Past Events
TSVP Talk: "Can Legal Contracts be Smart or can Smart Contracts be Legal?" by Anna Katharina Suzuki-Klasen
Can Legal Contracts be Smart or can Smart Contracts be Legal? 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).
Late Night Science (ONOS)
Neuroscience Online Seminar + Social Event at Lab 5 D23
Prof. Claudia Clopath on Engram dynamics during consolidation - Bioengineering Department at Imperial College London
Society for Neurodiversity Meeting
All OIST community is invited for one more meeting of the Society for Neurodiversity.
TSVP Talk: "Geometry, Optimal Transport and Statistical Physics" by Kohei Suzuki
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: “Biotremologist dreaming to be an insect: A brief introduction to a hidden world of vibrational communication” by Dr. Meta Virant-Doberlet
Speaker: Dr. Meta Virant-Doberlet, Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Convergence: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Solving Complex Problems
COI Annual Symposium 2025 Convergence: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Solving Complex Problems
Time: 14:00 Feb 25 – 16:30 Feb 26 Venue: Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)
QG seminar: Scattering amplitudes for entangled states
QG visitor seminar. Speaker: Yair Mulian (Academia Sinica) Title: "Scattering amplitudes for entangled states"
Neural Computation Workshop 2025 (FY2024)
Neural Computation Unit will hold a retreat/reunion at Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250) on OIST main campus. If you are interested in joining, please contact <ncus@oist.jp>.
TSVP Talk: "Investigating the Mysteries of Body Language" by Claire Wyart
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).
OIST Innovation Open Hour
OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday .
Analysis on Metric Spaces Seminar 2025 | Periodic homogenization for non-local stable-like operators, Professor Takashi Kumagai, Waseda University
Homogenization has been a very active area of research in both PDE and probability theory for many years. In this talk, we will first review classical results on periodic homogenization for divergence form operators. We will then present our recent results on periodic homogenization for non-local, stable-like operators. Both qualitative and quantitative results will be discussed. Moreover, we will explore quantitative periodic homogenization on bounded domains, where the rate of convergence near the boundary slows down
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
Sushi Making Workshop 【Registration is closed】
Optics Seminar: Principles and applications of optical and acoustic trapping combined with Raman spectroscopy
Title: Principles and applications of optical and acoustic trapping combined with Raman spectroscopy Speaker: Dr Silvie Bernatova, CNR Italy
[Seminar] "Dissecting the senescence regulatory network" by Dr. Chanhee Kang
[Affiliation] Associate Professor, SSTF Investigator, SUHF Young Investigator School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University
[Seminar Title] Dissecting the senescence regulatory network
Sounds of Ryukyu 2025
Admission free. Registration required.
“Sysmex Future” – Driving Innovation and Vision for a New Era
Talks by the Chairperson, Mr. Ietsugu and the President, Mr. Asano of Sysmex Corporation. Languaage: English and Japanese (simulteneous interpretation provided). No registration needed for OIST community.
[Lecture Series] Handles and surgery | Prof.Andrew Lobb (Durham University, UK)
Speaker : Prof. Andrew Lobb (Durham University, UK) Title : Handles and surgery Date and time& Location :
Lecture 1) Friday 14 th Feb 10h00-12h00 (L4F01)
Lecture 2) Monday 17 th Feb 13h30-15h30 (L4E01)
Lecture 3) Friday 21st Feb 10h00-12h00 (L4F01)
Lecture 4) Friday 28 th Feb 10h00-12h00 (L4E01)
Lecture 5) Monday 3 rd March 13h30-15h30 (L4E01)
Lecture 6) Friday 7 th March 10h00-12h00 (L4E01)
Lecture 7) Monday 17 th March 13h30-15h30) (L4E01)
Language: English
Seminar "Apparent competition: Reflections on humans as mediators, agents, and victims" by Dr. Robert Dan Holt
Speaker: Prof. Robert Dan Holt
Title: Apparent competition: Reflections on humans as mediators, agents, and victims
Affiliation: Affiliate Eminent Scholar, Center for African Studies, University of Florida, USA
Hosted by Dieckmann Unit
[Seminar] Exploring the neurobiological mechanisms of aggression escalation in mice
Title: Exploring the neurobiological mechanisms of aggression escalation in mice
Speaker:Aki Takahashi, Laboratory of Behavioral Neurobiology, Institute of Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Language: English, no interpretation
Seminar "SARS-Cov2 meets the ecological niche" by Dr. Robert Dan Holt
Speaker: Prof. Robert Dan Holt
Title: SARS-Cov2 meets the ecological niche
Affiliation: Eminent Scholar and Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecological Studies, University of Florida, USA
Hosted by Dieckmann Unit
Presidential Lecture by Robert D. Holt
Presidential Lecture by Robert D. Holt on "The Value of Long-Term Experiments in Ecology"
HPC on AWS
HPC on AWS is a one-day hands-on tutorial, run by Amazon Web Services, that teaches you how to set up a Slurm-based cluster in the cloud. The event needs pre-application.
