Past Events

Campus

Scheduled Power Outage

Friday, June 10, 2022 - 15:00 to 15:30
Main Campus

Testing of Power Transmission equipment will be conducted in conjunction with the renovation of the campus' power generation facilities. During the test, there will be a power outage due to the switching over of power transmission lines.

Seminar

Identification and characterization of Wnt5a downstream targets during early development in mouse

Friday, June 10, 2022 - 13:00
Conference Center Meeting Room #1

※This seminar was originally scheduled on May 13th. This time the venue is in Conference Center.

Cell Signal Unit (Yamamoto Unit) presents a seminar inviting Dr. Rieko AJIMA, Assistant Professor, National Institute of Genetics. (国立遺伝学研究所)

Seminar keywords: Wnt5a, Wnt/PCP pathway, morphogenesis

Recreation

Hands-on Okinawan Cultural Food and Art Activities for Students

Friday, June 10, 2022 - 07:30 to 13:30
Murasaki Mura

Student Activity at Murasaki Mura

Hands-on Okinawan Cultural Food and Art Activities for Students

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge

Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge

Uke club rides again!

Professional Development

Career talk: "Finding a Semiconductor Industry Job in Japan"

Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 11:30 to 13:00
Central building C210

C-Hub and The Graduate School jointly invite you to an informal career talk by OIST postdoc alumnus, D r. Mikas Remeika . Dr. Remeika is back on campus for a return visit and has kindly offered to share his experiences on the industry job search in Japan . He is also pleased to introduce a job opportunity for new/recent PhD graduates at an international semiconductor company .

Lecture

[Quantum Computation] Lecture 2: Physical Implementation of Quantum Gates and Circuits (evolving the quantum computer governed by Schrödinger’s equation)

Thursday, June 9, 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 2: Physical Implementation of Quantum Gates and Circuits (evolving the quantum computer governed by Schrödinger’s equation)

Recreation

(Filled to capacity)Japanese Tea Ceremony for OIST'ers(Workshop)

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:30
Cafe B-Level
Japanese Tea Ceremony / 裏千家流お茶会

This Tea Ceremony will be held casual table style and anyone is welcome to participate.

テーブル式のカジュアルなお茶会を予定しております。どなたでもご参加頂けます。

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Ian Affleck "The Majorana-Hubbard Model"

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 09:00 to 10:00
Zoom

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

Language: English

Lecture

[Quantum Computation] Lecture 1: Quantum Computing Fundamentals (postulates of quantum mechanics; quantum bits, gates, and circuits)

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 08:45 to 09:45
C700, Lab 3

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

Lecture 1: Quantum Computing Fundamentals (postulates of quantum mechanics; quantum bits, gates, and circuits)

Seminar

On the asymptotics of nonlinear hyperbolic systems with critical exponents and boundary dissipation

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 00:30 to 02:00
ZOOM

Speaker: Dr. Jose Henrique Rodrigues, University of Memphis, USA

OIST Workshops

Cells, Energetics, and Information: New Perspectives on Nonequilibrium Systems

Monday, June 6, 2022 (All day) to Thursday, June 9, 2022 (All day)
Online

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Simone Pigolotti (Biological Complexity Unit) | Program | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Data Science for the EHT Blackhole Shadow Imaging" by Prof. Shiro Ikeda

Thursday, June 2, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4E48, Zoom

Prof. Shiro Ikeda, Professor, Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 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] Professor Lisa Giocomo: Multiple maps for navigation

Thursday, June 2, 2022 - 09:00
ZOOM Event

[Neuroscience Club] Prof. Lisa Giocomo, Associate Professor, Stanford University. Language: English.

Seminar

Virtual Seminar"Flow Dynamics of Anisotropic Colloids"Giovanniantonio Natale

Thursday, June 2, 2022 - 09:00
Zoom

Language: English

Seminar

OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 3 by Dr. Keisuke Kataoka and Dr. Christine Luscombe

Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - 17:30 to 19:00
Remo

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.

Seminar

Quantum Gravity group meeting: Mirian Tsulaia (part 2)

Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia. Title: "N=1 and N=4 Super Yang-Mills. A brief review" (part 2)

Seminar

Science Digest - Dr. David Brückner - "Learning the stochastic dynamics of biological systems across scales: from single cells to organoids"

Tuesday, May 31, 2022 - 16:00
C700 or Zoom

The Science Digest is back! Dr. David Brückner, NOMIS Fellow at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, will give us a talk on " Learning the stochastic dynamics of biological systems across scales: from single cells to organoids ". The seminar is open to everyone interested in the fields of Biophysics, Cell Migration, and Developmental Biology, and those who would like to know more about IST Austria and Dr. Brückner's career. Tuesday, May 31 at 16:00 JST on C700 or Zoom (Meeting ID: 990 6065 9864 Passcode: 855680).

