Past Events

Professional Development

おまけ回 大学職員向け勉強会 / Supplementary Study Session for OIST Staff (JPN)

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 C700

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

おまけ回「疑問の解消と理解の掘り下げ」 (日本語) Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub
Lecture

TSVP Talk: "A Geometric Adventure in Machine Learning: Learning with Invariances, Structures, and Prior Knowledge" by Florian Yger

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 - 15:00
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] "Mechanisms of adaptive learning in biological neural networks" by Nelson Totah (TP24NM)

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 - 14:00 to 14:45
L5D23

Title : Mechanisms of adaptive learning in biological neural networks Speaker : Nelson Totah This seminar is part of the TSVP Thematic Program: Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Theoretical Lessons Learned From Invertebrate and Vertebrate Brains

Seminar

Seminar "On Symmetry breaking in Taylor-Couette System" by Prof. Yasushi Takeda

Monday, July 22, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:00
B712, Lab 3

[Speaker] Prof. Yasushi Takeda, Prof. em. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, ex Scientist HEST, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Seminar

QG Guest Seminar: The Giant Graviton Expansion

Monday, July 22, 2024 - 14:00
L4E01

Quantum Gravity Unit Guest Seminar Speaker: Paul Luis Roehl (DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK) Title: "The Giant Graviton Expansion"

Seminar

Ecology and evolution of ants on both sides of the Pacific

Monday, July 22, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room L4E01, Lab 4

Speaker: Dr. Milan Janda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, & Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Seminar

[Seminar] "Changing Approaches to Monitoring Marine Biodiversity Change: An Overview of the WPI-AIMEC Marine Biology Integrative Analysis Unit" by Prof. Cheryl Ames

Monday, July 22, 2024 - 10:30 to 11:30
L4F01, Lab4

Dr. Cheryl Lynn AMES, Professor, Tohoku University

Outreach

ONNA×OIST Children's School of Science 2024

Monday, July 22, 2024 - 09:30 to Friday, July 26, 2024 - 12:00
Onna Fureai Taiken Center, OIST

The details will be updated

Lecture

TSVP Talk "Understanding the Power of Quantum Computation" by Sergii Strelchuk

Friday, July 19, 2024 - 15:00
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).

Campus Service

OIST Innovation open-hours

Friday, July 19, 2024 - 14:00
Innovation Lounge (Lab3 level A)

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Outreach

Falling Walls Lab Tokyo 2024 co-hosted by OIST

Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 15:00
Online event

The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers developed and hosted annually by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin in November. In 3–minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin.

Seminar

[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2024-8 by Ms. Weiqiu You (University of Pennsylvania) , Mr. Xiaoyuan Zhang (City University of Hong Kong), at D23, Lab5

Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 13:30 to 14:30
Seminar Room D23, Lab5

Speaker 1: Ms. Weiqiu You (University of Pennsylvania)

Title: Sum-of-Parts: Faithful Attributions for Groups of Features

Speaker 2: Mr. Xiaoyuan Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)

Title : Multiobjective meets machine learning, from a single solution, a finite set of solutions to infinite solutions.

Professional Development

第4回 大学職員向け勉強会 / #4 Study Sessions for OIST Staff (JPN)

Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 13:30 to 14:30
Lab3 C700
*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第4回大学職員向け勉強会 「大学組織」 (日本語) Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub
Seminar

Seminar by Dr.Quan ZHU "Applying Spatially-Resolved Single Cell Technologies to Study Human Health and Diseases"

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room C700, Lab3

Seminar by Dr.Quan ZHU "Applying Spatially-Resolved Single Cell Technologies to Study Human Health and Diseases"

Seminar

[Seminar] Modelling Social Complexity & State Formation in Early Egypt

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
L4E01, Lab 4

[Speaker] Jessica Nitschke, Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University

