Past Events

Seminar

Seminar "Exploring multiphase flow processes via particle-resolving simulations" by Prof. Eckart Meiburg

Friday, April 7, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 C700 / Zoom

[Speaker] Prof. Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara

Seminar

"Multidimensionality of leadership and emergent feedback mechanisms revealed by interspecific groups" by Dr. Eduardo Sampaio

Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4F01

Dr. Eduardo Sampaio , Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Professional Development

第1回 事務職員向け勉強会 ❘ #1 Study Sessions for Administrative Staff

Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
Lab3 C700

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

C-Hub 第1回 事務職員向け勉強会 「研究者の活動」 (日本語)

Speaker: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Seminar

MiS Seminar Series: Quantum Biology: radical pairs under the microscope

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
L4E01

Speaker::Jonathan R. WOODWARD

Professor of University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Speciality: Physical Chemistry,Photochemistry,Spin Chemistry

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/people100335.html

OIST Workshops

OIST Workshop "Invitation to Recursion, Resurgence, and Combinatorics"

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 (All day) to Friday, April 14, 2023 (All day)
OIST Main Campus, Lab 4, Seminar Room L4E48

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizers: Reiko Toriumi (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit) and Kento Osuga (University of Tokyo) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

Seminar

[Seminar] Why resource dynamics matter in microbial communities

Monday, April 3, 2023 - 13:00
C700, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Letten, ARC Fellow & Lecturer in Quantitative Biology at the University of Queensland

Lecture

DVSP Talk: "Should I Stop or Should I Go? Exquisite Regulation of Neurotransmitter Release at Mammalian Synapses" by Christian Rosenmund

Friday, March 31, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:15
L4E48, Zoom

DVSP 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

Community Cooking Series - Class 4

Friday, March 31, 2023 - 09:00 to Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 16:00
Onna Fureai Center (Room #3 Ryukyu Cooking Room)

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?).

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 20:00

In this meeting we will discuss the proper method to cook and eat a soprano ukulele.

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 6

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:45
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
Title: On things that grow Speaker: Professor Simone Pigolotti, Biological Complexity Unit Chair: Professor Izumi Fukunaga , Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit
Seminar

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor Takeshi Sakurai: Induction of hibernation-like state in mice

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 16:00
ZOOM

OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to host Prof. Takeshi Sakurai from the International Institute for Integrative Sleep (WPI-IIIS) Medicine, University of Tsukuba. Everyone is welcome to join the seminar!

Seminar

【Seminar】Diamond MEMS: from fundamentals to sensing applications

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab4, F01 (Hybrid)

Speaker: Dr. Meiyong LIAO, a Chief Researcher at National Institute for Material Science

Zoom :

https://oist.zoom.us/j/96289625266?pwd=TFdtZmRqbG5HSUhCa0xseit5ellIZz09

Passcode: 313298

Seminar

[Seminar] Models for the evolution of respiratory diseases: the interplay of limited cross-immunity with infectivity that decreases with virulence

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 14:30 to 15:30
L4E01 [Lab4 Level E], Zoom
Speaker

Professor emeritus Hans (=J.A.J.) Metz, Institute of Biology and Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Seminar

[Date / Venue are changed] Seminar: “Ernst Haeckel – the greatest German Zoologist? ” by Prof. Dr. Rolf Beutel

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room C700, Lab 3

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rolf Beutel, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Date

Old: Monday, March 27 , 2023 (11:00 - 12:00)

New: Wednesday, March 29 , 2023 (11:00 - 12:00)

Room

Old: Seminar Room C209, Center Building

New: Seminar Room C700, Lab 3

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Levitodynamics: Optomechanics with a levitated nanoparticle' by Prof Romain Quidant

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
on Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Romain Quidant

Professor, Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Seminar

[Seminar] "Evolution of operon formation in the laboratory" by Mr. Yuki Kanai

Monday, March 27, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
L4F01, Lab4

Mr. Yuki Kanai, PhD Student, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan

Outreach

Carrot Harvest - working with local farmers

Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 09:00 to 12:00
Shimabukuro Noen, Yomitan, Nakagami District, Okinawa 904-0301

EF Polymer , an agritech startup has been working with local farmers in Okinawa to perform pilot tests of their technology. Their team wish to create an enjoyable event to help the farmers harvest the carrots, and also give back to the community. The OIST POWER Club is calling for volunteers to join this event to harvest carrots.

Outreach

“Hoshizuna: the floating star-sand” art installation

Saturday, March 25, 2023 (All day) to Sunday, April 30, 2023 (All day)
Tunnnel Gallery

“Hoshizuna: the floating star-sand” art installation

From Saturday, March 25, through Saturday, April 1, OIST will house giant balloons in the shape of Hoshizuna, or Okinawa star sand.

