Dr. Yana Eglit, Postdoc, Guichard/Hamel Lab, the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland

Spatial biology in multiple dimensions

Speaker: Dr. Stefan Eulitz (Miltenyi Biotec B. V. & Co. KG)

A seminar by Dr. Akira Sawa at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will be hosted by Prof. Yoshida.

These two introductory mini-courses are offered by experts in Topological Data Analysis, as part of the thematic program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined (TP25TD).

Invariants for persistence ( by Dr. Emerson Escolar ) Introduction to persistence: geometric motivations, metric stability, and representation theory of posets ( by Dr. Luis Scoccola )

Location: OIST campus, Center Building, Room C209

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​Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94782960593?pwd=R0oI1bBPgL5eCVd9HBdvrv2H7Q8Py9.1 Meeting ID: 947 8296 0593 Passcode: 584111

Dr. Art Pilacinski, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

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!

Join the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) team - Mario Reddy + Kristin Macapagal - for an informal bring-your-own- lunch discussion focused on understanding q u e e r i d entities. Whether you are thinking about your own identity or if you have general questions as an ally to the LGBTQ+ community, we hope to host a friendly environment where you can chat and discuss with others . We will also talk about the different identities represented on the Pride flag and why visibility matters.

Happy Pride Month!

Speaker: Dr.François Guillard, Particles and Grains Laboratory, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney

Expository Talk by Prof. Thomas Brüstle (Bishop's University and Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined.

Time: 10:00-11:30, June 27, 2025

Location: OIST, Lab 4, Floor E, Room L4E48

Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94782960593?pwd=R0oI1bBPgL5eCVd9HBdvrv2H7Q8Py9.1 Meeting ID: 947 8296 0593 Passcode: 584111

Slides from the presentation are available here .

The OIST Proof of Concept (POC) Program can set you up with funding, mentoring, industry collaborations, a supportive community and more. Learn about the new call for applications and get ready to turn your groundbreaking idea into a technology, product or service.

Come to our lunchtime seminar to learn about biological sex and queer biology! Everyone is welcome!

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the basics of embedded programming using a handheld game device based on the AVTokyo 2022 badge. While the focus is on programming, we’ll also explore hardware fundamentals such as reading sensor data and displaying text on a screen. The badge hardware will be provided by VPC-Asia. Participants should bring a laptop with the Arduino IDE installed and a micro USB cable. NOTE. The number of participants is limited. Please sign up at the Graduate School counter .

Japan in the Age of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912) – Shaping a future in a turbulent world

This presentation will expose students to open-source and low-cost solutions to prototyping and hardware development as well as affordable paths in product development. In particular, we will cover advances and opportunities in microcontrollers and sensors, enabled by the Arduino ecosystem and Platform.io .

Seminar by Prof. Kurt Krause, University of Otago, Department of Biochemistry Dunedin, New Zealand

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第4回大学職員向け勉強会　 「 大学組織 」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

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

[Speaker] Giorgio Cavallazzi, Research Student, Department of Engineering, City St George's, University of London

Expository Talk by Prof. Hugh Thomas (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined. Title: Birth and death curves for representations of a grid poset

Time: 10:00-11:30, June 24, 2025

Location: OIST, Lab 4, Floor E, Room L4E48

Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94782960593?pwd=R0oI1bBPgL5eCVd9HBdvrv2H7Q8Py9.1

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

AIVIA DAY

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Erik De Schutter (Computational Neuroscience Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Tutorial sessions and meals are closed sessions (for registered participants only).

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!

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).

Dr. Eric Libby, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umea University.

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第3回大学職員向け勉強会　 「 研究リソースと研究支援 」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

June 18th, 2025 (Wed) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

June 23 is Okinawa Memorial Day. To mark the occasion, a special lecture on Okinawa's history and war will be held on June 17 (Tue) 15:00-17:00 in the OIST Auditorium.

Child-rearing Support Community : lunchtime Chat!

Symposium : Aspects of Generalized Symmetries

From June 16-21, 2025 at OIST Lab 5 D23

This symposium is part of the TSVP Thematic Program "Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Matter" . The program will run from May 12 to July 5, 2025 .

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!

This special exhibition to commemorate Okinawa Memorial Day presents a selection of wartime photographs from the Onna Village Museum Collection.

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第２回大学職員向け勉強会　「研究活動の内幕と背景」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

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).

Professor Stefan Rauser, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology (Germany), will present his group’s research focusing on determining the molecular architecture of heart muscle sarcomeres using cryoelectron tomography

Speaker: Dr. Wenyuan Wang, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Lunch-time seminar about the history and importance of pride.

Everyone is welcome to join!

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第１回大学職員向け勉強会　「科学技術と研究者」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

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!

Today’s most advanced ion trap quantum computers have at most one qubit per ion, each defined within the ground state manifold. Additional non-qubit ions provide sympathetic cooling to keep the computational ions cold enough to perform many rounds of high-fidelity coherent operations. Typically, the two subsets of ions must be different species to prevent cooling light from disturbing the computation. To bypass this added system complexity, we can instead promote our computational ions to a long-lived excited state that is isolated from the ground-state cooling transitions. This promotion also enables new features including erasure conversion and projective state preparation and cooling. We will discuss two recent efforts to develop this architecture: entangling gates between metastable qubits and mid-circuit sympathetic cooling and readout of a metastable ion by a ground-state ion. Finally, we will take advantage of the larger metastable manifold to explore high-fidelity qudit control.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Armitage (Integrative Community Ecology Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

A special science outreach talk hosted by iGEM Okinawa , an Okinawan student team applying bioengineering strategies to detect invasive pest species on local mango farms. Come learn how molecular science can drive solutions across continents, from cassava in Africa to mangoes in Okinawa!

Speaker 1) Kim Pham, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France

Speaker 2) Agnès Maurel, Langevin Institute, ESPCI Paris – France

Title: Topological regularity of Busemann spaces, Professor Tadashi Fujioka, Kyoto University Abstract:

We discuss the topological regularity theorem for Busemann spaces of nonpositive curvature, while reviewing the corresponding results for Alexandrov spaces and CAT spaces. All of these are metric spaces with upper or lower curvature bounds in some synthetic senses, and we address the question of when such spaces are topological manifolds. This is joint work with Shijie Gu (Northeastern University, China). Preprint available at arXiv:2504.14455.

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Talk by Professor Henning Sprekeler, Technische Universität Berlin. Target audience : Students and Researchers interested in the field Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration.

CityUHK x OIST Online Workshop (June 4, 2025, 09:00-16:45 HKT/10:00-17:45 JST)

Title: Active materials and reactive fluids

Speaker: Prof. Chun Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Berta Hudak , National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei Title: Representation theory of the Hu algebras

[Speaker] Prof. Giorgio Besagni, Associate Professor, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

The Round 14 call for application of the OIST Innovation Proof of Concept (POC) Program ends on 1 October. Apply to receive funding, training, and a supportive community to help you turn your groundbreaking research idea into a technology, product or service.