Past Events
QG group meeting
Speaker: Vyacheslav Lysov (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Introduction to tropical Gromov-Witten thoery"
Keynote Lecture by Dr. Marin van Heel (Cryo-Electron Microscopy Course)
Kyenote Lecture for CryoEM Course
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
Speaker: Robert Spencer, University of Cambridge
Title:(Some) Gram Determinants for \(A_n\) nets
[Seminar] Prof. Bumjoon Kim "Intertwinned Néel and spin nematic orders in a square-lattice antiferromagnet"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
(Somewhat) Functional Journal Club
FY2021 Cryo-Electron Microscopy Course at OIST
Internal and External workshop
SDGs未来都市の役割とは Science Talk vol.3
OISTサイエンストーク2021 vol.3
タイトル:SDGs未来都市沖縄の役割とは?
登壇者:OIST 研究科長オフィス 副研究科長 タカバヤシ ミサキ
恩納村役場SDGs推進事務局 松原 廣幸
恩納村役場企画課企画係長 當山香織
恩納村役場企画課企画係主事 冨着 開
アサーティブコミュニケーション研修
相手を尊重しながら自分の気持ちや考えを率直・誠実に表現するコミュニケーション法を学びます。ペアワークやグループディスカッションを多用した参加型の研修です。
Theoretical Physics Seminar: Yasha Neiman
Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "A new kind of Feynman rules: what is Higher Spin Gravity?"
Determining Habitat Occupancy of Okinawa's Owl Species Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring
Cassie George is an RSD intern working with the Environmental Informatics Section in collaboration with the Takagi lab at Hokkaido University
English for Writing Research Papers - Sentence Structure 1 of 3 (CANCELLED)
The best writers have a few basic guidelines for making their sentences easy to read.
Join us to find out the rules for writing simple, easy to read sentences that will provide the clarity reviewers are looking for.
Virtual Seminar"Gaborheometry: Applications of the Gabor Transform to Time-Resolved Oscillatory Rheometry"Gareth H. McKinley
Language: English
QG group meeting: a little bit from everyone
Quantum Gravity group meeting. Short stories by everyone.
[Catch-All Math Colloquium] Monge-Ampère equations related to optimal transport and geometric optics, Jun Kitagawa, Michigan State University
In the mathematics part, we will hear an exciting overview talk for a general audience. In the discussion session, we will hear about the speaker's experience as a mathematician. Y ou can take inspiration from them and exchange ideas with other participants in a small group. After the sessions are over, there will be a tea time where participants can chat freely.
第5回おきなわオープンTECHゼミ The 5th Seminar of Okinawa Open Facilities Network (OoPNet)
Title : Development of helium recycling network in Okinawa Date and time : Tuesday, February 22, 2022 15:00-16:00 Speakers : Kazuma Takada (OIST) , Hisaya Munemoto (University of the Ryukyus) Language : Japanese Registration required
Faculty Lunchtime Seminar (Prof. Armitage)
Title : Context-dependence and generality in community ecology - two sides of the same coin?
Abstract : Community ecology is often derided for its lack of general theory. Factors limiting one population's growth can be insignificant elsewhere. While this flavor of context-dependence clearly impedes a predictive theory of ecology, it also paradoxically functions as a very general mechanism that maintains biodiversity. I will review how a context-dependent competition theory can clarify the general mechanisms underlying species coexistence and geographic range limits. I'll then riff on the theme of ecological context-dependence as it pertains to our unit members' work on carnivorous plants, pestiferous bats, and noxious roadside weeds.
https://groups.oist.jp/faculty-lunch
Zoom seminar for OIST "Bridging the genotype-phenotype-fitness divide: from protein interfaces to organismal fitness"
Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit would like to invite you to a seminar!
Tokyo Institute of Technology IIR Symposium /東京工業大学 科学技術創成研究院 シンポジウム
Dean of Research, Dr. Tadashi Yamamoto will attend the symposium as one of the panelists.
(This symposium will be held in Japanese.)
English for Academic Email Correspondence - Subject lines
What separates your email's subject line from other spam type emails?
In this seminar we will look at what makes a good subject line, how we can maximise the way it is seen in email software and how we can make it more meaningful for the reader.
