List of Courses (with information on prerequisites)
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The course schedule may change every year. Please check the timetable for the latest information.
| Course | Title | Type | Prerequisite | Term | Credits | Time | Location | Course Coordinator |
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| A101 | Adaptive Systems | Elective | B31, B32 | 3 (T2 for AY2022) | 2 | Tue/Thu 13:00-15:00 | L4E45 | Professor Kenji Doya |
| A102 | Mathematical Methods of Natural Sciences | Elective | Calculus eg: A104 | 2 (not offered AY2022) | 2 | Professor Jonathan Miller | ||
| A103 | Stochastic Processes and Applications | Elective | Calculus, probability, and Python | 3 | 2 |
Tue/Thu 10:00-12:00 |
B700 | Professor Simone Pigolotti |
| A104 | Vector and Tensor Calculus | Elective | Multivariate calculus and linear algebra | 1 | 2 |
Mon/Wed 9:00-11:00 |
B700 | Professor Eliot Fried |
| A105 | Nonlinear Waves: Theory and Simulations | Elective | Mathematics for engineers and physicists | 2 | 2 | Mon/Wed 10:00-12:00 | B700 | Professor Emile Touber |
| A106 | Computational Mechanics | Elective | Partial differential equations and Python or MATLAB | 3 | 2 | Thu/Fri 13:00-15:00 | B700 | Professor Marco Rosti |
| A107 | Lie Algebras | Elective | Competent at math proofs | 1 (alternate years course: AY2022, AY2024) |
2 | Mon/Wed 13:00-15:00 | L4E26 | Professor Liron Speyer |
| A108 | Partial Differential Equations | Elective | Single-variable and multi-variable calculus, Linear algebra, Real analysis | 3 | 2 | Professor Qing Liu | ||
| A110 | Measure Theory and Integration | Elective | B36 recommended | 1 (alternate years course, AY2023, AY2025) | 2 | Professor Xiaodan Zhou | ||
| A203 | Advanced Optics | Elective | 2 (alternate years course: AY2022, AY2024) |
2 | Tue 9:30-11:30, 16:00-18:00, Wed 9:30-11:30, 13:00-17:00, Thu 9:00-10:00 | B712 / B507(Wed PM) | Professor Sile Nic Chormaic | |
| A205 | Quantum Field Theory | Elective | Quantum Mechanics and B11 | 3 | 2 | Wed 13:00-15:00 | B714a | Professor Shinobu Hikami |
| A208 | Bioorganic Chemistry | Elective | 2 | 2 | Tue 14:00-17:00, Thu 15:00-17:00 | B715 | Professor Fujie Tanaka | |
| A209 | Ultrafast Spectroscopy | Elective | 3 | 2 | Tue/Thu 13:00-15:00 | L4F15(Tue) B507 (Thu) | Professor Keshav Dani | |
| A210 | Advanced Quantum Mechanics | Elective | Quantum Mechanics | 2 (alternate years course: AY2022, AY2024) |
2 | Mon/Thu 10:00-12:00, Fri 9:00-10:00 | B712(Mon) B700(Thu/Fri) | Professor Thomas Busch |
| A211 | Advances in Atomic Physics for Quantum Technologies | Elective | 2 (alternate years course, AY2023, AY2025) |
2 |
Tue 10:00-12:00,17:00-18:00 Wed 10:00-12:00,13:00-18:00 |
B702 (Tue/Wed AM) B705a (Tue PM) B703 (Wed PM) |
Professor Sile Nic Chormaic | |
| A212 | Microfluidics | Elective | B13 | 3 | 2 | Mon/Wed 13:00-15:00 | B711 | Professor Amy Shen |
| A213 | Inorganic Electrochemistry | Elective | 1 | 2 | Mon 13:00-15:00, Wed 13:00-17:00 | B712 (Mon) B506 (Wed) | Professor Julia Khusnutdinova | |
| A214 | Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Engineering | Elective | 2 | 2 | Mon 13:00-15:00, Thu 10:00-12:00 | B712 | Professor Yohei Yokobayashi | |
