Prof Tim Taminiau from QuTech in Delft, Netherlands, is an experimentalists who studies the use of defects in diamond continaing electron and nuclear spins for quantum technology. In this talk he will discuss recent progress in controlling such electron-nuclear spin systems for quantum networks and for distributed quantum computations and simulations.

A faculty-Grad School discussion on the use of AI tools in higher education .

OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to host Prof. Jimmy Dooley from the department of biological sciences, Purdue University, USA. If you are interested in knowing how slight twitchy movements during your sleep in your infancy shape your brain, make sure to join the seminar!

ZOOM LINK

Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Connolly

Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Join us next week on Tuesday, April 18th in seaside lounge from 18:30!

Visitor Seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics Title: "BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras"

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

Speaker: Nina Stiesdal, Institut of Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany

This is an externally organized event, For more information please go the conference website .

You can't spell "Ukulele Club" without U! And also "bulk eel cul" but that's harder to interpret.

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).

Prof. Hiroki Takahashi, Assistant Professor of the Experimental Quantum Information Physics Unit

Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Dr. Marco Michel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Title: Quantum Informational Analogue Models of Black Holes: What Happens After Half Evaporation?

Dr. Serg Bell is a Singaporean scientist, tech entrepreneur, and investor with over 350 patents and 400 publications. He has founded over 20 global IT companies, venture capital firms, and science institutions.

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

Language: English

[Speaker] Prof. Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara

Dr. Eduardo Sampaio , Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December.

C-Hub 第１回 事務職員向け勉強会　「研究者の活動」　（日本語）

Speaker: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Speaker::Jonathan R. WOODWARD

Professor of University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Speciality: Physical Chemistry,Photochemistry,Spin Chemistry

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/people100335.html

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizers: Reiko Toriumi (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit) and Kento Osuga (University of Tokyo) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Letten, ARC Fellow & Lecturer in Quantitative Biology at the University of Queensland

In this meeting we will discuss the proper method to cook and eat a soprano ukulele.

OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to host Prof. Takeshi Sakurai from the International Institute for Integrative Sleep (WPI-IIIS) Medicine, University of Tsukuba. Everyone is welcome to join the seminar!

Speaker: Dr. Meiyong LIAO, a Chief Researcher at National Institute for Material Science

Zoom :

https://oist.zoom.us/j/96289625266?pwd=TFdtZmRqbG5HSUhCa0xseit5ellIZz09

Passcode: 313298

Professor emeritus Hans (=J.A.J.) Metz, Institute of Biology and Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rolf Beutel, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Date

Old: Monday, March 27 , 2023 (11:00 - 12:00)

New: Wednesday, March 29 , 2023 (11:00 - 12:00)

Room

Old: Seminar Room C209, Center Building

New: Seminar Room C700, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Romain Quidant

Professor, Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Mr. Yuki Kanai, PhD Student, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan

“Hoshizuna: the floating star-sand” art installation

From Saturday, March 25, through Saturday, April 1, OIST will house giant balloons in the shape of Hoshizuna, or Okinawa star sand.

This presentation will cover a new perspective on the definition of chronic pain, coupled with the new brain studies postulating that emotional and physical pains share the same neural networks.

Sanshin classes by Satsuki Agena (January to March)

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Prof. Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies.

Langage: English.

Discussion of progress and roadmap for founding an OIST natural history collection.

Online seminar, hosted in C015 (Lab 1)

Dr. Farshid Jafarpour (Assistant Professor Utrecht University)

(Zoom link in description)

In this meeting, we will present information about the new Environmental Science and Informatics section in RSD and ask for feedback from users or potential users of our services. In the interests of keeping the meeting manageable we would prefer to have one representative per unit.

Speaker: Dr. Hui Wang, Riken

Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

OIST x OYW Spring Camp 2023: a five-day camp for high school students in Japan to address solutions to environmental issue.

National holiday

Seminar by Kavan Modi (Monash), Mon Mar 20 2pm JST

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Reiko Toriumi (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

Photographs taken by Noel Tovia Matoff of women mathematicians from around the world.

This is an externally organized event, For more information please go the conference website (Japanese language only).

The workshop will take place on March 17th at 14:30 GMT+9 in Lab4, room L4E45 and online via Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94928028761?pwd=akM1aktLcXhkeG1xUUlGVXV5RFdhQT09

Please, review the workshop program and talks .

Registration is now open!

Dr. Jun Okuda, Professor, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University. Language: English

The OIST Innovators Society is hosting an informal seminar with Shinji Odo, Founder and CEO of BAGASSE UPCYCLE Inc. ( https://bagasse-upcycle.com/home/ ) – an Okinawa-based startup whose mission is to change people‘s clothing consumption behavior in tourist destinations and travel scenes in a sustainable way.

Fun fact: Beyonce's famous "Single Ladies" is in fact a parody of an old Vaudeville song called "All the Ukuleles"!

[Speaker] Prof. Jun Sakakibara, Meiji University