Past Events

Recreation

FLEA MARKET

Friday, August 16, 2024 - 04:30 to 19:30
OUTSIDE TUNNEL near the pond
Dear All OISTers!

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 !!

Professional Development

Fireside Chat Career Talk with Professor Hirokazu Shirado

Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 13:30 to 14:30
Private Room (C102) in Cafe Tancha

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!

Outreach

ONNA×OIST Junior Science Program

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 14:00 to Friday, August 16, 2024 - 16:30
OIST

The details will be updated

Seminar

[Seminar] Machine-learning-assisted optimization of single-photon generation and storage in cavity-based system

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Zoom seminar - C209, Center Bldg

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

Seminar

[Seminar] "Carderón-Zygmund estimates for fully nonlinear equations" by Dr. Shuhei Kitano

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
L4E48

Speaker: Dr. Shuhei Kitano (Waseda University)

Title: Carderón-Zygmund estimates for fully nonlinear equations

Outreach

SHIMA 2024

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 14:00 to Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 20:00
OIST Main Campus and Seaside House

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

Recreation

[Workshop]Unlock the Secrets of Soy Sauce

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 14:00 to 16:00
Conference Center Meeting Room #1

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.

Seminar

Seminar: “The honey bee sting: From high-speed filming to 3D printing” by Dr Fiorella Ramirez Esquivel

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room L4F01, Lab 4

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

Professional Development

Last Day to Register---Writing Workshop Series---Module 1 of 6 on August 15

Monday, August 12, 2024 (All day)
Register at the link below. Event will take place in Seminar Room L4F01.

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.

Holiday

休日 National Holiday

Monday, August 12, 2024 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

山の日 Mountain Day

Sunday, August 11, 2024 (All day)

National holiday

Recreation

Fun With Patterns - Registration required in advance!

Saturday, August 10, 2024 - 11:30 to Sunday, August 11, 2024 - 15:30
Ocean View Room

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.


Seminar

[Seminar] Quantum nonreciprocity and applications

Friday, August 9, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:00
Seminar Room E01 - Lab 4

Prof. Keyu Xia, Professor, Nanjing University

Campus Service

OIST Innovation open-hours

Friday, August 9, 2024 - 14:00
Innovation Lounge (Lab3 level A)

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Revisiting Scalarization in Multi-Task Learning" by Han Zhao

Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 15:00
L5D23 and zoom

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).

Seminar

The Key to Business Success: Points for Making a Business Plan

Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 13:30
OIST Conference Center Meeting Room1
Seminar for Entrepreneurs

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.

Seminar

[Seminar] Tensor eigenvalues from a field theory perspective | Dr. Nicolas Delporte (OIST)

Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 13:00
L4F01

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

Seminar

[Seminar] "Exponential Data and Better AI for Solving Biological Challenges" by Dr. Jovan Rebolledo

Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 13:00
Meeting Room D014 - Lab1 Bldg

Speaker: Dr. Jovan Rebolledo SkySpec

Title: Exponential Data and Better AI for Solving Biological Challenges

Seminar

[Seminar] "Can the Use of Avatars Contribute to Human Well-Being?" by Prof. Ando Hideyuki

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - 11:00
C209, Central building

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

Workshop

Flash Talk Contest for OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - 09:30 to 11:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)

Since 2019, OIST and Keio University have been collaborating in various ways: initially with the School of Medicine, accepting research interns, and hosting a series of showcase talks to learn about each other's research.​ The International Research Summer Camp is planned to be held at OIST for Keio undergraduate medical school students as a part of our efforts to strengthen our educational collaboration. The summer camp is a valuable opportunity for undergraduate medical students to experience hands-on basic research, under the guidance of outstanding researchers from around the world in a global and interdisciplinary environment.

Lecture

【Plenary Lecture】Weak Convergence and Limits of Solutions to Nonlinear Differntial Equations

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
L4E48

Speaker. Prof. Lawrence C Evans (University of Carfornia, Berkeley)

Seminar

[Seminar] Dr.Sylvia Fitting "The Endocannabinoid System: A helping HAND"

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
Seminar Room C700, Lab3

Dr.Sylvia Fitting (Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA). Language: English

Lecture

【Plenary Lecture】Streamlines and "Soft Shocks" for the Infinity Laplacian PDE

Monday, August 5, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
L4E48

Speaker: Prof. Lawrence C Evans (University of Carfornia, Berkeley)

Recreation

Sunset Social for OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 17:30 to 19:30

All OISTers and family are welcome! OIST-KEIO "Sunset Social" will be held as a part of the "OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024". This is a great opportunity for the campers from KEIO University Medical School and OISTers to interact and network. Please join to meet the campers and and enjoy food trucks, live music, outdoor games as the Sun goes down!

Seminar

TSVP Coffee Chat with Michael Stryker

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 15:00
L5EF03

TSVP Coffee Chat with Prof. Michael Stryker (UCSF) Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Students, early-career researchers Prof. Gerald Pao will act as facilitator.

