Science talk in Naha

Open to all: CluES: Kerala (state of India) on the 4th of October! (RAM2025) Cultural Event Series (CluES) featuring Kerala (state of India) presented by OISTers from Kerala is happening on the 4th of October (Saturday) in the Seaside House from 5PM!

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops.

October 3, 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (JST UTC+9), Online (Zoom), Language: English, Target: Prospective students

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? Want to apply for the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

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).

CYCLE Exhibition 2025 Cycle Energy for Creation

You are invited to present your poster(s) at RAM 2025 Poster session combined with Opening ceremony and Teatime to share your research with the OIST Community!

Date: 2nd of October Time: from 16:00 Location: Atrium in Lab 5, level D

QG seminar Speaker: Franz Ciceri (ENS Lyon) Title: "Holography for the IKKT matrix model"

Dr. Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont, Medical Imaging and AI Scientist, Lead of AI group and scientific projects of Medical Physics Department, Centre de lutte contre le cancer, François Baclesse, ISTCT UMR6030-CNRS, UNICAEN

Title: Artificial intelligence in medical imaging applied to oncology

Speaker: Prof. Mahendra Verma, Dept of Physics & Kotak School of Sustainability, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Join us for a casual poster presentation with snacks, for a friendly discussion with peers or any curious passerby!

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? Want to apply for Round 14 of the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Registration Now Open---Academic Job Market Workshop Series---Module 6: Job Interviews---Will take place on September 25. Please register if you plan to attend at least this last module in the series, which is open to all OIST members.

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

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Septermber 24th (Wed) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

Speaker: Professor Irina Mitrea, Temple University

Talk by Julian Greentree, University of Melbourne (Australia). Language: English. Open to OIST community.

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

National holiday

In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.

The featured VC for this round is UTokyo IPC .

Since UTokyo IPC focuses on supporting pre-founders and researchers, this time we are prioritizing researchers who have not yet established a company for the mentoring sessions.

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to the next installment of the OCQT Seminar Series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Nikita Astrakhantsev , a Senior Quantum Research Scientist at Google Quantum AI, who will deliver a talk entitled:

“Using interference in Pauli space to measure beyond-classical local out-of-time-order correlator”

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Elkouss Coronas (Networked Quantum Devices Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Title: Integrin transmembrane domains serve as an allosteric activator for ectodomain folding in the endoplasmic reticulum

Speaker: Prof. Reinhard Fässler

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried, Germany

www.biochem.mpg.de/faessler

Speaker: Prof. Grégory Giannone Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Université Bordeaux, CNRS, UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France

www.iins.u-bordeaux.fr/GIANNONE#pub

Come out to Open Hours this Friday the 19th from 14:00–15:00 to meet Josh Green , the instructor for the upcoming Innovator's Toolbox program. This will be a great opportunity to get to meet Josh and discuss your research area. Enjoy snacks and drinks while you learn how this program will help you better understand how to get your work out into the world and make an impact!

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Prof. Luisa De Cola, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy and IFG- KIT Karlsruhe, Germany

Robert Feil, Institute of Molecular Genetics (IGMM), CNRS and the University of Montpellier, France.

Speaker: Prof. Eric Hudson (UCLA)

Title: Quantum control over radioactive ions and nuclei

Prof. Luisa De Cola, University of Milano, Department DISFARM, Milan Italy & Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

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 by Dr. Luca Gennaioli, University of Warwick

Speaker 1: Mr. Rémi Surat (Université Paris Cité, ENSAE Paris)

Title: Flow-based generative models: how to train them efficiently using flow matching and optimal transport

Speaker 2: Ms. Klea Ziu (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: MBZUAI, UAE)

Title: ψDAG: Projected Stochastic Approximation Iteration for Linear DAG Structure Learning

Language: English

National holiday

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Hamner, Assistant Specialist, College of Engineering, University of Hawaiʻi

Language: English

Please RSVP by noon on September 10 : https://forms.gle/K1ZLwDikBvQyFnf47

The Provost Lecture Series 20

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? Want to apply for Round 14 of the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Title: Promotion of Gendered Innovation in Japan: Historical Context, Emerging Funding Trends, and OIST–JAIST Collaboration 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).

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] "An integrated coastal ecosystem model and its applications (Marine CoMET) by Prof. Takashi Nakamura

Speaker: Prof. Hongna Zhang, Tianjin University, School of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor of Yingcai Program

Speaker: Professor ​ Malte Kampschulte , Charles University in Prague. Title: Fluid structure interaction and Sobolev spaces on changing domains Abstract: Dynamic interaction between fluids and solids occurs everywhere, from a fish swimming in the water to an airplane wing bending in the wind. When studying them, one of the key issues is that finding the domain on which the fluid equations are posed itself is part of the problem. Thus before we can apply all the standard machinery from PDE and the calculus of variations, we must first translate it to work on changing domains. The aim of this talk will be to explore precisely this. On one hand it will be an introduction into fluid structure interaction highlighting some recent results. On the other hand this will be used as an opportunity to illustrate and discuss several old and new methods on how to deal with Sobolev spaces when the domain itself is not fixed. This talk is based on results obtained with S.Schwarzacher and B.Benešová as well as work with N.Evseev and A.Menovschikov.

This workshop highlights three key and practice-oriented research domains— invasive species control , protected area design , and biodiversity monitoring —and introduces the latest developments in research and technological innovation that support these fields.

Join us for the OIST × NAIST Café Information Session!

Interested in cutting-edge science and technology? Wondering what graduate student life is like in Japan’s leading research universities?

Registration Now Open---Academic Job Market Workshop Series---Module 6: Job Interviews---Will take place on September 25. Please register if you plan to attend at least this last module in the series, which is open to all OIST members.

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? Want to apply for Round 14 of the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Registration Now Open---Academic Job Market Workshop Series---Module 5: Job Search Process II---Will take place on September 4. Please register if you plan to attend at least one of the modules in the series, which is open to all OIST members.

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).

For the fifth anniversary of the BRIDGE Network, scientists from OIST and other partner institutes have submitted images emerging from their research, showing glimpses of their laboratories and subjects. This exhibition is coming to OIST after shows in ISTA (Austria), The Crick Institute (UK), and the United Nations University, Tokyo Campus.

Welcome Ceremony for new faculty members joining OIST, and PhD students joining the Class of 2025.

The ceremony is open to all OIST community members and will be held at the Auditorium.