Wellness

A New Paradigm: Pain Recovery is Possible Dr. Les Aria/ 慢性疼痛の回復への新たな視点 レス・アリア博士

Friday, March 24, 2023 - 10:00 to 12:00
C209 and Zoom

This presentation will cover a new perspective on the definition of chronic pain, coupled with the new brain studies postulating that emotional and physical pains share the same neural networks.

Recreation

Sanshin classes by Satsuki Agena (January to March)

Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 18:00 to 20:15
Plumeria Lounge in the Gardens Housing

Sanshin classes by Satsuki Agena (January to March)

Recreation

TSVP Anniversary Teatime

Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 16:00
Lab 4 Level D Break Area (L4D01)

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Seminar

Phases and topological defects in two dimensions, Prof. Leticia F. Cugliandolo

Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
Center, level B, B503

Prof. Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies.

Langage: English.

Administrative Meeting

Discussion - OIST Natural History Collection

Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 13:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room C700

Discussion of progress and roadmap for founding an OIST natural history collection.

Seminar

"Population Dynamics of Balanced Growth in Bacteria" by Dr. Farshid Jafarpour

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - 15:00
C015 or online

Online seminar, hosted in C015 (Lab 1)

Dr. Farshid Jafarpour (Assistant Professor Utrecht University)

(Zoom link in description)

Administrative Meeting

Environmental Science and Informatics Users Meeting

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:30
Seminar Room C700

In this meeting, we will present information about the new Environmental Science and Informatics section in RSD and ask for feedback from users or potential users of our services. In the interests of keeping the meeting manageable we would prefer to have one representative per unit.

Seminar

Using superconducting elements to explore the oscillatory Unruh effect and to obtain entangled photon pairs produced from the vacuum

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
C209

Speaker: Dr. Hui Wang, Riken

Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Outreach

OIST x OYW Spring Camp 2023

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 17:00 to Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 12:00
OIST Main Campus and Seaside House

OIST x OYW Spring Camp 2023: a five-day camp for high school students in Japan to address solutions to environmental issue.

Holiday

春分の日 Vernal Equinox Day

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 00:00

National holiday

Seminar

[Seminar] Kavan Modi (Monash), Quantum Chaos = Volume-Law Spatiotemporal Entanglement

Monday, March 20, 2023 - 14:00
L4E43

Seminar by Kavan Modi (Monash), Mon Mar 20 2pm JST

Outreach

Women in Mathematics Photography Exhibits

Monday, March 20, 2023 (All day) to Sunday, March 26, 2023 (All day)
Central Building Level C and Tunnel Gallery

Photographs taken by Noel Tovia Matoff of women mathematicians from around the world.

OIST Workshops

Women at the Intersection of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Meet in Okinawa

Monday, March 20, 2023 (All day) to Friday, March 24, 2023 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (L4E48)

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Reiko Toriumi (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

External Events

Information Processing Society of Japan - 255th Natural Language Processing Workshop (情報処理学会 第255回自然言語処理研究会)

Saturday, March 18, 2023 (All day)
OIST Conference Center - Meeting Rooms

This is an externally organized event, For more information please go the conference website (Japanese language only).

Workshop

Experiences of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Friday, March 17, 2023 - 14:30

The workshop will take place on March 17th at 14:30 GMT+9 in Lab4, room L4E45 and online via Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94928028761?pwd=akM1aktLcXhkeG1xUUlGVXV5RFdhQT09

Please, review the workshop program and talks .

Registration is now open!

Seminar

Seminar "From Metallocenes to Post-Metallocene Polymerization Catalysts" by Prof. Jun Okuda, RWTH Aachen University

Friday, March 17, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
C209, Center Building, Level C

Dr. Jun Okuda, Professor, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University. Language: English

Industry Relations

OIST Innovators Society - Bagasse Upcycle

Friday, March 17, 2023 - 11:15 to 12:00
Seminar room L4E01 (Lab 4, Level E)

The OIST Innovators Society is hosting an informal seminar with Shinji Odo, Founder and CEO of BAGASSE UPCYCLE Inc. ( https://bagasse-upcycle.com/home/ ) – an Okinawa-based startup whose mission is to change people‘s clothing consumption behavior in tourist destinations and travel scenes in a sustainable way.

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Fun fact: Beyonce's famous "Single Ladies" is in fact a parody of an old Vaudeville song called "All the Ukuleles"!

