Past Events
TSVP Talk: "Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Matter" by Zhu-Xi Luo
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 evolution of metabolic endosymbioses" by Prof. Eric Libby
Dr. Eric Libby, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umea University.
第3回 大学職員向け勉強会 (日本語) / #3 Study Session for University Staff (JP)
【June 18th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【6/18】 旅費相談会
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
Okinawa Memorial Day Lecture 2025
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!
TSVP Symposium: Aspects of Generalized Symmetries
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 Open Hour
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!
Okinawa Memorial Day Exhibition
This special exhibition to commemorate Okinawa Memorial Day presents a selection of wartime photographs from the Onna Village Museum Collection.
第2回 大学職員向け勉強会 (日本語) / #2 Study Session for University Staff (JP)
TSVP Talk: "Advancing LLM Post-training via Bilevel Optimization" by Tianyi Chen
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] Unlocking the secrets of heart muscle structure by Prof Stefan Raunser
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
Decoy-state optical quantum information processing with coherent states
Speaker: Dr. Wenyuan Wang, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Pride 2025: The Power of Pride
Lunch-time seminar about the history and importance of pride.
Everyone is welcome to join!
第1回 大学職員向け勉強会 (日本語) / #1 Study Session for University Staff (JP)
OIST Innovation Open Hour
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!
[Seminar] Doing more with the same using metastable states of trapped ions, Jameson O'Reilly, University of Oregon
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.
12th International Symposium on Leaf Surface Microbiology (“Phyllosphere 2025”)
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.
Taking sequencing to the farm: Diagnosing Cassava Mosaic Virus in Africa
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!
Seminar "Homogenized Boussinesq and Korteweg-De Vries models for anisotropic propagation of water waves over a structured ridge In collaboration with Amin Chabchoub"
Speaker 1) Kim Pham, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France
Speaker 2) Agnès Maurel, Langevin Institute, ESPCI Paris – France
Analysis on Metric Spaces Seminar 2025 | Topological regularity of Busemann spaces, Professor Tadashi Fujioka, Kyoto University
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.
ZOOM Register from here
[Seminar] "Why presynaptic inhibition?" by Henning Sprekeler
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
CityUHK x OIST Online Workshop (June 4, 2025, 09:00-16:45 HKT/10:00-17:45 JST)
[Seminar] "Active materials and reactive fluids" by Prof. Chun Liu
Title: Active materials and reactive fluids
Speaker: Prof. Chun Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology)
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
Seminar "Bubble column fluid dynamics: a multi-scale perspective" by Prof. Giorgio Besagni
[Speaker] Prof. Giorgio Besagni, Associate Professor, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
POC Program — Round 14 Call for Applications
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.
OIST Innovation Open Hour
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? We welcome your ideas and questions!
Seminar: Ultrastructural readout of in vivo synaptic activity for functional connectomics by Dr Arnd Roth, UCL
Speaker: Dr Arnd Roth (University College London, Wolfson Inst for Biomedical Research), hosted by Computational Neurosciece Unit (Erik De Schutter)
【Seminar】"Master Equations and the Mean Force Gibbs State"
Talk by James Cresser, University of Glasgow. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to OIST Community.
[Seminar] "Harnessing Sunlight: A Villager’s Dream" by Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, UCSB
Seminar by Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen , Director of Center for Polymers and Organic Solids; Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Presidential Lecture by Jens Nielsen
Presidential Lecture by Jens Nielsen: New insight into cellular metabolism from the use of mathematical models
Career Talk: A few learnings from my career in leadership at University by Dr. Dina Petranovic Nielsen
In my talk I will briefly walk you through my career development from my native country Croatia, via France, Denmark, Sweden and USA and I will explain what I wanted to achieve in my career: why and how I made the decisions that I did, and how those have served me. I will select a few main learnings that can be used as advice for everyone. I will use the example of my current job as the Chief Science Officer, Chief Partnerships Officer and Senior Executive Advisor to the Provost to explain how I work in the context of my union (EU), country (Denmark), in the context of my University (Technical University of Denmark) and the context of my research center (Center for Biosustainability), and how hopefully it all comes together to benefit the world.
Graduation Ceremony 2025
The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who graduated in the period May 2024 to April 2025. The ceremony will take place at the OIST Auditorium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
The event will be streamed online for those who cannot attend in person. For more information on the graduation program, speakers, and graduates, please visit: https://www.oist.jp/graduation
For any questions, please contact: graduation@oist.jp
OIST Innovation Open Hour
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? We welcome your ideas and questions!
【May 22th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【5/22】 旅費相談会
Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.
旅費相談会を開催いたします。
2025/05/22(Thu) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00
TSVP Talk: "Mechanical Problem Solving in Mice" by Henning Sprekeler
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).
OIST Alumni Workshop
OIST Graduate School invites you to join Alumni Workshop, featuring our recent PhD graduates!
Coming from different professional backgrounds, the speakers will present their work and take your questions on issues related to professional and career development. Join this event to learn about career paths leading to the US and Japan, the work and professional life of our graduates, while you can also expand your network and develop a meaningful connection with the newest alumni of OIST!
[Seminar] Integrating connectivity and spatial transcriptome at single cell resolution in the cerebellar nuclei of the zebrafinch
Dr.Salvatore Andrea Lacava, Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Universitity. Language: English
Seminar: “Annealing Amorphous Solids using Oscillatory Shear and Active Dopants and Memory Formation” by Prof. Smarajit Karmakar
Speaker: Prof. Smarajit Karmakar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
[Seminar] Classical Rotation of Quantum Spins and Quantum Rotations of Classical Particles
Dr Alexander Wood, The University of Melbourne
Seminar "Nonlinear dynamics of transitional and turbulent flows" by Prof. Jae Sung Park
[Speaker] Prof. Jae Sung Park, Richard L. McNeel Associate Professor of Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[Seminar]"Inflammation and Fibrosis in Pericyte-Deficient Retina" by Prof.Akiyoshi Uemur_Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciencesa
-Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
-Uemura Eye Clinic
[Seminar] "Endosymbiotic Apicomplexans of Marine Holobionts: bridging ecology & evolution" by Dr. Anthony Bonacolta
Dr. Anthony M. Bonacolta, Postdoctoral Reseasrch Fellow, The Keeling Lab, The University of British Columbia.
OIST Innovation Open Hour
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? We welcome your ideas and questions!
[Seminar] Embodied intelligence through integrated neuromechanical models for natural behavior by Prof. Bing Wen Brunton
Speaker: Dr. Bing Wen Brunton, Professor of Biology and the Richard & Joan Komen University Chair at the University of Washington
Language: English
[Seminar] "Preservation of concavity properties by the Dirichlet heat flow and applications" by Prof. Paolo Salani
Title: Preservation of concavity properties by the Dirichlet heat flow and applications
Speaker: Prof. Paolo Salani (University of Florence)
[Seminar] "Initial traces and solvability of porous medium equation with power nonlinearity" by Prof. Kazuhiro Ishige
Title: Initial traces and solvability of porous medium equation with power nonlinearity
Speaker: Prof. Kazuhiro Ishige (University of Tokyo)
TSVP Talk: "Experimentally Dealing With the Impacts of an Increasing Number of Factors: Global Change and Soil as a Case Study" by Matthias C. Rillig
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] Machine Learning and Sparse Modeling for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics by Prof. Steven Brunton
Speaker: Dr. Steven L. Brunton, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington.
Language: English















































