Internal Seminar Series

The OIST Internal Seminar Series is an informal meeting within the OIST community, where students, postdocs, research assistants and professors alike get to share a piece of their daily lives over free pizza/pastry. During a typical seminar, a speaker will introduce their unit or research field, discuss their latest results, or explain plans for future work.

One of the goals of the Internal Seminar Series is to foster an interdisciplinary, cooperative environment within OIST, where we can learn from each other and understand the motivations that drive research in fields we are not familiar with. This is based on the understanding that the activities at OIST are intrinsically interesting and worthwhile to learn about for curiosity's sake. Beyond this, there is the possibility that internal collaborations may spring up in unforeseen areas of research. We value the diversity of speakers: from students to professors, regardless of study field, age, race, and sex.

Seminars are organized every two weeks. Please see the "Calendar" or "Upcoming Events" links on the left for more information about upcoming seminars. Each seminar usually takes place in Lab 3 room C700 and starts at 16:00, after which there will be free pizza and beverages. The refreshment is financially supported by President's office, while they do not influence the topics, speakers, time, and venue of the seminars.

Interested in speaking at an Internal Seminar? Fill out the form or contact internalseminar@oist.jp

2023 Summer

Considering the COVID situation, all seminars this term will have both on-site and Zoom entries.

May 26

Hanley Andrean (Chakraborty Unit)
Michael Mansfield (Nicholas M. Luscombe Unit)

June 9

Gideon Sarpong (Wickens Unit)
Daisuke Takahashi (Hikami Unit)

June 23

Zhehao Cheng (Yazaki-Sugiyama Unit)
Leonardo Furci (Saze Unit)

July 7

Roger Huerlimann (Ravasi Unit)
TBD

July 21

Gustavo Sanchez (Rokhsar Unit)
TBD

August 4

Lorena Andreoli (Kazu Unit)
Satyajit Mahapatra (Tomoyuki Takahashi Unit)

August 18

TBD
TBD

Current organizers:

Marylka Yoe Uusisaari (uusisaari@oist.jp)
Yasha Neiman (yaakov.neiman@oist.jp)
Mohamed Boubakour (mohamed.boubakour@oist.jp)
Lakshmipriya Swaminathan (lakshmipr.swaminathan@oist.jp)
Munissa Sadykova (munissa.sadykova@oist.jp)
Charles Whitaker (charles.whitaker@oist.jp)
Aleksandra Gavrilova (aleksandra.gavrilova@oist.jp)
Akira Kawano (akira.kawano2@oist.jp)

Reach all current organizers at: internalseminar@oist.jp

Special thanks to Rina Matsumoto (President Office) for managing the budget and payment for internal seminars, Tomoko Yoshino (Mitarai Unit) for dealing with paper works for the payment, and Akiko Mizukoshi (University Community Services) for communicating with the cafe to provide refreshment.

Former organizers:

Jonathan Ward
Yunhui Zheng
Amy Shen
Eliot Fried
Stefan Pommer
Carolina Diaz
Tina Mularski
Oleg Simakov
Alexander Badrutdinov
Omar Jáidar
Marco Tsui
Eiji Uchibe
Hiroshi Izumi
Jérémie Gillet
Mary Ann Price
Shao Fang Wang
Romanas Chaleckis
Bianca Sieveritz
Lauren Dembeck
Robert Campbell
Andreas Thomasen
Jason Ball
Maéva Techer
Maggi Mars Brisbin
Afshan Jamshaid
Fabien Benureau
Nadine Wirkuttis
Kamila Mustafina
Yuka Suzuki
Kun-Lung Li
Jigyasa Arora
Lewis Ruks
Aleksandra Bliznina
Ainash Garifullina