Past Events

Lecture

Learn About Okinawa's History: A Historian and Elder’s Insights on the Battle of Okinawa

Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 13:30
OIST Auditorium

Learn About Okinawa's History: A Historian and Elder ’ s Insights on the Battle of Okinawa

Seminar

An animal should not do that – symbiotic annelids synthesize a plant sterol de novo

Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 11:00
L4F01

Seminar by Dr. Dolma Michellod (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany)

Graduate School

Big Geographical Data: a digital revolution for transportation studies (Session 2)

Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
C210 in-person

This Mini Course will provide participants with a better understanding of tools and techniques used for gathering, understanding and using geographical data. Although the focus is on human mobility data, principles and practices are relevant to much broader fields. We hope many of you will be able to join and consider potential applications in your own research. Each session is independent, so feel free to attend just one or both!

Seminar

[Seminar] Expected Expressivity and Gradients of Maxout Networks by Ms. Hanna Tseran, MPI

Monday, June 5, 2023 - 16:30
Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/95478318970?pwd=NjNUQVJFWmRZRGVOWTBpeFdNRUtyQT09

Ms. Hanna Tseran, MPI, "Expected Expressivity and Gradients of Maxout Networks"

Seminar

[Seminar] "Integrating interactive devices with the user’s body" by Dr. Pedro Lopes

Monday, June 5, 2023 - 14:30
C209, Central building

Dr. Pedro Lopes, Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

Seminar

Seminar "Impacting droplets on solid surfaces and mediation of entrapped air film using dielectrophoretic effect" by Prof. Tuan Tran

Monday, June 5, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
Lab1 C016

[Speaker] Prof. Tuan Tran, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Seminar

Date changed! [Seminar] "The man behind the curtain: AI, Complexity and Social Systems" by Marcin Korecki, ETH Zürich

Monday, June 5, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
C700, Lab 3

Date/Time: June 5 (Mon), 2023 / 12:00 - 13:00 (Postponed from June 1)

Location : L3 C700 and zoom

Speaker: Marcin Korecki, ETH Zürich

Title: The man behind the curtain: AI, Complexity and Social Systems

Graduate School

Big Geographical Data: a digital revolution for transportation studies (Session 1)

Monday, June 5, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
C210 in-person

This Mini Course will provide participants with a better understanding of tools and techniques used for gathering, understanding and using geographical data. Although the focus is on human mobility data, principles and practices are relevant to much broader fields. We hope many of you will be able to join and consider potential applications in your own research. Each session is independent, so feel free to attend just one or both!

Culture

Community Cooking Series - Class 6

Monday, June 5, 2023 - 09:00 to Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 17:00
Onna Fureai Center (Room #3 Ryukyu Cooking Room)

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Onna 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?).

OIST Workshops

OIST Workshop "Representation Theory of Hecke Algebras and Categorification"

Monday, June 5, 2023 (All day) to Saturday, June 10, 2023 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (L4E48)

OIST Workshop | Workshop website: | Main organizer: Liron Speyer (Representation Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions

Seminar

[Canceled] Seminar "Cell-substrate Impedance Sensing: in vitro Evaluation of Stress-induced Damages on H441 Lung Epithelial Cell Layer using Modeled Pulmonary Atelectrauma" by Dr. Eiichiro Yamaguchi

Friday, June 2, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab1 C016

[Speaker] Dr. Eiichiro Yamaguchi, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, USA.

External Events

Call for applications: Falling Walls Lab Tokyo 2023 co-hosted by OIST - 3min pitch competition for young researchers

Friday, June 2, 2023 (All day) to Friday, June 30, 2023 (All day)
Zoom

The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers developed and hosted annually by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin in November. In 3–minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin.

Recreation

June BeActive Fitness Classes

Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 09:00 to 17:30
Village Center Meeting Room and Ocean View Meeting Room

BeActive Fitness Classes

June Schedule - Registration now open

Via the Link

Outreach

Rosalind Franklin Forum for Female Scientists (ROZ) Poster Exhibition

Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 09:00 to Monday, June 19, 2023 - 10:00
Tunnel Gallery, Skywalk and Lab 4 (Level D)

The Rosalind Franklin Forum for Female Scientists (ROZ), Open to All is a scientific collective named in honor of the distinguished chemist-crystallographer, in which senior scientists provide advice to early career scientists. The forum is created by and for women but welcomes all practitioners everywhere. This exhibition will feature posters of female scientists from around the world.

To learn more, visit: Rosalind Franklin Forum for Female Scientists (ROZ), Open to All .

Culture

OIST students featured in popular TV show, "Waratte Koraete"

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 19:00 to 21:00
Realtime online view: https://tver.jp/live/ntv

OIST will be featured in a very famous Japanese TV show, Waratte Koraete! (笑ってこらえて!), on May 31.