OIST Workshops

Informational Architecture of Spacetime

Monday, May 30, 2022 (All day) to Friday, June 3, 2022 (All day)
Online

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Philipp Höhn (Qubits and Spacetime Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions

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

Recreation

10 -Year Anniversary OISTers' Celebration

Saturday, May 28, 2022 - 10:30 to 17:30
OIST Auditorium and Grass area near the pond

10-Year Anniversary OISTers' Celebration

Saturday, May 28th

Performances start 14:00–16:00 in the auditorium

Outdoor activities: food trucks, screen printing and music start at 10:30am (near the pond)

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge

Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge

Biweekly meeting of the OIST ukulele club

Workshop

OIST Innovators Society - Workshop 5 ‘Early-stage Recruiting and Compensation – Role Play’

Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room A719 - Lab 3

In Workshop #4 we discussed recruiting and compensation for early-stage companies. In Workshop #5, we will use role-play to practice both recruiting as a founder and joining an early-stage startup as an employee or advisor. We will practice as teams in a casual setting, so you can attend this workshop even if you have not attended Workshop #4.

Culture

World Ocean Day: Photo Contest

Thursday, May 26, 2022 (All day) to Wednesday, June 8, 2022 (All day)

Show your support for World Ocean Day from the comfort of your camera! Take part in ECO club's photography contest by taking a picture that demonstrates your relationship with the ocean and tagging us on social media. The winning photographs will be showcased at OIST and online as well as receiving a very ECO prize. https://twitter.com/eco_club_oist

Seminar

Quantum Gravity group meeting: Mirian Tsulaia

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia. Title: "N=1 and N=4 Super Yang-Mills. A brief review"

Seminar

[Seminar] Mr. Benedikt Schneider "Projective symmetry group classification of chiral Z_2 spin liquids on the pyrochlore lattice: Application to the XXZ model"

Tuesday, May 24, 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] Prof. Prasad Perlekar "Turbulence in buoyancy-driven bubbly flows"

Tuesday, May 24, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

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

Language: English

External Events

The 34th Board of Governors Meeting

Monday, May 23, 2022 (All day) to Tuesday, May 24, 2022 (All day)

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

OIST Workshops

Analysis on Metric Spaces

Monday, May 23, 2022 (All day) to Friday, May 27, 2022 (All day)
OIST Conference Center - Meeting Rooms

Originally scheduled for May 2021, this workshop has been rescheduled to May 2022 due to the situation with COVID-19. The new dates are May 23 - 27, 2022.

OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Xiaodan Zhou (Analysis on Metric Spaces Unit) | Website | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions

Recreation

Cosmos screening (episode 4)

Friday, May 20, 2022 - 18:00
Lab 4 discussion space (F22c)

Cosmos episode 4: Heaven and Hell

Seminar

Japan Eco-Evo English Seminar #9: Gall-forming aphids, small insects with great power: female-biased sex allocation via female competition induces novel insect gall organogenesis in plants

Friday, May 20, 2022 - 15:00 to 17:00
L4F01 or zoom (Please apply from here: https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar)

The seminar aims to initiate interactions between international and Japanese researchers and students in the field of Ecology and Evolution. The 9th event is presented by Dr. Xin Tong, SPDR Fellow of Cell Function Research Team at RIKEN CSRS. Title: Gall-forming aphids, small insects with great power: female-biased sex allocation via female competition induces novel insect gall organogenesis in plants

Timeline 15:00~15:30: seminar 15:30~16:00: questions and discussion 16:00~: mixer Please apply from here: https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar

Graduate School

Graduation Ceremony 2022

Friday, May 20, 2022 - 14:00 to 16:00
OIST Auditorium

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to students who have graduated in the period May 2021 to March 2022.

External Events

The 28th Board of Councilors Meeting

Thursday, May 19, 2022 (All day) to Saturday, May 21, 2022 (All day)

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Seminar

OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season6: The struggle for coexistence: empirical approaches to understand mechanisms of persistence under competition

Wednesday, May 18, 2022 - 17:30 to 18:30
Zoom

OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season6: The struggle for coexistence: empirical approaches to understand mechanisms of persistence under competition

Seminar

[Seminar] Phononic Frequency Combs

Wednesday, May 18, 2022 - 09:00 to 10:30
ZOOM

Title: Phononic Frequency Combs

Speaker: Dr. Adarsh Ganesan from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Seminar

[Seminar] Mr. Atsushi Ueda "Tensor network renormalization study on the crossover in classical Heisenberg and RP2 models in two dimensions"

Tuesday, May 17, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom

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

Language: English

Professional Development

English for Academic Email Correspondence - Formality

Friday, May 13, 2022 - 15:00 to 16:00
Zoom

What is the appropriate level of formality when writing email to people of different cultures?

In this seminar we will look at some key differences between formal and informal English in emails. We will learn about the signs to look for in formal English emails and discuss cultural considerations.

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, May 12, 2022 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge OR beach behind Seaside House

Back from Golden Week and ready to uke out!