Seminar: Individually Addressable Atom Array Coupled to an Optical Nanofiber Cavity: Advancing Towards Quantum Computing with Optical Nanofiber Cavity-QED
Talk title: Individually Addressable Atom Array Coupled to an Optical Nanofiber Cavity: Advancing Towards Quantum Computing with Optical Nanofiber Cavity-QED
Speaker: Dr Jameesh KELOTH, Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Japan
TSVP Talk: "Quantum Foundations: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?" by Ana Belen Sainz
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).
OIST-Kyudai Joint Workshop Series 2: Evolution of a Digital Society through Next-Generation AI and Quantum Technology
OIST and Kyusyu University have signed an MOU in 2023 to pursue broad research collaboration. As part of this initiative, we have been holding joint symposia to deepen exchanges between our researchers. The first symposium was held at OIST last year with the theme "Bio-inspired Energy." The 2nd Joint Workshop will be held in Kyushu University focusing on Quantum Technology and AI.
Seminar "From Extinction to Expansion: The Role of Vacancies in the Evolution of Cooperation" by Prof. Hye Jin Park
Speaker: Prof. Hye Jin Park
Title: From Extinction to Expansion: The Role of Vacancies in the Evolution of Cooperation
Affiliation: Department of Physics, Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
Hosted by Dieckmann Unit
[Seminar]Prof. Toshiya Hikihara "Efficacy of optimization of Network Structure in Tree-tensor network approaches"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
[Seminar]Dr. Tsutomu Momoi "Numerical Approaches to Low-Energy Effective Hamiltonians in Many-Body Systems: Applications to Spin Excitations"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Optics Seminar: Imaging in 3D and other fun things to do through multimode fibres
Title: Imaging in 3D and other fun things to do through multimode fibres
Speaker: Dr Peter Mekhail, University of Glasgow, Scottland
OIST Science Festival 2025
Official webpage is published! Please click here for more information.
Action, valence, dopamine (ONOS)
Prof. Bertram Gerber, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
Come in person for some active discussion and snacks!
Seminar "Large-scale Metabolic Interaction Network of the Mouse and Human Gut Microbiota" by Prof. Roktaek Lim
Speaker: Prof. Roktaek Lim
Title: Large-scale Metabolic Interaction Network of the Mouse and Human Gut Microbiota
Affiliation: Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Hosted by Dieckmann Unit
Seminar "Optimal Distancing Strategies and Incentives in the Absence of Effective Vaccines" by Mr. WooJoong Kim
Speaker: Mr. WooJoong Kim
Title: Optimal Distancing Strategies and Incentives in the Absence of Effective Vaccines
Affiliation: Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Hosted by Dieckmann Unit
OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 7- Science meets Society: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences
OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 7
Allen Neural Dynamics Workshop at OIST
Neural Computation Unit will host a joint workshop with Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics.
Keynote lecture in cryo electron microscopy workshop
Keynote lecture in cryo electron microscopy workshop: Professro Yoshinori Fujiyoshi ( Science Tokyo)
TSVP Talk: "Quantum Groups and Quantum (Relativistic) Symmetries" by Anna Pachol
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).
OIST x JST Act-X joint mini-symposium "Life and Chemistry"
This is a joint mini-symposium between OIST and JST Act-X. Act-X is a JST grant program designed to support young researchers. The symposium features four speakers from Act-X’s research area, “Life and Chemistry,” and four speakers from OIST. While the symposium is titled “Life and Chemistry,” the topics covered are quite diverse. The primary aim of this event is to foster meaningful interactions between researchers at OIST and those from outside institutions.
2025 Cryo-Electron Microscopy Course
Internal and external workshop
[Registration Deadline] OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 7- Science meets Society: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences
Registration deadline for OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 7 - Science meets Society: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences is January 27th, 2025.
CLuES: New Year Celebrations around the World
CLuES: New Year Celebrations around the World presented by OISTers!
[Seminar] Research and Development of in-Space Transportation Systems for Small Spacecraft`s and CubeSats` Applications
Speaker: Giuseppe Gallo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Manoa
Please RSVP by noon on Jan. 22nd: https://forms.gle/31uFi7VNEmmKFa38A
【Mathematics in the Sciences seminar series】 Contraction analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems -- a tutorial survey
Speaker: Professor Jean-Jacques Slotine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
No-Nonsense Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Action: Fireside Chats with Lily Zheng
C-Hub warmly invites you to join us for an engaging session on actionable DEI strategies in higher education.
Guest Seminar: Preserving Nature's Treasures: Biodiversity Conservation, Species Discoveries, and World Heritage Nomination in Mindanao
Title: Preserving Nature's Treasures: Biodiversity Conservation, Species Discoveries, and World Heritage Nomination in Mindanao
By Prof. Dr. Alma B. Mohagan from Central Mindanao University in Philippines












































