Past Events
[Quantum Computation] Lecture 1: Quantum Computing Fundamentals (postulates of quantum mechanics; quantum bits, gates, and circuits)
JSPS Visiting Fellow Professor Jingbo Wang from the University of Western Australia gives a series of lectures on Quantum Computation.
Lecture 1: Quantum Computing Fundamentals (postulates of quantum mechanics; quantum bits, gates, and circuits)
Cells, Energetics, and Information: New Perspectives on Nonequilibrium Systems
OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Simone Pigolotti (Biological Complexity Unit) | Program | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions
TSVP Talk: "Data Science for the EHT Blackhole Shadow Imaging" by Prof. Shiro Ikeda
Prof. Shiro Ikeda, Professor, Institute of Statistical Mathematics. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / all students and researchers at OIST. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).
OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 3 by Dr. Keisuke Kataoka and Dr. Christine Luscombe
OIST and Keio University, Japan's very first private institution of higher learning located in the center of Tokyo, are starting a series of short seminars (OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK) to introduce each other's researchers to promote future collaboration.
Science Digest - Dr. David Brückner - "Learning the stochastic dynamics of biological systems across scales: from single cells to organoids"
The Science Digest is back! Dr. David Brückner, NOMIS Fellow at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, will give us a talk on " Learning the stochastic dynamics of biological systems across scales: from single cells to organoids ". The seminar is open to everyone interested in the fields of Biophysics, Cell Migration, and Developmental Biology, and those who would like to know more about IST Austria and Dr. Brückner's career. Tuesday, May 31 at 16:00 JST on C700 or Zoom (Meeting ID: 990 6065 9864 Passcode: 855680).
Informational Architecture of Spacetime
OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Philipp Höhn (Qubits and Spacetime Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions
We ask for you understanding that the dates are subject to change due to the the current COVID-19 situation.
10 -Year Anniversary OISTers' Celebration
10-Year Anniversary OISTers' Celebration
Saturday, May 28th
Performances start 14:00–16:00 in the auditorium
Outdoor activities: food trucks, screen printing and music start at 10:30am (near the pond)
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge
Biweekly meeting of the OIST ukulele club
[Seminar] Prof. Prasad Perlekar "Turbulence in buoyancy-driven bubbly flows"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
[Seminar] Mr. Benedikt Schneider "Projective symmetry group classification of chiral Z_2 spin liquids on the pyrochlore lattice: Application to the XXZ model"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Analysis on Metric Spaces
Originally scheduled for May 2021, this workshop has been rescheduled to May 2022 due to the situation with COVID-19. The new dates are May 23 - 27, 2022.
OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Xiaodan Zhou (Analysis on Metric Spaces Unit) | Website | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions
沖縄科学技術大学院大学学園第34回理事会
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
Cosmos screening (episode 4)
Cosmos episode 4: Heaven and Hell
Japan Eco-Evo English Seminar #9: Gall-forming aphids, small insects with great power: female-biased sex allocation via female competition induces novel insect gall organogenesis in plants
The seminar aims to initiate interactions between international and Japanese researchers and students in the field of Ecology and Evolution. The 9th event is presented by Dr. Xin Tong, SPDR Fellow of Cell Function Research Team at RIKEN CSRS. Title: Gall-forming aphids, small insects with great power: female-biased sex allocation via female competition induces novel insect gall organogenesis in plants
Timeline 15:00~15:30: seminar 15:30~16:00: questions and discussion 16:00~: mixer Please apply from here: https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar
Graduation Ceremony 2022
The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to students who have graduated in the period May 2021 to March 2022.
沖縄科学技術大学院大学学園第28回評議員会
Please address inquiries to the President's Office.
OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season6: The struggle for coexistence: empirical approaches to understand mechanisms of persistence under competition
OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season6: The struggle for coexistence: empirical approaches to understand mechanisms of persistence under competition
[Seminar] Phononic Frequency Combs
Title: Phononic Frequency Combs
Speaker: Dr. Adarsh Ganesan from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
[Seminar] Mr. Atsushi Ueda "Tensor network renormalization study on the crossover in classical Heisenberg and RP2 models in two dimensions"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
English for Academic Email Correspondence - Formality
What is the appropriate level of formality when writing email to people of different cultures?
In this seminar we will look at some key differences between formal and informal English in emails. We will learn about the signs to look for in formal English emails and discuss cultural considerations.
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
Back from Golden Week and ready to uke out!
