Past Events
Schooling Options Information Seminar
お子様の学校選択肢情報セッション Schooling Options Information Session
インターナショナルスクール6校の代表者に会う、質問する、情報を得る。Meet representatives from six different international schools and get your questions answered.
2023年5月24日(水) 17:00-18:30 May 24, 2023 (Wednesday)
Joint Poster Session of OIST & ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project Members
Open Poster Session (~20 posters by ERATO members and ~10 posters by OIST units)
Genetic mutation in Escherichia coli genome during adaptation to the murine intestine is optimized for the host diet
Seminar by Dr. Shinji Fukuda (Keio University and University of Tsukuba)
Towards Prediction and Control of Microbial Evolution: Analysis of Phenotypic Constraints in Laboratory Evolution
Seminar by Dr. Chikara Furusawa (RIKEN and University of Tokyo)
E. coli evolves into an insect mutualist in real-time
Seminar by Dr. Takema Fukatsu (AIST, University of Tokyo, and University of Tsukuba)
An evolutionary perspective on symbioses from the alvinocaridid shrimp family
[Seminar] Disorder effects in the Kitaev-Heisenberg model
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
[Seminar] "Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein dynamics and function" by Dr. Yuji Sugita
Dr. Yuji Sugita, Team Leader, Laboratory for Biomolecular Function Simulation, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research
沖縄科学技術大学院大学学園第40回理事会
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Beach Cleanup at Senaha
This event is part of UMIGOMI ZERO WEEK ( https://uminohi.jp/umigomi/zeroweek/) .
Please:
Wear gloves. Wear something blue (to note Umigomi Zero Week). Bring water.In case of rain, the event will be postponed to Sunday, May 21.
Volunteer certificates are issued on request.
Contact Mayu at +81 50 54696440 with questions.
This event is part of OIST SDGs Initiative.
Please see attached flyer for map to the event.
沖縄科学技術大学院大学学園第39回理事会
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Graduation Ceremony 2023
The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to students who have graduated in the period May 2022 to April 2023.
Come chat with Serge!
Please join us for an informal discussion with Prof Serge Haroche…Serge was joint awardee of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”!
[Seminar] Coral reef ecology and restoration research at the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory, Singapore
Speakers: Dr. Jani Tanzil, the Deputy Director of the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory and a Senior Research Fellow at the Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI), National University of Singapore Dr. Lionel Ng, Research Fellow at TMSI, National University of Singapore Mr. Ow Yong Wei Long, Research Assistant with the Coral Team at TMSI, National University of Singapore
Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit
This talk will a broad overview of marine science research conducted in Singapore, with a focus on coral reef ecology and restoration efforts. This talk will also share more about Singapore’s only offshore marine research facility, the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory (SJINML), as a research infrastructure open to all marine science researchers, both local and international ( https://sjinml.nus.edu.sg/ ).
May Flea Market
Come buy and sell your 2nd hand things.
No registration required.
Grab a table from Conference Center Meeting Room 4. Put back your table at the end.
TSVP Talk: "People, Environments, Sensors: Cyber Opportunities for Exploring Human Mobilities" by Christophe Claramunt
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).
Decoding the chemical language of plants
Seminar by Dr. Tomas Pluskal (IOCHB, Prague, CZ)
Aivia Workshop Hands-on @ Lab4F14
Aivia Workshop: Image Analysis Software
Teen Night
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 teen s welcome!
Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers", Prof. Koshimizu
Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers" by Professor Masanori Koshimizu.
"BRST formalism of Weyl conformal gravity in Weyl geometry" Prof. Ichiro Oda, University of the Ryukyus
Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Prof. Ichiro Oda, University of the Ryukyus Title: BRST formalism of Weyl conformal gravity in Weyl geometry
沖縄科学技術大学院大学学園第31回評議員会
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
OIST x the University of Tokyo -Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging
OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging. *Please register in advance if you are participating onsite.
ECO Club Lunch
Come have lunch and talk about sustainability related things!
New restaurants, event ideas, campus gossip, anything goes.
OIST Science 100 Symposium
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
18th Key Symposium: Longevity and Healthy Ageing: What Can We Learn From Blue Zones?
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 .
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
Q: What is the difference between a ukulele player and a savings bond? A: One will mature and make money.
Teen Night
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!
"The dragonfly’s superpowers: from predictive visual guidance and wing aerodynamics sensing to bio-inspired robotics" by Dr. Huai-Ti Lin
Dr Huai-Ti Lin, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering
[Seminar] "Charge and spin transport in 2D materials – from graphene nanoribbons to magnetic heterostructures" by Prof.Mathias Kläui (Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University)
Title: Charge and spin transport in 2D materials – from graphene nanoribbons to magnetic heterostructures
Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)
Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
If you've never sung "Closing Time" to an audience of hermit crabs have you ever really lived?
[Seminar] "Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: Spintronics without magnetic fields" by Prof.Mathias Kläui (Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University)
Title: Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: Spintronics without magnetic fields
TSVP Talk: "From Gravity to Quantum Clocks (And Rulers!)" by Artur Tsobanjan
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] "On-Surface Synthesis: What Happens Behind the Scenes?" by Dr. Marco Di Giovannantonio (Institute of Structure of Matter, CNR, Rome)
Title: "On-Surface Synthesis: What Happens Behind the Scenes?"
Speaker: Dr. Marco Di Giovannantonio is responsible of the ESCA laboratory at CNR-ISM (https://www.ism.cnr.it/en/esca.html). He uses a multidisciplinary approach to synthesize and characterize novel low-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials, and optimize their growth conditions and final properties to employ them in catalysis and organic electronics. (Areas of interest: Nanotechnology, surface science, catalysis, on-surface chemical reactions, organic molecules on surfaces, metal-organic networks, graphene-like nanostructures, graphene nanoribbons, open-shell molecular systems.)
Virtual Seminar"Shape of deposits and flow mechanisms in 3D printing of yield stress fluids"Anatole Geffrault
Language: English
Seminar: "Spectroscopy of Topological Josephson Junction Circuits" by Dr. Çağlar Girit
[Seminar] Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network by Prof. Mariko Okada, Osaka University
Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network
Prof. Mariko Okada
Laboratory for Cell Systems, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University
[Seminar] Weakly first-order quantum phase transition between Spin Nematic and Valence Bond Crystal Order in a square lattice SU(4) fermionic model
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Public Lecture: Metaverse and Virtual Reality by Anatole Lecuyer and Shunichi Kasahara
Public Lecture on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture in the evening
Community Cooking Series - Class 5
The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Onna closer through a shared love of food. Each session will be focused on one dish, taught by someone with a personal connection to the recipe (perhaps you?).
French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds”
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
Quantum networks based on diamond spin qubits - Prof T Taminiau [QUTech]
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.
The Provost Lecture Series 7
Use of AI Tools in Higher Education
A faculty-Grad School discussion on the use of AI tools in higher education .