Admission free. Registration required.

The OIST Language Section, POWER Club, and Okinawa International University are collaborating to organize a special edition of the Community Cooking Series. 15 students from Okinawa International University will be visiting Onna to participate in a language exchange, cooking class, and finally a Campus Tour of OIST.

Talks by the Chairperson, Mr. Ietsugu and the President, Mr. Asano of Sysmex Corporation. Languaage: English and Japanese (simulteneous interpretation provided). No registration needed for OIST community.

Speaker : Prof. Andrew Lobb (Durham University, UK) Title : Handles and surgery Date and time& Location :

Lecture 1) Friday 14 ^th Feb 10h00-12h00 (L4F01)

Lecture 2) Monday 17 ^th Feb 13h30-15h30 (L4E01)

Lecture 3) Friday 21st Feb 10h00-12h00 (L4F01)

Lecture 4) Friday 28 ^th Feb 10h00-12h00 (L4E01)

Lecture 5) Monday 3 ^rd March 13h30-15h30 (L4E01)

Lecture 6) Friday 7 ^th March 10h00-12h00 (L4E01)

Lecture 7) Monday 17 ^th March 13h30-15h30) (L4E01)

Language: English

Speaker: Prof. Robert Dan Holt

Title: Apparent competition: Reflections on humans as mediators, agents, and victims

Affiliation: Affiliate Eminent Scholar, Center for African Studies, University of Florida, USA

Hosted by Dieckmann Unit

Title: Exploring the neurobiological mechanisms of aggression escalation in mice

Speaker:Aki Takahashi, Laboratory of Behavioral Neurobiology, Institute of Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Language: English, no interpretation

National holiday

Speaker: Prof. Robert Dan Holt

Title: SARS-Cov2 meets the ecological niche

Affiliation: Eminent Scholar and Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecological Studies, University of Florida, USA

Hosted by Dieckmann Unit

Presidential Lecture by Robert D. Holt on "The Value of Long-Term Experiments in Ecology"

HPC on AWS is a one-day hands-on tutorial, run by Amazon Web Services, that teaches you how to set up a Slurm-based cluster in the cloud. The event needs pre-application.

Talk title: Individually Addressable Atom Array Coupled to an Optical Nanofiber Cavity: Advancing Towards Quantum Computing with Optical Nanofiber Cavity-QED

Speaker: Dr Jameesh KELOTH, Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Japan

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).

OIST and Kyusyu University have signed an MOU in 2023 to pursue broad research collaboration. As part of this initiative, we have been holding joint symposia to deepen exchanges between our researchers. The first symposium was held at OIST last year with the theme "Bio-inspired Energy." The 2nd Joint Workshop will be held in Kyushu University focusing on Quantum Technology and AI.

Speaker: Prof. Hye Jin Park

Title: From Extinction to Expansion: The Role of Vacancies in the Evolution of Cooperation

Affiliation: Department of Physics, Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Hosted by Dieckmann Unit

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

Title: Imaging in 3D and other fun things to do through multimode fibres

Speaker: Dr Peter Mekhail, University of Glasgow, Scottland

Official webpage is published! Please click here for more information.

Prof. Bertram Gerber, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Come in person for some active discussion and snacks!

Speaker: Prof. Roktaek Lim

Title: Large-scale Metabolic Interaction Network of the Mouse and Human Gut Microbiota

Affiliation: Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea

Hosted by Dieckmann Unit

Speaker: Mr. WooJoong Kim

Title: Optimal Distancing Strategies and Incentives in the Absence of Effective Vaccines

Affiliation: Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea

Hosted by Dieckmann Unit

OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 7

Neural Computation Unit will host a joint workshop with Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics.

Keynote lecture in cryo electron microscopy workshop: Professro Yoshinori Fujiyoshi ( Science Tokyo)

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).