[Seminar] Professor Gabrielle Girardeau: Neural mechanisms for memory and emotional processing during sleep
[Neuroscience Club] Prof. Gabrielle Girardeau, Principal Investigator, CRCN Inserm / Sorbonne University
[Catch-All Mathematical Colloquium] The level-set mean curvature flow equation versus the total variation flow equation,Yoshikazu Giga (University of Tokyo )
Title: The level-set mean curvature flow equation versus the total variation flow equation
Abstract: The level-set mean curvature flow equation has been introduced to track an evolving hypersurface by its mean curvature after it develops singularities. A level-set of a solution of the level-set mean curvature flow equation moves its mean curvature. The total variation flow equation is often used to remove noise from images. Although these two equations look similar, analytic properties are quite different; the former equation is a local equation while the latter is a nonlocal equation. In this talk, we compare these two equations as well as a few applications.
Discussion Theme (for the 2nd part of the event) :
How to collaborate with researchers other than mathematicians
The colloquium will be held once a month online. Each event consists of a one-hour talk on mathematics followed by a one-hour diversity panel discussion session. Please register before May , 5 pm. Click here to register!
GMP2022: International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing
The online conference is going to be held on May 11, 2022.
"Probing quantum gravity and non-locality through R^2-like inflation", Sravan Kumar
QG visitor seminar. Speaker: Sravan Kumar, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Title: "Probing quantum gravity and non-locality through R^2-like inflation".
[Online] Promoting the Development and Transfer of Technology to Improve the Lives of Older Adults
Panelists: Ms. Lauren Ha from OIST’s TDIC; Dr. Michael Roizen, an expert on healthy longevity and wellness from the Cleveland Clinic; and recent winners of the Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation (HAPI), including Ms. Li Lian Ng, whose company Tetsuyu Healthcare has developed a new wound assessment and treatment system, and Dr. Siti Anom Bt. Ahmad, whose team at Universiti Putra Malaysia developed an autonomous delivery robot to meet the need for contactless delivery that emerged out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Register here
[Seminar] Ms. Giorgia Dellaferrera "Unveiling Principles of Neural Computations: from Artificial to Biological Intelligence, and back"
[Seminar] Variational problems with gradient constraint, Professor Xiao Zhong, University of Helsinki
Assertive Communication アサーティブコミュニケーション(Incl. follow-up)
(This training is offered in Japanese Only) 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。
[Seminar] Prof. Natalia Perkins "Disorder in the Kitaev spin liquid"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
It's ukulele time again! This time if the weather is nice enough we're actually going to meat on the beach behind Seaside House instead of in the lounge. If it's too windy or wet, we'll be back inside as always.
A Recipe for Scientific Synergy Series 2 by Dr. Ichiro Masai and Dr. Noriyuki Tsumaki
OIST - Osaka University: A Recipe for Scientific Synergy-Series 2 by Dr. Noriyuki Tsumaki and Dr. Ichiro Masai
Lunch Time Learning Session On Sea Turtles
OIST Beach Club and ChuraMura Lunch Time Learning Session
Guest Speaker: Carl Bastain
“Oceans – and the impact of humans and climate change” - OIST-Tohoku U. 2nd Joint Workshop on Marine Science
OIST-Tohoku U. 2 nd Joint Workshop on Marine Science “ Oceans – and the impact of humans and climate change ”
[Seminar] Sub-Gaussian heat kernel bounds and singularity of energy measures for symmetric diffusions,Professor Naotaka Kajino (Kyoto University)
This talk will present the result of a joint work with Mathav Murugan(University of British Columbia) that, for a symmetric diffusion on a complete locally compact separable metric space, two-sided sub-Gaussian heat kernel bounds imply the singularity of the energy measures with respect to the reference measure.
For self-similar (scale-invariant) diffusions on self-similar fractals, the singularity of the energy measures is known to hold in many cases by Kusuoka (1989, 1993), Ben-Bassat, Strichartz and Teplyaev (1999), Hino (2005), and Hino and Nakahara (2006), but these results heavily relied on the self-similarity of the space.
It was conjectured, and had remained open for the last two decades to prove, that the singularity of the energy measures should follow, without assuming the self-similarity, just from two-sided sub-Gaussian heat kernel bounds of the same form as those for diffusions on typical self-similar fractals. The main result of this talk answers this conjecture affirmatively.
