Past Events
The Machine Learning Summer School in Okinawa 2024
Summer school to promulgate modern methods of statistical machine learning and inference. For students keen to learn about machine learning and for researchers who want to apply machine learning methods to problems. No longer accepting new applications.
Okinawa Campus Idea Pitch Contest Grand Finale
The Okinawa Campus Idea Pitch Contest, an English idea pitch contest presented by RyuLab and OIST Innovation, invites you to witness ten visionary nominees vying for a chance to attend the esteemed "hello tomorrow Global Summit 2024" in Paris, a premier gathering for global deep tech startups.
[Seminar] Dr. Junichi Ikenouchi "How are tight junctions different from other cell adhesion structures?"
Dr. Junichi Ikenouchi
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University
Welcoming C-Hub`s Inaugural Visiting Fellow Dr. Taralyn Tan
We are pleased to announce our inaugural C-Hub Visiting Fellow, Dr. Taralyn (Tari) Tan.
A university that maximally benefits from its diverse community places paramount importance on expanding its insights toward creating inclusive classrooms and research environments. For a creative, courageous institution like OIST, it is crucial for our students, faculty, researchers, and administrators to engage with bold international educators and innovators. C-Hub’s Visiting Fellow Program fosters exchange and synthesis in collaboration with distinguished educators and experts across the world. Visiting Fellows present seminars or workshops, and engage in discussions with the OIST community on topics of relevance to C-Hub’s mission. Visiting Fellows also have the opportunity to collaborate with C-Hub on a project or program that will benefit the OIST community and extend our capacity toward supporting justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
NTT R&D Seminar
NTT R&D company information session.
Venue: Lab4 F01
OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in February 2024
OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!
OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations
The OIST-Kyudai Symposium brings together minds from OIST and Kyushu University to delve into the realms of bio-inspired wonders and energy innovations.
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
TSVP Talk: "The Dirichlet Problem and Boundary Regularity: How To Attain the Boundary Values in a Good Way" by Anders Björn
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] A Lagrangian journey in compressible turbulence - Prof. Dhrubaditya Mitra
language : English
Policies for entanglement distribution in quantum networks: theory and practical performance analysis
Speaker: Mr. Stav Haldar, Louisiana State University
[Seminar] Prof. Han Yan "Designing Light in an Artificial Universe"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Teatime with BEENEXT and Silicon Valley Japan Platform
Join us for a casual teatime with special guests Teruhide Sato, Founder & CEO of BEENEXT Venture Capital, and Takayuki Doi, Entrepreneur Project Director of Silicon Valley Japan Platform. Monday, Feb 26, 2024 | 11:00-12:00 | Lab 3 Level A
OIST Workshop "Manifolds in Nature"
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Gerald Pao | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions ( OISTer registration required). Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
[Call for Startups] OIST-Lifetime Pitch Elevate 2024
We are calling for Healthcare & Sustainability Startups to participate in "OIST-Lifetime Pitch Elevate 2024", a VC-mentored pitch competition for idea-stage to seed/early-stage which takes place at OIST-Lifetime Startup Elevate held on April 25-26.
[Registration Deadline] OIST x iTHEMS workshop series -Will We Find Answers? Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe and Life - Series 1 | Cosmic ray and Life project |
Registration deadline for OIST x iTHEMS workshop series -Will We Find Answers? Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe and Life - Series 1 Cosmic ray and Life project is February 25th, 2024.
The Provost Lecture Series 12
【Seminar】Wavelet collocation methods for fractional optimal control problem.
Speaker: Kumar, Nitin Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
【Seminar】 The Neumann Problem for the bi-Laplacian in Infinite Sectors
Speaker: Kyeong, Jeongsu – PhD student at temple University
[Seminar] Computational science of turbulence - Universality, intermittency, and connection to real turbulence phenomena
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
【Seminar】Chemotaxis systems under Nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions.
Studium Generale by Prof. Till Weber (The University of the Ryukyus)
The Samurai – Japan´s history poster boys put into perspective – A tour through 800 years of political and cultural history
[Seminar] 'Guiding Light to Non-Classicality' by Dr Philipp Schneeweiss
Title: Guiding Light to Non-Classicality
Speaker: Dr Philipp Schneeweiss, Humboldt University, Germany
[Seminar] 'Ultrafast Rydberg experiments with ultracold atoms' by Dr Sylvain de Léséleuc
Presenter: Sylvain de Léséleuc Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki (Japan)
Sponsored by SPIE and Optica Student Chapters
[Mini-Course] Metric Embeddings - What, How and Why? Professor Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Jyväskylä)
Title: Metric Embeddings - What, How and Why? Speaker: Professor Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Jyväskylä)
Lecture 1 Feb 21, Wednesday 10:00-12:00 L4F01 Lecture 2 Feb 26, Monday 14:00-16:00 L4F01 Lecture 3 Feb 28, Wednesday 14:00-16:00 L4F01 Lecture 4 Mar 1, Friday 10:00-12:00 L4F01
TSVP Talk: "Embeddings as a Problem Solving Technique" by Sylvester Eriksson-Bique
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).
