Past Events

Seminar

Hybrid-Pixel Detectors for Electron Microscopy

Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00
C016

Abstract : Hybrid-pixel detectors have revolutionized electron microscopy by combining direct detection with noise-free readout and single-electron sensitivity. This technology enables ultrafast 4D STEM at 120,000 frames per second and high-resolution EELS, allowing for the visualization of beam-sensitive materials and complex magnetic domains. By integrating high dynamic range with radiation-hard designs, Hybrid-pixel detectors bridge the gap between traditional imaging and advanced diffraction analysis to empower breakthroughs in materials science and structural biology.

Research

Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Von Neumann entropy and quantum relative entropy

Monday, May 11, 2026 - 10:00 to 12:00
Lab 4 F01 **Venue change today only**

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

Symposium

OIST-Keio Showcase Talk Series Vol. 11: Resonance Matters - Micro-Optical Resonators for Quantum, Bio, and Energy Applications

Monday, May 11, 2026 (All day)
L5D23

Resonance Matters - Micro-Optical Resonators for Quantum, Bio, and Energy Applications

This focused scientific meeting (Partnership Event) will bring together researchers from OIST and Keio University to explore recent advances in micro-optics resonators, with an emphasis on applications in quantum technologies and energy-related photonics. Whispering-gallery resonators offer exceptional optical confinement and high quality factors, enabling strong light–matter interactions, nonlinear optical processes, and sensitive transduction mechanisms. These properties make WGMs a powerful platform for emerging quantum systems as well as for energy-relevant applications such as sensing, frequency conversion, and photonic energy management.

Lecture

Public Lecture:"The Science of Creamy Cacio e Pepe" by Daniel Busiello

Friday, May 8, 2026 - 18:00
Seminar Room B250

Title : The Science of Creamy Cacio e Pepe タイトル: 「クリーミーなカチョ・エ・ペペの科学」

Abstract :

Cacio e pepe is one of Italy's most popular pasta dishes, but even (Italian) scientists often fail to prepare the perfect creamy sauce. Daniel Maria Busiello, a physicist at the University of Padua, also struggled with this—until he had had enough of random trial and error, and approached the problem scientifically. Together with colleagues (all Italian) from the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, and the University of Barcelona, he set out to uncover the secret of the perfect sauce so that it would turn out right every time.

Seminar

Seminar: Engineering and Characterizing Non-Local Interactions in Quantum Simulators by Dr. Yu-Ting Chen (NIST)

Friday, May 8, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
C210+Zoom

Title: Engineering and Characterizing Non-Local Interactions in Quantum Simulators

Seminar

[Seminar] Vertex algebras and enumerative geometry by Professor Woonam Lim, Yonsei University

Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 10:30 to 12:00
Seminar Room L5D23

Woonam Lim, Ph.D (Mathematics)

Assistant Professor, Algebraic Geometry, Yonsei University

Holiday

National Holiday 国民の祝日

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

Children's Day こどもの日

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

Greenery Day みどりの日

Monday, May 4, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Seminar

[Seminar] "Single-cell genomics and fluorescence microscopy indicate permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid" by Prof. Fabien Burki

Friday, May 1, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
! Room changed! L4F01, Lab4

Prof. Fabien Burki, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Organismal Biology; Systematic Biology at Uppsala University, Sweden

Seminar

[Seminar] Dr. Sanaz Hazraty Kari "Coral-algal symbiosis as a dynamic process during coral bleaching"

Friday, May 1, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room L4E01

Seminar by Dr. Sanaz Hazraty Kari - University of Ryukyus

Research

Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Classical hypothesis testing

Friday, May 1, 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

【Register Now!】 Public Lecture:"The Science of Creamy Cacio e Pepe" by Daniel Busiello

Thursday, April 30, 2026 (All day) to Thursday, May 7, 2026 (All day)
B250

The Science of Creamy Cacio e Pepe - クリーミーなカチョ・エ・ペペの科学

Cacio e pepe is one of Italy's most popular pasta dishes, but even (Italian) scientists often fail to prepare the perfect creamy sauce. Daniel Maria Busiello, a physicist at the University of Padua, also struggled with this—until he had had enough of random trial and error, and approached the problem scientifically. Together with colleagues (all Italian) from the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, and the University of Barcelona, he set out to uncover the secret of the perfect sauce so that it would turn out right every time.

