Title : Objective Rates from Observation Structures: Continuum Mechanics in Constructive Tensor Theory

Speaker : Mr Hiroki Endo, PhD. Student, Nagaoka University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department

[Hybrid Seminar] "Project RAISE, Real-World Adaptive Intelligence Generated through Soft Embodiment" by Prof. Koh Hosoda, Kyoto University

March 30 (Mon) 2026, 11:00-12:00 @L5D23, Lab 5

ZOOM

Meeting ID: 982 0243 6241 Passcode: 834475

Speaker: Dr Ching Tat To, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tunghai University, Taichung City, Taiwan. Language: English

Cultural Event Series (CluES): Germany , presented by OISTers from Germany, will take place on Saturday, March 28 , at the Conference Center (Main Campus) starting from 5:00 PM. ALL members of the community, relatives, children and friends are welcome to attend this event. Entry is FREE. Join us for an evening of culture, music, crafts, and celebration. Don’t miss this chance to immerse yourself in German traditions! We will start with an interactive lecture, followed by a miniconcert of German classical music by Hokulani, then prepare May heart and Lanterns during workshops and finish with a Cologne-inspired carnival celebration with food tasting, music and a costume contest.

Spring Concert hosted by the joint collaboration of OIST x OPUA (Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts)

QG Lecture Series Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia, (OIST) Title: Review of some basic features of the SM and of GUTs

Through its " Regional Core Innovation Ecosystem Development Program ," OIST has been advancing demonstration projects this fiscal year across three key domains: energy, mobility, and drone logistics.

This symposium brings together co-implementing partners, policymakers, local governments, and businesses to share outcomes and explore pathways toward integrated regional solutions. Building on the unique challenges faced by island communities like Okinawa, discussions will focus on accelerating cross-sector collaboration and scaling toward real-world implementation in the years ahead.

Space is limited. Please register in advance for both in-person and online attendance.

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 Beyond Next Ventures .

Registration is required. If the number of applicants exceeds the available slots, OIST Innovation will select participants based on the information provided in the registration form and the strategic fit with the VC.

Strucshare Meeting by Rafael Ayala Hernandez

TSVP Talk, starting at 2pm 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).

Title: Laser cooling of aluminium monofluoride molecules in the deep ultraviolet

Speaker: Dr Dylan Brown, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

Speaker: Prof. Antonio Celani from The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP

Title: Decoding behavior with minimal and interpretable agent models

Coffee/Tea & Cookies will be served before the seminar at 15:00 - 15:30.

Mirror Lab Symposium: Frontiers in Recent Human Evolution

We will describe and discuss projects that explore genetic variants that emerged in the evolution of modern and archaic humans, and how such archaic variants affects humans today. We will also discuss projects that use ancient DNA to reconstruct the early peopling and history of the Japanese Archipelago. We will explore how we can intensify our collaborations in these areas and brainstorm about future research directions.

Admission free. Registration required.

Neural Computation Unit will hold a retreat/reunion at Seminar Room B250 on OIST main campus. If you are interested in joining, please contact <ncus@oist.jp>.

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).

Dr. Leandro Quadrana, Institute of Plant Science. University Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France

Title: Hot atomic vapors: From fundamental science to quantum technologies

Speaker: Dr Robert Löw, Deputy Director, 5th Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

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).

International Symposium of Life-Nonlife Transition: Boundaries Between Life and Nonlife, March 18-19, at Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Language: English, Registration needed.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yuliya Kulikova (Science and Technology Group)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

RIKEN-OIST Workshop for Hybrid Intelligence & Collective Behaviour ( HIVE ) 2026

We live in a highly interconnected and digitalised world, where information spreads rapidly among vast numbers of humans and autonomous agents, shaping societies in unprecedentedly complex and large-scale ways. Despite long-standing interest in collective behaviour, fully understanding it requires insights from cross-disciplinary approaches. Yet, superficial gaps in terminologies and concepts used across research domains have made interdisciplinary collaborations difficult. To address this gap, we organise HIVE 2026 to foster communication among researchers of collective behavior from diverse fields in OIST and RIKEN CBS, using computational models as a common language.