[Title] Modelling Social Complexity & State Formation in Early Egypt

Research

[Seminar] An introduction to self-similarity of the first and second kind

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab4 L4E01 Seminar Room

Speaker: Dr. Shreyas Mandre

University Associate Professor of Fluid-Structure Interaction, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Hosted by: Professor Mahesh Bandi, Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit

When physical processes repeat over either growing or shrinking scales (length and/or time), the dynamics shows self-similarity. The condition of self-similarity appears strict, but it is the building block of mathematical modelling. This lecture covers (i) concept of scale invariance as a pre-requisite for self-similarity, (ii) self-similarity in physical systems and mathematical models, (iii) the two kinds of self-similarity -- the first and second kinds, and (iv) a simple mathematical example to elucidate the second kind of self-similarity. The lecture presents examples from fluid dynamics. No previous knowledge of or experience with scale-invariance or self-similarity is assumed.

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 15

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
Date: July 16, 2024 Speaker: Professor Evan Economo, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit Chair: Professor Nic Shannon, Theory of Quantum Matter Unit

Seminar

Tensionless Strings in a Kalb-Ramond Background

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 14:00
Lab 4, F01

Quantum Gravity Unit Guest Seminar Speaker: Ritankar Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) Title: "Tensionless Strings in a Kalb-Ramond Background"

Seminar

Seminar by Evolutionary Genomics Unit: Mature larvae continue calling at night in Vespa mandarinia

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
OIST Main Campus (C700)

Speaker: Dr. Haruna Fujioka, Assistant Professor of Okayama University

岡山大学 藤岡春菜 助教授 ( 個人HP )

社会性昆虫、 昆虫生態学、動物行動学、時間生物学

Vespa hornet larvae produce a rhythmic 'rasping' sound by rubbing their mandibles against the cell wall of the nest. The call is thought to be a larval provisioning cue. However, detailed observation of larval calls has been limited to a few species, and it is not known whether the call can be influenced by the external environment or internal larval states such as hunger. We conducted laboratory observations of larval calls to investigate the effect of 1) larval stage, 2) daily variation, and 3) larval hunger level. Vespa mandarinia larvae produced sounds independent of light conditions, time of day, worker absence, and hunger level. A key finding of this research is the novel discovery that larvae produce sounds at night, a previously undocumented behavior.

Seminar

[Seminar] The quantum path signature | Dr. Samuel Crew (Imperial College London, UK)

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
L4F01

Speaker : Dr. Samuel Crew (Imperial College London, UK) Title : The quantum path signature Date and time : 16 th July Tuesday at 10:00 Location : L4F01 Language: English

Outreach

【Fully booked】OIST Kids Campus Tour 2024

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 10:00 to Tuesday, August 27, 2024 - 16:00
OIST
OIST Kids Campus Tour 2024
Seminar

[Seminar] Complexity in Brains and Bodies

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
C209, Center Building

[Speaker] Geoff Nitschke, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town

[Title] Complexity in Brains and Bodies

Holiday

海の日 Marine Day

Monday, July 15, 2024 (All day)

National holiday

Research

Open Call for Visiting Scholars in FY2025

Monday, July 15, 2024 (All day) to Monday, September 30, 2024 (All day)

Open Call for TSVP Visiting Scholars in FY2025

Outreach

Marine Day Kids Lecture: Exploring Secrets of Cephalopods

Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 14:00
OIST Auditorium

Coming soon.

