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).

MIRAI will organize a digital kick-off event to celebrate the start of MIRAI third phase between 2024-2026. This digital event is open to the public and strongly welcome from all MIRAI member universities in Sweden and Japan as well as other universities, industry, research funding agencies, governmental sectors.

Speaker: Dr. Thinh Le, University of Technology Sydney

Language: English

[Speaker] Dr. Shintaro Takeuchi, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University

Speaker: Dr. David L Stern, Senior Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus.

Language: English

Welcome Ceremony for new faculty members joining OIST, and PhD students joining the Class of 2024.

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

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Speaker: Dr. Miwa Takahashi, CERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Environomics Future Science Platform, NCMI | CSIRO

Please join our seminar to learn about the FAIR data principles and the project, and start our discussions on the bottlenecks, needs, and strategies to achieve FAIR eDNA.

Dr. Jorge Puebla, Research Scientist in the Nano-scale Magnetism Team of the Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) , RIKEN

MIRAI Global Challenges Winter School is an onsite program in the scope of the four global challenges and designed to attract early career researchers (ECRs) from diverse fields, including humanities and social sciences.

Mr. Ali Pedram, Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey

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

"Visualizing how SARS-CoV-2 attacks the olfactory system in COVID-19 patients" by Dr Peter Mombaerts, Director, Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics, Frankfurt, Germany.

Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Goodenough, University of Massachusetts

Dr. Farhan Saif, Professor, Quaid-i-Azam Univerity

Deadline for Registration--- Enhancing Your Professional & Scientific Web Presence Workshop Series, Module 2: Developing an Ecology of Different Platforms and Processes . Please register if you plan to attend at least one of the modules in the series, which are open to all OIST members.

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

We are pleased to announce a "Career Chat with Professor Joshua Goldberg", TSVP Visiting Scholar.

Please join us for a career discussion with Professor Joshua Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In a casual setting, he will, among other topics, be sharing his experiences as a neuroscientist in the medical device industry. He is open to any questions you may have and happy to discuss topics you are interested in.

Dr. Agneesh Barua, HFSP Long-Term Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolution, at the University of Lausanne. Language.

Dr. Yi Hu, Associate Professor, Beijing Normal University

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

Mr. Dustin Dial, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Georgia, USA

Speaker: Dr. Yuki Inada, Associate Professor , Saitama University.

Speaker: Dr. Tomohiro Furusato, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Nagasaki University

Prof. Woowon Kang from the James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, the University of Chicago

https://physics.uchicago.edu/people/profile/woowon-kang/

Whether you're new to painting or have some experience, this workshop is perfect foreall levels. You'll learn essential watercolor techniques, explore color mixing theory, and create beautiful landscape paintings. Plus, all materials are provided!

Date & Time: August 18, 2024, from 12:30 PM to 3:00 PM Location: Ocean View Room, OIST Fee: ¥2500 for OIST students, ¥3000 for others

Class will be taught in English.

Please wear old clothing or bring a smock to protect clothing from paint. All other materials will be provided.

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

The flea market will be held @ OUTSIDE TUNNEL near the pond.

Please feel free to sell and buy pieces of stuff if you would like!

DATE:

Friday, 16th August from 4:30pm - 7:30pm

VENUE:

OUTSIDE TUNNEL near the pond

if you need any assistance or have questions, please contact ECOCLUB@GMAIL.COM or OIST_ECOCLUB via instagram. Thank you so much !!

We are pleased to announce “Fireside Chat Career Talk with Professor Hirokazu Shirado”, TSVP Visiting Scholar.

Please join us for a career discussion with Professor Hirokazu Shirado, School of Computer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. In a casual setting, he will be sharing his experiences in academia in Japan and the US, industry in Japan, and exploring STEM and social science fields. It will be a great opportunity to learn insights of academia hiring process, building a strong CV, academia vs industry, differences in Japan and the US for academia/industry, career paths within academia, etc. He is open to any questions you may have and happy to discuss topics you are interested in. Please join us!

Speaker : Rudrajit Banerjee (OIST, Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit (Reiko Toriumi )) Title : Wick rotation in the lapse: admissible complex metrics and the Wick rotated heat kerne l Date and time : 15th August Thursday at 13:00 Location : L4F01 Language: English

The details will be updated

Mr. Miao Cai, PhD Student of College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University

Speaker: Dr. Shuhei Kitano (Waseda University)

Title: Carderón-Zygmund estimates for fully nonlinear equations

Join Us for a Unique Soy Sauce Workshop and Discover the Art of Soy Sauce Making!

We are thrilled to invite you to an exclusive workshop hosted by Mr. Kajita, CEO of Kajita Shoten , a 150-year-old soy sauce brewery in Ehime Prefecture. Kajita Shoten is one of the very few soy sauce breweries in Japan that handles every step of the production process, from sourcing raw materials to manufacturing, entirely in-house.

SHIMA is an annual science educational outreach program to educate high school students in Okinawa on the sustainability of island ecosystems and cultures.

Speaker: Dr. Fiorella Ramirez Esquivel, UNSW Canberra, Australia

National holiday

Deadline for Registration---Writing Workshop Series, Module 1: Writing as Process and Story. Please register if you plan to attend at least one of the modules in the series, which are open to all OIST members.

National holiday

A pattern is a design with shapes or lines that repeat again and again. In this class we will be using watercolor paints to create a background and then using pens to draw interesting patterns on top. The class will be taught in English.


Prof. Keyu Xia, Professor, Nanjing University

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

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).

We will invite a small and medium enterprise management consultant to hold a seminar on creating business plans necessary for starting a business and raising funds.

Speaker: Dr. Jovan Rebolledo SkySpec

Title: Exponential Data and Better AI for Solving Biological Challenges

Speaker : Nicolas Delporte (OIST, Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit (Reiko Toriumi )) Title : Tensor eigenvalues from a field theory perspective Date and time : 8th August Thursday at 13:00 Location : L4F01 Language: English

Speaker : Prof. Ugur Abdulla

Dr. Ando Hideyuki, Professor in Department of Art Science, Osaka University of Arts Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)