Past Events
Survival Japanese: Official Documents
Learn how to get your juminhyo at the Village Office, how to dispose of large garbage, how to get a package redelivered, how to make a bank transfer, and how to send an international package.
No Japanese experience necessary!
Watch the videos at this link , then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )
Orators Meeting for Communication & Public Speaking
Come and join us for an exciting and fulfilling meeting on building better communication skills through impromptu speaking exercises, listening to prepared speeches, and providing constructive feedback. We run our meetings at lunchtime every other Friday. Email oist.tm@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to receive further information.
Nikon New Confocal Microscopy Seminar
Nikon New Confocal System "AX R"
Neuroscience with Gordon Arbuthnott
The OIST Neuroscience Club w ould like to invite you to a special presentation by Prof. Gordon Arbuthnott . For his last public presentation, he will give a talk about his journey as a neuroscientist: past, present, and future .
The 32nd Board of Governors Meeting
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
FALL 2021 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series
Seminar "Detection, attribution, and projection of tropical cyclones affected by global warming" by Prof. Masaki Satoh
[Speaker] Prof. Masaki Satoh (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)
Virtual Seminar"Viscoelastic fluids through porous media: flow instability and particle transport"Arezoo Ardekani
Language: English
SHIPPO/JAPANESE ENAMELING WORKSHOP | 七宝焼
講師:土井 貴久子
For children ages 5-12 (limited to 6 participants)対象年齢 5-12歳 (参加人数 6人まで)
OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 2 by Dr. Hiroki Takahashi and Dr. Norihisa Miki
OIST and Keio University, Japan's very first private institution of higher learning located in the center of Tokyo, are starting a series of short seminars (OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK) to introduce each other's researchers to promote future collaboration.
Academic Presenting Skills - Why you should write out your speech part 1
Do you start preparing for a presentation by creating your slides first or your script first? Join us to find out why you should start with a script and how to go about doing it.
Survival Japanese: Going to the doctor
Learn how to check in and out of doctor's appointments, describe pain and symptoms, and speak in emergency situations, all in Japanese.
No Japanese experience necessary!
Watch the videos at this link , then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )
[OIST 10th] Art Exhibition “Cycle - Energy for Creation 2021”
An art Exhibition by the Graduate School of Formative Arts from the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. This exhibition is the latest in a series of exciting collaborations between OIST and the OPUA that started in 2013. The Tunnel Gallery will host this year edition as part of our Anniversary celebration events.
Emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits
Prof. Dr. Julijana Gjorgjieva
Assistant Professor in Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Technical University of Munich
The emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits
How neural circuits become organized during early postnatal development based on patterns of spontaneous activity and different plasticity mechanisms. Prof. Julijana will show the emergence of organization at the sub-cellular and cellular level and discuss implications for computations implemented by these networks. These theoretical models and simulations are supported by experimental data and make numerous predictions for future experiments.
Passcode: 959053
[Seminar] Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface by Prof. Johannes M. Fink
Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface - Prof. Johannes M. Fink, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Qubits and Spacetime unit seminar: Yasha Neiman, "A microscopic derivation of the quantum measurement postulates"
[Webinar] The Pursuit of Positive Peace for Climate Justice
Join Dr. Maya Soetoro, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Institute for Climate and Peace, and Ms. Juno Fitzpatrick, Advisory Committee Member, Institute for Climate and Peace, and Director of Human Rights and Oceans, Center for Oceans at Conservation International for a discussion about the intersection of climate and peace.
Register here .
The 27th East Asia Joint Symposium (EAJS)
The 27th East Asia Joint Symposium
~Reboot 2021: Explorling Life Science in the Post-Pandemic Era~
FALL 2021 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series
We study John—Nirenberg-type spaces where oscillations of functions are controlled via covering lemmas. Our methods give new surprising results and clarify classical inequalities. Joint work with Mario Milman (Florida and Buenos Aires).
Please click here to register *After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.OIST Representation Theory Seminar
[Seminar] Anomalies in (2+1)D Symmetry-Enriched Topological Phases
TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!
[Seminar] On the unsteady turbulence and structure/canopy interaction
CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
Speaker: Samuel Creedon, City, University of London
Title: Defining an Affine Partition Algebra
Virtual Seminar"Longitudinal to transverse metachronal wave transitions in an in-vitro model of ciliated bronchial epithelium"Olivier Mesdjian
Language: English
Academic Speaking Skills - Giving spontaneous one minute talks
Do you have a list of steps in your mind when you are asked to give a quick talk?
Join us to talk about what types of things should be discussed and how we should discuss them in a spontaneous one minute talk.
Survival Japanese: Taxi and directions
Learn how to call a taxi, give directions to a location, and describe a place with simple adjectives, all in Japanese.
No Japanese experience necessary!
Watch the videos at this link then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )
Orators Meeting for Communication & Public Speaking
Come and join us for an exciting and fulfilling meeting on building better communication skills through impromptu speaking exercises, listening to prepared speeches, and providing constructive feedback. We run our meetings at lunchtime every other Friday. Email oist.tm@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to receive further information.
