Past Events

Seminar

[Seminar] Evolution of dispersal in metapopulation models

Monday, December 12, 2022 - 14:00 to 14:40
Seminar Room C210: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/95497214950
Speaker

Prof. Kalle Parvinen: University Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland

Culture

What would you EAT for a sustainable future? Plant-based food and the possibility サステイナブルな未来のために私たちは何を食べるか。~プラントベースの食べ物とその可能性~

Monday, December 12, 2022 - 14:00 to 15:30
B250

Vegan and plant-based cuisine have been attracting attention for their potential both as a developing market and as a sustainable choice. Haruko Kawano of VegeProject Japan will tell us about global trends, the context of this rising demand, and how to incorporate veganism into our diets.

14:00-15:00 Presentation followed by Q&A at B250 15:00-15:30 Food tasting at foyer and wood deck next to B250

AIEN and Yun-Taku will also sell vegan snacks and sweets after the talk

Outreach

11th Annual SCORE!

Saturday, December 10, 2022 - 09:30 to 17:00
OIST Auditorium 講堂

Seminar

[Seminar] Hake as a climate winner: emerging fishery dynamics and management implications

Friday, December 9, 2022 - 16:45 to 17:25
Seminar Room L4E01: Lab 4, Level E / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/93438269189
Speaker

Dr Xiaozi Liu: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Marine Research, Norway

Seminar

[Seminar] Multiple-trait responses to size-selective harvesting in experimental guppy populations

Friday, December 9, 2022 - 16:00 to 16:40
Seminar Room L4E01: Lab 4, Level E / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/93438269189
Speaker

Prof. Mikko Heino: Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, and also affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Wellness

Ganjuu Open House

Friday, December 9, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:30
Ganjuu Wellbeing Service
Ganjuu Open House

Friday, December 9th *4:00-5:30 PM*

Please join us for tea, coffee, and home baking! Bring yourself, your colleagues, your families and share some time, talk and listen to others. Come and see our new location! All are welcome :)

*Our location is now at the Former President's House by faculty housing and Lab 5.

Seminar

[Seminar] Impact of present and future temperature conditions in North Atlantic fisheries: an elasticity analysis approach

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 17:15 to 17:55
Seminar Room C209: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94799400298
Speaker

Dr Anna Shchiptsova: Researcher in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-Natural Systems Research Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Seminar

[Seminar] Predicting safe operating spaces for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery in a warming ocean using a coupled bio-socio-economic model

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 16:30 to 17:10
Seminar Room C209: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94799400298
Speaker

Dr. Jaideep Joshi: Researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Guest Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Recreation

TSVP Teatime

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 16:00
Lab 4 Level D Break Area (L4D01)

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Seminar

[Seminar] Determining ecosystem vulnerability through meta-analysis of empirical food webs

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 15:45 to 16:25
Seminar Room C209: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94799400298
Speaker

Prof. Karol Opara: Assistant professor at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Seminar

Creation of an isolated turbulent blob fed by vortex rings, Mr. Takumi Matsuzawa, The University of Chicago

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 15:30 to 16:30
Lab4, L4E45 or Zoom

Creation of an isolated turbulent blob fed by vortex rings, Mr. Takumi Matsuzawa, The University of Chicago. Language: English.

Seminar

[Seminar] Climate change and cumulative impact in Arctic ecosystems

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 15:00 to 15:40
Seminar Room C209: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94799400298
Speaker

Prof. Raul Primicerio: Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

Seminar

"Successfully completing the final stretch – termination of DNA replication in bacteria" by Dr. Christian Rudolph

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 16:30
Zoom and L4F23

[Change of room: now L4F23 ]. Online seminar by Dr. Christian Rudolph from Brunel University London. Anyone interested is welcome. Zoom link and abstract in the description.

Seminar

[Hybrid Seminar] "Towards Hierarchical Motor Control" by Dr. Steve Heim, Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 16:00 to 16:45
C209, Center Bldg. (Hybrid)

"Towards Hierarchical Motor Control" by Dr. Steve Heim, Postdoc, Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT

Seminar

Seminar "Universally superposing quantum operations toward quantum functional programming" by Prof. Mio Murao (Univ. of Tokyo)

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 13:30 to 14:30
Seminar Room L4F01 (Lab4 F floor)

Seminar by Mio Murao, Professor at Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Universty of Tokyo, Languate (English)

Research

[Seminar] Temperate carbonate reefs, 'blue carbon' and the 'plastisphere'

Tuesday, December 6, 2022 - 11:00 to 12:00
OIST Seminar room Lab4 L4E01

This talk will introduce two major forms of cold-water biogenic habitats. Deep-sea coral reefs are extensive in the NE Atlantic region due to high food availability and high carbonate saturation levels. Maerl beds are calcified seaweed habitats and are the oldest biogenic habitat type found in shallow waters of the region. (...)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Molecular Tools in Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction" by Dr. Orestes Rivada-Wheelaghan

Monday, December 5, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:00
Lab4 E01

Dr. Orestes Rivada-Wheelaghan, Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Instituto the Investigaciones Químicas (IIQ) at Universidad de Sevilla (Spain).Language: English

Seminar

[Seminar] "Mechanoluminescence - smart visualization of dynamic mechanical behaviors toward innovative evaluation, design, and simulation" by Dr. Nao TERASAKI

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 15:00 to 16:00
B503, Lab1

Dr. Nao Terasaki, Team Leader, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Language: English

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé (Online Information Session) in December 2022

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 15:00
Online

This session will be done in Japanese. The program will start off with a general introduction of OIST, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by a panel discussion by two OIST PhD students.