| A218 | Condensed Matter Physics | Elective | Quantum Mechanics, Statistics | 2 | 2 | Tue/Thu 13:00-15:00 | B711 | Professor Yejun Feng |
| A219 | General Relativity | Elective | Maxwells equations, linear algebra | 1 (alternate years course, AY2023, AY2025) |
2 | Professor Yasha Neiman | ||
| A220 | New Enzymes by Directed Evolution (Laboratory course) | Elective | Undergraduate biochemistry or molecular biology | 1 | 2 | Mon/Tue 13:00-17:30 | B506 | Professor Paola Laurino |
| A221 | Relativistic Mechanics and Classical Field Theory | Elective | Maxwells equations, quantum mechanics | 1 (alternate years course: AY2022, AY2024) |
2 | Tue 13:00-15:00, Thu 10:00-12:00 | B700 | Professor Yasha Neiman |
| A223 | Quantum Materials Science | Elective | Undergraduate level of condensed matter physics | 3 | 2 | Tue/Thu 15:00-17:00 | B712 | Professor Yoshinori Okada |
| A224 | The Earth System | Elective | Calculus and coding | 3 | 2 | Mon/Wed 9:30-11:00 | L4E01 | Professor Satoshi Mitarai |
| A225 | Statistical Mechanics, Critical Phenomena and Renormalization Group | Elective | Classical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics to advanced undergraduate level. | 1 (T3 for AY2022) | 2 | Professor Reiko Toriumi | ||
| A226 | Synthetic Chemistry for Carbon Nanomaterials | Elective | General chemistry, Advanced organic chemistry | 3 | 2 | Tue/Thu 15:00-17:00 | A226 | Professor Akimitsu Narita |
| A227 | Quantum Engineering – Simulation and Design | Elective | Quantum Mechanics, Cavity QED, Python | 3 | 2 | Mon/Thu 15:00-17:00 | L4E01 | Professor Jason Twamley |
| A228 | Quantum Many-body Physics | Elective | Quantum Mechanics and ideally Advanced Quantum Theory. | 1 | 2 | Mon/Fri 10:00-12:00 | L4F15 | Professor Philipp Höhn |
| A229 | Statistical Fluctations and Elements of Physical Kinetics | Elective | B12 Statistical Physics or A225 Statistical Mechanics |
3 (T2 for AY2022) | 2 | Wed/Thu 10:00-12:00 | L4E01 | Professor Denis Konstantinov |
| A230 | Quantum Optics for Qubits | Elective | Undergrad-level of quantum mechanics, linear algebra | 3 | 2 | Professor Hiroki Takahashi | ||
| A273 |
Ultracold Quantum Gases |
Elective | Quantum Mechanics | 2 (alternate years course, AY2023, AY2025) |
2 | Professor Thomas Busch | ||
| A303 | Developmental Biology | Elective | 2 | 2 | Wed/Fri 10:00-12:00 |
Unit lab (Wed) |
Professor Ichiro Masai | |
| A304 | Evolutionary Developmental Biology | Elective | 3 | 2 | Wed 10:00-12:00, 13:00-15:00 | B711 (AM) B712 (PM) | Professor Noriyuki Satoh | |
| A306 | Neuroethology | Elective | neuroscience background required | 1 (T2 for AY2022) | 2 | Tue 9:00-12:00 | B700 | Professor Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama |
| A307 | Molecular Oncology and Cell Signaling | Elective | 2 | 2 | Wed 10:00-12:00, 13:00-14:00 | B715 | Professor Tadashi Yamamoto | |
| A308 | Epigenetics | Elective | 3 | 2 |
Mon 13:00-15:00 Fri 10:00-12:00 |
B506 (Mon) B700 (Fri) |
Professor Hidetoshi Saze | |
| A310 | Computational Neuroscience | Elective | neuroscience background, coding required | 2 | 2 | Mon 15:00-17:00, Thu 16:00-17:00 | B711 | Professor Erik De Schutter |
