Past Events
Keynote Lecture by Dr. Marin van Heel (Cryo-Electron Microscopy Course)
Kyenote Lecture for CryoEM Course
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
Speaker: Robert Spencer, University of Cambridge
Title:(Some) Gram Determinants for \(A_n\) nets
[Seminar] Prof. Bumjoon Kim "Intertwinned Néel and spin nematic orders in a square-lattice antiferromagnet"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
(Somewhat) Functional Journal Club
FY2021 Cryo-Electron Microscopy Course at OIST
Internal and External workshop
SDGs未来都市の役割とは Science Talk vol.3
OISTサイエンストーク2021 vol.3
タイトル:SDGs未来都市沖縄の役割とは?
登壇者:OIST 研究科長オフィス 副研究科長 タカバヤシ ミサキ
恩納村役場SDGs推進事務局 松原 廣幸
恩納村役場企画課企画係長 當山香織
恩納村役場企画課企画係主事 冨着 開
アサーティブコミュニケーション研修
相手を尊重しながら自分の気持ちや考えを率直・誠実に表現するコミュニケーション法を学びます。ペアワークやグループディスカッションを多用した参加型の研修です。
Theoretical Physics Seminar: Yasha Neiman
Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "A new kind of Feynman rules: what is Higher Spin Gravity?"
Determining Habitat Occupancy of Okinawa's Owl Species Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring
Cassie George is an RSD intern working with the Environmental Informatics Section in collaboration with the Takagi lab at Hokkaido University
English for Writing Research Papers - Sentence Structure 1 of 3 (CANCELLED)
The best writers have a few basic guidelines for making their sentences easy to read.
Join us to find out the rules for writing simple, easy to read sentences that will provide the clarity reviewers are looking for.
QG group meeting: a little bit from everyone
Quantum Gravity group meeting. Short stories by everyone.
第5回おきなわオープンTECHゼミ The 5th Seminar of Okinawa Open Facilities Network (OoPNet)
Title : Development of helium recycling network in Okinawa Date and time : Tuesday, February 22, 2022 15:00-16:00 Speakers : Kazuma Takada (OIST) , Hisaya Munemoto (University of the Ryukyus) Language : Japanese Registration required
[Catch-All Math Colloquium] Monge-Ampère equations related to optimal transport and geometric optics, Jun Kitagawa, Michigan State University
In the mathematics part, we will hear an exciting overview talk for a general audience. In the discussion session, we will hear about the speaker's experience as a mathematician. Y ou can take inspiration from them and exchange ideas with other participants in a small group. After the sessions are over, there will be a tea time where participants can chat freely.
Faculty Lunchtime Seminar (Prof. Armitage)
Title : Context-dependence and generality in community ecology - two sides of the same coin?
Abstract : Community ecology is often derided for its lack of general theory. Factors limiting one population's growth can be insignificant elsewhere. While this flavor of context-dependence clearly impedes a predictive theory of ecology, it also paradoxically functions as a very general mechanism that maintains biodiversity. I will review how a context-dependent competition theory can clarify the general mechanisms underlying species coexistence and geographic range limits. I'll then riff on the theme of ecological context-dependence as it pertains to our unit members' work on carnivorous plants, pestiferous bats, and noxious roadside weeds.
https://groups.oist.jp/faculty-lunch
Zoom seminar for OIST "Bridging the genotype-phenotype-fitness divide: from protein interfaces to organismal fitness"
Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit would like to invite you to a seminar!
Tokyo Institute of Technology IIR Symposium /東京工業大学 科学技術創成研究院 シンポジウム
Dean of Research, Dr. Tadashi Yamamoto will attend the symposium as one of the panelists.
(This symposium will be held in Japanese.)
English for Academic Email Correspondence - Subject lines
What separates your email's subject line from other spam type emails?
In this seminar we will look at what makes a good subject line, how we can maximise the way it is seen in email software and how we can make it more meaningful for the reader.
[Webinar] Science/Tech/Business Innovation Book Talk Series: #2 Fail Fast - Lessons for Japan
Speaker: Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita, Founder & CEO, Quality Electrodynamics | CTO, Canon Medical Systems Corporation, CT-MR Division | Member, OIST Board of Governors | Trustee and Health Innovation Ambassador, OIST Foundation | Honorary Consul General of Japan in Cleveland
In Japanese with English subtitles. Register here .
