"Visiting Program Coffee Hour": informal discussions and getting to know each other, in the Visiting Program (TSVP) area in Lab 5 EF03

Language: English

In this workshop, OIST researcher, Dr. Tomoyuki Mano, and guest science communicator, Dr. Danna Staaf, invite participants to explore the fascinating world of the octopus mind. Octopuses may look strange, but they are smart and full of surprises! Join our two speakers and discover the secrets of the octopus! Registration Required

このサイエンストークでは、OISTの研究者とゲスト講師のサイエンスコミュニケーターが、タコの心に秘められた謎に迫ります。

In this workshop, OIST researcher, Dr. Tomoyuki Mano, and guest science communicator, Dr. Danna Staaf, invite participants to explore the fascinating world of the octopus mind. Octopuses may look strange, but they are smart and full of surprises! Join our two speakers and discover the secrets of the octopus! Registration Required

このサイエンストークでは、OISTの研究者とゲスト講師のサイエンスコミュニケーターが、タコの心に秘められた謎に迫ります。

OISTで首席副学長（イノベーション及びアウトリーチ担当）・副理事長を務めたギル・グラノットマイヤーが、2026年10月末をもって退任するにあたり、これまでの6年間の歩みと学びを皆様と共有する会を開催いたします。

A mini course on the application of machine learning in polymer chemistry

Professor Rong Tong is Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech

5 lectures over 5 weeks. October 16 to November 13 (Friday afternoons)

Introducing graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in Japan with some of the knowledge and tools needed to start thinking about and planning personal finances effectively.

Dr. Saahil Achariya is an OIST Graduate and now a post-doc in the Kusumi Unit

Four sessions over two Fridays, October 9 and 16 from 0900-1200 in L4E01

The seminar will focus on risk management, with invited external experts discussing risk management in research laboratories and across the university as a whole.

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).

Title: From dislocation dynamics to Hamilton-Jacobi equations: homogenization and the Orowan mechanism

Speaker: Dr. Panrui Ni (Waseda University)

Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems

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

Seminar by Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University

OIST Sports Fiesta 2026 is coming — our first community-wide day of sport, teams, food, music, and fun activities all to raise funds for new gym equipment. Held on National Sports Day: Monday Oct 12, 1–5 PM at Akama Sports Field, open to students, staff, faculty, and families (kids welcome!).

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Today, we'll explore how culture influences communication, why misunderstandings happen even when everyone is speaking the same language, and what practical strategies we can use to create more open, inclusive, and effective conversations across cultures.

Introducing graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in Japan with some of the knowledge and tools needed to start thinking about and planning personal finances effectively.

Dr. Saahil Achariya is an OIST Graduate and now a post-doc in the Kusumi Unit

Four sessions over two Fridays, October 9 and 16 from 0900-1200 in L4E01

Latest research on the Darwinian evolution of RNA-protein self-replication systems, synthetic gene circuits, and mirror-image biology.

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).

Bring your own lunch and join us to make new connections and enjoy some fun conversations! This month in conjunction with RAM.

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

Dr Nicola J. Fairbairn, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo & University of Glasgow, UK

The OIST Mini-Workshop on Gauge Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology is a three-day research meeting bringing together researchers working in gauge theory and low-dimensional topology.

The workshop is held as part of the OIST program New Frontiers in Gauge Theory, Topology, and Physics.

"Visiting Program Coffee Hour": informal discussions and getting to know each other, in the Visiting Program (TSVP) area in Lab 5 EF03

This workshop is part of TSVP Thematic Program “New Frontiers in Gauge Theory, Topology, and Physics” (TP26GT) at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology .

本説明会は英語で開催されます。OISTの博士課程やリサーチインターンシッププログラム、それぞれの出願プロセスについて紹介します。ゲストスピーカーとしてOISTの現役博士課程学生2名が登壇し、OISTでの学生生活や研究についてお話しします。パネルディスカッションでは、参加者の皆さまからのご質問に学生が直接お答えします。

A beginner's introduction to using the clusters and other computing resources at OIST. This is the second, hands-on session.