Seminar

[Time Changed] Seminar: "New molecular designs for organic gain materials, towards high-performance laser devices" by Dr. Robin Troiville-Cazilhac

Friday, July 12, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room C210, Center Bldg

Dr. Robin Troiville-Cazilhac, Sorbonne Université

Campus Service

OIST Innovation open-hours

Friday, July 12, 2024 - 14:00
Innovation Lounge (Lab3 level A)

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "What They Didn’t Tell Us in Computational Neuroscience 101" by Joshua Goldberg

Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 15:00
B250 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] MLDS Unit Seminar 2024-7 by Mr. Rahul Steiger (ETH Zurich), Mr. Thibault De Surrel (Université Paris-Dauphine) at C210

Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 13:30 to 14:30
Seminar Room C210, Center Building

Speaker 1: Mr. Rahul Steiger (ETH Zurich)

Title: In-Context Predictions on ICU Time-Series

Speaker 2: Mr. Thibault De Surrel (Université Paris-Dauphine)

Title: How Riemannian geometry can help us build better Brain Computer Interfaces

Culture

Community Cooking Series [Registrations] - Class 12

Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 10:45 to Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 17:00
Onna Fureai Center (Room #3 Ryukyu Cooking Room)

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Okinawa 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?).

Workshop

Nikon Day @ OIST July 2024

Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 09:00 to Friday, July 12, 2024 - 15:00
Lab1B380 or @ your own microscope

Nikon DAY @ OIST

Seminar

Antarctic krill resources under climate change

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 12:30
C015

Speaker: Dr. Rui Wang (Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China)

Title: Antarctic krill resources under climate change

Seminar

[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2024-6 by Mr. Kazusato Oko (The University of Tokyo), Mr. Yuki Takezawa (Kyoto University) at C210

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:30
Seminar Room C210, Center Building

Speaker 1: Mr. Kazusato Oko (The University of Tokyo)

Title: How to learn a sum of diverse features provably: A case study of ridge combinations

Speaker 2: Mr. Yuki Takezawa (Kyoto University)

Title: Polayk Meets Parameter-free Clipped Gradient Descent

Campus Service

Schooling Options: Lunch and Learn Session 1

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 12:05 to 12:55
Cafe Tancha Private Room

Got Kids? Staying in Okinawa? Moving abroad? Don't know yet? It is not too early to learn about the education paths available for your kids in Okinawa to set them up for a future full of opportunities.

Join the Schooling Options Team for a Lunch and Learn session - the first in a series of monthly sessions featuring guest speakers and parent groups sharing information and questions about children's education beyond CDC.

Register here!

Lecture

11th Coast Guard Headquarter, Naha Coast Guard Office, the prevention of marine accident (Japanese-English semiautonomous interpretation is available)

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
B250

We invite coast guard officer who actually work at sea. The lecture include demonstration of how to use life jacket, tips for accident prevention and intruducing activity of the coast guard.

Seminar

Academic Career Seminar

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 09:00 to 10:00
Online (Zoom)

This is the 2nd career talk session collabolated with Sokendai. This session is open to other universityes too. Discover the keys to success in academia as accomplished OIST alumnae share personal anecdotes, invaluable advice, and practical strategies for navigating the challenges and seizing the opportunities that lie ahead. Do not miss out this event which offers a golden opportunity to connect with our alumnae, forge meaningful connections, and gain inspiration from those who have walked the path before you.

We will have two of OIST almuni, Dr. Kamila Mustafina and Dr. Swathy Babu.

Seminar

Transforming Healthcare Through Technology: The Nutrix Story with Maria Hahn

Monday, July 8, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room C700

Nutrix is an international digital health startup creating a SaaS platform to support patients with chronic diseases, aiming to enhance their well-being, quality of life, and longevity. Join us as Maria shares her path from startup to success!

Language: English

Everyone is welcome to join (no registration required)

Seminar

QG group meeting: Mirian Tsulaia

Monday, July 8, 2024 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia. Title: "Non-Supersymmetric Heterotic Strings".

Seminar

[Seminar]New Insights on the Hippocampus Codes using Complex Spatial Navigation_Prof.Jean-Marc Fellous, the University of Arizona

Monday, July 8, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
L4-E01, Lab4, 11:00-12:00

CNS unit will host a seminar "New Insights on the Hippocampus Codes using Complex Spatial Navigation", by Prof. Jean-Marc Fellous, the University of Arizona.

