Past Events

Seminar

Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers", Prof. Koshimizu

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room L4E48, Lab 4

Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers" by Professor Masanori Koshimizu.

External Events

The 31st Board of Councilors Meeting

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 (All day) to Friday, May 19, 2023 (All day)

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Seminar

OIST x the University of Tokyo -Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging

Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:30
C209 for OISTers/Zoom *Registration is required for on-site participants.

OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging. *Please register in advance if you are participating onsite.

Recreation

ECO Club Lunch

Monday, May 15, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
Center Court
Description:

Come have lunch and talk about sustainability related things!

New restaurants, event ideas, campus gossip, anything goes.

Symposium

OIST Science 100 Symposium

Monday, May 15, 2023 - 08:30 to 17:15
Auditorium & Conference Center / Zoom

OIST Science 100 Symposium: Mapping OIST's Scientific Expansion to 100 PIs.

The symposium will explore OIST's current scientific standing in each field and encourage an exchange of ideas about the future direction. Additionally, it will offer an opportunity for colleagues and community members to connect and contribute to driving forward OIST's research and collaboration for achieving the university mission.

Open to all OIST members.

Registration required

External Events

18th Key Symposium: Longevity and Healthy Ageing: What Can We Learn From Blue Zones?

Friday, May 12, 2023 - 08:30 to Saturday, May 13, 2023 - 17:00
OIST Conference Center

This is a "Key Symposium" arranged by the Journal of Internal Medicine and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | Special Registration for OIST members: Register here (OIST login required) | For general information please go the symposium's website .

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge OR beach behind Seaside House

Q: What is the difference between a ukulele player and a savings bond? A: One will mature and make money.

Campus Service

Teen Night

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 18:30 to 19:30
Conference Center Meeting Room 4

Teen Night for junior high school and high school kids only!

Social night - play games, watch movies, do projects, socialize.

Wednesdays from 18:30-19:30 in conference center meeting room 4.

All teens welcome!

Holiday

こどもの日 Children’s Day

Friday, May 5, 2023 - 00:00

National holiday

Holiday

みどりの日 Greenery Day

Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 00:00

National holiday

Holiday

憲法記念日 Constitution Day

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - 00:00

National holiday

Seminar

"The dragonfly’s superpowers: from predictive visual guidance and wing aerodynamics sensing to bio-inspired robotics" by Dr. Huai-Ti Lin

Monday, May 1, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4F01

Dr Huai-Ti Lin, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering

Holiday

昭和の日 Showa Day

Saturday, April 29, 2023 - 00:00

National holiday

Lecture

Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)

Friday, April 28, 2023 - 09:00 to 10:00
C209

Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 20:00

If you've never sung "Closing Time" to an audience of hermit crabs have you ever really lived?

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "From Gravity to Quantum Clocks (And Rulers!)" by Artur Tsobanjan

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:10
L4E48, 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

Soft Matter in Opto-Thermal Gradients : Evolutionary Dynamics and Pattern Formation, Prof. Pavan Kumar Gopalapura Venkataramu.

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
Center, level B, B503

Prof. Pavan Kumar Gopalapura Venkataramu, IISER PUNE.

Language: English.

Innovation

Sustainable Transport Hackathon - Call for participants

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 19:30 to Sunday, May 14, 2023 - 23:30
Online registration

Do you feel frustrated about the available transportation options for commuting to OIST and traveling around Okinawa? Do you want to find a solution to address this problem? Then join us for the first ever OIST community hackathon aimed at brainstorming sustainable transportation ideas for implementation at OIST and Okinawa!

Seminar

Seminar: "Spectroscopy of Topological Josephson Junction Circuits" by Dr. Çağlar Girit

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
L4E01
Seminar: "Spectroscopy of Topological Josephson Junction Circuits" by Dr. Çağlar Girit, CNRS and CEA-Saclay, France.
Seminar

[Seminar] Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network by Prof. Mariko Okada, Osaka University

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
C700, Lab 3

Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network

Prof. Mariko Okada

Laboratory for Cell Systems, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University

Seminar

[Seminar] Weakly first-order quantum phase transition between Spin Nematic and Valence Bond Crystal Order in a square lattice SU(4) fermionic model

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
C209 and Zoom

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

Outreach

Movie Screening ~Our Planet~

Saturday, April 22, 2023 - 10:00 to 12:00
OIST Auditorium

科学技術週間&アースデースペシャル

親子映画会

Symposium

Public Lecture: Metaverse and Virtual Reality by Anatole Lecuyer and Shunichi Kasahara

Friday, April 21, 2023 - 17:15 to 18:30
B250 (Center), Zoom

Public Lecture on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture in the evening

Workshop

French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds”

Friday, April 21, 2023 - 09:00 to 17:00
B250 (Center), Zoom

One day French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture and Lab tours in the evening

Research

Quantum networks based on diamond spin qubits - Prof T Taminiau [QUTech]

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 16:00

Prof Tim Taminiau from QuTech in Delft, Netherlands, is an experimentalists who studies the use of defects in diamond continaing electron and nuclear spins for quantum technology. In this talk he will discuss recent progress in controlling such electron-nuclear spin systems for quantum networks and for distributed quantum computations and simulations.

