OIST Café Information Session at the OIST Science Studio in Yomitan, Okinawa! Join us for a casual science information session introducing the OIST PhD and Research Internship program!

OIST Graduate School staff will be happy to meet you and answer all your questions regarding the application and admissions process for our programs. In addition, current PhD students will share more about their academic journey and student life at OIST.

Darius Dramburg , Kavli IPMU Title: Isomorphisms of graded semiconnected algebras

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).

The OIST Neuroscience Symposium (ONS) is back!

Registration is open until October 9th!

Date and time: 11:00-12:00 Aug 27th, 2026

Venue: L5D23 and Zoom

Meeting ID: 924 8922 1462

Passcode: 756702

Speaker: Prof. Mark Blumenthal, University of Cape Town

Titile :Pumping Single Electrons in Cape Town (English)

[Analysis and PDE Seminar of the University of California, Berkeley] Prof. Ugur G. Abdulla (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Ryudai-OIST Joint Symposium

This symposium brings together researchers from the University of the Ryukyus School of Medicine and OIST to share their research and explore opportunities for scientific exchange. By fostering interactions across institutions and disciplines, the event aims to strengthen connections, encourage collaboration, and promote the development of new research partnerships. All researchers and students from the University of the Ryukyus and OIST are welcome to participate, and attendees are invited to present their work during the poster session.

Mō Ashibi | OIST Innovation Meetup

OIST Innovation is hosting “Mō Ashibi,” a casual networking event. Enjoy snacks and drinks while connecting with OIST Innovation Incubator tenants, startups, members of the OIST community, and others you may not usually have the chance to meet.

Participation is free, and no registration is required. Feel free to drop by after work!

Date and Time: Friday, August 21, 2026, 17:00–18:30

Venue: OIST Innovation Core 1

Please do not drive or ride a motorcycle after consuming alcohol.

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!

Droplet Physics Across Scales for Energy and Sustainability

This workshop brings together the Droplet and Soft Matter Unit (Daniel Unit, OIST) and the Mouterde Group (University of Tokyo) to develop a unified understanding of droplet physics across length scales, from the nanometric to the millimetric regime. Droplet phenomena inherently span multiple scales: nanoscale interfacial processes govern wetting, transport, and dissipation, while micrometric and millimetric droplets exhibit complex hydrodynamic, electrostatic, and multiphase behaviors. Bridging these regimes remains a major challenge in soft matter and fluid physics.

宮原ひろ子先生講演会、日本語オンリー、事前登録要

Title: Game-theoretic approaches to partial differential equations and related problems

Speaker: Prof. Jeongmin Han (Soongsil University)

TSVP Talk: Spontaneous quasiparticle creation in an analogue preheating experiment by Amaury Micheli

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 Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!

Speaker: Dr. Tatsuya C. Murakami, Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University.

Language: English

Seminar hosted by Computational Neuroscience Unit, Title: Intrinsic Motivation to Occupy Path Space as a Principle of Open-Ended Embodied Behavior, Speaker: Rubén MORENO-BOTE , Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Join OIST Innovation’s commercialization training program designed to help students, researchers, and administrators explore how research can move from lab to market. Through monthly, hands-on sessions from July to March, participants will learn the fundamentals of commercialization, customer discovery, business strategy, and pitching while developing their own innovation ideas.

National holiday

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).

Talk by Robb Rutledge (Yale University), August 10 (Mon) 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Join us for a Career Talk by Jordi Mompart , titled "More Than Quantum Physics." The speaker will share his unique career journey from being a professor of quantum mechanics to working at FC Barcelona, offering insights into career transitions, transferable skills, and opportunities beyond research.

Seminar by Dr. Alicia Schmidt-Roach

All OISTers and family are welcome! OIST-Keio "Sunset Social" will be held as a part of the "OIST-Keio International Research Summer Camp 2026". This is a great opportunity for the campers from Keio University Medical School and OISTers to interact and network. Please join us to meet the campers and enjoy food trucks, traditional craft making, live music, and outdoor games as the sun goes down!

