Past Events
Decoding the chemical language of plants
Seminar by Dr. Tomas Pluskal (IOCHB, Prague, CZ)
Aivia Workshop Hands-on @ Lab4F14
Aivia Workshop: Image Analysis Software
[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor. Andrew Miri : Firing dynamics organization of motor cortical influence
Firing dynamics organization of motor cortical influence
Teen Night
Teen Night for junior high school and high school kids only! Social night - play games, watch movies, do projects, socialize. Wednesdays from 18:30-19:30 in conference center meeting room 4. All teen s welcome!
"BRST formalism of Weyl conformal gravity in Weyl geometry" Prof. Ichiro Oda, University of the Ryukyus
Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Prof. Ichiro Oda, University of the Ryukyus Title: BRST formalism of Weyl conformal gravity in Weyl geometry
Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers", Prof. Koshimizu
Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers" by Professor Masanori Koshimizu.
The 31st Board of Councilors Meeting
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
OIST x the University of Tokyo -Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging
OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging. *Please register in advance if you are participating onsite.
ECO Club Lunch
Come have lunch and talk about sustainability related things!
New restaurants, event ideas, campus gossip, anything goes.
OIST Science 100 Symposium
OIST Science 100 Symposium: Mapping OIST's Scientific Expansion to 100 PIs.
The symposium will explore OIST's current scientific standing in each field and encourage an exchange of ideas about the future direction. Additionally, it will offer an opportunity for colleagues and community members to connect and contribute to driving forward OIST's research and collaboration for achieving the university mission.
Open to all OIST members.
Registration required
18th Key Symposium: Longevity and Healthy Ageing: What Can We Learn From Blue Zones?
This is a "Key Symposium" arranged by the Journal of Internal Medicine and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | Special Registration for OIST members: Register here (OIST login required) | For general information please go the symposium's website .
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
Q: What is the difference between a ukulele player and a savings bond? A: One will mature and make money.
Teen Night
Teen Night for junior high school and high school kids only!
Social night - play games, watch movies, do projects, socialize.
Wednesdays from 18:30-19:30 in conference center meeting room 4.
All teens welcome!
"The dragonfly’s superpowers: from predictive visual guidance and wing aerodynamics sensing to bio-inspired robotics" by Dr. Huai-Ti Lin
Dr Huai-Ti Lin, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering
[Seminar] "Charge and spin transport in 2D materials – from graphene nanoribbons to magnetic heterostructures" by Prof.Mathias Kläui (Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University)
Title: Charge and spin transport in 2D materials – from graphene nanoribbons to magnetic heterostructures
Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)
Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
If you've never sung "Closing Time" to an audience of hermit crabs have you ever really lived?
[Seminar] "Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: Spintronics without magnetic fields" by Prof.Mathias Kläui (Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University)
Title: Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: Spintronics without magnetic fields
Soft Matter in Opto-Thermal Gradients : Evolutionary Dynamics and Pattern Formation, Prof. Pavan Kumar Gopalapura Venkataramu.
Prof. Pavan Kumar Gopalapura Venkataramu, IISER PUNE.
Language: English.
TSVP Talk: "From Gravity to Quantum Clocks (And Rulers!)" by Artur Tsobanjan
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] "On-Surface Synthesis: What Happens Behind the Scenes?" by Dr. Marco Di Giovannantonio (Institute of Structure of Matter, CNR, Rome)
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.)
Virtual Seminar"Shape of deposits and flow mechanisms in 3D printing of yield stress fluids"Anatole Geffrault
Language: English
Sustainable Transport Hackathon - Call for participants
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: "Spectroscopy of Topological Josephson Junction Circuits" by Dr. Çağlar Girit
[Seminar] Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network by Prof. Mariko Okada, Osaka University
Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network
Prof. Mariko Okada
Laboratory for Cell Systems, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University
[Seminar] Weakly first-order quantum phase transition between Spin Nematic and Valence Bond Crystal Order in a square lattice SU(4) fermionic model
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Movie Screening ~Our Planet~
科学技術週間&アースデースペシャル
親子映画会
Public Lecture: Metaverse and Virtual Reality by Anatole Lecuyer and Shunichi Kasahara
Public Lecture on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture in the evening
French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds”
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
Community Cooking Series - Class 5
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?).
Quantum networks based on diamond spin qubits - Prof T Taminiau [QUTech]
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.
The Provost Lecture Series 7
Use of AI Tools in Higher Education
A faculty-Grad School discussion on the use of AI tools in higher education .
[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor Jimmy Dooley : How movements during sleep teach infant brains how their bodies move
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!
Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Connolly
Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Jazz jamming session
Join us next week on Tuesday, April 18th in seaside lounge from 18:30!
"BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras", Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics
Visitor Seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics Title: "BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras"
[Seminar] Dynamics of spin nematics in a magnetic field: A comparison with canted antiferromagnets
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
[Seminar] 'Waveguide QED with Rydberg superatoms' by Nina Stiesdal (Bonn)
Speaker: Nina Stiesdal, Institut of Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany
The 4th International Conference on Data Driven Plasma Sciences (ICDDPS-4)
This is an externally organized event, For more information please go the conference website .
[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)
[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)
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)JST-OIST Joint Symposium on Circularly Polarized Luminescence and the Related Phenomena
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
You can't spell "Ukulele Club" without U! And also "bulk eel cul" but that's harder to interpret.
TSVP Talk: "Robot Learning: Where Science Meets Fiction" by Jochen Steil
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] Optical fiber Fabry-Perot cavities: Production and applications - Prof Takahashi, PI of the EQIP Unit
Prof. Hiroki Takahashi, Assistant Professor of the Experimental Quantum Information Physics Unit