Seminar

[Seminar] Professor Gabrielle Girardeau: Neural mechanisms for memory and emotional processing during sleep

Thursday, May 12, 2022 - 17:00
Zoom

[Neuroscience Club] Prof. Gabrielle Girardeau, Principal Investigator, CRCN Inserm / Sorbonne University

Colloquium

[Catch-All Mathematical Colloquium] The level-set mean curvature flow equation versus the total variation flow equation,Yoshikazu Giga (University of Tokyo )

Thursday, May 12, 2022 - 16:00 to 18:00
Online via Zoom

Title: The level-set mean curvature flow equation versus the total variation flow equation

Abstract: The level-set mean curvature flow equation has been introduced to track an evolving hypersurface by its mean curvature after it develops singularities. A level-set of a solution of the level-set mean curvature flow equation moves its mean curvature. The total variation flow equation is often used to remove noise from images. Although these two equations look similar, analytic properties are quite different; the former equation is a local equation while the latter is a nonlocal equation. In this talk, we compare these two equations as well as a few applications.

Discussion Theme (for the 2nd part of the event) :

How to collaborate with researchers other than mathematicians

The colloquium will be held once a month online. Each event consists of a one-hour talk on mathematics followed by a one-hour diversity panel discussion session. Please register before May , 5 pm. Click here to register!

Workshop

OIST Innovators Society - Workshop 4

Thursday, May 12, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar room C210 (center building)

Workshop 4: ‘Early-stage Recruiting and Compensation - Both Sides’

Are you being approached by startups to provide technical consultation? OR Are you planning to launch startups in the future? If you are, you might be wondering how new people are recruited to join startups.

Conference

GMP2022: International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - 15:00 to 21:30
Zoom

The online conference is going to be held on May 11, 2022.

Seminar

"Probing quantum gravity and non-locality through R^2-like inflation", Sravan Kumar

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

QG visitor seminar. Speaker: Sravan Kumar, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Title: "Probing quantum gravity and non-locality through R^2-like inflation".

Public

[Online] Promoting the Development and Transfer of Technology to Improve the Lives of Older Adults

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - 10:30 to 11:30
Zoom link will be provided upon registration

Panelists: Ms. Lauren Ha from OIST’s TDIC; Dr. Michael Roizen, an expert on healthy longevity and wellness from the Cleveland Clinic; and recent winners of the Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation (HAPI), including Ms. Li Lian Ng, whose company Tetsuyu Healthcare has developed a new wound assessment and treatment system, and Dr. Siti Anom Bt. Ahmad, whose team at Universiti Putra Malaysia developed an autonomous delivery robot to meet the need for contactless delivery that emerged out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Register here

Seminar

[Seminar] Variational problems with gradient constraint, Professor Xiao Zhong, University of Helsinki

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Online via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Xiao Zhong, University of Helsinki Title: Variational problems with gradient constraint Abstract: I will talk about three different classes of variational problems with gradient constraint. They arise from elastic-plastic torsion, hypersurfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski spaces with given mean curvature and dimer models.

Please click here to register

Seminar

[Seminar] Ms. Giorgia Dellaferrera "Unveiling Principles of Neural Computations: from Artificial to Biological Intelligence, and back"

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom
Ms. Giorgia Dellaferrera, PhD student, IBM Research Zurich - Institute of Neuroinformatics (ETH and UZH). Language: English, no interpretation.
Training

Assertive Communication アサーティブコミュニケーション(Incl. follow-up)

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 14:00 to 16:45
Seminar Room C210, Center Bldg.

(This training is offered in Japanese Only) 相手を尊重しながら自分の気持ちや考えを率直・誠実に表現するコミュニケーション法を学びます。ペアワークやグループディスカッションを多用した参加型の研修です。

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Natalia Perkins "Disorder in the Kitaev spin liquid"

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 09:00 to 10:00
Zoom

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

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge OR beach behind Seaside House

It's ukulele time again! This time if the weather is nice enough we're actually going to meat on the beach behind Seaside House instead of in the lounge. If it's too windy or wet, we'll be back inside as always.

Seminar

A Recipe for Scientific Synergy Series 2 by Dr. Ichiro Masai and Dr. Noriyuki Tsumaki

Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 14:00 to 16:00
Zoom

OIST - Osaka University: A Recipe for Scientific Synergy-Series 2 by Dr. Noriyuki Tsumaki and Dr. Ichiro Masai

Seminar

Quantum Gravity group meeting: Jonas Sonnenschein and Mirian Tsulaia (part 2)

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speakers: Jonas Sonnenschein and Mirian Tsulaia. Title: "N=2 SUSY Quantum Mechanics and spectra of Non-SUSY Hamiltonians (part 2)"

Recreation

Lunch Time Learning Session On Sea Turtles

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 - 12:00 to 13:00
B503

OIST Beach Club and ChuraMura Lunch Time Learning Session

Guest Speaker: Carl Bastain

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