Past Events

Culture

Community Cooking Series - Class 7

Monday, August 14, 2023 - 12:50 to Thursday, August 24, 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?).

Outreach

ONNA×OIST Children's School of Science 2023

Monday, August 14, 2023 - 09:00 to Friday, August 18, 2023 - 10:30
Onna Fureai Taiken Center

The details will be updated

Campus

Child Development Center Annual Art Exhibition

Monday, August 14, 2023 (All day) to Thursday, August 24, 2023 (All day)
Center Building and Skywalk

OIST Child Development Center (CDC) annual art exhibition. This year's theme is "nature". Come enjoy the art made by our creative students!

Holiday

山の日 Mountain Day

Friday, August 11, 2023 - 00:00

National holiday

Seminar

【Seminar】Bridging Mechanics and Chemistry in Deformable Solids By Prof. Fernando P. Duda

Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 16:30 to 17:30
Lab4, F01 (Hybrid)

Dr. Fernando P. Duda, Professor and Head Department of MEchanical Engineering,

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

Language: English

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Analytical Validation of Variational Models for Epitaxially Strained Thin Films: A Review" by Paolo Piovano

Thursday, August 10, 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

//Rescheduled//Seminar "Diverging current fluctuations in critical Kerr resonators" Prof. Mark Michison, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Seminar Room C700, Level C, Lab 3

Speaker: Prof. Mark Michison, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Seminar

Kite and Triangle diagrams through Symmetries of Feynman Integrals

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 - 10:00
Lab 4, Seminar room L4E01

Visitor seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Subhajit Mazumdar,Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University Title: Kite and Triangle diagrams through Symmetries of Feynman Integrals

Workshop

Silver workshop VI

Monday, August 7, 2023 - 09:00 to Wednesday, August 9, 2023 - 17:00
L4F01

This 6th workshop is a continuation of the previous workshop in a series. This workshop discuss the modularity and duality, geometric group, cohomological theory, singularity theory, and knot theory. All talks on the black board are expected. The online participation of Zoom will be possible by the registration in advance.

Seminar

[Canceled] Seminar "Variable Energy Flux in Turbulence" by Prof. Mahendra K. Verma

Friday, August 4, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
B700, Lab 3

[Speaker] Prof. Mahendra K. Verma, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Administrative Meeting

POC Program Open Hours

Wednesday, August 2, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
OIST Innovation space (Lab 3A)

We have biweekly open hours at OIST Innovation where you can come and talk with us about anything related to the Proof of Concept application process.

OIST Workshops

OIST Workshop "New trends of conformal theory from probability to gravity"

Monday, July 31, 2023 (All day) to Friday, August 4, 2023 (All day)
OIST Main Campus, Lab 4, Seminar Room L4E48

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Shinobu Hikami (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

Wellness

Autism as an invisible disability: What you see is NOT everything

Saturday, July 29, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:15
Seminar room, Seaside House
Valtameri Autism as an invisible disability: What you see is NOT everything

A lack of societal understanding and acceptance of autism is a serious issue that is associated with loneliness and mistreatments of autistic people in criminal justice system or employment. Autism is not a disorder or impairment that needs to be treated or cured. What needs to be changed is the societal understanding of autism.

In this talk, from the societal model and neurodiversity paradigm, I will highlight lived experiences of autistic people including my own and latest research and cover topics such as sociality, loneliness, and mental health in autism. There will be a Q&A session at the end.

Speaker:

Dr Kana Grace

Kana is an English-Japanese bilingual psychologist specializing in Autism. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Center for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) at University College London where she completed her PhD, and a research collaborator at Autism Spectrum Australia. She has been featured in major media such as BBC, Scientist, and Spectrum. Kana is autistic and an ADHDer, and is passionate about advocacy for autism and neurodiversity.

Fee:

1,000 yen/person

I will send you the details via email.

