Past Events

Seminar

[Seminar] "Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: Spintronics without magnetic fields" by Prof.Mathias Kläui (Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University)

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
C210, Center Building, Level C

Title: Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: Spintronics without magnetic fields

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "From Gravity to Quantum Clocks (And Rulers!)" by Artur Tsobanjan

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:10
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).

Seminar

Soft Matter in Opto-Thermal Gradients : Evolutionary Dynamics and Pattern Formation, Prof. Pavan Kumar Gopalapura Venkataramu.

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
Center, level B, B503

Prof. Pavan Kumar Gopalapura Venkataramu, IISER PUNE.

Language: English.

Seminar

[Seminar] "On-Surface Synthesis: What Happens Behind the Scenes?" by Dr. Marco Di Giovannantonio (Institute of Structure of Matter, CNR, Rome)

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4E48 (Lab 4)

Title: "On-Surface Synthesis: What Happens Behind the Scenes?"

Speaker: Dr. Marco Di Giovannantonio is responsible of the ESCA laboratory at CNR-ISM (https://www.ism.cnr.it/en/esca.html). He uses a multidisciplinary approach to synthesize and characterize novel low-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials, and optimize their growth conditions and final properties to employ them in catalysis and organic electronics. (Areas of interest: Nanotechnology, surface science, catalysis, on-surface chemical reactions, organic molecules on surfaces, metal-organic networks, graphene-like nanostructures, graphene nanoribbons, open-shell molecular systems.)

Industry Relations

Sustainable Transport Hackathon - Call for participants

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 19:30 to Sunday, May 14, 2023 - 23:30
Online registration

Do you feel frustrated about the available transportation options for commuting to OIST and traveling around Okinawa? Do you want to find a solution to address this problem? Then join us for the first ever OIST community hackathon aimed at brainstorming sustainable transportation ideas for implementation at OIST and Okinawa!

Seminar

Seminar: "Spectroscopy of Topological Josephson Junction Circuits" by Dr. Çağlar Girit

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
L4E01
Seminar: "Spectroscopy of Topological Josephson Junction Circuits" by Dr. Çağlar Girit, CNRS and CEA-Saclay, France.
Seminar

[Seminar] Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network by Prof. Mariko Okada, Osaka University

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
C700, Lab 3

Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network

Prof. Mariko Okada

Laboratory for Cell Systems, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University

Seminar

[Seminar] Weakly first-order quantum phase transition between Spin Nematic and Valence Bond Crystal Order in a square lattice SU(4) fermionic model

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
C209 and Zoom

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

Outreach

Movie Screening ~Our Planet~

Saturday, April 22, 2023 - 10:00 to 12:00
OIST Auditorium

科学技術週間&アースデースペシャル

親子映画会

Symposium

Public Lecture: Metaverse and Virtual Reality by Anatole Lecuyer and Shunichi Kasahara

Friday, April 21, 2023 - 17:15 to 18:30
B250 (Center), Zoom

Public Lecture on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture in the evening

Workshop

French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds”

Friday, April 21, 2023 - 09:00 to 17:00
B250 (Center), Zoom

One day French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture and Lab tours in the evening

Culture

Community Cooking Series - Class 5

Friday, April 21, 2023 - 09:00 to Friday, April 28, 2023 - 17:00
Onna Fureai Center (Room #3 Ryukyu Cooking Room)

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 (perhaps you?).

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 7

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:45
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
Title: Smelling flexibly Speaker: Professor Izumi Fukunaga , Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit Chair: Professor Simone Pigolotti, Biological Complexity Unit

Research

Quantum networks based on diamond spin qubits - Prof T Taminiau [QUTech]

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 16:00

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.

Graduate School

Use of AI Tools in Higher Education

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 15:00
Center building, C209

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

Seminar

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor Jimmy Dooley : How movements during sleep teach infant brains how their bodies move

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 10:00
ZOOM

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

Seminar

Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
C209

Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Connolly

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

Recreation

Jazz jamming session

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 18:30
Seaside Lounge

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

Seminar

[Seminar] Dynamics of spin nematics in a magnetic field: A comparison with canted antiferromagnets

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 14:30 to 15:30
L4E48 and Zoom

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

Seminar

"BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras", Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 14:30
Lab 4, Seminar room L4E01

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

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Waveguide QED with Rydberg superatoms' by Nina Stiesdal (Bonn)

Monday, April 17, 2023 - 17:00 to 18:00
on Zoom

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

External Events

The 4th International Conference on Data Driven Plasma Sciences (ICDDPS-4)

Sunday, April 16, 2023 (All day) to Friday, April 21, 2023 (All day)
OIST Conference Center

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

Symposium

[Special Talk] 医学的立場から見た3D映像 by Prof. Takashi Fujikado (Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University; Center for Information and Neural Networks)