Seminar

Shaping the future of 3D interaction with virtual worlds by Dr. Anatole Lécuyer

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 14:30 to 16:00
L4E01 and Zoom
Title

Shaping the future of 3D interaction with virtual worlds

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Wei-Hau Chang & Prof. I-Ping Tu, ACADEMIA SINICA

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 10:00 to 12:00
B503 (Center Building)

Speaker:

Professor Wei-Hau Chang, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

“Harnessing the power of Bertozzi reaction for capturing flexible parts in cryo-EM structures”

Speaker:

Professor I-Ping Tu, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

" Garbage in, Einstein out A Mathematical Study of Einstein from Noise”

Seminar

[Seminar] Sharp Uncertainty Principles and their stability, Professor Nguyen Lam, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 09:00
Online via Zoom

Abstract: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which is a fundamental result in quantum mechanics, and related inequalities such as the hydrogen and Hardy uncertainty principles, belong to the family of geometric inequalities known as the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities. In this talk, we discuss some recent results about the optimal uncertainty principles, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities, and their quantitative stability. The talk is based on recent joint works with C. Cazacu, J. Flynn and G. Lu.

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge OR beach behind Seaside House

With new songs! Probably!

Seminar

[Seminar] Geometric PDE and Applied Analysis Seminar (12/1)

Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 15:00
L4E48 or Zoom

Talk 1: 15:00-16:00

Speaker: Prof. Shigeaki Koike (Waseda University)

Title: ABP maximum principle with upper contact sets for fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs

Talk 2: 16:00-17:00

Speaker: Prof. Michiaki Onodera (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Title: A perturbation theory of overdetermined problems

Seminar

Introduction to Intellectual Property

Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 13:30 to 15:00
Zoom

Curious about Intellectual Property? Please join our introductory seminar, hosted by TDIC alongside guest Patent Lawyer Gregory Kirsch.

This is an introduction-level seminar open to everyone at OIST.

Workshop

OIST/Humanoids2022 Joint Workshop

Thursday, December 1, 2022 (All day)
OIST conference center (Auditorium)

Neural Computation Unit will hold an OIST / Humanoids 2022 joint workshop at Auditorium. If you are interested in joining, please register.

Seminar

QG group meeting - anomalous dimensions in HS holography

Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - 15:00
Lab 4, F01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: Locality of higher-spin gravity from anomalous dimensions of double-trace operators.

Wellness

The Science of Safety: Understanding the Role of the Nervous System in Our Mental Health

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:30
C209

We will take a closer look at the autonomic nervous system and the way our biology helps us navigate daily life, how we respond to cues of safety and danger below the level of conscious thought, and how this guides the way we move through the world, from turning toward and backing away, to connecting and other times isolating.

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 09:30 to 10:30
on Zoom
Nicolle González , University of California, Berkeley Title: Higher Rank Rational (q,t)-Catalan Polynomials and a Finite Shuffle Theorem
Seminar

Seminar "Periodically driven sub-wavelength lattices" Prof. Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Vilnius University

Monday, November 28, 2022 - 11:00 to 12:00
B503, LevelB, Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Vilnius University

Seminar

FY22 _Fixed Asset Inspection session / 2022年度 固定資産実査説明会

Friday, November 25, 2022 - 14:00 to 14:45
on Zoom

FY22 _Fixed Asset Inspection session will be held via Zoom.Those in charge of please participate in this session.

Workshop

Workshop on Life Mind Continuity

Friday, November 25, 2022 - 13:00 to 17:35
Meeting Room 1, Conference Center

Workshop on Life Mind Continuity

The aim: We attempt to deepen understanding of mind through discussions of various issues including life mind continuity, theory of mind, embodied mind, phenomenal consciousness, alife and artificial intelligence.

Date: 1pm - 5:35pm, November 25th, 2022

Location: Room1, OIST Conference Center

Organized by Kazuo Okanoya, Takashi Ikegami, and Jun Tani

Seminar

Seminar: “Deciphering genome evolution: protein fossils and complex rearrangements”, by Pr. Martin Frith.

Friday, November 25, 2022 - 11:00
Lab 3, room C700

Seminar from Pr. Martin Frith, Laboratory for Life Information decipherment (Center for Omics and Bioinformatics), Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo.

Seminar

[Seminar] Martin Biehl: "Interpreting systems as solving POMDPs: a step towards a formal understanding of agency"

Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 14:45 to 15:30
Center Building, C210

Interpreting systems as solving POMDPs: a step towards a formal understanding of agency.

