Przemek-san is a long time practitioner and teacher of Ashtanga Yoga, devoted to the traditional teachings of this method. A dynamic practice of Asanas (positions), involving deep concentration and meditation, with emphasize on all the aspects of Yoga and how to apply them off the mat. With over 18 years of experience in and out of India, he would like to share his philosophy on his personal practice of Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation.

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.

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Nico Fischer (Quantum Gravity). Title: "An introduction to spontaneous symmetry breaking in (Q)FT".

This Friday, July 9 ^th at 10:00 am in L4E48, Dr. Alessandro Trani (Astrophysics, Quantum Gravity Unit) and Jigyasa Arora (Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Genomics Unit) will share the latest research advancements in their respective fields here in OIST. Stay tuned! For more info: https://groups.oist.jp/orc/scientific-talks | Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/87619328232?pwd=VFlNV1c3NGJmdlM5dzZqNFNySWxBdz09

Mark your calendar! On Thursday, July 8 ^th at 16:00 , OIST's STG Associates Mirona Chirienco and Petra Svetlikova will share insights of their research & career with us during the Teatime with STG Series! This editions' topic is " Sweet Home...Okinawa! " a special topic for all of us that now call this beautiful island our home. Join us in room L4F22c or Zoom ( https://oist.zoom.us/j/84610930360?pwd=YmRybTR4UjhCUjI3OFAxQ2txRnEvZz09 )!

Join us for the first RAM 2021 Poster Session ! For printed posters, starting at 13:30 in Lab4F Patio (terrace) and also in room L4F36 for digital posters. For more info: https://groups.oist.jp/orc/poster-sessions

Join us for the first Researcher Blitz Session on July 8th at noon! ( https://oist.zoom.us/j/88635310209?pwd=emp2UUhMaHNxakpuN2pDTm54TzVSUT09 ) Research Blitz Sessions are 3 minutes talks (max. 3 slides) to be held on Thursdays (July 8th, 15th, 29th), always at noon in room L4E48. Sessions will last 1 hour + 30 min for discussion after all presentations. Judges will score the presentations and give awards for the best presenters.

Celebrate the Japanese holiday Tanabata by joining this online session on the science and art of Okinawa traditional bashofu weaving. Panelists: Dr. Yoko Nomura, OIST; Ms. Roosmarjin Pallandt, Artist.

Register here.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "Self-dual GR scattering in de Sitter".

What inspires people to start their own company? Why do post-docs transition to becoming entrepreneurs? What are the highs, the lows, and how are researchers suited to entrepreneurship? If you are interested in these questions and more, then please come to this panel talk where 3 founders will discuss their thoughts and experiences on starting their own companies.

Seminar by Prof. Wei Song, Tsinghua University (Beijing)

What do you do before finally submitting your text? We will discuss some strategies and reviewers responses.

How various civilizations tried and failed to achieve the Scientific Revolution in the 6th century BC. Speaker: Yasha Neiman.

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Join us for Researcher Appreciation Month 2021 in July, where we celebrate the contribution of researchers at OIST, take the opportunity to share our work with the OIST community, and get to know our colleagues. There will be short talks, poster sessions, and lab tours, professional development events, invited speakers, a teatime series of panel/discussion style events, a science-art exhibition, and more

QG group meeting. Speaker: Aritra Banerjee. Title: "A short and dull tale of long and null strings"

【オンライン配信】SCIENCE TALK　沖縄から世界に羽ばたく未来の科学者トーク vol.5

Ever had someone say that your writing is difficult to read? In this seminar we will look at how to write in a way that makes your texts flow.

Magali Soumillon, Co-Founder of Flexomics, will talk about how she has developed a genomic analysis technology, and why she developed it first in an academic and then as an entrepreneur.

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Tell Me Something I Don't Know lunchtime event. All are welcome, but must be prepared to tell a cool science story.

On-site Zeiss lattice light sheet ( lattice light sheet 7) demonsration

Date: From 23rd (Wed) to 29th (Tue) of June

Venue: B380, Lab1

Registration is required to attend the demonstration.

Prof. Norbert M. Linke is a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, working on quantum applications with trapped ions, including quantum computing.

Ever had someone say that your writing is difficult to read? In this seminar we will look at how to write in a way that makes your texts flow.

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

Seminar hosted by QG Unit. Speaker: Prof. Marika Taylor , University of Southampton Title: Fluxes and Charges in an Expanding Universe

STEM分野で博士課程やリサーチインターンシップに興味がある人を対象としたセッションです。言語は英語で行われます。OISTの博士課程やリサーチインターン、それぞれの出願プロセス、入学後の流れ、経済支援、大学院生活などが紹介され、ゲストスピーカーとして、OISTの現役博士課程学生2名が登壇します。そのうち1名はOISTでリサーチインターンシップの経験者。今回は物理学と脳神経科学を専門とした2名が登壇しますが、それ以外の分野の方も、もちろん歓迎です！

In this seminar we will look at verbs, noun phrases and the types of choices that you will need to make to suit your discipline's specific style.

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

After Mini Course: Graphic Design in Science, your beautiful graph will make people forget about your poor fashion sense.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for anyone.

Food drive to help families in Okinawa, especially due to the closure of local schools! All collected items will be donated to HelpOki (an NPO), which will then distribute the items to people in Okinawa.

These two 2-hr webinar series provided attendees with the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . Upon completion of this workshop series, attendees were able to articulate relevant research questions, search for appropriate grant opportunities aligned with their research focus, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research to enhance their career.

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

These two 2-hr webinar series provided attendees with the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . Upon completion of this workshop series, attendees were able to articulate relevant research questions, search for appropriate grant opportunities aligned with their research focus, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research to enhance their career.

After Mini Course: Graphic Design in Science, your beautiful graph will make people forget about your poor fashion sense.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for anyone.

Juan Carlos is a professional photographer and researcher from the Autonomous University of Mexico City, UACM. He has 28 years of experience. He began working on photography before the digital era. He learned the analog techniques and worked reproducing paintings for professional catalogs. He specialized in lab printing techniques. Currently, he is a researcher in the Autonomous University of Mexico City, UACM and belongs to the Communication and Culture Academy. He is specialized in narratives and photobook solutions.

Learn to see that there are common patterns for writing academic texts. We will consider response letters and look at the problem-solution pattern as an example before discussing others.

In this talk we will discuss: 1) Data-efficient methods for weakly-supervised whole slide classification with examples in cancer diagnosis and subtyping, allograft rejection etc. (Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021). 2) Harnessing weakly-supervised, fast and data-efficient WSI classification for identifying origins for cancers of unknown primary (Nature, 2021). 3) Discovering integrative histology-genomic prognostic markers via interpretable multimodal deep learning (IEEE TMI, 2020). 4) Deploying weakly supervised models in low resource settings without slide scanners, network connections, computational resources and expensive microscopes. 5) Bias and fairness in computational pathology algorithms.

Speaker: Dr. Faisal Mahmood, Assitant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School Register here .

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

OIST Quantum/Cyber Security Initiative The Science, the Opportunities, and the Real-World Challenges Co-hosted by Asia Society Japan Center & OIST

You have a green idea? You want to create impact and scale this idea? You should apply to the EU backed initiative Climate Launchpad. Christian Schmitz, Founder/CEO of PDIE Group will tell us about this exciting program.

Selection workshop for students seeking admission to the OIST PhD program in 2021