Past Events

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "A Generative Model of Communication in the Brain" by Prof. Dana Ballard

Thursday, July 21, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:10
L4E48, Zoom

Prof. Dana Ballard, The University of Texas in Austin. 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

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, July 19, 2022 - 16:30 to 17:30
L4F01 and online on Zoom
Alice Dell'Arciprete, University of East Anglia Title: Scopes equivalence for blocks of Ariki-Koike algebras
Holiday

海の日 Marine Day

Monday, July 18, 2022 - 00:00

National holiday

Seminar

[Seminar] Mr. Stefano Brizzolara "Unveiling the signature of surface tension on immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence"

Wednesday, July 13, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

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

Language: English

Seminar

[Seminar] Dr. Leenoy Meshulam "On spins and neurons: investigating brain function with Ising models and renormalization group inspired approaches"

Tuesday, July 12, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
C700 / Zoom

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

Seminar

Virtual Seminar"Biotechnological applications of cellulose-based soft materials"Davide Califano

Tuesday, July 12, 2022 - 16:00
Zoom

Language: English

External Events

24th International Colloquium on Magnetic Films and Surfaces (ICMFS-2022)

Sunday, July 10, 2022 (All day) to Friday, July 15, 2022 (All day)
OIST Conference Center

This is an externally organized event. For more information please go the conference website .

Public Lecture

[Public Talk] Quantum Computers: How fantastic will they really be?

Saturday, July 9, 2022 - 14:00 to 16:00
Okinawa City Public Entertainments Mansion Hall, Cultural Center Floor 4

This fun and informative public lecture (English and Japanese), will give some insights to the public and high-school students, about the potential wonderous power of a Quantum Computer - what it might be capable of and what it might not be capable of. We will have a live demo of a Quantum Computer!

Industry Relations

Meet the Life Innovators-Future of Food, Agriculture and Life

Friday, July 8, 2022 - 14:00 to 16:00
Sydney Brenner Lecture Hall-B250/Online

AgVenture Lab and OIST will hold a startup event to promote innovation in food, agriculture, and life. Language: Japanese Registration required (Deadline July 6)

食と農とくらしのイノベーションを考えるスタートアップイベント。日本語。 事前登録制 (締切 7月6日)。

Recreation

Sustainable Eating Discussion, Film, and Cooking Workshop July 8th and July 9th

Friday, July 8, 2022 - 04:30 to Saturday, July 9, 2022 - 13:30
OIST Auditorium July 8th & Onna Culture School Kitchen July 9th

C Green - Grass Straws | Documentary | Cooking Workshop

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, July 7, 2022 - 20:00

Ukulele club returns, but where? Only the weather knows for sure.

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Knots and Modularity" by Dr. Robert Osburn

Thursday, July 7, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:10
L4E48, Zoom

Dr. Robert Osburn, Associate Professor at University College Dublin. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / all students and researchers at OIST. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Seminar

Science Digest - Dr. Arielle Keller: "Attention and Mental Health: A Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective"

Thursday, July 7, 2022 - 09:00
C210 or Zoom
Join us for July's Science Digest seminar on "Attention and Mental Health: A Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective", by Dr. Arielle Keller, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, USA. The seminar is open to everyone interested in the fields of Neuroscience, Psychology, Psychiatry, Development, and Cognition, and those who would like to know more about research at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Keller's career. Thursday, July 7 at 9:00 am JST, C210 or Zoom (Meeting ID: 968 9590 8451 Passcode: 220706)
Seminar

"Integrating theory-guided and data-driven approaches for measuring consciousness" Dr. Nao Tsuchiya

Wednesday, July 6, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:00
L4F01

Professor Nao Tsuchiya, PhD, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Australia, "Integrating theory-guided and data-driven approaches for measuring consciousness"

Language: English

Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/96409234923?pwd=Yk4vd3JMb2h0YmlNekp1RzBFZmdTQT09

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 - 16:30 to 17:30
L4E48 and online on Zoom
Rob Muth , Duquesne University Title: Superalgebra deformations of web categories
Seminar

[Seminar] Dr. Kirill Povarov "Probing spinons by Electron Spin Resonance: hidden interactions in a spin chain"

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

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

Seminar

[Seminar] Dr. Misato Ohtani "Active mRNA metabolism is a key for the plastic regulation of cell potency in plants

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 - 10:00 to 11:00
Lab3 C700

Membranology Unit (Kono Unit) would like to invite you to the seminar by Dr. Misato Ohtani.

Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

RIKEN, Center for Sustainable Resource Sciences

Seminar

[Seminar] Dr. Takaomi Sanda "Lineage- and stage-specific oncogenicity of master transcription factors in cancers"

Monday, July 4, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 C700

Membranology Unit (Kono Unit) would like to invite you to the seminar by Dr. Takaomi Sanda.

Associate Director and Principal Investigator in Cancer Science Institute of Singapore; Associate Professor in Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Tomonori Shibata "A small molecule targeting UGGAA pentanucleotide repeat responsible for spinocerebellar ataxia type 31."

Monday, July 4, 2022 - 14:00 to 15:00
C015 (Lab 1-C)

Speaker: Assistant Prof. Tomonori Shibata SANKEN (The Insitute of Science and Industrial Research), Osaka University

Title: A small molecule targeting UGGAA pentanucleotide repeat responsible for spinocerebellar ataxia type 31

OIST Workshops

International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science (AIBS2022)

Monday, July 4, 2022 (All day) to Tuesday, July 5, 2022 (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium + Meeting Rooms)

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Kenji Doya (Neural Computation Unit) | Website | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

This conference will be a hybrid conference with both online and on-site attendees.

Recreation

Bingata Workshop by Hanzakibingata

Saturday, July 2, 2022 (All day)
Onna Village Fureai Experience Learning Center

Okinawan Bingata Workshop by Hanzakibingata

Recreation

Cosmos screening (episode 5)

Friday, July 1, 2022 - 18:00
Lab 4 discussion space (F22c)

Cosmos episode 5: Blues for a Red Planet

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture: "A gene that made our brain big" by Dr. Wieland Huttner

Friday, July 1, 2022 - 10:30 to 12:00
Lab4 E48

As part of OIST’s Presidential Lecture series, Dr. Wieland Huttner will deliver a lecture on “A gene that made our brain big". All are invited.

Dr. Wieland Huttner is the Founding Director Emeritus and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.

Seminar

[Seminar] Conservation law for harmonic mappings in higher dimensions

Friday, July 1, 2022 - 10:00 to 11:00
Online via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Changyu Guo , Shangdong University Title : Conservation law for harmonic mappings in higher dimensions Abstract :

It has been a longstanding open problem to find a direct conservation law for harmonic mappings into manifolds. In the late 1980s, Chen and Shatah independently found a conservation law for weakly harmonic maps into spheres, which can be interpreted by Noether's theorem. This leads to Helein's celebrated regularity theorem on weakly harmonic maps from surfaces. For general target manifolds, Riviere discovered a direct conservation law in two dimension in 2007, allowing him to solve two well known conjectures of Hildebrandt and Heinz. As observed by Riviere-Struwe in 2008, due to lack of Wente's lemma, Riviere's approach does not extend to higher dimensions. In a recent joint work with Chang-Lin Xiang, we successfully found a conservation law, in the spirit of Riviere, for a class of weakly harmonic maps (around regular points) into general closed manifolds in higher dimensions.

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Seminar

"Neurogelotology: Neuroscience of Fun" Dr. Shimpei ISHIYAMA

Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4F01
Shimpei ISHIYAMA, Dr.rer.nat., Junior Research Group Leader, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany "Neurogelotology: Neuroscience of Fun"

Language: English

Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/91026696580?pwd=RjYzcFYwblJyU0FDNCtvZW5ycDV6Zz09

Seminar

【Seminar】 "Ultrastructural analysis of PI(4,5)P2 distribution in neuronal membranes using SDS-digested freeze-fracture replica labeling" Dr. Kohgaku Eguchi

Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab 1, D014

Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit (Takahashi Unit) would like to invite you to the seminar by Dr. Kohgaku Eguchi, IST Austria Language: English

Seminar

***Cancelled*** "Conservation and divergence of retinal cell types during vertebrate evolution" Dr. Yohei Ogawa

Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab1, C016

Due to unavoidable circumstances, we regretfully announce the cancellation of this seminar.