[PhD Thesis Presentation_Zoom] - Po-Shun Chuang - "From Polyps to Colonies: Applying polyp bail-out to study coral coloniality"
PhD Public Presentation
[Seminar] Prof. Tatiana Engel: Flexible identification of cognitive computations from spikes
Prof. Tatiana Engel
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Engel Laboratory, United States
https://facultyprofiles.cshl.edu/tatiana.engel
Zoom link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/98260915981?pwd=dWNFRVQrcUhCNWhrbGhtYWs0TEZPUT09
Catch-All Mathematical Colloquium
The colloquium will be held once a month. It will be held online for the time being. Each event consists of a one-hour talk on mathematics followed by a one-hour diversity panel discussion session.
In the mathematics part, we will hear an exciting overview talk for a general audience. October speaker is Megumi Harada, Professor of McMaster University. In the discussion session, we will hear about the speaker's personal journey as a mathematician. You 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.
You can join Part I only or both parts of the colloquium. Please register before Oct 18th, 5 pm. Click here to register!
Carroll Symmetry and Cosmology
Seminar hosted by QG unit. Speaker: Jelle Hartong, The University of Edinburgh Title: Carroll Symmetry and Cosmology
Climate Change: Everything Goes Somewhere
The presenters talk about their new book, A Guide to Understanding Fundamental Principles of Environmental Management: It Ain’t Magic: Everything Goes Somewhere, and how it relates to climate change and other “sticky” natural resource management problems.
Presenters: Mr. Andrew Manale, Policy Analyst & Writer Mr. Bengt “Skip” Hyberg, President, H&H Conservation
Register here .
FALL 2021 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series
Faculty lunchtime seminar: Eugene Kroll
Faculty Lunctime Seminar. Speaker: Eugene Kroll (STG). Title: "Knocking Out Cancer's Sweet Tooth".
Introduction to Python programming on the Cluster — Session 3
Python is a popular, powerful programming language that is often used in scientific computing. You will get an introduction to the Python language and to common scientific libraries, and you will learn how to use Python in the OIST cluster environment.
Academic Presenting Skills - Learning from TED part 2
What makes a good presentation good?
Join us as we consider the aspects of making memorable presentations.
Survival Japanese: Restaurants
Learn how to make a reservation at a restaurant, order food and ask for items, and order food for pickup, all in Japanese.
No Japanese experience necessary!
Watch the videos at this link, then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92751574918 )
[Webinar] Innovating Higher Education in Japan
Join the Japan ICU Foundation and the OIST Foundation for this new webinar series focused on the Future of Education in Japan. Panelists: Prof. Monte Cassim (President, Akita International University), Dr. Peter Gruss (President, OIST), Dr. Kohei Itoh (President, Keio University), Dr. Shoichiro Iwakiri (President, ICU)
Register here .
Quasiconformal and Sobolev mappings in metric measure spaces
Analysis on Metric Spaces Fall Seminar
Title: Quasiconformal and Sobolev mappings in metric measure spaces
Speaker: Panu Lahti, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Abstract: Starting from Gehring, the equivalence between the metric, geometric, and analytic def- initions of quasiconformality has been investigated by various authors. There are many results stating that if a mapping is metrically quasiconformal, perhaps only in a relaxed sense, then it is analytically quasiconformal, or at least a Sobolev mapping. In recent joint work with Xiaodan Zhou, we have shown an improved version of such a result, which seems to detect more Sobolev mappings than previous results in the literature. I will discuss these results as well as the general strategy of the proofs.
Introduction to Python programming on the Cluster — Session 2
Python is a popular, powerful programming language that is often used in scientific computing. You will get an introduction to the Python language and to common scientific libraries, and you will learn how to use Python in the OIST cluster environment.
Zoom Seminar by Karapet Mkrtchyan from Imperial College London
Seminar hosted by QG Unit. Speaker: Karapet Mkrtchyan, Imperial College London Title: Duality-symmetric formulation of electrodynamics and (chiral) p-form generalizations
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
FALL 2021 Nonlinear Analysis Seminar Series
The Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension was invented in 1970 to study learning models. This notion has since become one of the cornerstones of modern data science. This beautiful idea has also found applications in other areas of mathematics. In this talk we are going to describe how the study of the VC-dimension in the context of families of indicator functions of spheres centered at points in sets of a given Hausdorff dimension (or in sets of a given size inside vector spaces over finite fields) gives rise to interesting, and in some sense extremal, point configurations.
[Joint Seminar] Universal transport features in spin-orbit-coupled quantum wires
Theory of Quantum Matter Unit and Quantum Machines Unit joint Seminar.
Introduction to Python programming on the Cluster — Session 1
Python is a popular, powerful programming language that is often used in scientific computing. You will get an introduction to the Python language and to common scientific libraries, and you will learn how to use Python in the OIST cluster environment.
RIMS x OIST Jointly-funded Workshop "Interactions of New Trends in Algebraic Geometry and Singularities"
RIMS x OIST Jointly-funded Workshop | Main organizer from OIST: Shinobu Hikami (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions | Application Form (Deadline Oct 4, 2021)
We ask for you understanding that the dates are subject to change due to the the current COVID-19 situation.
Yoga with Yasuko
https://groups.oist.jp/recreation/iyengar-yoga-yasuko Yasuko -san will be offering two classes in two locations.
For more information and REGISTRATION , please visit our website.
Modern Ecology and Evolution Journal Club [VENUE&TIME CHANGED]
Academic Speaking Skills - Concluding a Presentation
Do you have a strategy for finishing your presentation?
Join us to leanr about some tried and tested techniques as we discuss microfanancing.