Past Events

Seminar

[Seminar] "Exponential Data and Better AI for Solving Biological Challenges" by Dr. Jovan Rebolledo

Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 13:00
Meeting Room D014 - Lab1 Bldg

Speaker: Dr. Jovan Rebolledo SkySpec

Title: Exponential Data and Better AI for Solving Biological Challenges

Seminar

[Seminar] Tensor eigenvalues from a field theory perspective | Dr. Nicolas Delporte (OIST)

Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 13:00
L4F01

Speaker : Nicolas Delporte (OIST, Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit (Reiko Toriumi )) Title : Tensor eigenvalues from a field theory perspective Date and time : 8th August Thursday at 13:00 Location : L4F01 Language: English

Seminar

[Seminar] "Can the Use of Avatars Contribute to Human Well-Being?" by Prof. Ando Hideyuki

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - 11:00
C209, Central building

Dr. Ando Hideyuki, Professor in Department of Art Science, Osaka University of Arts Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

Workshop

Flash Talk Contest for OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - 09:30 to 11:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)

Since 2019, OIST and Keio University have been collaborating in various ways: initially with the School of Medicine, accepting research interns, and hosting a series of showcase talks to learn about each other's research.​ The International Research Summer Camp is planned to be held at OIST for Keio undergraduate medical school students as a part of our efforts to strengthen our educational collaboration. The summer camp is a valuable opportunity for undergraduate medical students to experience hands-on basic research, under the guidance of outstanding researchers from around the world in a global and interdisciplinary environment.

Lecture

【Plenary Lecture】Weak Convergence and Limits of Solutions to Nonlinear Differntial Equations

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
L4E48

Speaker. Prof. Lawrence C Evans (University of Carfornia, Berkeley)

Seminar

[Seminar] Dr.Sylvia Fitting "The Endocannabinoid System: A helping HAND"

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
Seminar Room C700, Lab3

Dr.Sylvia Fitting (Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA). Language: English

Lecture

【Plenary Lecture】Streamlines and "Soft Shocks" for the Infinity Laplacian PDE

Monday, August 5, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
L4E48

Speaker: Prof. Lawrence C Evans (University of Carfornia, Berkeley)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Variational Quantum Algorithms for Optimal Resources and Applications in Quantum Metrology" by Prof. Le Bin Ho, Tohoku University

Monday, August 5, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
C700, Level C , Lab 3

Speaker: Le Bin Ho, Assistant Professor, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University

Culture

CDC's FOOD APPRECIATION Art Exhibit

Monday, August 5, 2024 (All day) to Friday, August 16, 2024 (All day)
CENTER BUILDING, C Level

Enjoy the art work made by the Tedako Child Development Center in the Center Building of OIST.

Recreation

Sunset Social for OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 17:30 to 19:30

All OISTers and family are welcome! OIST-KEIO "Sunset Social" will be held as a part of the "OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024". This is a great opportunity for the campers from KEIO University Medical School and OISTers to interact and network. Please join to meet the campers and and enjoy food trucks, live music, outdoor games as the Sun goes down!

Seminar

TSVP Coffee Chat with Michael Stryker

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 15:00
L5EF03

TSVP Coffee Chat with Prof. Michael Stryker (UCSF) Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Students, early-career researchers Prof. Gerald Pao will act as facilitator.

Campus Service

OIST Innovation open-hours

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 14:00
Innovation Lounge (Lab3 level A)

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Lecture

【Plenary Lecture】Analysis and nonlinear PDE in the Heisenberg Group

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
L4E48

Speaker: Juan J. Manfredi

Seminar

Seminar by TissueGnostics

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:15
Lab1 C015

Seminar by Tissue Gnostics

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture by Professor Michael Stryker

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 10:30 to 12:00
B250 Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater
Presidential Lecture by Professor Michael Stryker on the topic "Why our brains are more flexible when we are younger".
Seminar

[Seminar] A Max-Flow approach to Random Tensor Networks | Dr. Faedi Loulidi (OIST)

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 10:30
L4F01

Speaker : Faedi Loulidi (OIST, Networked Quantum Devices Unit (Elkouss unit )) Title : A Max-Flow approach to Random Tensor Networks Date and time : 2 nd August Friday at 10:30 Location : L4F01 Language: English

Seminar

QG seminar: Chaotic Instability in the BFSS matrix model

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 10:00
Lab 4, E01

QG guest seminar. Speaker: Kentaroh Yoshida. Title: "Chaotic Instability in the BFSS matrix model".

Seminar

Seminar "Travelling waves in the pipe flow: a short ride on open questions" by Dr. Emanuele Gallorini

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
Center Bldg. B503

Speaker: Dr. Emanuele Gallorini, Post Doctoral Researcher , Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Proteins: Where do they come from? What are they? Where are they going?" by Erich Bornberg-Bauer

Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 15:00
Center Building B250 and 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

QG seminar: Opers - What They Are and What They are Good For

Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:00
Lab 1, D015

QG guest seminar. Speaker: Peter Koroteev (UC Berkeley). Title: "Opers - What They Are and What They are Good For".

Seminar

Neural mechanisms and evolution of social communication

Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
Lab3 C / C700

Title: Neural mechanisms and evolution of social communication

External Events

Earth Overshoot Day (EOD)

Thursday, August 1, 2024 (All day)
Earth

Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. In 2024, it falls on August 1st. The term "overshoot" represents the level by which human population's demand overshoots the sustainable amount of biological resources regenerated on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day

Seminar

[Seminar]"Neuronal mechanisms of decision making in rodents and humans" by Dr. Mehdi Adibi

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 14:30
Meeting Room D014 - Lab1 Bldg

Speaker: Dr. Mehdi Adibi Neurodigit Laboratory, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Department of Physiology, Monash University

Title: Neuronal mechanisms of decision making in rodents and humans

Seminar

Expanding Your Startup in Southeast Asia --Insights from Singapore’s Leaders--

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 14:00 to 17:00
L5D23, Lab 5, OIST

Join us for an insightful seminar on expanding your startup business in Southeast Asia. OIST Innovation is proud to invite distinguished speakers from Singapore (NUS and JSIP) to share their expertise and experiences. Targeted at startups, entrepreneurs, and startup supporters interested in exploring the dynamic markets of Southeast Asia, this event promises valuable insights and networking opportunities.