[Webinar] Science/Tech/Business Innovation Book Talk Series: #2 Fail Fast - Lessons for Japan
Speaker: Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita, Founder & CEO, Quality Electrodynamics | CTO, Canon Medical Systems Corporation, CT-MR Division | Member, OIST Board of Governors | Trustee and Health Innovation Ambassador, OIST Foundation | Honorary Consul General of Japan in Cleveland
In Japanese with English subtitles. Register here .
The 33rd Board of Governors Meeting
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Inclusive Mentoring Mini-Symposium 2022
The Center for Professional Development and Inclusive Excellence (C-Hub) warmly welcomes you to join us to engage in inspirational discussions, explorations, and strategic thinking to explore how individuals and institutions can promote impactful, inclusive mentoring cultures in the sciences.
Theoretical Ecology Discussion: Dynamics of within-population structure stabilise complex ecological communities
Casual discussion group based on pre-recorded theoretical ecology talks; all welcome! This week: André M. de Roos (University of Amsterdam). Dynamics of within-population structure stabilise complex ecological communities
Global Women's Breakfast 2022 - Joint Kyoto and OIST event
Please register for Global Women's Breakfast 2022 - Joint Kyoto U. and OIST event on February 16th, 2022.
[Seminar] Mr. Nicolo Scapin "Weakly compressible simulation of evaporating droplets"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
Speaker: Stephen Doty, Loyola University Chicago
Title: Schur-Weyl duality for braid and twin groups via the Burau representation
Annual Inspection_Ultracentrifuge [Hitachi Koki]
Annual Inspection_Ultracentrifuges
[PhD Thesis Public Presentation_Zoom] ‐ Swathy Babu– “Banp regulates DNA damage response and chromosome segregation to promote cell-cycle progression and cell survival in zebrafish retina.”
PhD Thesis Public Presentation
[OIST 10th] OIST Images of Science Traveling Exhibition
A traveling version of the campus exhibition, this mobile set of images generated by OIST researchers over the past 10 years, will tour locations in Okinawa Prefecture and Tokyo.
OIST Innovators Society - Workshop 2 - ‘How to Make a Capitalization Table’
OIST Innovators Society - Workshop 2: 'How to make a Capitalization Table'
This session is meant to provide an explanation of how stock holdings are recorded in a capitalization or “cap” table – what a cap table is used for – and how to make one. It will also cover stock options as compensation, which is important if you are starting a company or joining a company as a new employee.
OIST NetCafé (Online Information Session) in February 2022
This OIST Café takes its opportunity to commemorate UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science in February and introduce OIST’s effort to encourage and support female scientists, share the stories of OIST female students and scientists as well as the stories of the participants about the struggle or their common concerns to choose STEM field as their career. Panel discussions will be organized so that the participants can interact with the speakers.
As a keynote speaker and one of the panelists, Professor Rita Colwell , Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and University of Maryland, College Park, will join. She became the first woman to serve as the Director of the United States National Science Foundation from 1998 to 2004.
Theoretical Ecology Discussion: Species heterogeneity can reduce the potential for alternative stable states in food webs
Casual discussion group based on pre-recorded theoretical ecology talks; all welcome! This week: Vadim Karatayev (University of Guleph). Species heterogeneity can reduce the potential for alternative stable states in food webs.
Virtual Seminar"Printing Porosity in Thin Film Polymers"Andrew H. Gibbons
Language: English
Quantum Birds: The Magnetic Compass Sense of night-migratory Songbirds
Quantum Birds: The Magnetic Compass Sense of night-migratory Songbirds
Prof. Henrik Mouritsen
Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University Oldenburg,
Prof. Mouritsen will present how night-migratory songbirds seem to use a quantum mechanical mechanism to sense magnetic compass information which they use to navigate with exquisite precision over thousands of kilometres (Mouritsen 2018). In the past years, evidence has mounted that migratory birds use a light-dependent, radical pair-based mechanism to sense the axis of the geomagnetic field lines (Hore & Mouritsen 2016). The magnetic compass of night-migratory birds is sensitive to anthropogenic electromagnetic field disturbances being ca. 1000 times weaker than the current WHO guideline limits (Engels et al. 2014; Schwarze et al. 2016). This result could be significant in relation to migratory bird conservation measures and strongly indicates that the basic sensory mechanism underlying the magnetic compass of night-migratory songbirds should be based on quantum mechanical principles rather than classical physics. Neuroanatomical data have shown that magnetic compass information is detected in the eye and then processed in a small part of the thalamofugal visual pathway terminating in the visual processing centre “Cluster N” (Mouritsen et al. 2005; Liedvogel et al. 2007; Feenders et al. 2008; Zapka et al. 2009). When Cluster N is deactivated, migratory European Robins can no longer use their magnetic compass, whereas their star compass and sun compass abilities are unaffected (Zapka et al. 2009). The lagena and associated pathways remained intact. Bilateral section of the trigeminal nerve had no effect on the birds’ ability to use their magnetic compass (Zapka et al. 2009). Very recently, we could also show that the light-sensitive protein Cryptochrome 4 from a night-migratory songbird is magnetically sensitive in vitro based on a radical-pair mechanism (Xu et al. 2021).
