Come have lunch and talk about sustainability related things!

New restaurants, event ideas, campus gossip, anything goes.

OIST Science 100 Symposium: Mapping OIST's Scientific Expansion to 100 PIs.

The symposium will explore OIST's current scientific standing in each field and encourage an exchange of ideas about the future direction. Additionally, it will offer an opportunity for colleagues and community members to connect and contribute to driving forward OIST's research and collaboration for achieving the university mission.

Open to all OIST members.

Registration required

This is a "Key Symposium" arranged by the Journal of Internal Medicine and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | Special Registration for OIST members: Register here (OIST login required) | For general information please go the symposium's website .

Q: What is the difference between a ukulele player and a savings bond? A: One will mature and make money.

Teen Night for junior high school and high school kids only!

Social night - play games, watch movies, do projects, socialize.

Wednesdays from 18:30-19:30 in conference center meeting room 4.

All teens welcome!

National holiday

National holiday

National holiday

Dr Huai-Ti Lin, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering

National holiday

Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)

If you've never sung "Closing Time" to an audience of hermit crabs have you ever really lived?

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).

Language: English

Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network

Prof. Mariko Okada

Laboratory for Cell Systems, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University

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

科学技術週間＆アースデースペシャル

親子映画会

Public Lecture on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture in the evening

One day French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture and Lab tours in the evening

Prof Tim Taminiau from QuTech in Delft, Netherlands, is an experimentalists who studies the use of defects in diamond continaing electron and nuclear spins for quantum technology. In this talk he will discuss recent progress in controlling such electron-nuclear spin systems for quantum networks and for distributed quantum computations and simulations.

A faculty-Grad School discussion on the use of AI tools in higher education .

OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to host Prof. Jimmy Dooley from the department of biological sciences, Purdue University, USA. If you are interested in knowing how slight twitchy movements during your sleep in your infancy shape your brain, make sure to join the seminar!

ZOOM LINK

Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Connolly

Target Audience: Intern, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Join us next week on Tuesday, April 18th in seaside lounge from 18:30!

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

Visitor Seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics Title: "BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras"

Speaker: Nina Stiesdal, Institut of Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany

This is an externally organized event, For more information please go the conference website .

You can't spell "Ukulele Club" without U! And also "bulk eel cul" but that's harder to interpret.

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).

Prof. Hiroki Takahashi, Assistant Professor of the Experimental Quantum Information Physics Unit

Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Dr. Marco Michel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Title: Quantum Informational Analogue Models of Black Holes: What Happens After Half Evaporation?

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

Language: English

[Speaker] Prof. Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara

Dr. Eduardo Sampaio , Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December.

C-Hub 第１回 事務職員向け勉強会　「研究者の活動」　（日本語）

Speaker: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Speaker::Jonathan R. WOODWARD

Professor of University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Speciality: Physical Chemistry,Photochemistry,Spin Chemistry

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/people100335.html

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizers: Reiko Toriumi (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit) and Kento Osuga (University of Tokyo) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

In this meeting we will discuss the proper method to cook and eat a soprano ukulele.

Speaker: Dr. Meiyong LIAO, a Chief Researcher at National Institute for Material Science

Zoom :

https://oist.zoom.us/j/96289625266?pwd=TFdtZmRqbG5HSUhCa0xseit5ellIZz09

Passcode: 313298

Professor emeritus Hans (=J.A.J.) Metz, Institute of Biology and Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Speaker: Dr. Romain Quidant

Professor, Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

アートインスタレーション　浮遊する海の生き物 -星の砂たち- 「科学とアートの交差展」が3月25日（土）から4月1日（土）まで開催されます。

沖縄の星砂をイメージした巨大なバルーンをキャンパスに設置します。

This presentation will cover a new perspective on the definition of chronic pain, coupled with the new brain studies postulating that emotional and physical pains share the same neural networks.

Sanshin classes by Satsuki Agena (January to March)

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Discussion of progress and roadmap for founding an OIST natural history collection.