Symposium

TSVP Symposium: Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning

Monday, July 8, 2024 (All day) to Wednesday, July 10, 2024 (All day)
L5D23

Title : Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Bridging Biological and Artificial Neural Networks

TSVP Symposium linked to Thematic Program on "Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Theoretical Lessons Learnt From Invertebrate and Vertebrate Brains"

Seminar

Class2023 ONLY: Effective Team Dynamics (ETD) workshop

Friday, July 5, 2024 - 15:00 to 17:00
C700, Lab3

This in-person interactive workshop is for graduate students Class2023. This ICOGS* workshop is offered by the Georgia Tech Effective Team Dynamics Initiative and will be facilitated by Prof Mary Lynn Realff (MSE). * (ICOGS) Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Graduate Students Working as part of a team, or group, comes with both benefits and challenges. The benefits include interacting with people who bring different viewpoints, expertise and experiences to the table. However, the challenges include communicating effectively with people who have different backgrounds and dealing constructively with conflict due to different viewpoints. The workshop will explore how diversity in a team can strengthen it, different approaches to dealing with conflict, how to have a “difficult conversation” with both peers and your supervisor, and strategies for avoiding communications problems. Take home tools to improve your team skills will be provided.

Colloquium

1+1D Gauge Theory: Lattice vs. Continuum (Igor Klebanov)

Friday, July 5, 2024 - 14:00
Lab 5, D23

Physics colloquium. Speaker: Igor Klebanov (Princeton University). Title: "1+1 Dimensional Gauge Theory: Lattice vs. Continuum".

Campus Service

OIST Innovation open-hours

Friday, July 5, 2024 - 14:00
Innovation Lounge (Lab3 level A)

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Seminar

A Talk by Sachiko Tsuda : Spatiotemporal dynamics of cerebellar Purkinje cell population and its development

Friday, July 5, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
C209

Speaker : Sachiko Tsuda (Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University)

Seminar

A Talk by Christian Hansel : Dendritic complexity and plasticity in cerebellar Purkinje cells

Friday, July 5, 2024 - 09:00 to 10:00
C209

Speaker : Christian Hansel (The University of Chicago, The Department of Neurobiology)

Seminar

Seminar "Data, dynamics, and manifolds: machine learning approaches for modeling and controlling complex flows" by Prof. Michael D. Graham

Thursday, July 4, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
Center Bldg. B503, on Zoom

[Speaker] Michael D. Graham, Steenbock Professor of Engineering and Harvey D. Spangler Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Seminar

Open to OIST community: Effective Team Dynamics (ETD) workshop

Thursday, July 4, 2024 - 14:00 to 16:00
B700, Lab3

This in-person interactive workshop is for graduate students, post-docs, and other researchers. This ICOGS* workshop is offered by the Georgia Tech Effective Team Dynamics Initiative and will be facilitated by Prof Mary Lynn Realff (MSE). * (ICOGS) Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Graduate Students Working as part of a team, or group, comes with both benefits and challenges. The benefits include interacting with people who bring different viewpoints, expertise and experiences to the table. However, the challenges include communicating effectively with people who have different backgrounds and dealing constructively with conflict due to different viewpoints. The workshop will explore how diversity in a team can strengthen it, different approaches to dealing with conflict, how to have a “difficult conversation” with both peers and your supervisor, and strategies for avoiding communications problems. Take home tools to improve your team skills will be provided.

This session will be focusing on Contribution and Values, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Crucial Conversation, adn Unconditional Positive Regards.

Seminar

Seminar "Fluid Mechanics of the Dead Sea" by Prof. Eckart Meiburg

Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 C700, on Zoom

[Speaker] Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Fluids, University of California at Santa Barbara

Seminar

QG group meeting: Sebastian Murk

Monday, July 1, 2024 - 15:00
Lab 5, D23

Speaker: Sebastian Murk

Title: Light rings and causality for nonsingular ultracompact objects sourced by nonlinear electrodynamics

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