability

This workshop brings together the Droplet and Soft Matter Unit (Daniel Unit, OIST) and the Mouterde Group (University of Tokyo) to develop a unified understanding of droplet physics across length scales, from the nanometric to the millimetric regime. Droplet phenomena inherently span multiple scales: nanoscale interfacial processes govern wetting, transport, and dissipation, while micrometric and millimetric droplets exhibit complex hydrodynamic, electrostatic, and multiphase behaviors. Bridging these regimes remains a major challenge in soft matter and fluid physics.

宮原ひろ子先生講演会、日本語オンリー、事前登録要

Monthly Co-working space - by Bioinformatics User Group

Title: Game-theoretic approaches to partial differential equations and related problems

Speaker: Prof. Jeongmin Han (Soongsil University)

TSVP Talk: Spontaneous quasiparticle creation in an analogue preheating experiment by Amaury Micheli

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).

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!

Speaker: Dr. Tatsuya C. Murakami, Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University.

Language: English

Seminar hosted by Computational Neuroscience Unit, Title: Intrinsic Motivation to Occupy Path Space as a Principle of Open-Ended Embodied Behavior, Speaker: Rubén MORENO-BOTE , Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Join OIST Innovation’s commercialization training program designed to help students, researchers, and administrators explore how research can move from lab to market. Through monthly, hands-on sessions from July to March, participants will learn the fundamentals of commercialization, customer discovery, business strategy, and pitching while developing their own innovation ideas.

National holiday

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).

Talk by Robb Rutledge (Yale University), August 10 (Mon) 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Join us for a Career Talk by Jordi Mompart , titled "More Than Quantum Physics." The speaker will share his unique career journey from being a professor of quantum mechanics to working at FC Barcelona, offering insights into career transitions, transferable skills, and opportunities beyond research.

Seminar by Dr. Alicia Schmidt-Roach

All OISTers and family are welcome! OIST-Keio "Sunset Social" will be held as a part of the "OIST-Keio International Research Summer Camp 2026". This is a great opportunity for the campers from Keio University Medical School and OISTers to interact and network. Please join us to meet the campers and enjoy food trucks, traditional craft making, live music, and outdoor games as the sun goes down!

Session 4:

Automated workflow , version-controlled scripts, and Structured project

Presenters: Igors Dubanevics Y4 @KondrashovU, Vitoria Yumi Uetuki Nicoleti Y1 @FukunagaU, Yui Tateyama Y1 @PaoU

Please contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.

Dr. Fang Ding, University of Science and Technology of China

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

Mr. Simone Bombari, Institute of Science & Technology Austria (ISTA), Austria

Rob Muth , Duquesne University Title: Crystals and KLR representations in type $A_1^{(1)}$

Speaker : Luis F Seoane

Institute for Evolutionary Biology (IBE)

Spanish National Research Council (UPF-CSIC)

This talk will also be broadcast online via Zoom : Meeting ID: 993 1216 5065 Passcode: 603487

Mini Course: AI for Protein Engineering

this is a hands-on session about using RFDiffusion to engineer yourself a protein!

Dr. Saacnicteh Toledo Patiño is an OIST Buribushi fellow

Speaker: Dr.Liangbing Luo,Queen’s University Title: Discrete Approximation on Metric Measure Spaces of Controlled Geometry via Graphs: Dirichlet Forms and Harmonic Functions Abstract:

Based on the approximation of a metric measure space via discrete graphs, we construct a Dirichlet form. This Dirichlet form is comparable to the upper gradient energy and can be realized as a -limit of a sequence of induced bilinear forms projected from the discrete energy form on the approximating graphs. Moreover, we approximate harmonic functions on a bounded domain with a prescribed Newton-Sobolev boundary data. Based on joint work with A. Butaev and N. Shanmugalingam.

Zoom registration

Let’s learn Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) and its history! with KEIO students!!

Seminar by Dr. Emilio Jose Juarez-Perez, Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragón (INMA, CSIC–University of Zaragoza)

This workshop offers hands-on microscope activities with OIST geologist Mirona Chirienco, exploring the rocks and minerals found in Okinawa.