| A312 | Sensory Systems | Elective | B05 desirable | 3 | 2 | Tue/Thu 10:00-12:00 | L4E45 | Professor Izumi Fukunaga |
| A313 | Cognitive Neurorobotics | Elective | Basic calculus of vectors and matrices, diff equations. Python, C or C++ | 1 | 2 | Mon/Wed 10:00-12:00 | B711 | Professor Jun Tani |
| A314 | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory I | Elective | neuroscience background, plus one more basic neuro course | 3 | 2 |
Mon 15:00-16:00 Wed 13:00-17:30 |
B711 (Mon) B506 (Wed) |
Professor Jeff Wickens |
| A315 | Quantitative Approaches to Studying Naturalistic Animal Behavior | Elective | 3 | 2 | Tue/Thu 10:00-12:00 | B711 | Professor Sam Reiter | |
| A316 | Neuronal Molecular Signaling | Elective | 3 | 2 |
Mon 15:00-17:00 Thu 10:00-12:00 |
B712 | Professor Marco Terenzio | |
| A318 | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory II | Elective | Neuroscience background | 3 | 2 | Tue/Fri 13:00-15:00 | B711 | Professor Kazumasa Tanaka |
| A319 | Microbial Evolution and Cell Biology | Elective | B27, B23 | 1 | 2 | Thu 13:00-17:00, Fri 10:00-12:00 | Unit Lab (Thu), B711(Fri) | Professor Filip Husnik |
| A409 | Electron Microscopy | Elective | 3 | 2 |
Mon 9:00-12:00 Tue 14:00-17:00 |
B712 (Mon) B714b (Tue) |
Professor Matthias Wolf | |
| B05 | Cellular Neurobiology | Elective | 1 | 2 | Tue 10:00-17:00 | B715 (AM) Unit Lab (PM) | Professor Tomoyuki Takahashi | |
| B08 | Physics for Life Sciences | Elective | 2 | 2 | Mon 9:00-12:00, Tue 10:00-12:00 | L4E01 | Professor Bernd Kuhn | |
| B10 | Analytical Mechanics | Elective | 3 (not offered in AY2022/23) | 2 |
Mon/Wed 13:00-15:00 |
B714a | Professor Mahesh Bandi | |
| B11 | Classical Electrodynamics | Elective | 2 | 2 | Wed 10:00-12:00, 13:00-14:00 | B711 | Professor Tsumoru Shintake | |
| B12 | Statistical Physics | Elective | 2 (T1 for AY2022) | 2 | Tue 10:00-12:00 Thu/Fri 9:00-10:00 |
Tue L4F01 Thu/Fri L4E48 |
Professor Nic Shannon | |
| B13 | Theoretical and Applied Fluid Mechanics | Elective | A104 | 2 | 2 | Mon/Thu 15:00-17:00 | B700 | Professor Pinaki Chakraborty |
| B14 | Theoretical and Applied Solid Mechanics | Elective | 3 | 2 | Mon/Wed 15:00-17:00 | B700 | Professor Gustavo Gioia | |
| B15 | Immunology | Elective | 3 | 2 |
Tue 15:00-17:00 Thu 13:00-15:00 |
B711 | Professor Hiroki Ishikawa | |
| B20 | Introductory Evolutionary Developmental Biology | Elective | 2 | 2 | Tue 13:00-15:00, Fri 10:00-12:00 | B712/B506 | Professor Hiroshi Watanabe | |
| B21 | Biophysics of Cellular Membranes | Elective | 3 | 2 |
Mon 13:00-15:00 Wed 10:00-12:00 |
B700 | Professor Akihiro Kusumi | |
| B22 | Computational Methods | Elective | 1 (AY2022 only) | 2 | Tue 13:00-15:00 Fri 10:00-12:00 | L4E45 | Professor Kenji Doya | |
| B23 | Molecular Evolution | Elective | 3 | 2 | Wed/Thu 15:00-17:00 | B711 | Professor Tom Bourguignon | |
| B24 | Neural Dynamics of Movement | Elective | 1 | 2 | Thu/Fri 13:00-15:00 | B700 | Professor Yoe Uusisaari | |
| B27 | Molecular Biology of the Cell |
Elective | 1 | 2 | Wed/Fri 13:00-15:00 | B711 | Professor Keiko Kono | |
| B29 | Linear Algebra | Elective | 1 (alternate years course, AY2023, AY2025) |
2 | Professor Liron Speyer | |||