We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

Seminar

Faculty Lunchtime Seminar (Prof. Ulf Dieckmann)

Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 12:10 to 12:50
Seminar Room L4F01 (Lab 4, Level F)

Title: Behavioral, Social, and Institutional Dimensions of Cooperation

Abstract: Common goods are at the heart of many challenges facing humankind. Protective measures – such as mitigating climate change or not overexploiting natural resources – are collectively beneficial, yet costly to individual stakeholders with diverse interests. Common goods may thus be jeopardized by selfish agents at all levels – be they collaborators, citizens, companies, cities, or countries – resulting in social dilemmas that often follow a pattern known as the ‘tragedy of the commons.’ Salient examples concern not only climate change and natural resources, but also clean air, civil security, social welfare, ecosystem services, land use, prudent urbanization, natural-disaster protection, demographic planning, and the functioning of the internet. In this presentation, I will illustrate how quantitative analyses can help address the behavioral, social, and institutional dimensions of these challenges, promoting cooperative collective actions and the safeguarding of common goods.

Hosted by: Faculty Talk Coordinators and Faculty Affairs Office

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Jun Won Rhim "Quantum distance and flat band"

Tuesday, June 28, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

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

Language: English

Seminar

Faculty Lunchtime Seminar (Prof. Nick Luscombe)

Tuesday, June 28, 2022 - 12:10 to 12:50
L4E01 (Lab 4, Level E)

A mysterious talk by Nick Luscombe...

Title: TBA

Abstract: TBA

Faculty Lunchtime Seminar Coordinators & FAO

Seminar

Science Digest - Dr. Erika Cyphert: "Biomaterials and the gut microbiome - paving the way for novel therapeutics"

Tuesday, June 28, 2022 - 09:00
C210 or Zoom

Science Digest - June edition! Please welcome our invited speaker, Dr. Erika Cyphert (Postdoctoral Fellow at Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, USA) for her talk: " Biomaterials and the gut microbiome - paving the way for novel therapeutics ". The seminar is open to everyone interested in the fields of Biomedical Engineering, Gut Microbiome, Biomaterials/Drug delivery, and Orthopaedics, and those who would like to know more about Cornell University and Dr. Cyphert's career. Save the date: June 28 at 9:00 a.m. JST, C210 or Zoom (Meeting ID: 986 5579 1051 Passcode: 220627).

External Events

Talk on "Physiology of CCR4-NOT, a comprehensive regulator of mRNA expression" by Dr. Tadashi Yamamoto

Friday, June 24, 2022 - 17:00
Hiroshima University Campus

Dean of research, Dr. Tadashi Yamamoto will give a talk on "Physiology of CCR4-NOT, a comprehensive regulator of mRNA expression"

Japanese and on-site only.

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Can We Hope for Simplicity When Describing the Brain?" by Dr. Leenoy Meshulam

Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:10
L4E48, Zoom

Dr. Leenoy Meshulam, Swartz Theory Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Washington, Seattle. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / all students and researchers at OIST. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Devika Narain "Optimal inference of time intervals in cerebellar cortical circuits"

Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 14:00 to 15:00
L4F01(Lab4-F)

[Seminar]"Optimal inference of time intervals in cerebellar cortical circuits", Prof. Devika Narain, Associate Professor, Erasmus Medical Center.

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Kazuhiko Suga "Turbulence Structure over Porous Media -- LBM Direct Numerical Simulations --"

Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 10:00 to 11:00
C015

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

Language: English

Lecture

[Quantum Computation] Lecture 6: Quantum Optimisation (practical applications)

Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 09:00 to 10:00
C209, Center Bldg

JSPS Visiting Fellow Professor Jingbo Wang from the University of Western Australia gives a series of lectures on Quantum Computation.

Lecture 6: Quantum Optimisation (practical applications)

Culture

Sanshin Mini Concert for Okinawa Memorial Day

Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 08:50
Tunnel Gallery

OIST music group member, OIST Sanshin Team "Chindamiz" invites you to our "Sanshin Mini Concert for Okinawa Memorial Day "

Public Lecture

OIST x ASJ "Future of Energy and Climate" #2

Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 17:00
Online and In-person (International House of Japan, Roppongi, Tokyo)

OISTxASJ Future of Energy & Climate Seminar Series #2

"Climate Change: Need for Action Now"

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 17:00 JST / 9:00 BST

Keynote speaker: Sir David King, Founder & Chair, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge

Panelists: Prof. Jun Arima, Profect Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo

Dr. Peter Gruss, President & CEO, OIST

MC: Mr. Jesper Koll, Global Ambassador, Monex Group Japan

REGISTRATION LINK ⇒  #2 OISTxASJ Future of Energy & Climate Seminar Series

Graduate School

Responsible Conduct in Research (RCR) Workshop

Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 10:30
Online

Professional and Career Development (PCD) 1 requirement: Part 2 of Responsible Conduct in Research

[Responsible Conduct in Research Workshop]

This is the part 2 of 3-series research ethcis course. Madatory for PCD1.