Booking:

Please email to valtameri.grace@outlook.com

Email title: "talk" Email text: please write down your preffered session (English or Japanese) and numbers of people who are coming. I will reply to you to confirm your booking. First-come-first-served basis of 20 capacity

Location:

Seminar Room, Seaside House, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)

Date and time:

Saturday, July 29

11:00 am - 12:15 pm Japanese

14:00 pm - 15:15 pm English

I will do the same talk at different times. Choose the one you prefer!

Wellness

自閉症という見えない障がい:見えるものが全てではない

Saturday, July 29, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:15
シーサイドハウス内、セミナールーム
Valtameri

自閉症という見えない障がい:見えるものが全てではない

自閉症に対する社会の理解欠如は、孤独や刑事司法制度・雇用における当事者の不当な扱いに繋がる深刻な問題です。自閉症は「病気」ではなく、自閉症者を「治す」・「変える」必要はありません。変えていくべきなのは社会の自閉症に対する理解です。

この講義では、障害の社会的モデル・ニューロダイバーシティの目線から、講師自身を含めた当事者の経験と最新の研究に焦点を当て、自閉症における社会性・孤独・メンタルヘルスなどのトピックについて革新的な情報をお話しします。質疑応答の時間もあります。

講師:

Dr Kana Grace (カナ・グレイス博士)

カナは、自閉症専門の英日バイリンガル心理学者です。現在、博士号を取得したユニバーシティカレッジロンドンの自閉症研究所の名誉研究員・オーストラリアの自閉症チャリティー団体Autism Spectrum Australiaの共同研究者です。BBC, Scientist, Spectrum など国外の主要なメディアでも注目される自閉症研究者・活躍家です。カナは、自閉症・ADHD当事者で自閉症・ニューロダイバーシティの 擁 護活動に熱意を持っています。

経歴:

博士, ユニバーシティカレッジロンドン, 英国

修士(カウンセリング心理学), ボストンカレッジ, 米国

PgCert(自閉症), シェフィールドハラム大学, 英国

理学士,ノースイースタン大学,米国

参加費:

1000円/1人 お支払い詳細はメールにてお伝えします。

予約:

valtameri.grace@outlook.com へEメールを送信。

メールタイトル:「講演会」 メールの本文:希望のセッション(日本語化か英語)・参加人数をご記入ください。 予約完了の返信を致します。 定員20名の先着順です。

場所:

沖縄科学技術大学院大学(OIST)

シーサイドハウス内、セミナールーム

日時:

7月29日、土曜日

11:00 am - 12:15 pm 日本語

14:00 pm - 15:15 pm 英語

日本語と英語で違う時間帯に同じ講演をします。どちらかをお選びください。

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar: Quantum wreath product

Friday, July 28, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:30
L4E48 and online on Zoom
Title: Quantum wreath product Ziqing Xiang, Southern University of Science and Technology
Seminar

[Seminar] "Organic Ionic-Electronic Mixed Conductors-Based on 3D Bioelectronic Interfaces, Reconfigurable Neuromorphic Circuits, and 3D Neuronal Cell Cultures" by Prof. Myung-Han Yoon

Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:30
B503, Lab 1 & Zoom

Prof. Myung-Han Yoon, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in July 2023

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 16:00

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!

Lecture

Pontryagin Maximum Principle in optimal control of coherent spin dynamics of radical pairs in Quantum Biology II. Computational Analysis

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 15:15 to 16:00
B250

Mr. Pablo Jimenez, Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Phd Student

Dr. Jose Rodriques, OIST, Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit(Abdulla Unit),Staff Scientist

Mr. Chenming Zhen, OIST, Phd Student

Lecture

Pontryagin Maximum Principle in optimal control of coherent spin dynamics of radical pairs in Quantum Biology I. Mathematical foundation and optimality conditions.

