Past Events

Seminar

Seminar "How Universal is Turbulence?" by Prof. Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab3 C700

[Speaker] Prof. Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Associate Professor, International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

Workshop

Silver Workshop : Complex geometry and related topics VII (Series final)

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 (All day) to Thursday, March 13, 2025 (All day)
Room123, The University of Tokyo, Math. Department.
Silver Workshop : Complex geometry and related topics VII (Series final)

(List updated on March 6, 2025)

Organizer: N. Yui (Queen’s Univ.), K. Saito (RIMS, Kyoto), S. Hikami (OIST) Local organizer: N. Kawazumi (Univ. Tokyo) Support: OIST funding

OIST Workshops

Spinal cord formation, function, and beyond

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 (All day) to Friday, March 14, 2025 (All day)
Main Campus, Seminar Room B250 (Center Building)

OIST organizer: Yutaka Yoshida (Neural Circuit Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Please show your OIST badge when entering the venue.

Workshop

Mechanism of Brain and Mind Winter workshop 2025

Monday, March 10, 2025 - 17:30 to Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 12:00
Rusutsu Resort Hotel & Convention, Hokkaido, Japan
Mechanism of Brain and Mind Winter Workshop 2025

The workshop will be held March 10 (Mon) – 12 (Wed), 2025 at Rustsu Resort Hotel. Registration is available now.

Seminar

[Seminar] "NcRNA in neural development, degeneration, and aging" by Dr. Jun-An Chen

Monday, March 10, 2025 - 14:30 to 15:30
Lab3, C700

[Affiliation] Research Fellow: Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

[Seminar Title] NcRNA in neural development, degeneration, and aging
Seminar

Seminar: Nonlinear Photonics in High-Q Microcavities: From All-Optical Switches to Microresonator Frequency Combs

Monday, March 10, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:30
C209, Centre Building

Title: Nonlinear Photonics in High-Q Microcavities: From All-Optical Switches to Microresonator Frequency Combs

Speaker: Dr Takasumi Tanabe, Professor, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan

Culture

Cultural Event Series (CluES) - South Africa

Saturday, March 8, 2025 - 17:00
Seaside House

Cultural Events Series team cordially invites you to celebrate the culture of South Africa on the 8th of March at Seaside House (second floor, lounge)!

Outreach

OIST Science Talk Series

Saturday, March 8, 2025 - 14:00
OIST Auditorium
OIST Science Talk Series :What is "NORMAL"? Embracing Neurodiversity Movie “Normal 17-Year-Olds: We have ADHD” + Science Talk
Seminar

[Seminar] "Elucidation and Control of Advanced Photofunctions based on Triplet Excited States in Molecular Materials", Prof. Kiyoshi Miyata

Friday, March 7, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
Seminar Room L4F01

[Seminar] "Elucidation and Control of Advanced Photofunctions based on Triplet Excited States in Molecular Materials" by Prof. Kiyoshi Miyata

Professional Development

OIST Innovation Open Hour

Friday, March 7, 2025 - 14:00
Lab3A731

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday .

Colloquium

Cosmology with radio waves: from dark matter to the dark ages (Rennan Barkana)

Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 15:30
Lab 4, E48

QG visitor seminar for general OIST audience. Speaker: Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv University). Title: "Cosmology with radio waves: from dark matter to the dark ages"

Seminar

[Seminar] "First order mean field games on networks" by Prof. Claudio Marchi

Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 15:30 to 16:30
L4F01

Title: First order mean field games on networks

Speaker: Prof. Claudio Marchi (University of Padova)

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 17

Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
The Provost Lecture Series 17
Seminar

[Seminar] Dr. Mikhail Mamaev "Interacting spin-orbit coupled fermions in optical lattices"

Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:00
C700/Zoom

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

Symposium

TSVP Symposium: Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing

Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 09:00 to Sunday, March 9, 2025 - 18:00
Seminar Room L5D23

Title : Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing

TSVP Symposium linked to Thematic Program on "Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing"

Symposium

Beyond Publishing: Turning Research into Impact

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - 10:00
Lab3 C700

In this talk, Bianca Oudshoff explores how to move beyond academic publishing to create real-world impact by collaborating with industry, policymakers, and entrepreneurs. It highlights pathways for translating research into practical solutions, the challenges of launching science-based businesses, and the importance of interdisciplinary and international collaboration. Through real-world examples and personal insights, the talk provides practical guidance on how to bridge the gap between research and innovation.