Now that you have completed Part 1 of online self-learing (eFront and The LAB), let us get together for interactive discussion to deeepen your understanding of Responsible Conduct in Research.

Facilitator:

Dr. Kathy Takayama

Senior Consultant for Center for Professional Development and Inclusive Excellence (C-Hub)

Kathy has over 20 years of experience in creating and leading innovations to develop engaging, inclusive, and productive educational environments for a wide range of universities across the world. She has collaborated with organizations including the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, the National Academies Fellowship of the US National Research Council, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning on initiatives to build capacity for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and has served as external advisor to universities around the world. A professor of molecular microbiology by background, Kathy previously served as executive director of professional development centers at US research universities including Brown University and Columbia University.

Lecture

[Quantum Computation] Lecture 5: Grover’s Search Algorithm (amplitude amplification) and Quantum Error Correction

Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 09:00 to 10:00
C209, Center Bldg

JSPS Visiting Fellow Professor Jingbo Wang from the University of Western Australia gives a series of lectures on Quantum Computation.

Lecture 5: Grover's Search Algorithm (amplitude amplification) and Quantum Error Correction

Recreation

[Pride Month 2022] Discussion: Allyship 101

Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 18:00
C210

Presented by OIST LGBTQ+ Allies

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "From Coffee Cups to Conductivity" by Dr. Daniel Bulmash

Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4E48, Zoom

Dr. Danny Bulmash, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maryland. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / all students and researchers at OIST. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Recreation

Eco festival at OIST on Saturday June 25th! - Registration open!

Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 10:00 to Saturday, June 25, 2022 - 15:00
OIST

Eco festival on June 25th (Saturday)

10:00 - 12:00 Guided walk through the jungle between OIST and Akama Sports Park

13:00 - 15:00 Flea market, screen printing and food trucks

Register to participate at the walk or to sell at the flea market!

Seminar

[Seminar] On the quantum information of quantum interference

Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 10:00
Zoom

"On the Quantum Information of Quantum Interference", Professor Peter S. Turner, CEO of the Sydney Quantum Academy, Australia, discusses recent results on issues one faces when attempting to scale up photonic quantum computation.

Lecture

[Quantum Computation] Lecture 4: Shor’s Factorization Algorithm (quantum arithmetic and logic; quantum Fourier transformation)

Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 09:00 to 10:00
C209, Center Bldg

JSPS Visiting Fellow Professor Jingbo Wang from the University of Western Australia gives a series of lectures on Quantum Computation.

Lecture 4: Shor’s Factorization Algorithm (quantum arithmetic and logic; quantum Fourier transformation)

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 - 16:30 to 17:30
on Zoom
Shunsuke Tsuchioka, Tokyo Institute of Technology Title: An example of A2 Rogers-Ramanujan bipartition identities of level 3
Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Andreas Läuchli "Diagnosing weakly first-order phase transitions by coupling to order parameters"

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

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

Lecture

[Quantum Computation] Lecture 3: Quantum Teleportation and Superdense Coding (demonstrating quantum advantages)

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 - 09:00 to 10:00
C209, Center Bldg

JSPS Visiting Fellow Professor Jingbo Wang from the University of Western Australia gives a series of lectures on Quantum Computation.

Lecture 3: Quantum Teleportation and Superdense Coding (demonstrating quantum advantages)

Seminar

Superconductivity, magnetism and nematicity in thin films of Fe chalcogenides

Monday, June 13, 2022 - 17:00 to 18:00
ZOOM

Speaker;Atsutaka Maeda Department of Basic Science , University of Tokyo

OIST Workshops

OIST Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC) 2022

Monday, June 13, 2022 (All day) to Wednesday, June 29, 2022 (All day)
OIST Seaside House

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Erik De Schutter (Computational Neuroscience Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required). Tutorial sessions are closed (only for selected participants) | Website

We ask for you understanding that the dates are subject to change due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation.

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