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 14:00 to 14:45
B250

Professor Ugur G. Abdulla, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Lecture

The Quantum Biology of Reactive Oxygen Production in Electron Transfer Flavoprotein

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 11:00 to 11:45
B250

Speater:Professor Carlos F. Martino, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA

Lecture

Microspectroscopic detection of magnetic field sensitive radical pair processes in biological systems

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 09:45 to 10:30
B250

Lecturer: Professor Jonathan Woodward, University of Tokyo

Workshop

Recent Advances in Quantum Biology

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 09:00 to 16:00
B250/ZOOM

Plenary Speakers :

Jonathan R. Woodward, University of Tokyo, Japan

Carlos F. Martino, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA

Ugur G. Abdulla, OIST, Japan

Lecture

What is Quantum Biology and why does it matter?

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 09:00 to 09:30
B250

Lecture 1. Jonathan Woodward University of Tokyo, Japan

Seminar

Seminar "Flexible control of probabilistic goal-directed navigation" by Dr. Chuntao Dan

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar room C209, Center Building

Dr. Chuntao Dan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus

Seminar

[Seminar] Entropy and active elasticity by Dr. Dhrubaditya Mitra

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Center Bld. B503

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

Language: English

Workshop

Integrability, Deformations and Chaos

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 10:00 to Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 17:00
OIST Seaside House, OIST Lab 4

In the last few decades, the notion of Integrable systems and Chaos, both classical and quantum, have seen immense developments. Fuelled by a flurry of scientific inter-community dialogues, these ideas have turned out to be universally useful in a wide spectrum of theoretical studies, from worldsheet string sigma models, to black holes and holography, and further into real experimental systems. Numerous interesting connections between these seemingly disparate research areas are developing, promising to shed light on important open questions. We hope to further fuel these dialogues by inviting people from different fields using state-of-the-art tools to explore these exciting ideas.

Detailed program at: https://groups.oist.jp/integrability-deformations-chaos/program

Seminar

[Seminar] Dimensional reduction in causal sets by Dr. David Meyer, UC San Diego, L4E01

Monday, July 24, 2023 - 16:00
L4E01

"Dimensional reduction in causal sets" by Dr. David Meyer, UC San Diego

Outreach

Ocean day event Movie screening

Saturday, July 22, 2023 - 10:00
OIST Auditorium

Screening event for children and parents

Seminar

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor. Shoi Shi: Deciphering the Mystery of Sleep: the insights from comparative neuroscience

Friday, July 21, 2023 - 10:00
L4F01 and Zoom
Deciphering the Mystery of Sleep: the insights from comparative neuroscience

Prof. S hoi Shi, Ph.D. , IIIS, University of Tsukuba

Onsite: L4F01

ZOOM

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting Cancelled!

Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 20:00
Your house

Covid still sucks y'all. We'll be back in a few weeks

Public Lecture

[Public Lecture - Tokyo] The Dawn of Mesoamerica: Food Production, Human Agency, and the Origins of Civilization

Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 18:30
Embassy of Mexico in Japan, Tokyo

Dr. Andrés G. Mejía Ramón (OIST) is a Postdoctoral Researcher, archaeologist, ecologist, and complex systems scientist focusing on the interactions between humans and the environment across deep time. Dr. Tom Froese (OIST) is Assistant Profesor and Head of the Unit. is a cognitive scientist with a background in computer science and complex systems. He investigates the interactive basis of life and mind

Seminar

[Schedule Update, from 16PM][Seminar] "Subjective haptics: From product design to sensorimotor augmentation" by Prof. Yoshihiro Tanaka

Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 16:00
C209, Central building

Dr. Yoshihiro Tanaka, Professor in Nagoya Institute of Technology / Inamori research institute for Science. Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Black Holes and the Holographic Principle" by Daniel Grumiller

Thursday, July 20, 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).

Professional Development

第5回 事務職員向け勉強会 ❘ #5 Study Sessions for Administrative Staff

Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
Seminar Room L4E48
*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第5回事務職員向け勉強会 「OIST組織の俯瞰・総括」 (日本語) Speaker: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Seminar

Seminar: “Diacamma ants adjust liquid foraging strategies in response to viscosity” by Dr. Haruna Fujioka

Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar room C209, Center Building

Speaker: Dr. Haruna Fujioka, Okayama University, Japan

Seminar

[Hybrid seminar] "Evolving bi-directional referential communication in minimal autonomous agents" by Prof. Seth Bullock, University of Bristol

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:10
L4F01, Lab 4

[Hybrid seminar] "Evolving bi-directional referential communication in minimal autonomous agents" by Prof. Seth Bullock, University of Bristol

Administrative Meeting

POC Program Open Hours

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
OIST Innovation space (Lab 3A)

We have biweekly open hours at OIST Innovation where you can come and talk with us about anything related to the Proof of Concept application process.