沖縄科学技術大学院大学学園第33回理事会
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Inclusive Mentoring Mini-Symposium 2022
The Center for Professional Development and Inclusive Excellence (C-Hub) warmly welcomes you to join us to engage in inspirational discussions, explorations, and strategic thinking to explore how individuals and institutions can promote impactful, inclusive mentoring cultures in the sciences.
Global Women's Breakfast 2022 - Joint Kyoto and OIST event
Please register for Global Women's Breakfast 2022 - Joint Kyoto U. and OIST event on February 16th, 2022.
[Seminar] Mr. Nicolo Scapin "Weakly compressible simulation of evaporating droplets"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
Annual Inspection_Ultracentrifuge [Hitachi Koki]
Annual Inspection_Ultracentrifuges
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
Speaker: Stephen Doty, Loyola University Chicago
Title: Schur-Weyl duality for braid and twin groups via the Burau representation
【設立記念】OISTサイエンスの写真展(巡回展)
OISTトンネルギャラリーでのメイン展示に加え、沖縄県内各所及び東京にて巡回展を実施します。
OIST NetCafé (大学院説明会) 2022年2月
今回の特別版OIST Caféは、国連が提唱する「科学における女性と女児の国際デー」を記念して行われます。OISTが女性研究者や学生をどう支援しているのかの紹介や、現在博士課程学生やポスドクとしてOISTに所属している女性がそれぞれの経験をシェアし、参加者と共に共通の課題や悩みについて議論する場となります。パネルディスカッションでは、参加者が直接登壇者にリアルタイムで質問できる機会を設けています。 また、今回はジョンズ・ホプキンス大学(米国)公衆衛生大学院 特別栄誉教授およびメリーランド大学特別栄誉教授である リタ・コルウェル博士 も登壇予定です。コルウェル博士は米国国家科学技術会議(NSF)にて、初の女性共同議長を務めました。
Quantum Birds: The Magnetic Compass Sense of night-migratory Songbirds
Quantum Birds: The Magnetic Compass Sense of night-migratory Songbirds
Prof. Henrik Mouritsen
Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University Oldenburg,
Prof. Mouritsen will present how night-migratory songbirds seem to use a quantum mechanical mechanism to sense magnetic compass information which they use to navigate with exquisite precision over thousands of kilometres (Mouritsen 2018). In the past years, evidence has mounted that migratory birds use a light-dependent, radical pair-based mechanism to sense the axis of the geomagnetic field lines (Hore & Mouritsen 2016). The magnetic compass of night-migratory birds is sensitive to anthropogenic electromagnetic field disturbances being ca. 1000 times weaker than the current WHO guideline limits (Engels et al. 2014; Schwarze et al. 2016). This result could be significant in relation to migratory bird conservation measures and strongly indicates that the basic sensory mechanism underlying the magnetic compass of night-migratory songbirds should be based on quantum mechanical principles rather than classical physics. Neuroanatomical data have shown that magnetic compass information is detected in the eye and then processed in a small part of the thalamofugal visual pathway terminating in the visual processing centre “Cluster N” (Mouritsen et al. 2005; Liedvogel et al. 2007; Feenders et al. 2008; Zapka et al. 2009). When Cluster N is deactivated, migratory European Robins can no longer use their magnetic compass, whereas their star compass and sun compass abilities are unaffected (Zapka et al. 2009). The lagena and associated pathways remained intact. Bilateral section of the trigeminal nerve had no effect on the birds’ ability to use their magnetic compass (Zapka et al. 2009). Very recently, we could also show that the light-sensitive protein Cryptochrome 4 from a night-migratory songbird is magnetically sensitive in vitro based on a radical-pair mechanism (Xu et al. 2021).
Zoom link
沖縄科学技術大学院大学学園第27回評議員会
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
開始時間変更!Registration open! “How will our cryptographic toolkit be impacted by quantum computers and machine learning?”
[Seminar] Instability and turbulence in electroconvective flows
CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.
[Resume Workshop] Crafting an effective Resume
[Resume workshop] - Crafting an effective Resume
Join us for the “Crafting an effective Resume” workshop to discover how you can utilize these strategies to make your application more focused, tailored, and relevant.
