QG seminar Speaker: Subhobrata Chatterjee Title: "Contact geometry and quantization"

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Philipp Höhn (Qubits and Spacetime Unit)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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Speaker: Dr. Marck Shein-Idelson, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Sagol School for Neuroscience.

Title: The evolution terrestrial visual computations

Language: English

Workshop C-hub: Using GenAI in your job search (C209), 14:00-15:30

The workshop will cover practical strategies for using AI to advance your career journey. The process of searching for jobs, preparing applications, and practicing for interviews will be discussed. Please register [link here ].

Seminar by Prof.Jean-Pierre Eckmann "A mysterious blowup in cosmological effective field theories"

You are cordially invited to the 2025 Schooling Options Seminar on October 9th, 2025 from 17:00-19:00. 2025 年 10 月 9 日 17:00 ～ 19:00 開催の 2025 年度学校オプションセミナーへぜひご参加いただきたく、ご案内いたします。 Register Here ご登録はこちら : https://forms.office.com/r/KCAurCSEJG

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).

In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.

The featured VC for this round is ON&BOARD .

Registration is required. If the number of applicants exceeds the available slots, OIST Innovation will select participants based on the information provided in the registration form and the strategic fit with the VC.

As part of Researcher Appreciation Month, join us for a special event on AI-based entrepreneurial projects. Speakers include Dr. Shunichi Kasahara (Sony & OIST) on Cybernetic Humanity, Andrew Bruhacs (OIST) on his AI tool connecting industry with researchers, and Melika Sadeghi Tabrizi (POC project) on an Edge AI system detecting invasive frog species. The session will showcase how AI is being applied across fields from human–computer integration to biodiversity protection.

This event will bring together fifty world-class scientists & engineering, researchers and students working in the field of quantum information engineering. They will present their latest research as well as engaging in active discussions about the current state of the field and its future prospects.

Joint seminar on next-generation (cryo-) plasma FIB/SEM by

Dr. Katherine Lau/Development for Life Science/Delmic

Dr. Kathrin Rudolph/Life Science Product Specialist, Tescan

Seminar by Prof.Jean-Pierre Eckmann "Rolling stones reveal new structures in SO(3)"

Dr. Lydia Sosa Vargas , CNRS Research fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France

The PCD Team will host the OIST Career Fair 2025 on October 6th and 7th, 2025. This will offer OIST students a unique opportunity to engage directly with companies across Japan and explore diverse career paths beyond academia.

Science talk in Naha

Open to all: CluES: Kerala (state of India) on the 4th of October! (RAM2025) Cultural Event Series (CluES) featuring Kerala (state of India) presented by OISTers from Kerala is happening on the 4th of October (Saturday) in the Seaside House from 5PM!

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops.

October 3, 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (JST UTC+9), Online (Zoom), Language: English, Target: Prospective students

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? Want to apply for the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

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).

CYCLE Exhibition 2025 Cycle Energy for Creation

You are invited to present your poster(s) at RAM 2025 Poster session combined with Opening ceremony and Teatime to share your research with the OIST Community!

Date: 2nd of October Time: from 16:00 Location: Atrium in Lab 5, level D

QG seminar Speaker: Franz Ciceri (ENS Lyon) Title: "Holography for the IKKT matrix model"

Dr. Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont, Medical Imaging and AI Scientist, Lead of AI group and scientific projects of Medical Physics Department, Centre de lutte contre le cancer, François Baclesse, ISTCT UMR6030-CNRS, UNICAEN

Title: Artificial intelligence in medical imaging applied to oncology

Speaker: Prof. Mahendra Verma, Dept of Physics & Kotak School of Sustainability, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Join us for a casual poster presentation with snacks, for a friendly discussion with peers or any curious passerby!

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? Want to apply for Round 14 of the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Registration Now Open---Academic Job Market Workshop Series---Module 6: Job Interviews---Will take place on September 25. Please register if you plan to attend at least this last module in the series, which is open to all OIST members.

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

Join us for the launch of the Innovator’s Toolbox, a new pilot program helping researchers explore pathways from lab to market. The kick-off session is Thursday, Sept 25, 10:00–11:30 in C210 . Led by trainer Josh Green, sessions cover tech transfer, licensing, team roles, and business basics. Open to the whole OIST research community—no registration required, just come by!

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

Septermber 24th (Wed) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

Speaker: Professor Irina Mitrea, Temple University

Talk by Julian Greentree, University of Melbourne (Australia). Language: English. Open to OIST community.

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

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In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.

The featured VC for this round is UTokyo IPC .

Since UTokyo IPC focuses on supporting pre-founders and researchers, this time we are prioritizing researchers who have not yet established a company for the mentoring sessions.

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to the next installment of the OCQT Seminar Series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Nikita Astrakhantsev , a Senior Quantum Research Scientist at Google Quantum AI, who will deliver a talk entitled:

“Using interference in Pauli space to measure beyond-classical local out-of-time-order correlator”

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Elkouss Coronas (Networked Quantum Devices Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Title: Integrin transmembrane domains serve as an allosteric activator for ectodomain folding in the endoplasmic reticulum

Speaker: Prof. Reinhard Fässler

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried, Germany

www.biochem.mpg.de/faessler

Come out to Open Hours this Friday the 19th from 14:00–15:00 to meet Josh Green , the instructor for the upcoming Innovator's Toolbox program. This will be a great opportunity to get to meet Josh and discuss your research area. Enjoy snacks and drinks while you learn how this program will help you better understand how to get your work out into the world and make an impact!

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Speaker: Prof. Grégory Giannone Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Université Bordeaux, CNRS, UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France

www.iins.u-bordeaux.fr/GIANNONE#pub

Prof. Luisa De Cola, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy and IFG- KIT Karlsruhe, Germany

Robert Feil, Institute of Molecular Genetics (IGMM), CNRS and the University of Montpellier, France.

Speaker: Prof. Eric Hudson (UCLA)

Title: Quantum control over radioactive ions and nuclei

Prof. Luisa De Cola, University of Milano, Department DISFARM, Milan Italy & Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

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 by Dr. Luca Gennaioli, University of Warwick

Speaker 1: Mr. Rémi Surat (Université Paris Cité, ENSAE Paris)

Title: Flow-based generative models: how to train them efficiently using flow matching and optimal transport

Speaker 2: Ms. Klea Ziu (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: MBZUAI, UAE)

Title: ψDAG: Projected Stochastic Approximation Iteration for Linear DAG Structure Learning

Language: English

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