COI-NEXT Annual Symposium: Cutting-edge Science Toward Social Implementation
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming COI-NEXT Annual Symposium on "Cutting-edge Science Toward Social Implementation," organized by The Global Bioconvergence Center of Innovation at OIST. Don't forget to register to join the event!
[Poster Application Deadline] OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations
Poster Application deadline for OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations is February 20th, 2024.
[Registration Deadline] OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations
Registration deadline for OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations is February 20th, 2024.
(Cancelled) MLDS Unit seminar, Porf. Alex Orailoglu (University of California, San Diego), Seminar Room C210
Seminar by Prof. Orailoglu (UCSD). Algorithm-Centric Design of Reliable and Efficient Deep Learning Processing Systems
Class2022 PCD Group Project Final Presentation
Let’s vote for Class 2022 Group Project Awards!
Class 2022 OIST students have been working on group projects for about 10 months as a part of their Professional and Career Development Program (PCD) , completion of a group project is mandatory for all students in their Year 1-2 , and at the end, students give a presentation on their project.
Each group puts a tremendous amount of time and energy to create great projects. Please join and see their presentation and vote for;
The Best Project Award: Most ‘Wow-factored’ project Community Award: Most ‘community engaged’ project People’s Choice Award: Just because you LOVE it!Thank you for your participation and support for the Class 2022!
OIST Innovation open-hours
OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .
TSVP Talk: "Throwing Balls to Make Microscopic Waves" by Travis Scrimshaw
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] Prof. Robert Joynt "Adaptive quantum optimization algorithms for ising-like models"
https://oist.zoom.us/j/99423081186?pwd=QjVmY3lYSDJER2dPa2JCaEsrYjlRdz09&from=addon
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
[Seminar] 'Quantum computing with optical tweezer trapped arrays of neutral atoms' by Dr Ratnesh Kumar Gupta
Speaker: Dr Ratnesh Kumar Gupta, 5th Quantum Institute, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Seminar - Quantum Optics with Spins and Superconducting Cavities
The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) cordially invites to a seminar featuring:
Speaker: Prof. Johannes Majer
Affiliation: Division of Quantum Physics and Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China
Title: Quantum Optics with Spins and Superconducting Cavities
We look forward to your participation.
[Seminar] Prof. Rico Pohle "Ground state of the S=1/2 pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnet: A quantum spin liquid emergent from dimensional reduction"
https://oist.zoom.us/j/92847993223?pwd=U01KYURSdVJvWXhVVytZWXVMNGpBZz09&from=addon
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Neuroscience Symposium "The past and the future of synaptic physiology"
Language: English
Laser Veterinary Science Symposium and Hands-on Seminar
This is an externally organized event | Please contact the organizers directly for further details | Website (Japanese languange only)
Science Talk in Onna village
Science Talk
[Online Machine Learning Insights and Innovations (MLII) Seminar Series] Unlocking the Potential of Federated Learning in Medical Imaging, By Prof. Shadi Albarqouni, University of Bonn
Speaker: Prof. Shadi Albarqouni, Computational Medical Imaging Research, University of Bonn
[Seminar] Geometric PDE and Applied Analysis Seminar
Talk 1: 14:00-15:00
Speaker: Prof. Yoshiyuki Kagei (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Title: Eckhaus instability of the compressible Taylor vortices
Talk 2: 15:00-16:00
Speaker: Prof. Ryo Takada (University of Tokyo)
Title: Large time behavior of global solutions to the rotating Navier-Stokes equations
Talk 3: 16:15-17:15
Speaker: Prof. Lorenzo Cavallina (Tohoku University)
Title: A characterization of radial symmetry for composite media by overdetermined level sets
OIST Innovation open-hours
OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .
Connecting Innovators and Communities - How can we bridge research and community?
This event will focus on the theme of "agriculture," introducing issues in the field, OIST's research activities, and startup initiatives, and considering how research and local industrial activities can interact to create innovation in Okinawa.
Seminar - Education in Quantum Science at the Master’s Degree Level
The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) cordially invites to a seminar featuring:
Speaker: Emeritus Professor Robert Joynt
Affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Education in Quantum Science at the Master’s Degree Level
We look forward to your participation.
LLM Seminar: AI isn't the problem — it's the solution
AI Isn’t the Problem — It’s the Solution Date : Friday, Feb 9 @ 11:00 Location : Lab 5 DE13 and Zoom Speakers : Andrew Ng and Andrej Karpathy
Join us for an engaging exploration of AI’s promise, debunking myths, and understanding the fascinating world of Large Language Models (LLMs). Let’s embrace AI as a solution, not a problem!