Past Events
Seminar "Rheology of bubble-bearing fluids and its application to flow prediction" by Prof. Kohei Ohie
[Speaker] Prof. Kohei Ohie, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
[Cancelled] "Machine Learning for the welfare of the society" by Marcus Liwicki
**This seminar had to be cancelled!** The speaker will give a talk at the workshop on Health and Aging on October 27, 2025.
What if AI was not just a tool, but a reflection of human creativity itself?
Marcus Liwicki – and a surprise guest from the future – will attend explore how AI can become a powerful tool for everyone.
Join them on a journey through time to discover how curiosity and hands-on learning can unlock the full potential of human-centered AI – today, tomorrow, and beyond.
Furthermore, Marcus will highlight some general AI research directions and focus in Sweden as well as a few highlights from the gender-balanced Machine Learning group at LTU, which he leads as chaired professor.
TSVP Talk: "How Can Mathematics Help To Understand Evolution by Natural Selection?" by Kalle Parvinen
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).
Behavioral and neural mechanisms of motor control (ONOS)
QG Seminar (Zoom): Exceptional Generalised Geometry as a Symmetry Principle for Sigma Models
QG Seminar Speaker: David Osten (University of Wrocław)
Title: Exceptional Generalised Geometry as a Symmetry Principle for Sigma Models
[Seminar] Prof. Matteo Baggioli "Topology Without Order: Hunting Topological Defects in Amorphous Solids"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Seminar: "Exploration of the Mpemba effect: an anomalous heat relaxation process" by Prof. Hisao Hayakawa
Prof. Hisao Hayakawa from Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
[Seminar]MLDS Unit Seminar 2025-7 by Prof. Lenka Zdeborová, EPFL
Speaker: Dr. Lenka Zdeborová , Associate Professor, EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Title: Statistical Physics Perspective on Understanding Learning with Neural Networks
[Registration Deadline] MIRAI GCT1 Workshop: “Health and Aging Population”
The registration deadline for MIRAI GCT1 Workshop: “Health and Aging Population” is October 20th, 2025.
[Call for Registrations] Greener Mobility Workshop 2025
TSVP Talk: "Entropic Order" by Fedor Popov
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] Dr. Daniel Siebadji "Broadband UV Pump–Probe Spectroscopy with Supercontinuum Probing: Exciton, Biexciton Dynamics and Spin Implications in ZnO Quantum Wells"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
[Seminar] Prof. Akira Oiwa / Photon-spin quantum interface using semiconductor spin qubits
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2025-6 Ms. Haru Negami, Chiba University
Ms. Haru Negami (Chiba University)
Title: Integral transformation of KZ-type equation and construction of representation of braid group
[Seminar] Responsive Materials: An Overview of Our Recent Research by Prof. Quan Li
Contact geometry and quantization (Subhobrata Chatterjee)
QG seminar Speaker: Subhobrata Chatterjee Title: "Contact geometry and quantization"
Quantum Reference Frames: a QISS workshop
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Philipp Höhn (Qubits and Spacetime Unit)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
The 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Information Engineering (QIE2025)
This event will bring together fifty world-class scientists & engineering, researchers and students working in the field of quantum information engineering. They will present their latest research as well as engaging in active discussions about the current state of the field and its future prospects.
Joint seminar on next-generation (cryo-) plasma FIB/SEM
Joint seminar on next-generation (cryo-) plasma FIB/SEM by
Dr. Katherine Lau/Development for Life Science/Delmic
Dr. Kathrin Rudolph/Life Science Product Specialist, Tescan
[Seminar] From molecules to functional materials via supramolecular self-assembly by Dr. Lydia Sosa Vargas, CNRS
Dr. Lydia Sosa Vargas , CNRS Research fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France
TSVP Talk: Indigenous Ecologies: Integrating Indigenous Perspectives in Marine Environmental Research
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).
RAM 2025 - Opening Poster Session
You are invited to present your poster(s) at RAM 2025 Poster session combined with Opening ceremony and Teatime to share your research with the OIST Community!
Date: 2nd of October Time: from 16:00 Location: Atrium in Lab 5, level D
Holography for the IKKT matrix model (Zoom seminar)
QG seminar Speaker: Franz Ciceri (ENS Lyon) Title: "Holography for the IKKT matrix model"
[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2025-5, Dr. Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont, Centre François Baclesse
Dr. Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont, Medical Imaging and AI Scientist, Lead of AI group and scientific projects of Medical Physics Department, Centre de lutte contre le cancer, François Baclesse, ISTCT UMR6030-CNRS, UNICAEN
Title: Artificial intelligence in medical imaging applied to oncology
Posters After Hours (NeuroClub)
Join us for a casual poster presentation with snacks, for a friendly discussion with peers or any curious passerby!
