Seminar hosted by QG Unit. Speaker: Prof. Marika Taylor , University of Southampton Title: Fluxes and Charges in an Expanding Universe

This session will be done in English only. The program will start off with OIST general introduction, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by the panel discussion by 2 OIST PhD students. One of them has joined OIST Research Internship Program before becoming OIST PhD student so this session will be very exciting for those who are interested in Research Internship Program as well as PhD program.

In this seminar we will look at verbs, noun phrases and the types of choices that you will need to make to suit your discipline's specific style.

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

After Mini Course: Graphic Design in Science, your beautiful graph will make people forget about your poor fashion sense.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for anyone.

Food drive to help families in Okinawa, especially due to the closure of local schools! All collected items will be donated to HelpOki (an NPO), which will then distribute the items to people in Okinawa.

These two 2-hr webinar series provided attendees with the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . Upon completion of this workshop series, attendees were able to articulate relevant research questions, search for appropriate grant opportunities aligned with their research focus, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research to enhance their career.

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

These two 2-hr webinar series provided attendees with the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . Upon completion of this workshop series, attendees were able to articulate relevant research questions, search for appropriate grant opportunities aligned with their research focus, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research to enhance their career.

After Mini Course: Graphic Design in Science, your beautiful graph will make people forget about your poor fashion sense.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for anyone.

Juan Carlos is a professional photographer and researcher from the Autonomous University of Mexico City, UACM. He has 28 years of experience. He began working on photography before the digital era. He learned the analog techniques and worked reproducing paintings for professional catalogs. He specialized in lab printing techniques. Currently, he is a researcher in the Autonomous University of Mexico City, UACM and belongs to the Communication and Culture Academy. He is specialized in narratives and photobook solutions.

Learn to see that there are common patterns for writing academic texts. We will consider response letters and look at the problem-solution pattern as an example before discussing others.

In this talk we will discuss: 1) Data-efficient methods for weakly-supervised whole slide classification with examples in cancer diagnosis and subtyping, allograft rejection etc. (Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021). 2) Harnessing weakly-supervised, fast and data-efficient WSI classification for identifying origins for cancers of unknown primary (Nature, 2021). 3) Discovering integrative histology-genomic prognostic markers via interpretable multimodal deep learning (IEEE TMI, 2020). 4) Deploying weakly supervised models in low resource settings without slide scanners, network connections, computational resources and expensive microscopes. 5) Bias and fairness in computational pathology algorithms.

Speaker: Dr. Faisal Mahmood, Assitant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School Register here .

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

OIST Quantum/Cyber Security Initiative The Science, the Opportunities, and the Real-World Challenges Co-hosted by Asia Society Japan Center & OIST

You have a green idea? You want to create impact and scale this idea? You should apply to the EU backed initiative Climate Launchpad. Christian Schmitz, Founder/CEO of PDIE Group will tell us about this exciting program.

Selection workshop for students seeking admission to the OIST PhD program in 2021

【Online】SCIENCE TALK The physics of flow in soap and water

Learn about the different purposes and strategies of different academic texts and see how this effects the vocabulary, the grammar and other characteristics.

Learn how to introduce yourself, answer questions about your nationality and speak about your job 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/95811989706)

Fireside chat with Dr. Tadahisa “Hardy” Kagimoto, MD, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Healios K.K., a biotechnology company leading the development of stem cell derived regenerative therapies.

Professor Richard Hahnloser

Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich

Zoom link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/98260915981?pwd=dWNFRVQrcUhCNWhrbGhtYWs0TEZPUT09

Passcode: 959053

Professor Tamotsu Yoshimori Graduate School of Frontier Bioscience/Medicine Osaka University

Parenting Series Lunch - Keeping Children Safe: Child abuse and how to talk to children about this.

This will be a lunchtime presentation and discussion session for parents or anyone interested in the topic.

Bring your lunch and come and join us to learn about and discuss this important topic.

Mini Course: Asymptote will let you draw things with your keyboard!

◆Target audience Everyone interested in learning how to draw beautiful vector graphics. Some familiarity with LaTeX is useful but not a requirement.

Seminar "Towards a quantitative understanding of high-order interdependencies in complex systems" by Fernando E. Rosas, Imperial College of London.

A beginner's introduction to using the clusters and other computing resources at OIST. This is the first, introductory session.

Free online wellbeing event

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who gradauted in the period May 2019 to April 2021.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Round-table with OIST Alumni

Date: May 20 (Thu.), 2021 Time: 13:30-14:30 (tentative) Venue: Lab4 E48

Let’s gather around in casual setting, and please help us support OIST students in their professional and career development.

・Date: May 20 (Thu.), 2021 ・Time: 10:00-11:00 (tentative) ・Venue: Lab4

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Speaker: Dr. Tadashi Kozuno RLAI Lab, University of Alberta Title: Revisiting Peng's Q(λ): Good Old-Fashioned Algorithm for Modern Reinforcement Learning

The Future of Women in Science Virtual Discussion and Launch of The Rita R. Colwell Impact Fund for the Advancement of Women in Science. Registration required.

Oksana Burduzhan is a mother and an aspiring artist. Her passion and interest is in art, and her educational background is in Economics. Some OIST members may have taken her adult art classes. She will now open classes for children ages 6-14.

Mini Course: Asymptote will let you draw things with your keyboard!

◆Target audience Everyone interested in learning how to draw beautiful vector graphics. Some familiarity with LaTeX is useful but not a requirement.

Seminar hosted by QG unit. Speaker: Luca Buoninfante, JSPS postdoctoral fellow Title: "Towards a Ghost-free Theory of Quantum Gravity"

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

Celebrate the International Day of Light Live, Streamed from OIST starring Cephi the Cephalopod

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.