Past Events
Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers", Prof. Koshimizu
Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers" by Professor Masanori Koshimizu.
The 31st Board of Councilors Meeting
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
OIST x the University of Tokyo -Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging
OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging. *Please register in advance if you are participating onsite.
ECO Club Lunch
Come have lunch and talk about sustainability related things!
New restaurants, event ideas, campus gossip, anything goes.
OIST Science 100 Symposium
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
18th Key Symposium: Longevity and Healthy Ageing: What Can We Learn From Blue Zones?
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 .
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
Q: What is the difference between a ukulele player and a savings bond? A: One will mature and make money.
Teen Night
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!
"The dragonfly’s superpowers: from predictive visual guidance and wing aerodynamics sensing to bio-inspired robotics" by Dr. Huai-Ti Lin
Dr Huai-Ti Lin, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering
Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)
Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
If you've never sung "Closing Time" to an audience of hermit crabs have you ever really lived?
TSVP Talk: "From Gravity to Quantum Clocks (And Rulers!)" by Artur Tsobanjan
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).
Soft Matter in Opto-Thermal Gradients : Evolutionary Dynamics and Pattern Formation, Prof. Pavan Kumar Gopalapura Venkataramu.
Prof. Pavan Kumar Gopalapura Venkataramu, IISER PUNE.
Language: English.
Virtual Seminar"Shape of deposits and flow mechanisms in 3D printing of yield stress fluids"Anatole Geffrault
Language: English
Sustainable Transport Hackathon - Call for participants
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: "Spectroscopy of Topological Josephson Junction Circuits" by Dr. Çağlar Girit
[Seminar] Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network by Prof. Mariko Okada, Osaka University
Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network
Prof. Mariko Okada
Laboratory for Cell Systems, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University
[Seminar] Weakly first-order quantum phase transition between Spin Nematic and Valence Bond Crystal Order in a square lattice SU(4) fermionic model
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Movie Screening ~Our Planet~
科学技術週間&アースデースペシャル
親子映画会
Public Lecture: Metaverse and Virtual Reality by Anatole Lecuyer and Shunichi Kasahara
Public Lecture on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture in the evening
French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds”
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
Quantum networks based on diamond spin qubits - Prof T Taminiau [QUTech]
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.
The Provost Lecture Series 7
Use of AI Tools in Higher Education
A faculty-Grad School discussion on the use of AI tools in higher education .
[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor Jimmy Dooley : How movements during sleep teach infant brains how their bodies move
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!
Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Connolly
Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Jazz jamming session
Join us next week on Tuesday, April 18th in seaside lounge from 18:30!
[Seminar] Dynamics of spin nematics in a magnetic field: A comparison with canted antiferromagnets
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
"BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras", Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics
Visitor Seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics Title: "BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras"
[Seminar] 'Waveguide QED with Rydberg superatoms' by Nina Stiesdal (Bonn)
Speaker: Nina Stiesdal, Institut of Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany
The 4th International Conference on Data Driven Plasma Sciences (ICDDPS-4)
This is an externally organized event, For more information please go the conference website .
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
You can't spell "Ukulele Club" without U! And also "bulk eel cul" but that's harder to interpret.
TSVP Talk: "Robot Learning: Where Science Meets Fiction" by Jochen Steil
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] Optical fiber Fabry-Perot cavities: Production and applications - Prof Takahashi, PI of the EQIP Unit
Prof. Hiroki Takahashi, Assistant Professor of the Experimental Quantum Information Physics Unit
Quantum Informational Analogue Models of Black Holes: What Happens After Half Evaporation?, Dr. Marco Michel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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?
What Makes a Great Entrepreneur - Dr. Serg Bell
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] Diffuse-interface framework for boiling flows with contact-line model
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
Seminar "Exploring multiphase flow processes via particle-resolving simulations" by Prof. Eckart Meiburg
[Speaker] Prof. Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara
"Multidimensionality of leadership and emergent feedback mechanisms revealed by interspecific groups" by Dr. Eduardo Sampaio
Dr. Eduardo Sampaio , Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
第1回 事務職員向け勉強会 ❘ #1 Study Sessions for Administrative Staff
*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
MiS Seminar Series: Quantum Biology: radical pairs under the microscope
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 Workshop "Invitation to Recursion, Resurgence, and Combinatorics"
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] Why resource dynamics matter in microbial communities
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Letten, ARC Fellow & Lecturer in Quantitative Biology at the University of Queensland
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
In this meeting we will discuss the proper method to cook and eat a soprano ukulele.
The Provost Lecture Series 6
[ONOS Seminar Series] Professor Takeshi Sakurai: Induction of hibernation-like state in mice
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!













