[Seminar] Dr. Feng-Feng Song "Superfluid dome in the spatially modulated two-dimensional XY model"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
[Seminar] Mr. Mingcheng Yi "Monte Carlo Tomography of von Neumann Entanglement Entropy: A Generative Reconstruction Approach Using Matrix Product Operators"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
[OCQT Seminar] Using interference in Pauli space to measure beyond-classical local out-of-time-order correlator
The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to the next installment of the OCQT Seminar Series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Nikita Astrakhantsev , a Senior Quantum Research Scientist at Google Quantum AI, who will deliver a talk entitled:
“Using interference in Pauli space to measure beyond-classical local out-of-time-order correlator”
Okinawa School in Physics: From quantum key distribution to the quantum internet
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Elkouss Coronas (Networked Quantum Devices Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
[Seminar] "Supramolecular luminescent assemblies: imaging and beyond…" by Prof. Luisa De Cola
Prof. Luisa De Cola, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy and IFG- KIT Karlsruhe, Germany
Seminar "Epigenetic regulation of imprinted gene expression in mammals.” by Prof. Robert Feil
Robert Feil, Institute of Molecular Genetics (IGMM), CNRS and the University of Montpellier, France.
[Seminar] Hybrid responsive nanomaterials for biomedical and marine applications - by Prof. Luisa De Cola
Prof. Luisa De Cola, University of Milano, Department DISFARM, Milan Italy & Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
TSVP Talk: Dancing Giants: The Cosmic Tango of Black Holes and Gravitational Waves by Béatrice Bonga
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] MLDS Unit Seminar 2025-4 by Mr. Rémi Surat (Université Paris Cité, ENSAE Paris), Ms. Klea Ziu (MBZUAI)
Speaker 1: Mr. Rémi Surat (Université Paris Cité, ENSAE Paris)
Title: Flow-based generative models: how to train them efficiently using flow matching and optimal transport
Speaker 2: Ms. Klea Ziu (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: MBZUAI, UAE)
Title: ψDAG: Projected Stochastic Approximation Iteration for Linear DAG Structure Learning
Seminar"The impasse of strain rate quantification in arbitrary and kinematically mixed flow fields"Richard Hodgkinson
Language: English
The Provost Lecture Series 20
Promotion of Gendered Innovation in Japan: Historical Context, Emerging Funding Trends, and OIST–JAIST Collaboration
Title: Promotion of Gendered Innovation in Japan: Historical Context, Emerging Funding Trends, and OIST–JAIST Collaboration 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).
TSVP Talk: "Decision-Making in ADHD: Suboptimal and Noisy?" by Yehuda Pollak
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] "An integrated coastal ecosystem model and its applications (Marine CoMET)” by Prof. Takashi Nakamura
[Seminar] "An integrated coastal ecosystem model and its applications (Marine CoMET) by Prof. Takashi Nakamura
Seminar "Numerical simulation of high-Wi viscoelastic drag-reducing turbulence" by Prof. Hongna Zhang
Speaker: Prof. Hongna Zhang, Tianjin University, School of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor of Yingcai Program
2025 Analysis on Metric Space Seminar: " Fluid structure interaction and Sobolev spaces on changing domains" by Professor Malte Kampschulte, Charles University
Workshop: "Science for a Changing World: Advancing Research and Innovation in Invasive Species Control, Protected Area Design, and Biodiversity Monitoring"
This workshop highlights three key and practice-oriented research domains— invasive species control , protected area design , and biodiversity monitoring —and introduces the latest developments in research and technological innovation that support these fields.
TSVP Talk: "Evolution and development of butterfly wing patterns" by Antónia Monteiro
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] "Design and synthesis of semiconducting polymers for nature-inspired electronics and energy" by Prof. Ho-Hsiu Chou
[Seminar] "Design and synthesis of semiconducting polymers for nature-inspired electronics and energy", by Professor Ho-Hsiu Chou, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
TSVP Talk: "How Does the Primate Brain Support Visual Scene Understanding and Object Recognition?" by Anitha Pasupathy
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).
Research & Career Seminar with AIST
OIST and AIST have launched a joint Career Development Project to help students and researchers explore research and career opportunities in Japan. The project includes seminars, lab tours, and internships, particularly for those interested in research roles at domestic institutions like AIST. The first event features quantum researchers from AIST’s G-QuAT presenting their work and participating in a career Q&A session. All interested participants are welcome.
[Seminar] "A Photoinduced Annulation Strategy Towards a Polycyclic Heteroaromatic Chromophore: Scope, Mechanism, Properties and Applications" by Dr. Marine Labro
[Seminar] "A Photoinduced Annulation Strategy Towards a Polycyclic Heteroaromatic Chromophore: Scope, Mechanism, Properties and Applications" by Dr. Marine Labro, JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University
TSVP Talk: "Arrow of Time in Quantum Mechanics" by Naomichi Hatano
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 Biosafety and Biosecurity Seminar 2025
Lecture on biosafety and biosecurity in cutting-edge life sciences, including topics such as synthetic biology and gain-of-function research, as well as dual-use concerns.
Mini Course: Artiphysiology
Lecturer: Professor Wyeth Bair, U Washington (current TSVP visitor)
This mini‑course is a series of three lectures, scheduled on August 20, 21, and 22 from 13:30 to 15:30.
Use the link below to register for this mini-course.
https://forms.office.com/r/ZrwJrNN69y
Contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.











