Seminar

[Hybrid seminar] "Soft Robotics: Understanding Design Principles and the Implications of Soft Bodies" by Prof. Koh Hosoda, Kyoto University

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - 14:30 to 15:40
L4F01, Lab 4

[Hybrid seminar] "Soft Robotics: Understanding Design Principles and the Implications of Soft Bodies" by Prof. Koh Hosoda, Kyoto University

Seminar

QG group meeting: Emergent Supersymmetry from a Twistor Space description of the U(N) vector model

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Julian Lang. Title: "Emergent Supersymmetry from a Twistor Space description of the U(N) vector model".

Research

Open Call for TSVP Visiting Scholars in FY2024

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 (All day) to Sunday, September 17, 2023 (All day)
Interfolio

Open Call for TSVP Visiting Scholars in FY2024

Lecture

[Public Lecture - Okinawa] The Dawn of Mesoamerica: Food Production, Human Agency, and the Origins of Civilization

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 15:00
Center Building C209

Dr. Andrés G. Mejía Ramón (OIST) will give a preview version of his presentation at the Embassy of Mexico in Tokyo to the OIST community. He is a Postdoctoral Researcher, archaeologist, ecologist, and complex systems scientist focusing on the interactions between humans and the environment across deep time.

Seminar

[Seminar] Bubble clustering and the related phenomena by Prof. Shu Takagi

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
B700

Target audience

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

Language: English

Holiday

海の日 Marine Day

Monday, July 17, 2023 - 00:00

National holiday

Wellness

Ganjuu Open House

Friday, July 14, 2023 - 14:00 to 16:00
Ganjuu Wellbeing Service
Ganjuu Open House Friday July 14th 2-4PM Please join us for tea, coffee, and home baking! Bring yourself, your colleagues, your families, and share some time, talk, and listen to others. All are welcome :) Location: Ganjuu Wellbeing Service

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Quantum Error Correction via Poset Metrics" by Mahir Bilen Can

Thursday, July 13, 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

[Seminar] MLDS Seminar 2023-5 by Dr. Makoto Yamada (Associate Professor, OIST), Ms. Terezie Sedlinska (PhD Student, OIST), Seminar Room L5D23

Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Seminar Room L5D23, Lab5

Speaker 1: Dr. Makoto Yamada, Associate Professor, OIST

Title: Approximating 1-Wasserstein Distance with Trees

Speaker 2: Ms. Terezie Sedlinska, PhD Student, OIST

Title: Reinforcement learning behavioral modeling: Two studies of Pavlovian and operant valuation in humans and rats

Seminar

QG group meeting: self-dual GR in de Sitter space (Yasha Neiman)

Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "Self-dual GR in de Sitter space".

Seminar

MiS Series Seminar : Minimal Energetic Dynamics of Living Systems

Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
L4E48

Andres Mejia Ramon

OIST, Postdoctoral Scholar, Froese Unit

Seminar

[Seminar] "Asymptomatic: How Deciphering the Silent Spread of COVID-19 Can Help Prevent Pandemics to Come" by Prof. Joshua Weitz.

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room L4E48

[Seminar] "Asymptomatic: How Deciphering the Silent Spread of COVID-19 Can Help Prevent Pandemics to Come" by Prof. Joshua Weitz.

OIST Workshops

OIST Developing Neural Circuits Course (DNC) 2023

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 (All day) to Sunday, July 23, 2023 (All day)
OIST Conference Center - Meeting Rooms

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama (Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required). Tutorial sessions are closed (only for selected participants)

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