Zoom link
OIST Innovators Society - Workshop 1 - ‘When and Why to Incorporate a Company’
OIST Innovators Society - Workshop 1: 'When and Why to Incorporate a Company'
In this session, we will learn and discuss about some of the considerations to be made, and the processes involved when starting a company.
The 27th Board of Councilors Meeting
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
[Seminar] Instability and turbulence in electroconvective flows
CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.
[Resume Workshop] Crafting an effective Resume
[Resume workshop] - Crafting an effective Resume
Join us for the “Crafting an effective Resume” workshop to discover how you can utilize these strategies to make your application more focused, tailored, and relevant.
OIST Alumni Talks - Nico Espinas
OIST Alumni Talks
Name: Dr. Nino Espinas (Class of 2012) Talk Title: Reflection and Comparison of Postdoc Life in Japan and Europe
Theoretical Ecology Seminar/Discussion Series
Theoretical Ecology Seminar/Discussion Series
[Seminar] Low Energy Structure of Spiral Spin Liquid
TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.
Virtual Seminar"Topologically Active Polymers"Davide Michieletto
Language: English
6th ABiS Advanced Light Microscopy Course at OIST
6th ABiS Advanced Light Microscopy Course at OIS
On-site Inspection by Board of Audit Japan
On-site Inspection by Board of Audit Japan
Winter Admissions Selection 2022
Online Admissions Selection for shortlisted PhD applicants from January 24th to February 11th, 2022.
Information sessions about PhD program, faculty talks and interviews all via zoom.
The event is targeted towards shortlisted applicants for our PhD program.
Please contact phd-selection@oist.jp for further details.
好奇心からイノベーションへ Science Talk vol.2
OISTサイエンストーク2021 vol.2
タイトル:好奇心からイノベーションへ
沖縄の研究室から生まれる発明を、沖縄の社会的・経済的に繋げるためには
登壇者:OIST 技術開発イノベーションオフィス シニアマネジャー 市川 尚斉
琉球大学工学部知能情報コース 教授 玉城 絵美
Catch-All Mathematical Colloquium
In the mathematics part, we will hear an exciting overview talk for a general audience. January speaker is Ade Irma Suriajaya from Kyushu University. In the discussion session, we will hear about the speaker's experience as a mathematician. Y ou can take inspiration from them and exchange ideas with other participants in a small group. After the sessions are over, there will be a tea time where participants can chat freely.
Part I Expository math talk 3-4 pm
Speaker: Ade Irma Suriajaya Kyushu University
Talk Title : Goldbach’s Conjecture and the Riemann Hypothesis in Number Theory, and Their Relations to Zeta Functions
Abstract: Number Theory has a very long history that dates back to thousands of years ago. The main goal of this study is to understand properties of numbers which can essentially be reduced to understanding prime numbers. Number Theory has evolved over time and yet we are still left with several important old problems. Among, Goldbach’s conjecture which is celebrating its 280th anniversary this year (by the time of my talk in 2022) and the Riemann hypothesis which is now over 160 years old remain unsolved. In this talk, I would like to explain what these problems are about and briefly introduce a few recent works which are related to them, especially how the distribution of zeros of the Riemann zeta function comes into play. My talk will be given in the perspective of Analytic Number Theory.
Abstract: Part II Diversity Panel Discussion 4-5 pm
[Seminar] Quantum-inspired manifold learning and feedback-based quantum optimization
Quantum-inspired manifold learning and feedback-based quantum optimization - Dr Mohan Sarovar (Sandia National Labs in California, USA)
E-workshop: "Visual Design for Communication".
C-Hub warmly invites you to join us to learn how to effectively present your ideas or data visually.