Lecture

【Plenary Lecture】Entropy Analysis and Singularities of Solutions for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 13:00
L4E48

Speaker: Prof. Gui-Qiang C. Chen (University of Oxford)

OIST Workshops

1st OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 09:00 to 11:45
OIST Main Campus L4E48

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OIST-Oxford-SLMath Workshop | OIST organizer: Ugur Abdulla (Analysis and Partial Differential Equations) | Website | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Seminar

"Identification and functional dissection of an understudied corticohippocampal circuit in spatial learning and memory" Jacque Pak Kan Ip (TP24NM)

Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:00

Title : Identification and functional dissection of an understudied corticohippocampal circuit in spatial learning and memory Speaker : Jacque Pak Kan Ip This seminar is part of the TSVP Thematic Program: Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Theoretical Lessons Learned From Invertebrate and Vertebrate Brains

Recreation

Uchinaaguchi 101 -Let’s learn Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) and its history! with KEIO students! -

Monday, July 29, 2024 - 16:30 to 17:30
Conference Center Meeting Room #1
Uchinaaguchi 101 -Let’s learn Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) and its history with KEIO students! –
Seminar

Seminar "Modulation of turbulent fluctuations by small particles" by Prof. Izumi Saito

Monday, July 29, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab3 C700

[Speaker] Prof. Izumi Saito, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Seminar

Seminar: "Understanding the regenerative powers of ocular pigment epithelium" by Prof. Del Rio-Tsonis

Monday, July 29, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab1, C016

[Speaker] Dr. Katia Del Rio-Tsonis, Professor, Dept. Biology, Miami University (MU)

[Title] Understanding the regenerative powers of ocular pigment epithelium

Workshop

OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024

Monday, July 29, 2024 (All day) to Wednesday, August 7, 2024 (All day)
OIST Campus

OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024 will be held July 29th-August 7th. Please welcome 20 KEIO undergraduate medical school students to OIST! If you would like to get involved, check out events that OISTers are welcome to join!

Campus Service

OIST Innovation open-hours

Friday, July 26, 2024 - 14:00
Innovation Lounge (Lab3 level A)

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Professional Development

Grants in Practice: How to Write a Successful MSCA Application

Thursday, July 25, 2024 - 14:00 to 18:00
L5D23

"Grants in Practice" session will be held at OIST on July 25th, for students and researchers interested in learning ways to successfully apply to grants, like the European MSCA

Seminar

[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2024-9 by Mr. Jose Restom (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: MBZUAI, UAE), Dr. Mohammad Sabokrou, OIST at D23, Lab5

Thursday, July 25, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
Seminar Room D23, Lab5

Speaker 1: Mr. Jose Restom (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: MBZUAI, UAE)

Title: Handling Data Heterogeneity via Architectural Design for Federated Visual Recognition

Speaker 2: Dr. Mohammad Sabokrou, Staff Scientist, OIST

Title: Universal Novelty Detection Through Adaptive Contrastive Learning

Outreach

Children's School of Science open class 2024

Thursday, July 25, 2024 (All day)
Onna Fureai Taiken Center

The details will be updated

Professional Development

おまけ回 大学職員向け勉強会 / Supplementary Study Session for OIST Staff (JPN)

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 C700

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December.

おまけ回「疑問の解消と理解の掘り下げ」 (日本語) Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub
Lecture

TSVP Talk: "A Geometric Adventure in Machine Learning: Learning with Invariances, Structures, and Prior Knowledge" by Florian Yger

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 - 15:00
L5D23 and 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] "Mechanisms of adaptive learning in biological neural networks" by Nelson Totah (TP24NM)

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 - 14:00 to 14:45
L5D23

Title : Mechanisms of adaptive learning in biological neural networks Speaker : Nelson Totah This seminar is part of the TSVP Thematic Program: Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Theoretical Lessons Learned From Invertebrate and Vertebrate Brains

Seminar

Seminar "On Symmetry breaking in Taylor-Couette System" by Prof. Yasushi Takeda

Monday, July 22, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:00
B712, Lab 3

[Speaker] Prof. Yasushi Takeda, Prof. em. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, ex Scientist HEST, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Seminar

QG Guest Seminar: The Giant Graviton Expansion

Monday, July 22, 2024 - 14:00
L4E01

Quantum Gravity Unit Guest Seminar Speaker: Paul Luis Roehl (DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK) Title: "The Giant Graviton Expansion"

Seminar

Ecology and evolution of ants on both sides of the Pacific

Monday, July 22, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room L4E01, Lab 4

Speaker: Dr. Milan Janda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, & Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Seminar

[Seminar] "Changing Approaches to Monitoring Marine Biodiversity Change: An Overview of the WPI-AIMEC Marine Biology Integrative Analysis Unit" by Prof. Cheryl Ames

Monday, July 22, 2024 - 10:30 to 11:30
L4F01, Lab4

Dr. Cheryl Lynn AMES, Professor, Tohoku University

Outreach

ONNA×OIST Children's School of Science 2024

Monday, July 22, 2024 - 09:30 to Friday, July 26, 2024 - 12:00
Onna Fureai Taiken Center, OIST

The details will be updated

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