Holiday

Showa Day 昭和の日

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Training

【April 28th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【4/28】 旅費相談会

Tuesday, April 28, 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。

Seminar

[Seminar] Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
E01, Lab4

Title: Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms

Speaker: Dr. Xitong Liang, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University.

Seminar

[Seminar] Matrix Bootstrap Approximation without Positivity Constraint | Reishi Maeta (Hiroshima University / McGill University)

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 - 09:00
L4E01

Speaker : Reishi Maeta (Hiroshima University / McGill University) Title : Matrix Bootstrap Approximation without Positivity Constraint Date and time : 28 th April Tuesday at 9:00 Language: English

Innovation

[Registration Closed] OIST Deeptech Mixer (SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 Partner Event) | Powered by Bank of the Ryukyus

Monday, April 27, 2026 - 18:00 to 20:30
Inspired. Lab (Otemachi Building B2F, Otemachi 1-6-1, Chiyoda, Tokyo)

Held alongside SusHi Tech Tokyo, the OIST Deeptech Mixer brings together OIST researchers and OIST-born startups visiting from Okinawa, alongside corporate partners and venture capitalists already working with OIST. Through featured presentations, you'll gain insight into where OIST innovation stands today — and where it's headed. Following the sessions, a dedicated networking time will provide fertile ground for new collaborations to take shape.

Outreach

Expanding the World of Science Through Yanbaru: KAGAKUJIKAN2026

Saturday, April 25, 2026 - 10:00
Nago Museum

Research

Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Large deviation theory

Friday, April 24, 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

Seminar

[CAEE] "The nature of LUCA, and the timeline of metabolic evolution" by Dr. Edmund R. R. Moody, University of Barcelona / University of Bristol

Friday, April 24, 2026 - 09:00 to 10:00
B250

CAEE invited talk, Dr. Edmund R. R. Moody, University of Barcelona / University of Bristol

Lecture

Public Lecture: "A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery" by Oliver Aalami and Torbjörn Lundh

Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 19:00 to 20:00
Seminar Room C210 (OIST's Center Building)

Public Lecture : "A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery" by Oliver Aalami (Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign) and TSVP Visiting Scholar Torbjörn Lundh (Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg) Open to all interested in the topic! OISTにて開催される Torbjörn Lundh 氏および Oliver Aalami 氏による公開講演に、ぜひご参加ください。

Seminar

[CAEE] "Hunting novel lineages and their genomes" by Prof. Ben J. Woodcroft, QUT

Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 10:30 to 11:30
B250

CAEE invited talk, Prof. Ben J. Woodcroft, QUT

Research Training

HPC User Group Meeting

Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
L5D23

The next High-Performance Computing User Group Meeting is April 23. Everybody is Welcome!

Seminar

[CAEE] "Predicting interaction partners and generating new protein sequences using protein language models" by Prof. Anne-Florence Bitbol, EPFL

Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 09:00 to 10:00
B250

CAEE invited talk, Prof. Anne-Florence Bitbol, EPFL

Seminar

QG Seminar (Zoom): Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 16:00
L4E01

QG Seminar (Zoom)

Speaker: Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)

Title: Black hole thermodynamics at future null infinity

Seminar

[CAEE] "Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes: Reconstructing and deconstructing the Tree of Life" by Dr. Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès, UOC-TECH, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
B250

CAEE invited talk, Dr. Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès, UOC-TECH, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Playing With Magnets, Geometry and Bacteria." by Andrés Concha

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4E48 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

[CAEE] "Integration of phylogenetics-independent tools for brainstorming evolution of metabolism" by Dr. Masaru K. Nobu, JAMSTEC

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00
B250

CAEE invited talk, Dr. Masaru K. Nobu, JAMSTEC

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Henrik M. Rønnow "Neutron studies of SrCu2(BO3)2 under extreme conditions – a fruit fly for quantum many body physics"

