Past Events
[Seminar] "Single-cell genomics and fluorescence microscopy indicate permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid" by Prof. Fabien Burki
Prof. Fabien Burki, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Organismal Biology; Systematic Biology at Uppsala University, Sweden
Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Classical hypothesis testing
A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.
Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen
[Seminar] Dr. Sanaz Hazraty Kari "Coral-algal symbiosis as a dynamic process during coral bleaching"
Seminar by Dr. Sanaz Hazraty Kari - University of Ryukyus
[Seminar] Matrix Bootstrap Approximation without Positivity Constraint | Reishi Maeta (Hiroshima University / McGill University)
Speaker : Reishi Maeta (Hiroshima University / McGill University) Title : Matrix Bootstrap Approximation without Positivity Constraint Date and time : 28 th April Tuesday at 9:00 Language: English
Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Large deviation theory
A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.
Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen
[CAEE] "The nature of LUCA, and the timeline of metabolic evolution" by Dr. Edmund R. R. Moody, University of Barcelona / University of Bristol
CAEE invited talk, Dr. Edmund R. R. Moody, University of Barcelona / University of Bristol
Public Lecture: "A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery" by Oliver Aalami and Torbjörn Lundh
Public Lecture : "A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery" by Oliver Aalami (Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign) and TSVP Visiting Scholar Torbjörn Lundh (Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg) Open to all interested in the topic! OISTにて開催される Torbjörn Lundh 氏および Oliver Aalami 氏による公開講演に、ぜひご参加ください。
[CAEE] "Hunting novel lineages and their genomes" by Prof. Ben J. Woodcroft, QUT
CAEE invited talk, Prof. Ben J. Woodcroft, QUT
HPC User Group Meeting
The next High-Performance Computing User Group Meeting is April 23. Everybody is Welcome!
[CAEE] "Predicting interaction partners and generating new protein sequences using protein language models" by Prof. Anne-Florence Bitbol, EPFL
CAEE invited talk, Prof. Anne-Florence Bitbol, EPFL
QG Seminar (Zoom): Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)
QG Seminar (Zoom)
Speaker: Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)
Title: Black hole thermodynamics at future null infinity
[CAEE] "Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes: Reconstructing and deconstructing the Tree of Life" by Dr. Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès, UOC-TECH, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
CAEE invited talk, Dr. Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès, UOC-TECH, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
TSVP Talk: "Playing With Magnets, Geometry and Bacteria." by Andrés Concha
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).
[CAEE] "Integration of phylogenetics-independent tools for brainstorming evolution of metabolism" by Dr. Masaru K. Nobu, JAMSTEC
CAEE invited talk, Dr. Masaru K. Nobu, JAMSTEC
[Seminar] Prof. Henrik M. Rønnow "Neutron studies of SrCu2(BO3)2 under extreme conditions – a fruit fly for quantum many body physics"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
[CAEE] "Network approaches for thinking about early metabolic evolution" by Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo
CAEE invited talk, Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo
[CAEE] "Dating deep divergences: challenges and emerging strategies in Bayesian phylogenomic dating" by Dr. Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, University College London
CAEE invited talk, Dr. Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, University College London
[CAEE] "The origin of eukaryotes: recent progress and open questions" by Prof. Tom A. Williams, University of Bath
CAEE invited talk, Prof. Tom A. Williams, University of Bath
Computational Approaches to Early Evolution
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Gergely Szöllősi (Model Based Evolutionary Genomics (Szöllősi) Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
【Seminar】"Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers" by Prof. Thomas Powers
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Powers from Brown University
Title: Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers
Seminar"Chaos in confinement: Using polymers to mix fluids and speed up chemical reactions in porous media"Sujit Datta
Language: English
Seminar "Epigenetics for recombination during meiosis: The role of PRDM9"
Dr. Bernard de Massy, Institute of Human Genetics Montpellier
The Provost Lecture Series 23
【Seminar】"Ecophysiological strategies of plants inhabiting harsh environments: leaf trichomes in Hawaii and root distributions in Alaska." by Dr. Gaku Amada
Dr. Gaku Amada, a JSPS Research Fellow PD at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, mechanisms of maintaining plant biodiversity in permafrost environments.
Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Classical entropies from the point of view of asymptotics and large deviations
A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.
Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen
[Analysis and PDE Seminar] Geometry and the Solvability of the Parabolic Dirichlet Problem
Talk on April 17, 9:00 am (JST) by James Warta, University of Missouri
[Seminar]"Temperature-induced effects in organic thin films comprising energy donor-acceptor systems" by Dr. Piotr Ślęczkowski
Seminar by Dr. Piotr Ślęczkowski, Lodz University of Technology
QG seminar: Self-dual holography
QG seminar. Speaker: Richard van Dongen (University of Mons) Title: Self-dual holography
Seminar "Plant Mobile Domain proteins regulate gene expression"
Dr. Guillaume Moissiard, LGDP UMR5096 CNRS/UPVD
[Seminar] "Horizontal mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group as scaling limit of an interacting particle system" by Prof. Nicolas Dirr
Title: Horizontal mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group as scaling limit of an interacting particle system
Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Dirr (Cardiff University)
Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Introductory overview
A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.
Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen
TSVP Talk: "Non-Hermitian Quantum Systems: Qubits, Decoherence, Information, Entropy and Beyond" by Avadh Saxena
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] A structural journey through molecular life, death and design by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hiller
Seminar: A structural journey through molecular life, death and design by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hiller , the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland
[Analysis and PDE Seminar] Stochastic Partial Differential Equations of Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
Talk by Nicolas Dirr, Cardiff University, on April 8 (Wed) from 3:00 p.m. at L4F01
[Seminar] Multi-Faceted Aspects of Arene Ruthenium Complexes, Dr. Daya Shankar Pandey
Dr. Daya Shankar Pandey, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Science
Banaras Hindu University
Mini Course: On the Tutte polynomial invariant for graphs and matroids
A short course on the Tutte polynomial in graphs and matroids.
4 sessions only: April 7 and 9, and 14 and 16 (Tuesday and Thursday 10-12 in L4E45)
Dr. Remi Avohou is a post-doc in the Toriumi Unit
Ocean Dynamics and Turbulence
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Amin Chabchoub (Marine Physics and Engineering Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
Introduction to R Programming Day 2
Short introductory survey on R programming
Introduction to R Programming Day 1
Short introductory survey on R programming
[Hybrid Seminar] "Project RAISE, Real-World Adaptive Intelligence Generated through Soft Embodiment" by Prof. Koh Hosoda, Kyoto University
[Hybrid Seminar] "Project RAISE, Real-World Adaptive Intelligence Generated through Soft Embodiment" by Prof. Koh Hosoda, Kyoto University
March 30 (Mon) 2026, 11:00-12:00 @L5D23, Lab 5
Meeting ID: 982 0243 6241 Passcode: 834475
Si-H Bond [Seminar] Activation of Hydrosilanes with Perfluoroalkyl Rhodium Porphyrin Complexes, by Prof. Ching Tat To, Tunghai University
Speaker: Dr Ching Tat To, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tunghai University, Taichung City, Taiwan. Language: English
QG Lecture Series: Review of some basic features of the SM and of GUTs, Mirian Tsulaia
QG Lecture Series Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia, (OIST) Title: Review of some basic features of the SM and of GUTs
StrucShare Meeting
Strucshare Meeting by Rafael Ayala Hernandez
TSVP Talk: "Fluctuations Across the Scales: Partial Differential Equations, Geometry and Noise" by Nicolas Dirr
TSVP Talk, starting at 2pm 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] Laser cooling of aluminium monofluoride molecules in the deep ultraviolet
Title: Laser cooling of aluminium monofluoride molecules in the deep ultraviolet
Speaker: Dr Dylan Brown, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK
【Seminar】Dr. Joseph Samuel: The Geometric Phase and the Spin-Statistics Theorem: spinning particles as ribbons
【qBio Seminar】"Decoding behavior with minimal and interpretable agent models" by Prof. Antonio Celani
Speaker: Prof. Antonio Celani from The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP
Title: Decoding behavior with minimal and interpretable agent models
Coffee/Tea & Cookies will be served before the seminar at 15:00 - 15:30.
Mirror Lab Symposium: Frontiers in Recent Human Evolution
Mirror Lab Symposium: Frontiers in Recent Human Evolution
We will describe and discuss projects that explore genetic variants that emerged in the evolution of modern and archaic humans, and how such archaic variants affects humans today. We will also discuss projects that use ancient DNA to reconstruct the early peopling and history of the Japanese Archipelago. We will explore how we can intensify our collaborations in these areas and brainstorm about future research directions.
Neural Computation Workshop 2026 (FY2025)
Neural Computation Unit will hold a retreat/reunion at Seminar Room B250 on OIST main campus. If you are interested in joining, please contact <ncus@oist.jp>.
TSVP Talk: "Nonlocal Traffic Models" by Nicola De Nitti
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).

