Martin Biehl, senior research scientist at Cross Labs.

Seminar

[Seminar] Christian Guckelsberger: "Four projects on Intrinsic Motivation, Embodiment, Creativity & Videogames"

Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 14:00 to 14:45
Center Building, C210

Four projects on Intrinsic Motivation, Embodiment, Creativity & Videogames.

Christian Guckelsberger, Computer Scientist, Art Historian and Assistant Professor in Creative Technologies at Aalto University.

External Events

Okinawa Christian School International (OCSI) open house registration open

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 10:15 to 11:30
Okinawa Christian School International (OCSI)

Okinawa Christian School International (OCSI) will hold their Open House for prospective families on November 23rd, 2022. Events like this tend to fill up quickly, so if it is a school you are interested in for your children, I recommend you register early.

Holiday

勤労感謝の日 Labor Thanksgiving Day

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 00:00

National holiday

Workshop

Collective Intelligence in Living/Non-Livings Populations

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 09:00 to 17:00
C210, Zoom

"Collective Intelligence in Living/Non-Livings Populations" Workshop 2022. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Invited Guests.

Research

Marine genomics seminar #39: “Once we were worms: The origin of gills, skeletal ossicles & tubes in the deuterostomes” by Dr. Christopher B. Cameron

Monday, November 21, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
C210

Christopher Cameron is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Montreal.

Seminar

Seminar: "The Truesdell Rate in Continuum Mechanics". by Prof. Salvatore Federico

Monday, November 21, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room C209, Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Salvatore Federico

A faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering (2008-present), with an adjunct position in Kinesiology, Human Performance Laboratory (2012-present)

Title: "The Truesdell Rate in Continuum Mechanics"

Seminar

[Seminar] Nathaniel Virgo: "What is an agent?"

Monday, November 21, 2022 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4F01

What is an agent?

Nathaniel Virgo, Associate Professor at Earth-Life Science Insitute (ELSI) in Tokyo.

Seminar

Perovskite/Si tandem solar cells with 30% efficiency

Monday, November 21, 2022 - 10:30
Center Building C209

Speaker: Dr. Lars Korte

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Germany Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Innovation

Meet the Innovation Supporters at OIST - free coffee and snacks

Friday, November 18, 2022 - 14:30 to 16:00
Lab 3 Level C Room C700

Join the staff of the Technology Development & Innovation Center for free coffee and snacks and ask them how OIST can help support innovative ideas, prototyping, starting a business, and more. Come any time between 3 pm-4 pm and bring your coffee cup, mask, and boundless curiosity.

Innovation

Accelerating Biomedical Science Innovation, featuring Dr. Tanja Rosenmund

Friday, November 18, 2022 - 14:00 to 14:30
Lab 3 Level C Room C700

The OIST Innovators Society is hosting a fireside chat on accelerating biomedical science innovation, featuring Dr. Tanja Rosenmund, Visiting Researcher at OIST and Director of SPARK Berlin Institute of Health . The event will be followed by an open house with staff of the Technology Development & Innovation Center and free coffee and snacks!

Professional Development

Orators Meeting for Communication & Public Speaking

Friday, November 18, 2022 - 12:00
Seminar Room B503 (Lab 1)

OIST Orators meet every two weeks to practice public speaking. No matter your level or experience, everyone is welcome to come and learn together! Our meetings typically consist of prepared talks, impromptu topics to practice speaking on the spot, and a short seminar on some aspect of oratory.

Seminar

[Seminar] Poincare inequalities on the Vicsek set, Professor Chen Li, Louisiana State University

Friday, November 18, 2022 - 10:00
Online via Zoom

Abstract:

The Vicsek set is a tree-like fractal on which neither analog of curvature nor differential structure exists, whereas the heat kernel satisfies sub-Gaussian estimates. I will talk about Sobolev spaces and scale invariant $L^p$ Poincar\'e inequalities on the Vicsek set. Several approaches will be discussed, including the metric approach of Korevaar-Schoen and the approach by limit approximation of discrete p-energies.

Zoom : https://oist.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpdu-uqTwrGdFV5IrA0woMhvhlxVa_5ttw

Innovation

Startup Pitch Competition: Global Entrepreneurship Week

Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 13:30 to 15:00
Center Building C209

Watch entrepreneurs battle it out at the OIST Startup Pitch Competition and cast your vote for the "Audience Choice Award". Free coffee and snacks.

Thursday, November 17, 2022 1:30pm-3:00pm Center Building, C209

Seminar

[Seminar] "Prediction with expert advice: a PDE perspective on a model problem from machine learning" by Prof. Robert V. Kohn

Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 10:00
Zoom

Speaker: Prof. Robert V. Kohn (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU)

Title: Prediction with expert advice: a PDE perspective on a model problem from machine learning

Seminar

[Seminar] Community assembly and species coexistence in the heterogeneous world

Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 10:00
C700, Lab 3

Dr. Naoto Shinohara, Specially appointed assistant professor, Tohoku University.

Language: English, no interpretation. All are welcome to attend.

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