| B30 | Surface Sciences | Elective | 2 | 2 | Mon 10:00-12:00, Tue 9:00-10:00 | B711 | Professor Yabing Qi | |
| B31 | Statistical Tests | Elective | 2 (weeks 1-6) | 1 | Tue/Wed 15:00-17:00 | B700 | Professor Tomoki Fukai | |
| B32 | Statistical Modeling | Elective | 2 (weeks 7-13) | 1 | Tue/Wed 15:00-17:00 | B700 | Professor Tomoki Fukai | |
| B33 | Organic Photonics and Electronics | Elective | 1 |
2 | Thu 13:00-17:00 | Unit Lab | Professor Ryota Kabe | |
| B34 | Coral Reef Ecology and Biology | Elective | 3 | 2 | Tue/Thu 10:00-12:00 | L4E01 | Professor Tim Ravasi | |
| B35 | Genetics and Modern Genetic Technologies | Elective | 1 | 2 | Tue/Thu 10:00-12:00 | B711 | Professor Tomomi Kiyomitsu | |
| B36 | Introduction to Real Analysis | Elective | Single-variable calculus | 1 (alternate years course: AY2022 and AY2024) | 2 | Mon/Wed 15:00-17:00 | B712 | Professor Xiaodan Zhou |
| B37 | Introduction to Embodied Cognitive Science | Elective | 1 | 2 | Tue/Thu 10:00-12:00 | B712 | Professor Tom Froese | |
| B38 | Human Subjects Research: A Primer | Elective | 1 | 2 | Tue/Wed 15:00-17:00 | L4E01 | Professor Gail Tripp | |
| B40 | Introduction to Polymer Science | Elective | 1 | 2 | Mon 10:00-12:00, Wed 13:00-15:00 | B715 | Professor Christine Luscombe | |
| B41 | Fundamentals of Ecology | Elective | 1 | 2 | Mon/Wed 9:00-10:30, Fri 9:00-10:00 | B712 | Professor David Armitage | |
| B42 | The Diversity of Fish | Elective | 1 | 2 | Mon/Wed 15:00-17:00 | B711 | Professor Vincent Laudet | |
| B43 | Fundamentals of Evolution | Elective | 2 (not offered in AY2022) | 2 | Tue/Thu 10:00-12:00 | B715 | Professor Evan Economo | |
| IND | Independent Study: Directed Study |
Elective | All | 1 | Dean of the Graduate School |
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| INO | Independent Study: Online Course with Credit Transfer | Elective | All | 1 | Dean of the Graduate School |
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| SPT | Special Topics | Elective | All | 1 | Dean of the Graduate School |
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| IWS | International Workshop Participation | Elective | All | 1 | Dean of the Graduate School |
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| ROT | Laboratory Rotations | Mandatory | All | 3 | OIST Faculty | |||
| PRO | Thesis Proposal | Mandatory | All | 3 | OIST Faculty | |||
| PCD1 | Professional Development I | Mandatory | All | 2 | Dean of the Graduate School |
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| PCD2 | Professional Development II | Mandatory | All | 2 | Dean of the Graduate School |
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| PD3 | English for Science and Technology | Optional | All | 1 ** | Dean of the Graduate School |
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| PD4 | Essential Japanese for Foreign Researchers | Optional | All | 1 ** | Dean of the Graduate School |
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| PD5 | Laboratory Experience | Optional | All | 1 ** | Dean of the Graduate School |
** Optional courses PD3, PD4, and PD5 may be taken only as part of the pre-enrollment Gap Program. Credits for these optional courses are not counted towards your final balance of required credits.