Campus Service

OIST Innovation open-hours

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 14:00
Innovation Lounge (Lab3 level A)

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Lecture

【Plenary Lecture】Analysis and nonlinear PDE in the Heisenberg Group

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
L4E48

Speaker: Juan J. Manfredi

Seminar

Seminar by TissueGnostics

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:15
Lab1 C015

Seminar by Tissue Gnostics

Seminar

[Seminar] A Max-Flow approach to Random Tensor Networks | Dr. Faedi Loulidi (OIST)

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 10:30
L4F01

Speaker : Faedi Loulidi (OIST, Networked Quantum Devices Unit (Elkouss unit )) Title : A Max-Flow approach to Random Tensor Networks Date and time : 2 nd August Friday at 10:30 Location : L4F01 Language: English

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture by Professor Michael Stryker

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 10:30 to 12:00
B250 Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater
Presidential Lecture by Professor Michael Stryker on the topic "Why our brains are more flexible when we are younger".
Seminar

QG seminar: Chaotic Instability in the BFSS matrix model

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 10:00
Lab 4, E01

QG guest seminar. Speaker: Kentaroh Yoshida. Title: "Chaotic Instability in the BFSS matrix model".

Seminar

Seminar "Travelling waves in the pipe flow: a short ride on open questions" by Dr. Emanuele Gallorini

Friday, August 2, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
Center Bldg. B503

Speaker: Dr. Emanuele Gallorini, Post Doctoral Researcher , Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Proteins: Where do they come from? What are they? Where are they going?" by Erich Bornberg-Bauer

Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 15:00
Center Building B250 and zoom

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).

Seminar

Neural mechanisms and evolution of social communication

Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00
Lab3 C / C700

Title: Neural mechanisms and evolution of social communication

Seminar

QG seminar: Opers - What They Are and What They are Good For

Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:00
Lab 1, D015

QG guest seminar. Speaker: Peter Koroteev (UC Berkeley). Title: "Opers - What They Are and What They are Good For".

External Events

Earth Overshoot Day (EOD)

Thursday, August 1, 2024 (All day)
Earth

Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. In 2024, it falls on August 1st. The term "overshoot" represents the level by which human population's demand overshoots the sustainable amount of biological resources regenerated on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day

Seminar

[Seminar]"Neuronal mechanisms of decision making in rodents and humans" by Dr. Mehdi Adibi

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 14:30
Meeting Room D014 - Lab1 Bldg

Speaker: Dr. Mehdi Adibi Neurodigit Laboratory, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Department of Physiology, Monash University

Title: Neuronal mechanisms of decision making in rodents and humans

Seminar

Expanding Your Startup in Southeast Asia --Insights from Singapore’s Leaders--

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 14:00 to 17:00
L5D23, Lab 5, OIST

Join us for an insightful seminar on expanding your startup business in Southeast Asia. OIST Innovation is proud to invite distinguished speakers from Singapore (NUS and JSIP) to share their expertise and experiences. Targeted at startups, entrepreneurs, and startup supporters interested in exploring the dynamic markets of Southeast Asia, this event promises valuable insights and networking opportunities.

Lecture

【Plenary Lecture】Entropy Analysis and Singularities of Solutions for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 13:00
L4E48

Speaker: Prof. Gui-Qiang C. Chen (University of Oxford)

OIST Workshops

1st OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 09:00 to 11:45
OIST Main Campus L4E48

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OIST-Oxford-SLMath Workshop | OIST organizer: Ugur Abdulla (Analysis and Partial Differential Equations) | Website | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Seminar

"Identification and functional dissection of an understudied corticohippocampal circuit in spatial learning and memory" Jacque Pak Kan Ip (TP24NM)

Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:00

Title : Identification and functional dissection of an understudied corticohippocampal circuit in spatial learning and memory Speaker : Jacque Pak Kan Ip This seminar is part of the TSVP Thematic Program: Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Theoretical Lessons Learned From Invertebrate and Vertebrate Brains

Recreation

Uchinaaguchi 101 -Let’s learn Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) and its history! with KEIO students! -

Monday, July 29, 2024 - 16:30 to 17:30
Conference Center Meeting Room #1
Uchinaaguchi 101 -Let’s learn Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) and its history with KEIO students! –
Seminar

Seminar "Modulation of turbulent fluctuations by small particles" by Prof. Izumi Saito

Monday, July 29, 2024 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab3 C700

[Speaker] Prof. Izumi Saito, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Seminar

Seminar: "Understanding the regenerative powers of ocular pigment epithelium" by Prof. Del Rio-Tsonis

Monday, July 29, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab1, C016

[Speaker] Dr. Katia Del Rio-Tsonis, Professor, Dept. Biology, Miami University (MU)

[Title] Understanding the regenerative powers of ocular pigment epithelium

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