Date/time: 7-9pm Wednesday May 31 st

Realtime online view: https://tver.jp/live/ntv

The following OIST students and topics will be featured:

Ant brain research by Shubham Florian's research on exoplanets using machine learning Miyu's study on memory Jann's clownfish reseach
Seminar

【Seminar】Surface accretion of a pre-stretched half-space: Biot’s problem revisited by Prof. Giuseppe Tomassetti

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
C700, Lab3 (Hybrid)

Speaker: Professor Giuseppe Tomassetti, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Seminar

QG group meeting: Higher Topological Quantum Mechanics on Graphs

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Slava Lysov. Title: Higher Topological Quantum Mechanics on Graphs.

Seminar

[Seminar] "The enigmatic evolutionary relationships among decapodiform cephalopod lineages" by Dr. Fernando Ángel Fernández-Álvarez

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room L4E01, Lab 4

[Speaker] Dr. Fernando Ángel Fernández-Álvarez, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM), CSIC, Spain

Recreation

Beach Cleanup at Tancha

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 17:30 to 18:30
Tancha Beach

May 30 is “Go-Mi- Zero” day in Japan (5=Go, 3-Mi, 0=Zero, Gomi=waste, garbage), and a great opportunity to think about nature and keep neighbourhood beaches clean.

This event is part of UMIGOMI ZERO WEEK ( https://uminohi.jp/umigomi/zeroweek/) .

Please:

Wear gloves Wear something blue (to note Umigomi Zero Week). Not compulsory.

In case of rain, the event will be canceled. No volunteer certificate will be issued for this event.

Contact Mayu at +81 50 54696440 with questions.

This event is part of OIST SDGs Initiative.

OIST Workshops

[Hybrid] OIST Workshop "Potential theory and random walks in metric spaces"

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 (All day) to Friday, June 2, 2023 (All day)
Zoom and OIST Main Campus, Sydney Brenner Lecture Theatre (B250)

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Xiaodan Zhou (Analysis on Metric Spaces) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions.

OIST campus will be closed on Thursday and Friday due to the typhoon. All talks will be online on Thursday and Friday. You can obtain a zoom link from here.

Seminar

Self-similarity approach on the dynamical impact of solid sphere onto the viscoelastic surface, Dr. Hirokazu Maruoka.

Monday, May 29, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab4, Level E, L4E48

Dr. Hirokazu Maruoka, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University.

Language: English.

Seminar

Seminar: Cichlid fishes as a model for evolution of altruism in vertebrates

Monday, May 29, 2023 - 15:00
OIST Main Campus (C209)

We are inviting Dr. Shun Satoh from Kyoto University who calls himself as a "Fish Maniac" in his blog.For his details please check the link below. https://symphysodondiscus.wixsite.com/website-1/blank-3 Date: May 29th(Mon) Time: 15:00* - Room: C209 (Center Bldg) *The start time has been updated as of May 19th. sorry for the inconvenience.

Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94360778822?pwd=ZDlPZFY2d3luQWovcUdLZ1lvbGdpQT09 Meeting ID: 943 6077 8822 Passcode: 705537 If you have any questions, please contact egu@oist.jp.

Seminar

Seminar by Dr.YongKeun Park "Holotomography and artificial intelligence: label-free 3D imaging, classification, and inference of live cells and organoids"

Monday, May 29, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
Seminar Room F01, Lab 4

* Dr.Yong Keun Park, Physics Department of KAIST, South Korea

* Language: English (No interpretation)

Culture

New Sci+Art Banner Unveiling

Monday, May 29, 2023 - 11:00

These new banners, featuring imagery created by OIST researchers as part of the scientific process, have been on display for a few days now. This exhibit opening will provide some background about the images and the project and thank the researchers for contributing.

Symposium

A recipe for scientific synergy -Series 4- “Advancing biotechnology through multidisciplinary approaches”

Monday, May 29, 2023 - 09:15 to 18:05
*On-site venue has been changed! The Center of Medical Innovation and Translational Research(CoMIT) building, Suita Campus, Osaka University/ Zoom for OISTers

Osaka University is one of OIST's strategic partners.

Since 2020, we have co-hosted a series called "Recipe for Scientific Synergy" to introduce researchers from both sides. In order to strengthen the network with a view toward more robust collaboration on bottom-up basis, we have decided to transform this series into an on-site symposium.

Culture

May Showers Concert

Saturday, May 27, 2023 - 13:30 to 16:00
OIST Auditorium

On May 27th, Saturday, our multi-talented OIST and Okinawan communities are coming together to put on a dynamic show. Please join us to enjoy an afternoon of performances ranging from classical & world dances, orchestral pieces & music bands, and martial arts displays!!

Recreation

Kids Movie Night

Friday, May 26, 2023 - 18:15 to 21:15
Auditorium Meeting Room 1

Kids movie night

This time, we are showing Moana.

Date: May 26th 18:15

Location: Auditorium meeting room one

Open to all ages (parental supervision is required)

Seminar

[Seminar] Cavity Magnonics

Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room F01 - Lab 4

Prof. Yaroslav M. Blanter, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology.

