Past Events

Seminar

Seminar: "Drone observation reveals a multilevel society of feral horses" Dr. Tamao Maeda (Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University)

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
Lab4 F01 / Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Tamao Maeda (Kyoto University)

Seminar

Beyond Academic Impact: What Is the Societal Contribution of Universities?

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
L4E48

A seminar that will delve into the role of universities in shaping society and ways to maximize their positive impact.

Seminar

Ajou University School of Medicine-OIST Joint Seminar: Neuroscience and Molecular Medicine

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 09:00 to 13:00
Lab4, E01 (Hybrid: Physical + Zoom)

Neuroscience and Molecular Medicine

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Development of optical remote imaging, spectroscopic diagnostic and treatment monitoring for a diverse patient population' by Prof Douplik

Monday, March 6, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
E48, Level E, Lab 4

Speaker: Dr. Alexandre (Sasha) Douplik Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada Scientist, iBEST, Keenan Research Centre of the LKS Knowledge Institute, St. Michael Hospital

Culture

Community Cooking Series - CALL FOR INSTRUCTORS

Monday, March 6, 2023 - 09:00 to Monday, March 20, 2023 - 17:00

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. Would you like to teach in April, May or June?

OIST Workshops

OIST Workshop "Nervous System Assembly"

Monday, March 6, 2023 (All day) to Thursday, March 9, 2023 (All day)
OIST Conference Center - Meeting Rooms

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Yutaka Yoshida (Neural Circuits Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

Seminar

Seminar "Dynamics of dipolar BECs exposed to a rotating magnetic field and vortex generation in supersolids" Dr. Simeon Mistakidis, Harvard University, USA

Friday, March 3, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
C210, Center building

Speaker: Dr. Simeon Mistakidis, Harvard University, USA

Seminar

WIENER-TYPE CRITERION OF BOUNDARY HÖLDER REGULARITY OF FRACTIONAL LAPLACIAN

Friday, March 3, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:30

Dr. Feng Li, Uppsala University

Recreation

*BeActive Legs, Bums & Tums Class*

Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 19:00 to 19:35
Ocean View Meeting Room
BeActive Fitness Classes

BeActive OIST Fitness Classes have limited numbers and new safety guidelines.

Visit webpage for more information on available classes and times.

Please visit our website to register!

Seminar

[Seminar] Tensor network approach to Kitaev spin liquid

Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
C209 and Zoom

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

Recreation

*BeActive Abs of Steel Class*

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 08:00 to 16:00
Village Center Meeting Room
BeActive Fitness Classes

BeActive OIST Fitness Classes have limited numbers and new safety guidelines.

Visit webpage for more information on available classes and times.

Please visit our website to register!

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Surfing an optical potential slope by using a phase transition and the spin of light' by Dr Christophe Pin

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
on Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Christophe Pin

Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

Seminar

Seminar: "Tunable superconducting flux qubits with long coherence times" by Prof. Michael Stern

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4E01
Seminar: "Tunable superconducting flux qubits with long coherence times" by Prof. Michael Stern, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Coffee will be served!
OIST Mini Symposium

OIST Mini Symposium "Yielding and Flow of Soft Matter Systems"

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - 09:00 to Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 17:00
OIST Seminar Room C209 (Day 1), Seaside House (Days 2-3)

OIST Mini Symposium | Organizing unit: Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit | Website | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions | For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Recreation

Music Theory and Guitar Lessons With Travis White

Monday, February 27, 2023 - 18:30 to 21:30
Zoom meeting

Music Theory and Guitar Lessons With Travis White

Seminar

[Seminar] Generalizing Tensor Network Methods to Neural Network Wave Functions using Variational Monte Carlo

Monday, February 27, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4E48 and Zoom

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

Conference

Interdisciplinary Science Conference in Okinawa (ISCO 2023): Physics and Mathematics meet Medical Science

Monday, February 27, 2023 - 09:00 to Friday, March 3, 2023 - 12:30
OIST Auditorium

Interdiciplinary Science Conferene in Okinawa (ISCO 2023):Physics and Mathematics meet Medical Science OIST Auditorium, OIST, Okinawa, Japan In-person participation only.