Friday, April 14, 2023 - 15:30 to 17:00
B250(Sydney Brenner Hall), Center Building
15:30 – 17:00 Special Lecture: 医学的立場から見た3D映像 Prof. Takashi Fujikado (Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University; Center for Information and Neural Networks)
Symposium

[Special Talk] 多様な環境で活躍する研究者を支援する by Ms. Hiroyo Clemente (Office of the Dean of Research, OIST)

Friday, April 14, 2023 - 15:00 to 15:30
B250(Sydney Brenner Hall), Center Building
Special Public Session (only in Japanese)| Friday, April 14, 2023

15:00 – 15:30 Special Talk: 多様な環境で活躍する研究者を支援する (Helping researchers thrive in a diverse environment)

Ms. Hiroyo Clemente (Office of the Dean of Research, OIST)
Symposium

JST-OIST Joint Symposium on Circularly Polarized Luminescence and the Related Phenomena

Friday, April 14, 2023 (All day) to Saturday, April 15, 2023 (All day)
B250(Sydney Brenner Hall), Center Building
JST-OIST Joint Symposium on Circularly Polarized Luminescence and the Related Phenomena

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge OR beach behind Seaside House

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

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Robot Learning: Where Science Meets Fiction" by Jochen Steil

Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:10
B250 (Center), 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] Optical fiber Fabry-Perot cavities: Production and applications - Prof Takahasi, PI of the EQIP Unit

Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room C209 - Ctr Bldg

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

Seminar

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

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 14:00
Lab 4, Seminar room L4E01

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?

Seminar

What Makes a Great Entrepreneur - Dr. Serg Bell

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Center Building C209
What Makes A Great Entrepreneur

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.

Seminar

[Seminar] Diffuse-interface framework for boiling flows with contact-line model

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
C209

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

Language: English

Seminar

One-shot purity distillation using local noisy operations and one-way classical communication.

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Center Building B503
Speaker: Dr. Aditya Nema, RWTH Aachen

Seminar

Seminar "Exploring multiphase flow processes via particle-resolving simulations" by Prof. Eckart Meiburg

Friday, April 7, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 C700 / Zoom

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

Seminar

"Multidimensionality of leadership and emergent feedback mechanisms revealed by interspecific groups" by Dr. Eduardo Sampaio

Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4F01

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

Professional Development

第1回 事務職員向け勉強会 ❘ #1 Study Sessions for Administrative Staff

Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
Lab3 C700

*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

Seminar

MiS Seminar Series: Quantum Biology: radical pairs under the microscope

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
L4E01

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 Workshops

OIST Workshop "Invitation to Recursion, Resurgence, and Combinatorics"

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 (All day) to Friday, April 14, 2023 (All day)
OIST Main Campus, Lab 4, Seminar Room L4E48

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).

Seminar

[Seminar] Why resource dynamics matter in microbial communities

Monday, April 3, 2023 - 13:00
C700, Lab 3

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

Lecture

DVSP Talk: "Should I Stop or Should I Go? Exquisite Regulation of Neurotransmitter Release at Mammalian Synapses" by Christian Rosenmund

Friday, March 31, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:15
L4E48, Zoom

DVSP 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).

Culture

Community Cooking Series - Class 4

Friday, March 31, 2023 - 09:00 to Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 16:00
Onna Fureai Center (Room #3 Ryukyu Cooking Room)

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 (perhaps you?).

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 20:00

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

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 6

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:45
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
Title: On things that grow Speaker: Professor Simone Pigolotti, Biological Complexity Unit Chair: Professor Izumi Fukunaga , Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit
Seminar

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor Takeshi Sakurai: Induction of hibernation-like state in mice

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 16:00
ZOOM

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!

Seminar

【Seminar】Diamond MEMS: from fundamentals to sensing applications

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab4, F01 (Hybrid)

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

Zoom :

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

Passcode: 313298

Seminar

[Seminar] Models for the evolution of respiratory diseases: the interplay of limited cross-immunity with infectivity that decreases with virulence

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 14:30 to 15:30
L4E01 [Lab4 Level E], Zoom
Speaker

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

Seminar

[Date / Venue are changed] Seminar: “Ernst Haeckel – the greatest German Zoologist? ” by Prof. Dr. Rolf Beutel

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room C700, Lab 3

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

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Levitodynamics: Optomechanics with a levitated nanoparticle' by Prof Romain Quidant

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
on Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Romain Quidant

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

Seminar

[Seminar] "Evolution of operon formation in the laboratory" by Mr. Yuki Kanai

Monday, March 27, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
L4F01, Lab4

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

Outreach

Carrot Harvest - working with local farmers

Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 09:00 to 12:00
Shimabukuro Noen, Yomitan, Nakagami District, Okinawa 904-0301

EF Polymer , an agritech startup has been working with local farmers in Okinawa to perform pilot tests of their technology. Their team wish to create an enjoyable event to help the farmers harvest the carrots, and also give back to the community. The OIST POWER Club is calling for volunteers to join this event to harvest carrots.

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