Professional Development

第2回 事務職員向け勉強会 ❘ #2 Study Sessions for Administrative Staff

Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
Seminar Room L4E48
*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第2回 事務職員向け勉強会 「科学と技術の研究分野」 (日本語) Speaker: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Public Lecture

Schooling Options Information Seminar

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 17:00
Conference Center Meeting Room 1

お子様の学校選択肢情報セッション Schooling Options Information Session

インターナショナルスクール6校の代表者に会う、質問する、情報を得る。Meet representatives from six different international schools and get your questions answered.

2023年5月24日(水) 17:00-18:30 May 24, 2023 (Wednesday)

Research

Joint Poster Session of OIST & ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project Members

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 16:00 to 18:00
outside B250

Open Poster Session (~20 posters by ERATO members and ~10 posters by OIST units)

Seminar

Genetic mutation in Escherichia coli genome during adaptation to the murine intestine is optimized for the host diet

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 15:20
B250

Seminar by Dr. Shinji Fukuda (Keio University and University of Tsukuba)

Seminar

Towards Prediction and Control of Microbial Evolution: Analysis of Phenotypic Constraints in Laboratory Evolution

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 14:40
B250

Seminar by Dr. Chikara Furusawa (RIKEN and University of Tokyo)

Seminar

QG group meeting: Higher Topological Quantum Mechanics

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Slava Lysov. Title: Higher Topological Quantum Mechanics.

Seminar

E. coli evolves into an insect mutualist in real-time

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 14:00
B250

Seminar by Dr. Takema Fukatsu (AIST, University of Tokyo, and University of Tsukuba)

Seminar

An evolutionary perspective on symbioses from the alvinocaridid shrimp family

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 11:00
L4E48
Seminar by Dr. Pierre Methou (JAMSTEC)

Seminar

[Seminar] Disorder effects in the Kitaev-Heisenberg model

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
L4E48 and Zoom

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

Seminar

[Seminar] "Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein dynamics and function" by Dr. Yuji Sugita

Monday, May 22, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:30
C700, Lab3

Dr. Yuji Sugita, Team Leader, Laboratory for Biomolecular Function Simulation, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research

External Events

The 40th Board of Governors Meeting

Sunday, May 21, 2023 (All day) to Monday, May 22, 2023 (All day)

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

External Events

Beach Cleanup at Senaha

Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 13:00 to 15:00
Senaha Beach

This event is part of UMIGOMI ZERO WEEK ( https://uminohi.jp/umigomi/zeroweek/) .

Please:

Wear gloves. Wear something blue (to note Umigomi Zero Week). Bring water.

In case of rain, the event will be postponed to Sunday, May 21.

Volunteer certificates are issued on request.

Contact Mayu at +81 50 54696440 with questions.

This event is part of OIST SDGs Initiative.

Please see attached flyer for map to the event.

External Events

The 39th Board of Governors Meeting

Saturday, May 20, 2023 (All day)

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Graduate School

Graduation Ceremony 2023

Friday, May 19, 2023 - 14:00 to 16:00
OIST Auditorium

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to students who have graduated in the period May 2022 to April 2023.

Research

[Seminar] Coral reef ecology and restoration research at the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory, Singapore

Friday, May 19, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Lab3 C700 Seminar Room

Speakers: Dr. Jani Tanzil, the Deputy Director of the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory and a Senior Research Fellow at the Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI), National University of Singapore Dr. Lionel Ng, Research Fellow at TMSI, National University of Singapore Mr. Ow Yong Wei Long, Research Assistant with the Coral Team at TMSI, National University of Singapore

Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

This talk will a broad overview of marine science research conducted in Singapore, with a focus on coral reef ecology and restoration efforts. This talk will also share more about Singapore’s only offshore marine research facility, the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory (SJINML), as a research infrastructure open to all marine science researchers, both local and international ( https://sjinml.nus.edu.sg/ ).

Research

Come chat with Serge!

Friday, May 19, 2023 - 10:00
L5DE18
Come chat with Serge…

Please join us for an informal discussion with Prof Serge Haroche…Serge was joint awardee of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”!

Recreation

May Flea Market

Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 16:30 to 18:30
Outside the Auditorium

Come buy and sell your 2nd hand things.

No registration required.

Grab a table from Conference Center Meeting Room 4. Put back your table at the end.

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "People, Environments, Sensors: Cyber Opportunities for Exploring Human Mobilities" by Christophe Claramunt

Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4E48, 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

Decoding the chemical language of plants

Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 10:30
L4F01

Seminar by Dr. Tomas Pluskal (IOCHB, Prague, CZ)

Research

Aivia Workshop Hands-on @ Lab4F14

Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 10:00 to Friday, May 19, 2023 - 18:00
Lab1 B503 & Lab4 L4F14

Aivia Workshop: Image Analysis Software

Seminar

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor. Andrew Miri : Firing dynamics organization of motor cortical influence

Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 09:30

Firing dynamics organization of motor cortical influence

ZOOM LINK

Campus Service

Teen Night

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 18:30 to 19:30
Conference Center Meeting Room 4

Teen Night for junior high school and high school kids only! Social night - play games, watch movies, do projects, socialize. Wednesdays from 18:30-19:30 in conference center meeting room 4. All teen s welcome!

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