OIST Alumni Talks - Nico Espinas
OIST Alumni Talks
Name: Dr. Nino Espinas (Class of 2012) Talk Title: Reflection and Comparison of Postdoc Life in Japan and Europe
Theoretical Ecology Seminar/Discussion Series
Theoretical Ecology Seminar/Discussion Series
[Seminar] Low Energy Structure of Spiral Spin Liquid
TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.
Winter Admissions Selection 2022
Online Admissions Selection for shortlisted PhD applicants from January 24th to February 11th, 2022.
Information sessions about PhD program, faculty talks and interviews all via zoom.
The event is targeted towards shortlisted applicants for our PhD program.
Please contact phd-selection@oist.jp for further details.
On-site Inspection by Board of Audit Japan
On-site Inspection by Board of Audit Japan
好奇心からイノベーションへ Science Talk vol.2
OISTサイエンストーク2021 vol.2
タイトル:好奇心からイノベーションへ
沖縄の研究室から生まれる発明を、沖縄の社会的・経済的に繋げるためには
登壇者:OIST 技術開発イノベーションオフィス シニアマネジャー 市川 尚斉
琉球大学工学部知能情報コース 教授 玉城 絵美
Catch-All Mathematical Colloquium
In the mathematics part, we will hear an exciting overview talk for a general audience. January speaker is Ade Irma Suriajaya from Kyushu University. In the discussion session, we will hear about the speaker's experience as a mathematician. Y ou can take inspiration from them and exchange ideas with other participants in a small group. After the sessions are over, there will be a tea time where participants can chat freely.
Part I Expository math talk 3-4 pm
Speaker: Ade Irma Suriajaya Kyushu University
Talk Title : Goldbach’s Conjecture and the Riemann Hypothesis in Number Theory, and Their Relations to Zeta Functions
Abstract: Number Theory has a very long history that dates back to thousands of years ago. The main goal of this study is to understand properties of numbers which can essentially be reduced to understanding prime numbers. Number Theory has evolved over time and yet we are still left with several important old problems. Among, Goldbach’s conjecture which is celebrating its 280th anniversary this year (by the time of my talk in 2022) and the Riemann hypothesis which is now over 160 years old remain unsolved. In this talk, I would like to explain what these problems are about and briefly introduce a few recent works which are related to them, especially how the distribution of zeros of the Riemann zeta function comes into play. My talk will be given in the perspective of Analytic Number Theory.
Abstract: Part II Diversity Panel Discussion 4-5 pm
E-workshop: "Visual Design for Communication".
C-Hub warmly invites you to join us to learn how to effectively present your ideas or data visually.
[Seminar] "Topological transition by vector spin chirality on a triangular lattice" by Prof. Yusuke Nambu
TQM unit is pleased to invite you to our seminar!
[Seminar] "A twisted loop between inside and outside: Searching for an appropriate image of consciousness based on phenomenology and enactivism"
Our speaker, Shigeru Taguchi will be talking on " A twisted loop between inside and outside: Searching for an appropriate image of consciousness based on phenomenology and enactivism ".
Mini Course: Speeding up MATLAB (by MathWorks) 2 of 2
This Mini Course will be taught by engineers from MathWorks, the company developping MATLAB. The focus will be on accelerating MATLAB code, using different approaches: better general coding practices, using the Parallel Computing Toolbox, and using Deigo's resources.
◆Target audience This course is suitable for people with some experience with MATLAB. Ideally, the participants will already have some code that they are interested in speeding up.
Virtual Seminar"Explosive boiling of drops near a solid surface and inside a turbulent flow"Chao Sun
Language: English
Silver workshop 2022 “Complex geometry and related topics”
Organizers: Noriko Yui (Queen’s University at Kingston), Kyoji Saito (RIMS), Shinobu Hikami (OIST)
Sustainable Eating - Cooking Workshop
Date of Workshop : Saturday, January 8th - Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Registration: 6th ABiS Advanced Light Microscopy Course at OIST
Registration deadline: December 28th 2021
[Seminar] "Lagrangian Studies in Active and Inertial Turbulence" by Mr Rahul Kumar Singh
CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.
[Seminar] "An Immersed Boundary Method for high-fidelity simulations with moving objects: application to active flow control" by Dr. Athanasios E. Giannenas
CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the semianr!