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Meta-Research & Meta-Analysis in Ecology & Evolution" by Shinichi Nakagawa

Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:10
L4E48, 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 "The 100-Eyes Particle Image Velocimetry and Thermometry Using a Mirror Array" by Prof. Jun Sakakibara

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab1 C016

[Speaker] Prof. Jun Sakakibara, Meiji University

Research

"Cryo-EM - an ever lasting challenge!" Prof. Klaus Qvortrup

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab 1 C016

Dr. Klaus Qvortrup , Professor at the Centre for Integrative Microscopy, Biomedical Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Seminar

Virtual seminar: "Any consistent coupling between classical gravity and quantum matter is fundamentally irreversible" by Dr. Thomas Galley

Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 16:30
L4E43
Dr. Thomas Galley, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information - Vienna. Virtual Seminar, Language: English
Seminar

[Seminar] 'Ultrafast measurements, extreme events, and fifty years of solitons in nonlinear fibre optics' by Prof John Dudley

Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
on Zoom

Title: Ultrafast measurements, extreme events, and fifty years of solitons in nonlinear fibre optics

Speaker: Dr. John Dudley Professor, Institut FEMTO-ST, Université de Franche-Comté-CNRS, France

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:30
On Zoom
Soichi Okada , Nagoya University Title: Intermediate symplectic characters and enumeration of shifted plane partitions
Seminar

[Seminar] Is Cardiac Synchronization an aspect of the Shared Body Schema? Learning from expert musicians

Monday, March 13, 2023 - 15:30
B503

Speaker: Dr. Simon Høffding , University of Southern Denmark

Abstract: «In this talk, I firstly go through the notion of the body schema as the possibility of including other objects or even subjects into our own lived body. I present phenomenological interviews with expert musicians that give us reason to believe that a dimension of their shared musical expertise consists in the construction of such a shared body schema, as a robust sense of “we-ness”. Hypothesizing that cardiac synchronization (CS) (also known as heart rate variability synchronization) might instantiate or contribute to a physiological dimension of this we-ness, a recent experiment indeed, shows that expert musicians have significantly higher CS than adepts and that this synchronization is resilient to performative challenges. Thus, I tentatively argue that CS should be considered as indexical of a shared body schema.»

Everybody is welcomed Today! 15:30, Monday, 13 of March Room B503 (liminal space between library and supply store (lab 1 and central building))

Industry Relations

OIST Innovators Society - Global Hands-On VC

Monday, March 13, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4F01 (Lab 4, Level F)

Join us for coffee and conversation with the founders and managing partners of Global Hands-On VC (GHOVC) ( https://www.ghovc.com/ ), Shri Dodani and Ken Yasunaga.

Research

"Future of volume microscopy - with special focus on VolumeScope challenges" Prof. Klaus Qvortrup

Monday, March 13, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab 1 B503

Dr. Klaus Qvortrup , Professor at the Centre for Integrative Microscopy, Biomedical Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Seminar

OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 4

Monday, March 13, 2023 - 13:20 to 17:30
Keio University Yagami Campus/ Hybrid

OIST is a private university established in 2011, under Japanese government auspices. While new, OIST has made remarkable progress by conducting research that bridges disciplines to explore new frontiers of scientific knowledge. Keio University, Japan’s first private university founded in 1858, has led Japanese academia with its tradition and innovative mindset. Both universities now come together to launch interdisciplinary collaboration at an institutional level. The “Keio-OIST Showcase Talk” series is our signature event, where researchers not only present their recent research, but can seek advice, discuss solutions, and find friends and prospective collaborators.

Seminar

[Seminar] "Polymer-Based Organic Electrochemical Transistors: Neuromorphic and Biosensor Applications" by Prof. Shunsuke Yamamoto

Monday, March 13, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
L4E48

Shunsuke Yamamoto, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University.

External Events

BEACH CLEANING – SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 13:00 – 15:00 @ SERAGAKI BEACH

Sunday, March 12, 2023 - 13:00
Serakaki Beach, Onna
Beach Cleaning Event! 12th of March, Sunday, 13:00-15:00, Seragaki

Location:

https://goo.gl/maps/s1jBsbzwKcGzNBxt8

Prospective Students

OIST Science Challenge

Saturday, March 11, 2023 (All day) to Saturday, March 18, 2023 (All day)
OIST Main Campus
Workshop

OIST Science Challenge workshop provides participants with a unique opportunity to extend their scientific education and experience research. We also offer valuable information and tips to help them prepare for a doctoral program. Through a series of activities with faculty, postdocs, as well as with PhD students, the participants will learn about research conducted at OIST, and skills needed to survive and enjoy a PhD life. At the end of the workshop, participants will be asked to present a submitted slide presentation on the theme "How will your research impact future society?" in light of their experience throughout the week. The presentation will be shared with the OIST community. Airfare, accommodation, and meals during the workshop will be provided by OIST.

Recreation

Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Arrangement Workshop

Friday, March 10, 2023 - 17:00 to 19:00
C700 in LAB 3

Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Arrangement Workshop

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