Title: Blow-up rate for the subcritical semilinear heat equation in non-convex domains

Speaker: Dr. Erbol Zhanpeisov (Tohoku University)

Talk by Dr. Nicola De Nitti, University of Pisa, March 17 (Tue) 9:00 - 10:00 am, L4E48

QG Lecture Series Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia, (OIST) Title: Review of some basic features of the SM and of GUTs

Recently, Lohvansuu (2023) introduced the p-modulus for families of k-dimensional Lipschitz chains and their dual families of (n-k)-dimensional chains. While he established an upper bound for the duality of these families on Lipschitz cubes, the corresponding lower bound remained an open question. Subsequently, Kangasniemi and Prywes (2025) developed dMod, a related notion of modulus based on differential forms, and successfully established a full duality result. In this talk, I will explore the implications of these developments and discuss related open problems.

[Conference] Augmented Humans 2026 (AHs’26)

The Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2026

ポスト5G情報通信システム基盤強化研究開発事業 量子コンピュータ領域における非ハードウェア開発のための人材育成型共同開発プラットフォームの事業説明や量子人材育成に関するパネルディスカッションを通してプラットフォームへの参加募集を行います。

OIST博士課程学生が自身の学びの歩みと研究についての公開発表を行います。 3/15 (日) 14:30 — 16:30

OIST Graduate Students will give a public presentation about their educational journey and research at OIST.

QG Lecture Series Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia, (OIST) Title: Review of some basic features of the SM and of GUTs

This project is joint work with Nathan Albin, Joan Lind and Pekka Pankka. Our goal is to approximate planar p-capacity (or continuous p-modulus) in topological rectangles using discrete p-modulus defined on an approximating orthodiagonal map. To that end, I will first introduce the planar p-capacity problem we are interested in and then I will give an overview of the theory of p-modulus on finite graphs, describing various notions of duality, and establishing its relation to the discrete p-Laplacian and to non-linear flows.

Given a discrete graph and a family of objects (walks, spanning trees, edge covers, etc.) on the graph, p-modulus provides a mathematical way to quantify the "richness" or "robustness" of that family. Acting as a tunable metric, p-modulus generalizes classical graph metrics—such as shortest path, effective resistance, and minimum cut—to provide a multifaceted view of the graph's topology and geometry. Through the lens of modulus, we can explore a variety of structural properties of the graph. This talk will introduce p-modulus, describe its basic properties, connect it to well-known graph-theoretic quantities, and explore the powerful theory of Fulkerson blocking duality, which connects each family of objects to a natural dual family that provides deep insights into the graph's structural properties.

Dr Shahriar Esmaeili, Former Quantum Research Engineer, Toyota Research Institute of North America

Dr George Winstone, NorthWestern University, USA

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

Prof. Michael Lenhard, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany

Assistant ProfessorAlessia Antelmi, Computer Science assistant professor (RTD-A) at the University of Turin

Assistant Professor Mirko Polato

University of Turin, Department of Computer Science

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

March 11th (Wed) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

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

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

The 10th OIST–Keio Joint Symposium brings together various perspectives on fluid dynamics, highlighting recent advances across theory, computation, and experiment. Through a series of focused talks and poster presentations, the event spans fundamental flow phenomena, complex and multiscale fluids, and engineering‑relevant applications. This 10th showcase continues a series of events bringing Keio and OIST researchers together to foster discussion and enable innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration.

QG Seminar (Zoom)

Speaker: Maor Ben-Shahar, (MIT)

Title: Classical spinning particles for black hole physics

In this workshop, you'll learn how to transform research, data, and technology into narrative beats that tell the right stories to the right audience. While the workshop centers on climate communication, the methods introduced are applicable to any research that aims to move people through scientific storytelling. If you're interested in delivering your message beyond the scientific community, we'd love to have you join us.

OIST COI-NEXT Annual Symposium 2026 Sustaining Innovation Beyond the Lab Date: March 9th, 2026, at 9:30-17:00 Venue: Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250) Target audience: General audience/ open to everyone at OIST and beyond. Registration Deadline: February 26, 2026