Conference

Interdisciplinary Science Conference in Okinawa (ISCO 2023) — Physics and Mathematics meet Medical Science —

Monday, February 27, 2023 (All day) to Friday, March 3, 2023 (All day)
OIST Auditorium

The purpose of ISCO 2023 is to bring together leading researchers in their respective fields, explore methods for solving issues through the fusion of different fields, and form a new network of researchers. The workshop will bring together speakers from Japan and abroad in the fields of space science, particle and nuclear physics, quantum computing, life sciences, and medicine to discuss the challenges they face and the latest advancements in their respective fields.

Seminar

【Seminar】Professor Seunghwa Ryu: Data-driven methods for materials, structures, and process design

Friday, February 24, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4E01 (Lab 4, level E) and Zoom

Dr. Seunghwa Ryu

Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIST)

Holiday

天皇誕生日 Emperor’s birthday

Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 00:00

National holiday

Seminar

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor Lisa Genzel: Complex memory, sleep and plasticity

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 17:00
ZOOM

OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to start this year's ONOS seminar series with Prof. Lisa Genzel from Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Netherlands. Everyone is welcome to join the seminar!

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Optical tweezers: from space to the nanoscale… and back' by Prof. Onofrio M. Maragò

Tuesday, February 21, 2023 - 16:50 to 17:30
on Zoom

Speaker: Prof. Onofrio M. Maragò Director of CNR-IPCF, Istituto Processi Chimico-Fisici (Messina), Italy

Seminar

Security of quantum key distribution in realistic conditions

Monday, February 20, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4E01

Speaker: Dr. Guillermo Currás-Lorenzo, University of Toyama.

Seminar

Towards implementation security of QKD

Monday, February 20, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
L4E01

Speaker: Dr. Margarida Pereira, University of Toyama.

Recreation

*BeActive Functional Fitness Class*

Sunday, February 19, 2023 - 09:00 to Tuesday, February 21, 2023 - 17:00
Ocean View Meeting Room
BeActive Fitness Classes

BeActive OIST Fitness Classes have limited numbers and new safety guidelines.

Visit webpage for more information on available classes and times.

Please visit our website to register!

External Events

Okinawa International School Elementary 5th grade IBPYP Exhibition

Saturday, February 18, 2023 (All day)
[Education Coordinator] Okinawa International School (Nanjo campus)

On Saturday, February 18, the Elementary 5th grade will be hosting the IBPYP Exhibition, the best opportunity to learn about the IB educational environment at OIS. OIST parents are welcome to attend.

Please see the attached flier.

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Topological Phases and Universal Fractional Quasiparticles" by Jeffrey Teo

Friday, February 17, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:10
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).

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge

Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge

This week we will discuss how the ukulele is the ideal instrument to accompany songs about existentialism.

Lecture

Lecture by Ulf Skoglund

Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 16:00
B250 Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater

The Provost Lecture Series - In appreciation of his strong and lasting impact on OIST

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 5

Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:45
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
Title: A quest to enable viewing individual proteins at 1nm resolution Speaker: Professor Ulf Skoglund, Structural Cellular Biology (SCB) Unit , Dean of the Graduate School Chair: Professor Amy Shen, Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit , Provost
Training

[Training] COMSOL Multiphysics® Bimonthly Training By COMSOL Japan

Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
Web

If you are interested in solving heat transfer problems using COMSOL Multiphysics ® , this is the online seminar for you.

Program 14:00 – 15:00 JST

Research

Dr Quijandria: Quantum error correction with dissipatively stabilized squeezed cat qubits

Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 10:00
Meeting Room C016 Lab 1

Quantum computers can use many forms of quantum systems to encode and process quantum information. There has been a lot of interest recently on using modes of light to encode quantum information but this brings with it some questions about how to encode quantum information into an infinite dimensional Hilbert space which is robust against errors. This talk will show how this can be achieved.

