Past Events
COVID-19 Information Session #2
Information session about COVID-19 measures
At C209 [PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Mr. Collin Stecker – “Scanning tunneling microscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy studies of lead halide perovskite surfaces, defect dynamics and the perovskite-CuPc hole transport material interface”
PhD Public Presentation
COVID-19 Information Session #1
Information session about COVID-19 measures
【ZOOM SEMINAR】Cancer stem cells: targets for cancer eradication
【ZOOM SEMINAR】"Dr. Hideyuki Saya, Keio University School of Medicine. Language: English, no interpretation."
[POSTPONED] ISQA - Information Security in the Quantum Age
Due to the current situation with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the organizers have decided to postpone this workshop. We kindly ask for your understanding | Please visit the workshop's official website for more information.
Jaekyung Hyun, Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Capsid-like Poxvirus Scaffold
Biweekly Internal Seminar Series
[Seminar] San To Chan, Twisting a fluid: Accelerating the breakup of liquid bridges for dispensing applications
Biweekly Internal Seminar Series
[PhD Thesis Presentation] ‐ Ms. Nishtha Ranawat – “Embryonic microglia migration into zebrafish retina and changes in transcriptome therein”
PhD Public Presentation
Inter-Unit Neuroscience Journal Club
Ralitsa Todorova, Michaël Zugaro " Isolated cortical computations during delta waves support memory consolidation " Science, 18 Oct 2019
Reviewed/presented for the journal club by PhD student Tom Burns from the Neural Coding and Brain Computing Unit.
【Canceled】Seminar: "Modeling neuronal, astroglial and synaptic mechanisms to explain cortical network dynamics"
Prof. Marja-Leena Linne, Tampere University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Computational Neuroscience Group.
[Seminar] "Modeling of retinal degeneration and its application to develop therapeutic strategy" by Prof. Sumiko Watanabe
Title : M odeling of retinal degeneration and its application to develop therapeutic strategy
Speaker: Prof. Sumiko Watanabe
Affiliation : Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
【CANCELED】The 5th Annual Meeting of Living Systems Design Research
【CANCELED】The 5th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Living Systems Design Research will be held at Seaside House on March 12-13, 2020.
Seminar "First-principles study for material science " by Associate Prof. Yasutomi Tatetsu
TQM unit is pleased to invite you to attend the seminar.
[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.