This is a joint mini-symposium between OIST and JST Act-X. Act-X is a JST grant program designed to support young researchers. The symposium features four speakers from Act-X’s research area, “Life and Chemistry,” and four speakers from OIST. While the symposium is titled “Life and Chemistry,” the topics covered are quite diverse. The primary aim of this event is to foster meaningful interactions between researchers at OIST and those from outside institutions.

Internal and external workshop

Registration deadline for OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 7 - Science meets Society: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences is January 27th, 2025.

CLuES: New Year Celebrations around the World presented by OISTers!

Speaker: Giuseppe Gallo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Manoa

Please RSVP by noon on Jan. 22nd: https://forms.gle/31uFi7VNEmmKFa38A

Speaker: Professor Jean-Jacques Slotine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

C-Hub warmly invites you to join us for an engaging session on actionable DEI strategies in higher education.

Title: Preserving Nature's Treasures: Biodiversity Conservation, Species Discoveries, and World Heritage Nomination in Mindanao

By Prof. Dr. Alma B. Mohagan from Central Mindanao University in Philippines

Abstract:

In this talk we will study the Lp1 × Lp2 → Lp boundedness for bilinear rough singular integral operators LΩ associated with Ω ∈ L(log L)α(S2n−1) with mean value zero. We will first review classical linear singular integrals and then study how the results have been extended and developed in the bilinear setting, presenting the most recent results. If time permits, general multilinear problems will be also discussed

Meeting of the Society for Neurodiversity: a safe space, free of judgment for neurodivergent individuals.

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).

Prof. Charlie Weiss, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Augustana University

Registration Now Open---Non-Academic Job Market Series---Module 6: Job Search Process + Guest Lecture to take place on January 30. Please register if you plan to attend this last module of the series, which is open to all OIST members.

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).

Speakers:

Davide Barilari (University of Padova) Luca Capogna (Smith College) Giovanna Citti (University of Bologna) Maria Gordina (University of Connecticut) Kotaro Hisa (University of Tokyo) Enrico Le Donne (University of Fribourg) Andrea Pinamonti (University of Trento) Luca Rizzi (SISSA) Bianca Stroffolini (University of Naples) Kenshiro Tashiro (OIST) Jeremy Tyson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Ye Zhang (OIST) Xiao Zhong (University of Helsinki)

Organizers: Qing Liu (OIST), Ye Zhang (OIST), Xiaodan Zhou (OIST)

Visit the conference website for more details.

National holiday

Tancha beach is in a really sad state after the stormy seas washing up lots of trash. If you are looking for an excuse to be outdoors, please consider going to Tancha to help clean the shore! You can always go anytime you like, for as long or as short as you like, just leave what you find near the carpark at the bottom of the OIST hill! Spontaneous cleaning without previous planning with Onna Village Office is fine, just tell the resource centre afterwards where you left your collection! If you don't have beach cleaning bags to hand you can also use normal garbage bags. And if you don't have any bags handy, you can always pick up the large floats and leave those off the beach (especially the polystyrene ones). Every little bit helps! Spread the word!

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).

Speaker: Prof. Scott V. Edwards, Harvard University

Dr. Yingqiu Mao and Dr. Yi-Zheng Zhen are Associate Researchers in University of Science and Technology of China. Dr. Mao obtained her Ph.D. at USTC in experimental quantum cryptography and had since been working on hybrid quantum systems. Dr. Zhen’s research focuses on the quantum information thermodynamics and device-independent quantum cryptographic schemes.

National holiday

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Talk Series by

- Prof. Mich Kitazaki, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology. - Dr. Ganesh Gowrishankar, Directeur de Recherche (Senior Researcher) with the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique (CNRS) - Prof. Yoichi Miyawaki, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering,The University of Electro-Communications

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

Nikon day

Join us for a seminar by Professor Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute of Science as he introduces the Human Phenotype Project, a groundbreaking longitudinal cohort and biobank initiative leveraging multi-omic technologies to uncover novel molecular markers of health and disease, driving the future of personalized disease prediction. | Fri, 20 Dec 2024 | 9:00AM -10:00AM | CENTER BLDG C209 |