Session 4:

Automated workflow , version-controlled scripts, and Structured project

Presenters: Igors Dubanevics Y4 @KondrashovU, Vitoria Yumi Uetuki Nicoleti Y1 @FukunagaU, Yui Tateyama Y1 @PaoU

Please contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.

Dr. Fang Ding, University of Science and Technology of China

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

Mr. Simone Bombari, Institute of Science & Technology Austria (ISTA), Austria

Rob Muth , Duquesne University Title: Crystals and KLR representations in type $A_1^{(1)}$

Speaker : Luis F Seoane

Institute for Evolutionary Biology (IBE)

Spanish National Research Council (UPF-CSIC)

This talk will also be broadcast online via Zoom : Meeting ID: 993 1216 5065 Passcode: 603487

Mini Course: AI for Protein Engineering

this is a hands-on session about using RFDiffusion to engineer yourself a protein!

Dr. Saacnicteh Toledo Patiño is an OIST Buribushi fellow

Speaker: Dr.Liangbing Luo,Queen’s University Title: Discrete Approximation on Metric Measure Spaces of Controlled Geometry via Graphs: Dirichlet Forms and Harmonic Functions Abstract:

Based on the approximation of a metric measure space via discrete graphs, we construct a Dirichlet form. This Dirichlet form is comparable to the upper gradient energy and can be realized as a -limit of a sequence of induced bilinear forms projected from the discrete energy form on the approximating graphs. Moreover, we approximate harmonic functions on a bounded domain with a prescribed Newton-Sobolev boundary data. Based on joint work with A. Butaev and N. Shanmugalingam.

Zoom registration

Let’s learn Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) and its history! with KEIO students!!

Seminar by Dr. Emilio Jose Juarez-Perez, Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragón (INMA, CSIC–University of Zaragoza)

This workshop offers hands-on microscope activities with OIST geologist Mirona Chirienco, exploring the rocks and minerals found in Okinawa.

Speaker: Erdem Kus (University of St Andrews)

Title: Frugal Algorithm Selection for Combinatorial Search

Zoom URL: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92712490586?pwd=g4Vn0gCPzL4Z9NUiDRMwGL5nX7txWa.1 ID: 927 1249 0586 Passcode: 702129

Session 3:

Automated workflow , version-controlled scripts, and Structured project

Presenters: Igors Dubanevics Y4 @KondrashovU, Vitoria Yumi Uetuki Nicoleti Y1 @FukunagaU, Yui Tateyama Y1 @PaoU

Please contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.

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. Nicolas Dirr from Cardiff University

Establishing the existence of solutions to stochastic ordinary differential equations and the relation with Dirichlet and Neumann problems for linear differential operators.

2 x 2-hour sessions. July 22 and July 24.

Language: English

In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.

The featured VC for this round is HERO IMPACT CAPITAL .

Open Seminar (English only) 13:00-14:00

Community-based research/substance use prevention/Hawaiian context

Speaker: Kelsie H. Okamura, PhD, ABPP, Instructor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

In-Person & Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Eshant English, Postodoctoral Researcher, Deep Learning Theory Team, University of Tokyo

Title: Inference from Generative Processes

Brownian motion from a PDE point of view. Session 2

Presented by Prof. Nicolas Dirr from Cardiff University.

Building on the success and positive reception of last year's Crafted Traditions exhibition, this renewed showcase continues a growing collaboration between the Onshu Craft Association and OIST. Featuring works by Tokuzan Seragaki, Akira Tamada, Hideyoshi Matsuda, Emiko Yoshida, Shigeo Abe, and the Teruya Studio, the exhibition celebrates the creativity, craftsmanship, and cultural heritage that make Onna Village unique.

kids lecture

National holiday

Session 2:

Automated workflow , version-controlled scripts, and Structured project

Presenters: Igors Dubanevics Y4 @KondrashovU, Vitoria Yumi Uetuki Nicoleti Y1 @FukunagaU, Yui Tateyama Y1 @PaoU

Please contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.

Convexity and semiconvexity in the Heisenberg group and Carnot groups with applications

4 hours over the week July 13 to July 17 (Monday and Friday) NOTE: Dates have changed .

Room: Lab 4 F01.

Professor Federica Dragoni, Cardiff University, TSVP visitor

Strucshare Meeting & Presentation