Wellness

Speed-Friending

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 17:30 to 18:30
L4E01

Are you new to OIST? Or have you been here for a while, but still enjoy meeting new people? Are you a family member looking to connect with other OISTers and their families? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then join us for a fun evening! We will kick things off with a short get-to-know-everyone game, followed by 1:1 chats.

Seminar

【Seminar】"A closed-loop framework for investigating sensorimotor predictions and errors in head-fixed mice" by Dr. Florin Albeanu

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
Seminar Room C209, Center Building

Speaker: Dr. Forin Albeanu, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Talk title: "A closed-loop framework for investigating sensorimotor predictions and errors in head-fixed mice"

Hosted by Fukunaga Unit

Seminar

【Seminar】"Seeing memories through the looking glass: towards brain-wide imaging of memory circuits and their impairments" by Dr. Simon R Schultz

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 13:00 to 14:00
Seminar room C209, Centre Building

Speaker: Dr. Simon R Schultz, Neurotechnology in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London

Seminar

[Seminar] Mr. Yu-Ping Wang "On the analytic continuation of Ising Bethe-Salpeter System"

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:00
C209, Zoom

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

OIST Mini Symposium

Proof of Concept (POC) Project Showcase

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 09:00 to 12:00
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)

Learn about the best technologies that are currently moving from OIST labs to commercialization and meet the researchers from Proof of Concept (POC) projects and Technology Pioneer Fellows who are turning their innovative ideas into products and services that benefit society.

Research

COI-NEXT Call for New Projects 2025

Monday, March 3, 2025 - 16:35 to Monday, March 31, 2025 - 11:50

The OIST COI-NEXT Program is excited to announce the Call for New Projects 2025! We are looking for interdisciplinary projects that are dedicated to delivering tangible outcomes in support of the One World, One Health vision. Proposals are due by March 31, 2025 , at 12:00 PM.

OIST Workshops

OIST Machine Learning Workshop

Monday, March 3, 2025 (All day) to Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium+Meeting Rooms)

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Makoto Yamada (Machine Learning and Data Science Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants.

Professional Development

OIST Innovation Open Hour

Friday, February 28, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
lab3A731

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday .

Seminar

[Seminar] "Self-organized organic and hybrid materials for optoelectronic applications" by Dr. Fabrice Mathevet (Research Director, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS))

Friday, February 28, 2025 - 13:00 to 14:00
Seminar Room L5D23 (Lab5)

Language: English. Registration: Not required.

Seminar

[Seminar] "Precise Control of CT States Pioneering Advanced Organic Devices" by Prof. Chihaya Adachi (OPERA, Kyushu University)

Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Language: English. Registration: Not required.

Seminar

[Seminar] Lattice Vibrations in Chiral Materials: Bridging Condensed Matter Physics and Mechanical Engineering

Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
D23, Lab5 & Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Junichiro Kishine, Professor, The Open University of Japan, The University of Tokyo, and Institute for Molecular Science.

Language: English

Seminar

[Seminar] "Interaction between action and perception" by Prof. Nobuhiro Hagura

Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 11:00
C209 - Center Bldg

Prof. Nobuhiro Hagura. Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Graduate School of Frontiers Biosciences, Osaka University

Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Phospholipid Dependency in Buchnera-Aphid Symbiosis: A Bioinformatics and Biochemical Perspective" by Dr. Kathrine Tan

Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 10:30 to 11:30
L4F01, Lab4

Dr. Kathrine Tan, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, National Institute for Basic Biology

Campus Service

Family and Community Orientation

Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 10:00
OIST Conference Center Meeting Room 1

University Community Services and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team will host a Family and Community Orientation on Thursday, February 27 from 10am-12pm in OIST Conference Center Meeting Room 1. This orientation is for OIST family members to foster networking, relationship building, and awareness of resources available to OIST family members. Whether you are new or have been here for years, please join us!

