Past Events

Public Lecture

[POSTPONED] OIST Forum 2020: "Can Japan be a 'Deep Tech Island'?"

Monday, March 9, 2020 - 14:00 to 19:00
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation ”Miraikan", Tokyo

Important Notice of Postponement: We regret to inform you that the OIST Forum 2020 has been postponed due to the current outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. For more info please visit the OIST Forum 2020 website (external)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Aspects of ghost-free nonlocal field theories" by Dr. Luca Buoninfante

Monday, March 9, 2020 - 13:30 to 14:30
A719, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Luca Buoninfante, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Culture

[Cancelled] OIST Concert: Piano Recital by Yukine Uehara

Saturday, March 7, 2020 - 16:00
OIST Auditorium

Cancelled

Seminar

OIST Schooling Seminar

Saturday, March 7, 2020 - 14:00
Conference Center Meeting Room 1, 2 and 3

OIST will be hosting a Schooling Options Seminar on Saturday March 7 th from 14:00 – 16:00 in Conference Center Meeting Room 1, 2 and 3. Representatives will be joining us from a range of International Schools to introduce their programs and answer your questions.

Research

RAW Closing Event: Awards and Party

Friday, March 6, 2020 - 18:00 to 21:00
Seaside Lounge (OIST Seaside House)

Let's celebrate the end of Researcher Appreciation Week (RAW) with awards for best presentations and posters, announcement of new ORC committee and a cocktail party at Seaside Lounge. The bar will be open all evening thanks to Seaside Lounge volunteers.

Seminar

New PIs Seminar

Friday, March 6, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room C700 (Lab 3, Level C)

Newly hired PIs will present their research: Vincent Laudet, Emile Touber and Hiroki Takahashi.

Seminar

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Friederike Metz

Friday, March 6, 2020 - 14:00
Lab 1, C016

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Friederike Metz (Quantum Systems). Title: "Precise temperature estimation with a single qubit as a probe".

Colloquium

Colloquium: "Gravity as a SO(1,3) gauge theory" by Mr. Ryusei Maeda

Friday, March 6, 2020 - 09:30 to 11:30
B714a
Speaker: Mr. Ryusei Maeda is a 3rd year undergratuate student at University of Tokyo and is currently visiting OIST as a research intern. Pages
Research

Poster Session and Tea Time

Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room C700 (Lab 3, Level C)

A special Tea Time with Poster Session! Recycle your poster and show it to your peers.

Lecture

Uploading Consciousness (Special Lecture)

Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 12:00 to 13:00
Sidney Brenner Lecture Theater B250

Special Lecture by Prof. Masataka Watanabe (U. of Tokyo, MinD in a Device). Methods and Assumptions for Uploading Consciousness in 20 Years: Law of Nature, Artificial Consciousness and its Subjective Test

Seminar

Career Transition Seminar

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room C700 (Lab 3, Level C)

Tips and ideas to successfully transition from academia to business with a specialist panel: Prof. Masataka Watanabe (U. of Tokyo, MinD in a Device), Prof. Charles Yokoyama (IRCN), Masaaki Nakatsu (OIST, Orb).

Seminar

IAS Users Meeting and Seminar: NMR

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 14:00 to 16:00
C700, Lab3

For OIST members:

Users meeting and Seminar are registration free. We look forward to seeing you at the venue.

For Non-OIST members:

Please contact ias@oist.jp for Seminar sign up. (Users meeting is an internal event.)

Presidential Lecture

[CANCELLED] Presidential Lecture - "Cerebral Cortex Connectomics" by Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250

Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to the entire OIST community.

Research

PI Q&A Panel

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 12:00 to 13:00
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250

A panel of OIST PIs will answer all your career questions. Panel Composition: Thomas Busch, Sile Nic Chormaic, Keiko Kono

Research

Ice Breaker & Speed Dating

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 18:00 to 21:00
President House

A networking event at the Recreation Lounge for OIST Community. The evening will also include a Science Speed Dating.

Seminar

Multidisciplinary Research Seminar

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room C209 (Central Bldg., Level C)

Seminar by Yannick Saintigny, EU Affairs Senior Officer, French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Building an interdisciplinary project, conduct it and succeed!

Seminar

Seminar: "The current status of the Gribov problem in gauge theories" by Prof. Rodrigo F. Sobreiro

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:10
C700, Lab 3

Dr. Sobreiro is a professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil, and is currently visiting OIST for 2 weeks.