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 7

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:45
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
Title: Smelling flexibly Speaker: Professor Izumi Fukunaga , Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit Chair: Professor Simone Pigolotti, Biological Complexity Unit

Graduate School

Use of AI Tools in Higher Education

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 15:00
Center building, C209

A faculty-Grad School discussion on the use of AI tools in higher education .

Seminar

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor Jimmy Dooley : How movements during sleep teach infant brains how their bodies move

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 10:00
ZOOM

OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to host Prof. Jimmy Dooley from the department of biological sciences, Purdue University, USA. If you are interested in knowing how slight twitchy movements during your sleep in your infancy shape your brain, make sure to join the seminar!

ZOOM LINK

Seminar

Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
C209

Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Connolly

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

Recreation

Jazz jamming session

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 18:30
Seaside Lounge

Join us next week on Tuesday, April 18th in seaside lounge from 18:30!

Seminar

[Seminar] Dynamics of spin nematics in a magnetic field: A comparison with canted antiferromagnets

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 14:30 to 15:30
L4E48 and Zoom

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

Seminar

"BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras", Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 14:30
Lab 4, Seminar room L4E01

Visitor Seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics Title: "BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras"

Seminar

[Seminar] 'Waveguide QED with Rydberg superatoms' by Nina Stiesdal (Bonn)

Monday, April 17, 2023 - 17:00 to 18:00
on Zoom

Speaker: Nina Stiesdal, Institut of Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany

External Events

The 4th International Conference on Data Driven Plasma Sciences (ICDDPS-4)

Sunday, April 16, 2023 (All day) to Friday, April 21, 2023 (All day)
OIST Conference Center

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

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge OR beach behind Seaside House

You can't spell "Ukulele Club" without U! And also "bulk eel cul" but that's harder to interpret.

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Robot Learning: Where Science Meets Fiction" by Jochen Steil

Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:10
B250 (Center), 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] Optical fiber Fabry-Perot cavities: Production and applications - Prof Takahashi, PI of the EQIP Unit

Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room C209 - Ctr Bldg

Prof. Hiroki Takahashi, Assistant Professor of the Experimental Quantum Information Physics Unit

Seminar

Quantum Informational Analogue Models of Black Holes: What Happens After Half Evaporation?, Dr. Marco Michel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 14:00
Lab 4, Seminar room L4E01

Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Dr. Marco Michel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Title: Quantum Informational Analogue Models of Black Holes: What Happens After Half Evaporation?

Seminar

What Makes a Great Entrepreneur - Dr. Serg Bell

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Center Building C209
What Makes A Great Entrepreneur

Dr. Serg Bell is a Singaporean scientist, tech entrepreneur, and investor with over 350 patents and 400 publications. He has founded over 20 global IT companies, venture capital firms, and science institutions.

Seminar

[Seminar] Diffuse-interface framework for boiling flows with contact-line model

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
C209

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

Language: English

Seminar

Seminar "Exploring multiphase flow processes via particle-resolving simulations" by Prof. Eckart Meiburg

Friday, April 7, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 C700 / Zoom

[Speaker] Prof. Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara

Seminar

"Multidimensionality of leadership and emergent feedback mechanisms revealed by interspecific groups" by Dr. Eduardo Sampaio

Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4F01

Dr. Eduardo Sampaio , Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Professional Development

第1回 事務職員向け勉強会 ❘ #1 Study Sessions for Administrative Staff

Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
Lab3 C700

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

C-Hub 第1回 事務職員向け勉強会 「研究者の活動」 (日本語)

Speaker: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Seminar

MiS Seminar Series: Quantum Biology: radical pairs under the microscope

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
L4E01

Speaker::Jonathan R. WOODWARD

Professor of University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Speciality: Physical Chemistry,Photochemistry,Spin Chemistry

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/people100335.html

OIST Workshops

OIST Workshop "Invitation to Recursion, Resurgence, and Combinatorics"

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 (All day) to Friday, April 14, 2023 (All day)
OIST Main Campus, Lab 4, Seminar Room L4E48

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizers: Reiko Toriumi (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit) and Kento Osuga (University of Tokyo) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

Seminar

[Seminar] Why resource dynamics matter in microbial communities

Monday, April 3, 2023 - 13:00
C700, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Letten, ARC Fellow & Lecturer in Quantitative Biology at the University of Queensland

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 20:00

In this meeting we will discuss the proper method to cook and eat a soprano ukulele.

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 6

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:45
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
Title: On things that grow Speaker: Professor Simone Pigolotti, Biological Complexity Unit Chair: Professor Izumi Fukunaga , Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit
Seminar

[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor Takeshi Sakurai: Induction of hibernation-like state in mice

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 16:00
ZOOM

OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to host Prof. Takeshi Sakurai from the International Institute for Integrative Sleep (WPI-IIIS) Medicine, University of Tsukuba. Everyone is welcome to join the seminar!

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