This week we will focus on developing a repertoire of facial expressions to make while playing ukulele solos.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

In the face of ongoing change across our world, societies, and organizations, Inclusive Leadership is critical for creating conditions and climates that enhance adaptability, empowerment and collaboration, and a strong sense of community and belonging. This year’s symposium brings us together to explore how the qualities of inclusive leadership can be engendered at multiple levels across our institutions.

We invite participants from Japan and across the world to engage in discussions, inquiry, and strategic thinking to explore how to: develop institutional cultures where every individual can thrive and their contributions are valued; instill ownership amongst leaders at all levels to actively foster inclusion and equity; empower those who identify as people from minoritized and underrepresented backgrounds to realize their full leadership potential.

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Science Talk by Prof. Svante Pääbo, 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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

Language: English

Dr. Christian Bason, CEO, Danish Design Center. Language: English, Open to OIST Community

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

SPEAKER : Ms. Friederike Metz (Busch Unit Phd student)

Yamamoto Unit will host a series of seminars on cancer and oncology. This seminar is a part of GS course, A307 Molecular Oncology and Cell Signaling, by Prof. Yamamoto.

Speaker:Marius Sudol, PhD,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

zoom Meeting URL: https://oist.zoom.us/j/95797251923?pwd=ekcrUlNhejNyMlpoTUV1SlgxOHI3Zz09 Meeting ID: 957 9725 1923 Passcode: 390997

OIST Mini Symposium | Organizing unit: Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required; contact the organizers (furukawa [at] oist.jp) | For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers (furukawa [at] oist.jp) for information on how to participate.

Speaker: Prof Monika Ritsch-Marte Director of the Institute of Biomedical Physics, Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

中止：スバンテ・ペーボ教授講演会 in 沖縄

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?).

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

Language: English

Optomechanics is the science that describes the interaction of light with moving objects. It has developed rapidly over the past ten years and has many applications in developing novel high precision sensors such as LIGO. Dr Harris will describe research which uses magnetically levitated liquid Helium to perform optomechanical experiments.

Officially declaring 2023 the year of the ukulele

Special OIST Teatime! Professor Svante Pääbo will attend. Please bring your own mug. Registration requested: https://groups.oist.jp/cpr/teatime-registration

Prof. Ugur Abdulla Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit

Professor Ugur Abdulla received Ph.D. in Mathematics from Soviet Union Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical & Mathematical Sciences degree from High Attestation Comission of the Azerbaijan Republic, Habilitation Doctor degree in Mathematics from Saxon Ministry of Art and Sciences in Germany. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Nottingham in England, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Paderborn, Bremen and Bonn in Germany, and Max-Planck Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in Natural Sciences in Leipzig , Germany. Prior joining OIST, he was a Professor of Mathematics at the Florida Institute of Technology, United States in 2004-2022. Professor Abdulla is an expert on Partial Differential Equations, Potential Theory, Calculus of Variations & Optimal Control, and Mathematical Biosciences with 62 scholarly publications. He solved an outstanding open problem posed by Kolmogorov in 1928, and proved the Wiener-type criterion at infinity for the second-order elliptic and parabolic PDEs.

Speaker: Prof. Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich, Department of Physics, Institute for Quantum Electronics, Optical Nanomaterial Group

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

Speakers:

Goro Akagi (Tohoku University) Jiwoong Jang (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Tianling Jin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Inwon Kim (University of California, Los Angeles) Shuhei Kitano (Waseda University) Olivier Ley (IRMAR, INSA-Rennes) Adam Oberman (McGill University) Norbert Pozar (Kanazawa University) Julio Rossi (University of Buenos Aires) Hung Tran (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Shuntaro Tsubouchi (University of Tokyo) Yifeng Yu (University of California, Irvine) Erbol Zhanpeisov (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Organizers: Qing Liu (OIST), Hiroyoshi Mitake (University of Tokyo), Xiaodan Zhou (OIST)

Visit the conference website for more details.

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Professor Alan Jeffrey Giacomin, Queen’s University, CANADA

Optical sensors can play a role in many technologies ranging from biosensing through to magnetic field sensing. This talk will give some overview on how one can use whispering gallery optical resonators for sensing.

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).

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology

OIST Workshop | Program | Visit the workshop's website for more details. | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (working meals are closed sessions).

National holiday

Cosmos episode 7: The Backbone of Night

The Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts and OIST will hold another exhibition at the OIST Tunnel Gallery this year! This event is a voting contest, and you can vote for your favorite works during the exhibition! We hope you will join us!

Date ：January 6th - January 20th

Venue : OIST Tunnel Gallery

The imaging of individual atoms in a atomic cloud or gas is a challenging task. In this talk we will discuss how to experimentally achieve this using techniques from quantum optics and in particular using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Dr. Min Ru, Professor of Department of Mathmatics, University of Houston

Zoom URL:

https://oist.zoom.us/j/95676276965?pwd=QTN2QjBVRWwwL01Dbm1ndFBQa2FTQT09

National holiday

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

"Differential glial control of parallel memory formation" by Prof. Ko Matsui,

Super-network Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University

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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?).

Neural Computation Unit will hold a retreat/reunion at OIST seaside house. If you are interested in joining, pleaese contact ncus@oist.jp

There's a limit to how much you can grow your hair out in a week, but we're going to ask you to try.

Speaker: Prof. Bernd Kawohl (University of Cologne)

Title: On Reuleaux and Cohn-Vossen, or buttons and balls that cannot run away

Speaker: Marios Sergides, Ph. D Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Title: Optical manipulation applications from soft matter to biomechanics

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).

Learn the skills neccessary to enter the water safely, through ocean risk assessment and management.

Come learn how to communicate your impactful ideas visually and engage audiences with poster presentations, an important skill set not only for scientists, but for all presenters! Poster presentations are an interactive, effective format for showcasing research or sharing ideas, programs, and projects.