Workshop

Self-Leadership Mastery: グループコーチング・セッション

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 12:00 to 13:00
Conference Center - Meeting Room 1

ロサンゼルス在住のリーダーシップ・コーチ 内藤明日香による60分に渡るこのグループコーチング・セッションでは、10名までの少人数設定のグループで受けるコーチング構成となっている。

Workshop

Self-Leadership Mastery: マインドセットとストレスマネジメントを通して高めるセルフリーダシップスキル

Monday, March 2, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:30
Conference Center - Meeting Room 1

LA在住のリーダーシップ・コーチ 内藤明日香による90分に渡るこのワークシップでは、セルフリーダーシップのスキルアップに必要な4つのマインドセットの理解とすぐに使えるストレスマネジメントのテクニックを学ぶことができる。

Seminar

My Research in 200"

Monday, March 2, 2020 - 11:30 to 13:00
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250

Similar to the popular "3 Minute Thesis" event that happened at OIST last year, you will be given the opportunity to present your research in 200 seconds. The event is a great way to get a look at the diversity of the research happening at OIST, and for those who talk, to hone their presentation skills.

Seminar

"Stirred Bose-Einstein condensates on 1D rings: spectrum and adiabatic excitation" Axel Pérez-Obiol, Kochi University, Japan

Monday, March 2, 2020 - 11:00 to 12:00
Meeting Room C016, Level C, Lab1

Speaker: Dr. Axel Pérez-Obiol, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Abstract: We consider BECs on 1D rings at zero temperature stirred by a link. Their spectrum is theoretically analyzed, consisting in dark and gray solitonic trains, and vortex states comoving with the link. We show how to produce these states by adiabatically stirring the condensate from its ground sate: through specific cycles where the velocity and the strength of the link are gradually tuned. The general properties of the spectrum and cycles are studied through the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a delta-type link and in the comoving frame. A set of specific cycles to excite the BEC are reproduced by simulations of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii with a rotating Gaussian link. More on arXiv:1907.04574.

Workshop

Researcher Appreciation Week!

Monday, March 2, 2020 (All day) to Friday, March 6, 2020 (All day)

Organized by ORC, sponsored and supported by Postdoc Development @ FAO

OIST Workshops

[CANCELLED] OIST Collaborative Experimental Design and Analytics Workshop 2020 (CEDA2020)

Monday, March 2, 2020 (All day) to Tuesday, March 10, 2020 (All day)
OIST Main Campus, Seminar Room C210

Notice of cancellation: We deeply regret to inform you that the Collaborative Experimental Design and Analytics (CEDA) Workshop scheduled for March 2-10, at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, has been cancelled due to the current outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19.

For any questions or concerns, please feel free contact us at OIST-CEDA@oist.jp .

Seminar

Riccardo Funari, Sensing of Gold Ions by Microbial Biofilms on a Quartz Crystal Microbalance

Friday, February 28, 2020 - 16:30 to 17:00
Lab3 C700

Biweekly Internal Seminar Series

Seminar

[Canceled] Seminar "Using imaginary worlds to understand tropical cyclones on Earth" by Prof. Dan Chavas

Friday, February 28, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Center Bldg. C209

Speaker: Prof. Dan Chavas, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University

Seminar

Kun-Lung Li, A Hydrolase Gene in an Animal that Makes Cellulose

Friday, February 28, 2020 - 16:00 to 16:30
Lab3 C700

Biweekly Internal Seminar Series

Seminar

[Seminar] "Optogenetics for manipulating cellular functions" by Prof. Kazuhiro Aoki, Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS)

Friday, February 28, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:30
C016, Level C, Lab 1

Dr. Kazuhiro Aoki, Professor, Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS)

Seminar

[Canceled] Short-course Day 2 "An introduction to the physics of tropical cyclones in the climate system" by Prof. Dan Chavas

Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 B700

This short-course was canceled.

Research

Seminar by Prof. Tamura-Neimann 'Transcription/export complex (TREX), elongation rate and mRNA 3´end processing'

Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016, Lab 1 Level C

Speaker: Profs. Teruko Tamura-Neimann

Audience: OIST researchers and students

Colloquium

Colloquium: "Simplicial homology, part III" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski

Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 13:30 to 15:30
B714b, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page )

Workshop

Workshop : "学生のやる気を引き出すアクティブラーニングを実現するための授業デザインと技法" Japanese ONLY.

Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 13:00 to 14:30
For RSVP only.

なぜ最近アクティブラーニングという言葉が出てきたのでしょうか?

本ワークショップでは、アクティブラーニングを正しく理解するための知識を学びます。

また、実際に自分の授業で実践するため、具体的な教育技法や学習デザイン方法を学びます。

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE .
Research

The role of the glial GABAB receptor in epilepsy by Prof. Frank Kirchhoff

Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 10:00 to 11:00
B503, Lev B, Central Bldg.