Research

OIST Energy Launch: Roundtable

Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 09:30 to 11:00
Lab 4 E48

An interdisciplinary conversation to explore the latest breakthroughs, challenges, and opportunities in the transition toward a sustainable energy future.

Research

OIST Energy Launch: Joint Session with COI-NEXT

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 15:30 to 16:00
Sydney Brenner Lecture Hall (B250)

Announcing the OIST Energy Open Center, a new interdisciplinary effort to address sustainable energy challenges.

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Can Legal Contracts be Smart or can Smart Contracts be Legal?" by Anna Katharina Suzuki-Klasen

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 14:15 to 15:15
C700

Can Legal Contracts be Smart or can Smart Contracts be Legal? 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).

Training

Nikon Day @ OIST Feb 2025

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 13:00

Nikon DAY @ OIST

Seminar

Late Night Science (ONOS)

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 18:00 to 20:00

Neuroscience Online Seminar + Social Event at Lab 5 D23

Prof. Claudia Clopath on Engram dynamics during consolidation - Bioengineering Department at Imperial College London

Wellness

Society for Neurodiversity Meeting

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 17:30 to 19:00
L3 B700

All OIST community is invited for one more meeting of the Society for Neurodiversity.

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Geometry, Optimal Transport and Statistical Physics" by Kohei Suzuki

Tuesday, February 25, 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

Seminar: “Biotremologist dreaming to be an insect: A brief introduction to a hidden world of vibrational communication” by Dr. Meta Virant-Doberlet

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room L4E01, Lab 4

Speaker: Dr. Meta Virant-Doberlet, Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Symposium

Convergence: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Solving Complex Problems

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 14:00 to Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 17:00
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)

COI Annual Symposium 2025 Convergence: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Solving Complex Problems

Time: 14:00 Feb 25 – 16:30 Feb 26 Venue: Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)

Seminar

QG seminar: Scattering amplitudes for entangled states

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 13:30
Lab 3, C700

QG visitor seminar. Speaker: Yair Mulian (Academia Sinica) Title: "Scattering amplitudes for entangled states"

Holiday

National Holiday 振替休日

Monday, February 24, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

National Holiday 天皇誕生日

Sunday, February 23, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

Workshop

Neural Computation Workshop 2025 (FY2024)

Saturday, February 22, 2025 (All day)
Seminar Room B250 - Ctr Bldg

Neural Computation Unit will hold a retreat/reunion at Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250) on OIST main campus. If you are interested in joining, please contact <ncus@oist.jp>.

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Investigating the Mysteries of Body Language" by Claire Wyart

Friday, February 21, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4F01

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

OIST Innovation Open Hour

Friday, February 21, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab3A731

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday .

Seminar

Analysis on Metric Spaces Seminar 2025 | Periodic homogenization for non-local stable-like operators, Professor Takashi Kumagai, Waseda University

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 15:00
L4E01+zoom
Periodic homogenization for non-local stable-like operators Professor Takashi Kumagai Waseda University Abstract :

Homogenization has been a very active area of research in both PDE and probability theory for many years. In this talk, we will first review classical results on periodic homogenization for divergence form operators. We will then present our recent results on periodic homogenization for non-local, stable-like operators. Both qualitative and quantitative results will be discussed. Moreover, we will explore quantitative periodic homogenization on bounded domains, where the rate of convergence near the boundary slows down

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4F01 and online on Zoom
Andrea Solotar , University of Buenos Aires Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Title: On the tau-tilting Hochschild (co)homology of an algebra
Recreation

Sushi Making Workshop 【Registration is closed】

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:30 to 13:30
Conference Center Meeting Room#1
Sushi Making Workshop
Seminar

Optics Seminar: Principles and applications of optical and acoustic trapping combined with Raman spectroscopy

Monday, February 17, 2025 - 16:15 to 17:30
on Zoom

Title: Principles and applications of optical and acoustic trapping combined with Raman spectroscopy Speaker: Dr Silvie Bernatova, CNR Italy

Seminar

[Seminar] "Dissecting the senescence regulatory network" by Dr. Chanhee Kang

Monday, February 17, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab3, C700

[Affiliation] Associate Professor, SSTF Investigator, SUHF Young Investigator School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University

[Seminar Title] Dissecting the senescence regulatory network

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