StrucShare Meeting by Klemens Leo McJarrow Keller & Daniel Gutierrez Del Rio

The command line is the primary way to use the high performance computing resources at OIST. Here we quickly learn the basics we need to become comfortable and productive.

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).

Reliable data storage is fundamental to research. In this training we will introduce the storage systems, talk about how to organise your data, do backups, handle remote data transfer, and the do’s and don’ts of using the storage systems.

This training course will show you how to make best use of the high-performance computing resources at OIST. In the first session we show you how computing clusters are organized and introduce the fundamental concepts of parallel computing.

Title: Strong positivity property for subdiffusion equations and applications to related inverse problems

Speaker: Prof. Yikan Liu (Kyoto University)

"Visiting Program Coffee Hour": informal discussions and getting to know each other, in the Visiting Program (TSVP) area in Lab 5 EF03

Title: From image generation to three-dimensional turbulence: a physically interpretable diffusion-model from the perspective of deterministic PDEs

Speaker: Prof. Tsuyoshi Yoneda (Hitotsubashi University)

Title: Mathematical analysis of generalized fractional viscoelastic models

Speaker: Prof. Hiromichi Itou (Chuo University)

The Scientific Computing & Data Analysis Section (SCDA) invites you to a full week of training to get your computing set up and your questions answered!

Scan the QR code for the full schedule!

Ryudai-OIST Joint Symposium

This symposium brings together researchers from the University of the Ryukyus School of Medicine and OIST to share their research and explore opportunities for scientific exchange. By fostering interactions across institutions and disciplines, the event aims to strengthen connections, encourage collaboration, and promote the development of new research partnerships. All researchers and students from the University of the Ryukyus and OIST are welcome to participate, and attendees are invited to present their work during the poster session.

Dominik Krengel from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

Title : The Obstruction of Orientability of Real Monopole Floer Homology Abstract : The Real Seiberg-Witten theory is one of a stong tool in knot theory and surface knot theory. For example, that can detect exotic P^2-knot and Kang-Park-Taniguchi proved that any non trivial cable of figure eight knot is not slice using Real Seiberg-Witten theory. This theory is also provide interesting phenomena in index theory, since Real Seiberg-Witten theory can be seen as a "non-linear version" of Atiya's Real K-theory. For example, there is an obstruction to orient moduli space of Real Seiberg-Witten eqations on closed 4-manifolds. Recently, Bonciocat obtained a obstruction to lift the real Heegaard Floer homology from mod 2 coefficient to Z-coefficient. In this talk, we give a canonical way to obtain Z- coefficient real monopole Floer homology of double branced cover of a link in homology S^3 in the case when the obstruction vanishes. We also proved that the Bonciocat's obstruction is also obstract Z-coefficient in real monopole, however the proof is different. This is joint work with Jiakai Li.

September 24, 2026 - September 25, 2026 at OIST Land neXus

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Guest Seminar hosted by CDQT. Speaker: Dr. Mingxuan Fu (University of Tokyo) Title: The Strange Universe of Quantum Phases Driven by Interplay between Multipoles and Conduction Electrons

Title : Signs in real monopole Floer homology

Abstract :

The computation of the 3-dimensional framed real Seiberg–Witten invariant of the branched double cover of a knot K is instrumental in Miyazawa's construction of exotic P^2-knots. This invariant, known as Miyazawa's degree invariant deg(K), is the Euler characteristic χ(HMR) of framed real monopole Floer homology (HMR). A priori deg(K) is defined only up to an overall sign, since the real Dirac operator has no complex orientation. Worse, signs associated to distinct real spin^c structures are not comparable. Resolving the latter issue is essential for developing computational techniques for real Seiberg--WItten invariants.

I will explain how to fix the sign of the 3-dimensional count, in other words, define an absolute mod-two grading, via a mod-two index-theoretic correction term. This yields a total Euler characteristic \tilde{χ} that sums over all real spin^c structures, the analogue of \hat{χ} in real Heegaard Floer homology (HFR). Recent work of Srivastava provides the motivating results: an absolute mod-two grading in \hat{HFR} and the evaluation of \hat{χ} in terms of the Alexander polynomial at \sqrt{-1}. This is joint work with Ciprian Manolescu.