Past Events

Seminar

Contact geometry and quantization (Subhobrata Chatterjee)

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 - 10:00
Lab 4, E01

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

Holiday

National Holiday スポーツの日

Monday, October 13, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

OIST Workshops

Quantum Reference Frames: a QISS workshop

Monday, October 13, 2025 (All day) to Friday, October 17, 2025 (All day)
OIST Seaside House, OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

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.

Seminar

[Seminar] The evolution terrestrial visual computations by Prof. Shein-Idelson

Friday, October 10, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
E48, Lab4

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

Professional Development

Workshop C-hub: Using GenAI in your job search

Friday, October 10, 2025 - 14:00

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

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

Friday, October 10, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:20
Seminar Room C210

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

Campus

Schooling Options Information Seminar スクーリングオプション情報セミナー: October 9 2025 17:00-19:00

Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 17:00 to 19:00
B250 Sydney Brenner Hall

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

Lecture

TSVP Talk:"A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Neuronal Universe" by Francois Blot

Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
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).

Innovation

VC Mentoring Hours: ON&BOARD

Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 10:00 to 12:00
Online (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.

Innovation

AI-Based Entrepreneurial Projects at OIST

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab 4 E01

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.

Workshop

The 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Information Engineering (QIE2025)

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 09:00 to Friday, October 10, 2025 - 16:00
OIST Seaside House

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.

Seminar

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

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 14:00
Seminar Room L4E01

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

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

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:20
Seminar Room C210

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

Seminar

[Seminar] From molecules to functional materials via supramolecular self-assembly by Dr. Lydia Sosa Vargas, CNRS

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 09:30 to 11:00
Seminar Room L5D23

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

Graduate School

OIST Career Fair 2025

Monday, October 6, 2025 - 13:00 to Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 18:00
Auditorium, Conference Centrer meeting room 1

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.

Outreach

OIST Science Talk in NAHA "Origin of Life"

Sunday, October 5, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:30
Okinawa prefectural library hall

Science talk in Naha

Culture

CluES - Kerala

Saturday, October 4, 2025 (All day)

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!

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in October 2025 (EN)

Friday, October 3, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:30
Online (Zoom)

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

Innovation

OIST Innovation Open Hour

Friday, October 3, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

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!

Lecture

TSVP Talk: Indigenous Ecologies: Integrating Indigenous Perspectives in Marine Environmental Research

Friday, October 3, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
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).

Culture

CYCLE Exhibition 2025

Friday, October 3, 2025 (All day) to Tuesday, October 21, 2025 (All day)
OIST Tunnel Gallery

CYCLE Exhibition 2025 Cycle Energy for Creation

Symposium

RAM 2025 - Opening Poster Session

Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 16:00 to 18:00

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

Seminar

Holography for the IKKT matrix model (Zoom seminar)

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 - 15:30
Lab 4, E01

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

Seminar

[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2025-5, Dr. Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont, Centre François Baclesse

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 - 13:30 to 14:30
Seminar Room C210

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

Seminar

Seminar: “On the Absence of the Ultimate Regime in Turbulent Thermal Convection” by Prof. Mahendra Verma

Monday, September 29, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar room L4E48, Lab 4

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

Research

Posters After Hours (NeuroClub)

Friday, September 26, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
Central Court (outside, level C)

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

Innovation

OIST Innovation Open Hour

Friday, September 26, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

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!

Professional Development

Academic Job Market Workshop Series---Module 6 of 6 on September 25

Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 16:00 to 18:00
TBD (Once registered you will receive updates.)

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.

Seminar

[Seminar] Dr. Feng-Feng Song "Superfluid dome in the spatially modulated two-dimensional XY model"

Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 13:00 to 14:00
C210, Zoom

Join Zoom link

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

Innovation

Innovator's Toolbox

Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:30
C210 (Main Campus Center Building)

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!

Training

【9/24】Travel Expense Consulation Session (Business Travel Only) / 旅費相

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 15:00
Meeting Room A151, Center Bldg

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

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

Seminar

【Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Seminar】On the Philosophy of Geometric Harmonic Analysis

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Speaker: Professor Irina Mitrea, Temple University

Seminar

【Seminar】"A Bayesian approach to optimal quantum measurement - Magnetometry and POVMs"

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 10:15 to 11:30
Lab 5, D23 Seminar Room

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

Seminar

[Seminar] Mr. Mingcheng Yi "Monte Carlo Tomography of von Neumann Entanglement Entropy: A Generative Reconstruction Approach Using Matrix Product Operators"

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:00
C209/Zoom

Join Zoom link

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

Holiday

National Holiday 秋分の日

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

Innovation

VC Mentoring Hours for Researchers: UTokyo IPC

Monday, September 22, 2025 - 14:00 to 16:00
Online (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 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.

Seminar

[OCQT Seminar] Using interference in Pauli space to measure beyond-classical local out-of-time-order correlator

Monday, September 22, 2025 - 13:30 to 15:00
Lab 4, Level E, Seminar Room 48 (L4E48)

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 Workshops

Okinawa School in Physics: From quantum key distribution to the quantum internet

Sunday, September 21, 2025 - 18:00 to Friday, October 3, 2025 - 12:30
OIST Seaside House

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.

Seminar

Integrin transmembrane domains serve as an allosteric activator for ectodomain folding in the endoplasmic reticulum by Prof. Reinhard Fässler

Friday, September 19, 2025 - 15:00
Seminar room E48, Lab 4

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

Innovation

OIST Innovation Open Hour

Friday, September 19, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

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.

Seminar

Deciphering the spatiotemporal and mechanical regulation of integrin and actin cytoskeleton at the nanoscale by Prof. Grégory Giannone

Friday, September 19, 2025 - 14:00
Seminar room E48, Lab 4

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

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

Seminar

[Seminar] "Supramolecular luminescent assemblies: imaging and beyond…" by Prof. Luisa De Cola

Friday, September 19, 2025 - 10:30 to 11:30
Seminar Room L5D23

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

Seminar

Seminar "Epigenetic regulation of imprinted gene expression in mammals.” by Prof. Robert Feil

Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
C700, Lab3

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

Seminar

[Seminar] "Quantum control over radioactive ions and nuclei" by Prof. Eric Hudson (UCLA)

Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 13:30 to 14:30
L5D23

Speaker: Prof. Eric Hudson (UCLA)

Title: Quantum control over radioactive ions and nuclei

Seminar

[Seminar] Hybrid responsive nanomaterials for biomedical and marine applications - by Prof. Luisa De Cola

Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 10:30 to 11:30
Seminar Room L5D23

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

Lecture

TSVP Talk: Dancing Giants: The Cosmic Tango of Black Holes and Gravitational Waves by Béatrice Bonga

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
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

【Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Seminar】On the Fourier transform of BV functions

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Seminar by Dr. Luca Gennaioli, University of Warwick

Seminar

[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2025-4 by Mr. Rémi Surat (Université Paris Cité, ENSAE Paris), Ms. Klea Ziu (MBZUAI)

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 13:00 to 14:00
Seminar Room D23, Lab5

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

Holiday

National Holiday 敬老の日

Monday, September 15, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

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