The first half of the talk will be devoted to a brief introduction to self-similar diffusions (and their associated Dirichlet forms) on self-similar fractals and to sub-Gaussian heat kernel bounds for symmetric diffusions, so that the talk will (hopefully) be accessible even to those without prior knowledge about diffusions on fractals.
[Seminar] Professor Hidehiko Inagaki: A midbrain-thalamus-cortex circuit reorganizes cortical dynamics to initiate planned movement
[Neuroscience Club] Prof. Hidehiko Inagaki, Research Group Leader, Neural Dynamics & Cognitive Functions Group
We are excited to have an online seminar by Prof. Inagaki from Max Plank Florida Institute for Neuroscience.
You can join the seminar via ZOOM (meeting ID: 782 721 4941, Password: 436475).
OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season6: High Fidelity Genome Sequencing: What have we been missing?
OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season6: High Fidelity Genome Sequencing: What have we been missing ?
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
[Seminar] Mr. Hong Yang "Duality, Criticality, Anomaly, and Topology in Quantum Spin-1 Chains"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Faculty Lunchtime Seminar (Prof. Svante Pääbo)
Title: What makes human special? A molecular approach
Please welcome Prof. Pääbo, our Adjunct Professor, and join his very first faculty talk at OIST!
Yasha, Akiko, and the CPR team
4th QCS Webinar: "Public-cryptography is bad for security" with Dr. Daniel Shiu, Arqit
Dr. Daniel Shiu, Chief Cryptographer of Arqit, a leading company with transformational quantum encryption technology, will speak on "Public-cryptography is bad for security".
Registration link: TUESDAY, 19 APRIL 2022, 5:00PM (JST) | OIST Groups
[Seminar] Prof. Hiroshi Kontani "Exotic QLC states in Fe-based superconductors, kagome metals, and twisted bilayer graphene"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
Japan Eco-Evo English Seminar #8: Individual-based temporal beta-diversity: Individual turnover and compositional shift in a community
The seminar aims to initiate interactions between international and Japanese researchers and students in the field of Ecology and Evolution. The 8th event is presented by Ryosuke Nakadai from National Institute for Environmental Studies.
Please register from the next link: https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar
Title: Individual-based temporal beta-diversity: Individual turnover and compositional shift in a community
Timeline 15:00~15:30: seminar 15:30~16:00: questions and discussion 16:00~: mixer
Abstract: As increasing the necessity to assess the influences of global climate change and anthropogenic disturbances on biodiversity, the concept of beta-diversity has been extended to a temporal context and has been intensively studied in recent years. In studies of temporal beta-diversity, methodologies used in spatial beta-diversity have often been used simply. However, temporal beta-diversity often includes "the same individual" between two communities implicitly, which has not been the case with spatial communities, so it is necessary to consider the effects of individual turnover and persistence for quantifying temporal beta-diversity. I focused on both individual identity and the persistence of individuals within a temporal beta-diversity framework and developed some novel indices. In my presentation, I will explain the novel indices which I recently developed and the concepts behind them, showing examples of analysis. I would also like to discuss the prospects for community assemblages through both time and individual identity.
English for Academic Email Correspondence - Structuring Content
Ricardo Semler, CEO at Semco SA says: "The longer the message, the greater the chance of misinterpretation. "
Putting yourself in your recipient’s shoes is key to getting your email read.
Orators Meeting for Communication & Public Speaking
Come and join us for an exciting and fulfilling meeting on building better communication skills through impromptu speaking exercises, listening to prepared speeches, and providing constructive feedback. We run our meetings at lunchtime every other Friday. Email oist.tm@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to receive further information
Grand Opening of Lab4, Level D Lounge
Join us for the Grand Opening of the cafe and lounge space in Lab4, Level D. President Peter Gruss and VP for BFM Scott Rudisel will speak at the event.
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge
Ukulele club meets again this Thursday, April 14 at 8:00 PM in the Seaside Lounge, typhoons permitting!
Ultracold Atoms Japan 2022
OIST Workshop | Main organizer: Thomas Busch (Quantum Systems Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required). | Website | Venue: Seminar Room B250, OIST Main Campus and Online
This conference will be a hybrid conference with both online and on-site attendees. We will accept on-site participants from within Japan only.
We ask for you understanding that the dates are subject to change due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation.
ORC Assembly
The next ORC Assembly will be the last for the previous ORC representatives and the first for the new representatives! Please join us as we hand over to the new office.
Also on the agenda: Future plans of the new office, with plenty of time for discussion, and a report on the recent Faculty Assembly.