This interactive workshop will begin with Dr. Tan framing the current state of gender equity in STEM, including progress that has been made, challenges that remain, and efforts to support women in STEM. In the second part of the workshop, C-Hub Director Dr. Kathy Takayama will guide us in using a systems thinking approach to collaboratively identify concrete pathways towards change within the local OIST environment and beyond. Workshop participants will leave this session with stronger social and professional connections with colleagues and with greater awareness of local and global challenges and priorities for improving gender equity in STEM.

OIST, in collaboration with UC Santa Barbara, is hosting a groundbreaking symposium entitled "Materials of Tomorrow: Harnessing Responsiveness, Intelligence, and Sustainability." This event will bring together leading researchers to explore cutting-edge advancements in material science. The symposium is structured into four Sessions, each delving into crucial topics such as unconventional electronic states, stable charge-separated states in organic semiconductors, energy technologies with polymers, and sustainable and responsive materials design. The discussions will underscore the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and the urgent need for sustainable solutions in materials science.

"Singing in the brain: learning to vocalize by communicating with others during development" Prof. Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama, Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit

Language: English

linked to TSVP Thematic Program: Response Diversity and Ecosystem Stability (TP23RD)

Language: Japanese with English interpretation

Audience: Parents and professionals supporting children in local community, OISTers

Research talk + panel discussion with community members: 14:00-16:00

Teatime gathering:16:00-17:00

Seminar, as part of Thematic Program on Response Diversity Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Students and Researchers from related fields. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

A physics lecture for non-physicists. Title: Windows, Bubbles, Quantum-Schmantum. Speaker: Yasha Neiman.

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

During this brownbag session, Dr. Tan will describe her professional journey from graduate school studying neuroscience to her current position in higher education leadership. She will discuss some of the work that she does and will offer advice to trainees interested in further exploring career opportunities in the teaching / higher education administration space. Dr. Tan will be joined by Dr. Ian McLachlan, a Scientist at the Boston area-based Rgenta Therapeutics , who will similarly describe his career trajectory and his work in the biotech industry. Dr. McLachlan earned his PhD in Neurobiology at Harvard University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at MIT before beginning his current role at Rgenta.

Registration deadline for OIST-UC Santa Barbara Mini Symposium "Materials of Tomorrow: Harnessing Responsiveness, Intelligence, and Sustainability"

Title: Nanoaperture Optical Tweezers: From single proteins to quantum emitters

Speaker: Dr Reuven Gordon , Ph.D., P. Eng., Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan

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

[Seminar] “Axonal transport disfunctions in neurodegenerative diseases” by Prof. Giampietro Schiavo

National holiday

Title: Analytical Methods for Near-Field Optics

Speaker: Dr Reuven Gordon , Ph.D., P. Eng., Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan

Title: Atom-interferometry based Quantum gravimeter for field applications Speaker: Dr. Ravi Kumar, Atomionics Pte, Ltd, Singapore Ltd, Singapore

Join us at the Okinawa Sustainable City Summit 2024

Speaker: Prof. Nana Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityQuantum simulators were originally proposed to be helpful for simulating one partial differential equation (PDE) in particular – Schrodinger’s equation. If quantum simulators can be useful for simulating Schrodinger’s equation, it is hoped that they may also be helpful for simulating other PDEs. As with large-scale quantum systems, classical methods for other high-dimensional and large-scale PDEs often suffer from the curse-of-dimensionality (costs scale exponentially in the dimension D of the PDE), which a quantum treatment might in certain cases be able to mitigate. To enable simulation of PDEs on quantum devices that obey Schrodinger’s equations, it is crucial to first develop good methods for mapping other PDEs onto Schrodinger’s equations.

Title: Ultracold atoms carrying orbital angular momentum in lattices of rings

Speaker: Professor Verónica Ahufinger, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

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

Thermodynamics of accelerating AdS_4 black holes from the covariant phase space

Aaron Poole

Kyung Hee University, South Korea

The 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Neurorobotics March 18 - 19, 2024 @OIST Conference Center meeting rooms #1, 2, 3

Admission free. Registration required.

Neural Computation Unit will hold a retreat/reunion at OIST seaside house. If you are interested in joining, please contact ncus@oist.jp

Seminar, as part of Thematic Program on Response Diversity 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:Prof. Katsura Kobayashi (Institute for Planetary Materials, Okayama University)

Seminar by Dr. Batyr OSmonov, MD

Seminar, as part of Thematic Program on Response Diversity 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).

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) cordially invites to a seminar featuring:

Speaker: Noriaki Horiuchi, PhD

Affiliation: Senior Editor, Springer Nature, Japan

Title: What Nature Photonics looks for

We look forward to your participation.

The GS-hosted International Graduate School Administration Forum at OIST planned for 14 ^th and 15 ^th March. The Forum will serve as an arena where like-minded individuals in the academic administrative field will gather to exchange ideas and develop a deeper understanding of successfully running an international graduate school in Japan.

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

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Seminar, as part of Thematic Program on Response Diversity 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).

QG group meeting. Speaker: Subhajit Mazumdar. Title: "Gravitostatic Love Numbers from Membrane Paradigm at large D".

OIST Center for Quantum Technologies Colloquium: Potential of Diamond Quantum Sensors

Prof. Mutsuko Hatano, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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

This interactive workshop will introduce approaches to facilitate inclusion, equity, and belonging in classroom, laboratory, and institutional training contexts. Workshop attendees will leave this session equipped with knowledge of evidence-based practices to promote equity, inclusion, and belonging and ideas for how to implement some of those practices within their local training environments.

Title: Dipolar quantum gases: From rotons to supersolids

Speaker: Dr. Manfred Mark, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

[Speaker] Professor Suzana J. Camargo, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Seminar, as part of Thematic Program on Response Diversity Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Students and Researchers from related fields. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Seminar, as part of Thematic Program on Response Diversity Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Students and Researchers from related fields. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

The OIST High-Performance Computing User Group Meeting. Learn all about the newest news. Everybody is welcome!

Speaker: Dr. Saronath Halder, University of Warsaw

Seminar (40 mins), as part of Thematic Program on Response Diversity Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Students and Researchers from related fields. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

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?).

Speaker: Dr. Makio KASHINO (Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories)

Title: Understanding and shaping implicit brain functions that support physical and mental skills in sports

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).

Speaker: Prof. Ryoma Kamikawa, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University

C-Hub’s Annual Symposium brings together bold ideas and innovative thinkers to explore themes that enhance our ability to engender excellence through inclusion. Each year, we focus on a specific topic (2021: Inclusive Mentoring; 2022: Inclusive Leadership) to invite the broader community to share their work, insights, and practices.