Past Events
[POSTPONED] OIST Forum 2020: "Can Japan be a 'Deep Tech Island'?"
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] "Aspects of ghost-free nonlocal field theories" by Dr. Luca Buoninfante
Speaker: Dr. Luca Buoninfante, Tokyo Institute of Technology
[Cancelled] OIST Concert: Piano Recital by Yukine Uehara
Cancelled
OIST Schooling Seminar
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.
RAW Closing Event: Awards and Party
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.
New PIs Seminar
Newly hired PIs will present their research: Vincent Laudet, Emile Touber and Hiroki Takahashi.
Theoretical Physics Seminar: Friederike Metz
Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Friederike Metz (Quantum Systems). Title: "Precise temperature estimation with a single qubit as a probe".
Colloquium: "Gravity as a SO(1,3) gauge theory" by Mr. Ryusei Maeda
Poster Session and Tea Time
A special Tea Time with Poster Session! Recycle your poster and show it to your peers.
Uploading Consciousness (Special Lecture)
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
Career Transition Seminar
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).
IAS Users Meeting and Seminar: NMR
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.)
[CANCELLED] Presidential Lecture - "Cerebral Cortex Connectomics" by Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter
Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to the entire OIST community.
PI Q&A Panel
A panel of OIST PIs will answer all your career questions. Panel Composition: Thomas Busch, Sile Nic Chormaic, Keiko Kono
Ice Breaker & Speed Dating
A networking event at the Recreation Lounge for OIST Community. The evening will also include a Science Speed Dating.
Multidisciplinary Research Seminar
Seminar by Yannick Saintigny, EU Affairs Senior Officer, French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Building an interdisciplinary project, conduct it and succeed!
Seminar: "The current status of the Gribov problem in gauge theories" by Prof. Rodrigo F. Sobreiro
Dr. Sobreiro is a professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil, and is currently visiting OIST for 2 weeks.
Self-Leadership Mastery: グループコーチング・セッション
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。
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
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。
My Research in 200"
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.
"Stirred Bose-Einstein condensates on 1D rings: spectrum and adiabatic excitation" Axel Pérez-Obiol, Kochi University, Japan
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.
Researcher Appreciation Week!
Organized by ORC, sponsored and supported by Postdoc Development @ FAO
[CANCELLED] OIST Collaborative Experimental Design and Analytics Workshop 2020 (CEDA2020)
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 .
Riccardo Funari, Sensing of Gold Ions by Microbial Biofilms on a Quartz Crystal Microbalance
Biweekly Internal Seminar Series
[Canceled] Seminar "Using imaginary worlds to understand tropical cyclones on Earth" by Prof. Dan Chavas
Speaker: Prof. Dan Chavas, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University
Kun-Lung Li, A Hydrolase Gene in an Animal that Makes Cellulose
Biweekly Internal Seminar Series
[Seminar] "Optogenetics for manipulating cellular functions" by Prof. Kazuhiro Aoki, Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS)
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)
[Canceled] Short-course Day 2 "An introduction to the physics of tropical cyclones in the climate system" by Prof. Dan Chavas
This short-course was canceled.
Seminar by Prof. Tamura-Neimann 'Transcription/export complex (TREX), elongation rate and mRNA 3´end processing'
Speaker: Profs. Teruko Tamura-Neimann
Audience: OIST researchers and students
Colloquium: "Simplicial homology, part III" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski
Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page )
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.
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 .The role of the glial GABAB receptor in epilepsy by Prof. Frank Kirchhoff
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
[Canceled] Short-course Day 1 "An introduction to the physics of tropical cyclones in the climate system" by Prof. Dan Chavas
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
Sharepoint Open Hours
Sharepoint Open Hours
Time: 15:00-16:00
Location B646
[PhD Thesis Presentation] - Mr. Shohei Takaoka " Role of 5’ - 3’ exoribonuclease Xrn1 in energy expenditure and control of obesity"
Presenter: Mr. Shohei Takaoka
Supervisor: Professor Tadashi Yamamoto
Co-Supervisor: Professor Hiroaki Kitano
[PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Mr. Leonidas Georgiou – “Intercellular AAV transfer from axons to astrocytes allows high contrast activity mapping of astrocytes in awake mice”
PhD Thesis Presentation
Mini Course: Combinatorial Topology - 3 of 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.
Seminar: "Boundary Conditions and the q-state Potts Model on Random Planar Maps" by Mr. Aravinth Kulanthaivelu
Speaker: Mr. Aravinth Kulanthaivelu is in his last year as a Ph.D. student at University of Oxford.
Seminar "Bounce Configuration from Gradient Flow" by Yutaro Shoji
Yutaro Shoji, Assistant Professor, KMI (Nagoya University)
IAS Users Meeting and Seminar: Mass Spectrometry
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.)
ORC Assembly
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).
Fundraising for Research Impact
Craig Pollard, Fundraising Consultant, Author of The Fundraising Radicals
For any researchers looking to raise funds for impactful projects, places limited
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
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
Theoretical Physics Seminar: Deepak Bhat
Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Deepak Bhat (Biological Complexity). Title: "Polarization and Consensus of Opinion: Causes and Characteristics".
Colloquium: "Fiber bundle and gauge theory" by Mr. Ryusei Maeda
Speaker: Mr. Ryusei Maeda is a 3rd year undergratuate student at University of Tokyo and is currently visiting OIST as a research intern.
Seminar "Advances in the analysis of metal sheet laser forming processes" by Prof. Diego Celentano
Speaker: Prof. Diego Celentano, Professor of Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
[Seminar] "Spacetime Foam and the Cosmological Constant" by Prof. Steven Carlip
Speaker: Prof. Steven Carlip, University of California, Davis
OIST Mini Symposium "Neuromodulators: Their Functions and Developments"
OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.