Title : The role of the glial GABAB receptor in epilepsy

Speaker: Prof. Frank Kirchhoff

Affiliation : Molecular Physiology, Center for Integrative Physiology and Molecular Medicine (CIPMM), University of Saarland Homburg, Germany

Seminar

[Canceled] Short-course Day 1 "An introduction to the physics of tropical cyclones in the climate system" by Prof. Dan Chavas

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 B700

This is Day 1 of a two-day course: February 26, 16:00 - 17:00

Speaker: Prof. Dan Chavas, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University

Training

Sharepoint Open Hours

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 15:00
B646

Sharepoint Open Hours

Time: 15:00-16:00

Location B646

Research

[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Mr. Shohei Takaoka " Role of 5’ - 3’ exoribonuclease Xrn1 in energy expenditure and control of obesity"

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:00
B700, Lab 3 Level B

Presenter: Mr. Shohei Takaoka

Supervisor: Professor Tadashi Yamamoto

Co-Supervisor: Professor Hiroaki Kitano

Research

Mini Course: Combinatorial Topology - 3 of 3

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 09:00 to 10:30
B715, Lab 3

Algebraic Topology is a classical branch of mathematics. Its origins are combinatorial, based on triangulations of topological spaces. In the later developments major algebraization of the subject has taken place, leading to the introduction of many algebraic invariants as we know them today.

​The Mini Course will be taught by Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov, PI of the Applied Topology Unit. His unit is interested both in developing the formal theory, as well as in applying it outside of the field, for example to Theoretical Distributed Computing.

More information and sign up here.

Seminar

Seminar: "Boundary Conditions and the q-state Potts Model on Random Planar Maps" by Mr. Aravinth Kulanthaivelu

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:00
D014, Lab1

Speaker: Mr. Aravinth Kulanthaivelu is in his last year as a Ph.D. student at University of Oxford.

Seminar

Seminar "Bounce Configuration from Gradient Flow" by Yutaro Shoji

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:00
C016-Lab1

Yutaro Shoji, Assistant Professor, KMI (Nagoya University)

Seminar

IAS Users Meeting and Seminar: Mass Spectrometry

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 13:00 to 15:00
D015, Lab1

For OIST members:

Users meeting and Seminar are registration free. We look forward to seeing you at the venue.

For Non-OIST members:

Please contact ias@oist.jp for Seminar sign up. (Users meeting is an internal event.)

Research

ORC Assembly

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 12:00 to 13:00
Seminar Room C210

Take your lunch and join us for the last ORC Researcher Assembly of the current ORC Office. Our guests will be Tim Dyce (IR Section) and Ayumi Nagai (HR).

Workshop

Fundraising for Research Impact

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 09:30 to 16:00
C700

Craig Pollard, Fundraising Consultant, Author of The Fundraising Radicals

For any researchers looking to raise funds for impactful projects, places limited

Holiday

Emperor’s Birthday 天皇誕生日 2020 (observed)

Monday, February 24, 2020 - 00:00

National holiday

Holiday

Emperor’s Birthday 天皇誕生日 2020

Sunday, February 23, 2020 - 00:00

National holiday

ビジネス革新 変化を創ろう~科学、技術、ダイバーシティを通じて~Business innovations through science, technology and diversity

Saturday, February 22, 2020 - 10:00 to 11:00
Conference Center Auditorium カンファレンスセンター 講堂

Public Lecture: Business Innovations through science, technology and diversity

Speaker: Daisuke Kan

Exective Director of Cheerio Corporation, LTD

Language: Japanese (with simultaneous Japanese-English interpretation)

Admission: free (registration required)

Audience: general public

公開講座 「ビジネス革新 変化を創ろう~科学、技術、ダイバーシティを通じて~」

講師:菅 大介 

    株式会社チェリオコーポレーション専務取締役

言語:日本語 (日英同時通訳付き)

入場:無料 要事前申込

対象:一般

Seminar

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Deepak Bhat

Friday, February 21, 2020 - 14:00
Lab 1, D014

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Deepak Bhat (Biological Complexity). Title: "Polarization and Consensus of Opinion: Causes and Characteristics".

Colloquium

Colloquium: "Fiber bundle and gauge theory" by Mr. Ryusei Maeda

Friday, February 21, 2020 - 10:00 to 12:00
B714b

Speaker: Mr. Ryusei Maeda is a 3rd year undergratuate student at University of Tokyo and is currently visiting OIST as a research intern.

Seminar

Seminar "Advances in the analysis of metal sheet laser forming processes" by Prof. Diego Celentano

Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:00
Lab3 B711

Speaker: Prof. Diego Celentano, Professor of Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Seminar

[Seminar] "Spacetime Foam and the Cosmological Constant" by Prof. Steven Carlip

Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 15:00 to 16:00
D015, Lab 1

Speaker: Prof. Steven Carlip, University of California, Davis

OIST Mini Symposium

OIST Mini Symposium "Neuromodulators: Their Functions and Developments"

Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 09:00 to Friday, February 21, 2020 - 18:00
OIST Main Campus, Meeting Room C015

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

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