External Events

The 38th Board of Governors Meeting

Thursday, February 16, 2023 (All day)

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Seminar

"BMS Field Theories with u(1) Symmetry", Dr. Max Riegler

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 15:00
Lab 4, Seminar room L4E01

Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Dr. Max Riegler, University of Vienna. Title: "BMS Field Theories with u(1) Symmetry".

Seminar

Modeling autism spectrum disorders with iPS cell technology and disease model mice

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 13:00
LAB3 C700 (onsite only)

Yamamoto Unit will host a series of seminars on cancer and oncology. This seminar is a part of GS course, A307 Molecular Oncology and Cell Signaling, by Prof. Yamamoto.

Speaker: Takanobu Nakazawa, Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture

Seminar

Seminar "Entropic characterization of quantum states with maximal evolution under given energy constraints" Prof. Ana Majtey, University of Cordoba, Argentina

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:30
L4E48, Level E, Lab 4

Speaker: Prof. Ana Majtey, University of Cordoba, Argentina

Seminar

[Seminar] Skyrmion crystals and their relatives in SU(3) chiral magnets

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
L4F01 and ZOOM

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

External Events

Join us for beach cleaning at our beautiful Seaside House and Tancha beach

Sunday, February 12, 2023 - 13:30 to 15:30
Seaside House Faculty House ( see the map attached)

External Events

The 23rd Conference of Okinawa Physical Therapy Association 2023

Saturday, February 11, 2023 - 09:00 to 17:40
OIST Conference Center

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

Holiday

建国記念の日 Foundation Day

Saturday, February 11, 2023 - 00:00

National holiday

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé (Online Information Session) in February 2023

Friday, February 10, 2023 - 10:00
Online

This session will be done in English only. The program will start off with OIST general introduction, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by the panel discussion by 3 OIST PhD students.

Seminar

[Seminar] Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Codes as Subsystems

Friday, February 10, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
C700 - Lab 3

Prof. Andrew Doherty - School of Physics, The University of Sydney

Seminar

【Seminar】 Dr. Thomas Akam “Reconciling parallel 'reinforcement learning' systems in cortex and basal ganglia ” 

Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Akam, University of Oxford

Seminar

Peroxisome biogenesis and human disorders

Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - 10:30
LAB3 C700 (onsite only)

Yamamoto Unit will host a series of seminars on cancer and oncology. This seminar is a part of GS course, A307 Molecular Oncology and Cell Signaling, by Prof. Yamamoto.

Speaker: Prof. Yukio FUJIKI, University of Hyogo; Kyushu University

Seminar

[Seminar] "Molecular Spin Qubits for Quantum Computer and High-Density Memory Devices Based on Molecular Magnets" by Emeritus Prof. Masahiro Yamashita (Tohoku University, Japan)

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 17:30 to 18:30
L4E48 (Lab 4)

Please note: time change: 16:00-17:00 →  17:30-18:30

Title: ​

"Molecular Spin Qubits for Quantum Computer and High-Density Memory Devices Based on Molecular Magnets"

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Finding Knowledge: Adventures Using the Shape of Light' by Dr Jacquiline Romero

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
on Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Mary Jacquiline Romero Reader and Westpac Research Fellow, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Australia Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS)

Professional Development

Survival Japanese for Absolute Beginners

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Lab2, C600B

Seminars will be held on Tuesdays st C600B in Lab2 from 11AM to Noon. Please note that space is limited to the first 20 people who enter the room.

Workshop

Mini Course: Particle Tracking Simulation using Ocean Parcels

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 10:00 to Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 12:00
B715 in Lab 3
Mini Course: Particle Tracking Simulation using Ocean Parcels Sign up here
Recreation

Cosmos screening (episode 8)

Friday, February 3, 2023 - 18:00
Lab 4 discussion space (F22c)

Cosmos episode 8: Journeys in Space and Time

Recreation

Sanshin classes by Satsuki Agena (January to March)

Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 18:00 to 20:15
Plumeria Lounge in the Gardens Housing

Sanshin classes by Satsuki Agena (January to March)

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