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
C210 / Zoom

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

Seminar

[CAEE] "Network approaches for thinking about early metabolic evolution" by Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 09:00 to 10:00
B250

CAEE invited talk, Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo

Seminar

Seminar by Dr. Poulami Chatterjee (Presidency University) and Dr. Masayuki Shiba (Tokyo City University)

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:30
Lab 3, C700

Seminar by Dr Masayuki Shiba and Dr. Poulami Chatterjee

Seminar

[CAEE] "Dating deep divergences: challenges and emerging strategies in Bayesian phylogenomic dating" by Dr. Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, University College London

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00
B250

CAEE invited talk, Dr. Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, University College London

Seminar

[CAEE] "The origin of eukaryotes: recent progress and open questions" by Prof. Tom A. Williams, University of Bath

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 09:00 to 10:00
B250

CAEE invited talk, Prof. Tom A. Williams, University of Bath

OIST Workshops

Computational Approaches to Early Evolution

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 (All day) to Friday, April 24, 2026 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Gergely Szöllősi (Model Based Evolutionary Genomics (Szöllősi) Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Seminar

[CAEE] "Towards a robust and complete species tree" by Prof. Phil Hugenholtz, University of Queensland

Monday, April 20, 2026 - 17:30 to 18:30
B250

CAEE Keynote, Prof. Phil Hugenholtz, University of Queensland

Seminar

【Seminar】"Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers" by Prof. Thomas Powers

Monday, April 20, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room C210 - Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Powers from Brown University

Title: Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers

Seminar

Seminar "Epigenetics for recombination during meiosis: The role of PRDM9"

Friday, April 17, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
C016, Lab1

Dr. Bernard de Massy, Institute of Human Genetics Montpellier

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 23

Friday, April 17, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
The Provost Lecture Series
Seminar

【Seminar】"Ecophysiological strategies of plants inhabiting harsh environments: leaf trichomes in Hawaii and root distributions in Alaska." by Dr. Gaku Amada

Friday, April 17, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00
C209 (Center Building), Zoom

Dr. Gaku Amada, a JSPS Research Fellow PD at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, mechanisms of maintaining plant biodiversity in permafrost environments.

Research

Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Classical entropies from the point of view of asymptotics and large deviations

Friday, April 17, 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

[Analysis and PDE Seminar] Geometry and the Solvability of the Parabolic Dirichlet Problem

Friday, April 17, 2026 - 09:00 to 10:00
Online

Talk on April 17, 9:00 am (JST) by James Warta, University of Missouri

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Bond Activation and Homogeneous Catalysis Beyond Classical Reactivity Patterns" by Robert Langer

Thursday, April 16, 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]"Temperature-induced effects in organic thin films comprising energy donor-acceptor systems" by Dr. Piotr Ślęczkowski

Thursday, April 16, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Seminar by Dr. Piotr Ślęczkowski, Lodz University of Technology

Professional Development

From PhD to Possibility: Careers, Confidence, and Finding Your Way

Thursday, April 16, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
Room C700
From PhD to Possibility: Careers, Confidence, and Finding Your Way Making sense of uncertainty, articulating your value, and navigating non-linear career paths
External Events

Seminar Abberior Super Resolution Nanoscopy

Thursday, April 16, 2026 - 13:00
Seminar room Center Building B503

Abberior Super Resolution Nanoscopy

Seminar

QG seminar: Self-dual holography

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 14:00
Center Building, B503

QG seminar. Speaker: Richard van Dongen (University of Mons) Title: Self-dual holography

Seminar

Seminar "Plant Mobile Domain proteins regulate gene expression"

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00
C700, Lab 3

Dr. Guillaume Moissiard, LGDP UMR5096 CNRS/UPVD

Seminar

[Seminar] "Horizontal mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group as scaling limit of an interacting particle system" by Prof. Nicolas Dirr

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
L4E01

Title: Horizontal mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group as scaling limit of an interacting particle system

Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Dirr (Cardiff University)

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