Ken's Burrito Dates: Every Wednesday Time: 11:30-until sold out Location: Center Building, Level C, Center Court

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).

8/13&27 12:00-16:00 Lab 1 Parking Lot

Language: English

Speaker: Dr. Atsushi Yokoi Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet) Osaka University

Title: A possible link between autonomic arousal and contextual inference process in human motor learning and control

OIST organizer: Jason Twamley (Quantum Machines Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Please show your OIST badge when entering the venue.

Public talk by OIST Visiting Artist Sputniko!

Title: On a sharp interface limit of the Kobayashi-Warren-Carter system

Speaker: Prof. Yoshikazu Giga (University of Tokyo)

The Provost Lecture Series 16

Calling All English Learners!

Join Us for a Debate Showdown

Are you ready to put your English skills to the test? Join us for a thrilling debate on December 6th at 2 PM in Lab 2 C600B. This is your chance to showcase your reading, writing, speaking, and listening abilities while sharpening your critical thinking skills.

Ganjuu is excited to host our guest speaker Stephanie Singleton, who will be speaking about the impacts of gut health and mindful eating on our wellbeing on December 5. ​

都市のためのよりスマートで環境にやさしい交通ソリューションを一緒に創り出しましょう！

Speaker: Mr. David O'Connell (OIST student)

Speaker :Yukio Tanaka: Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University

Language: English

Pablo Ocal, OIST

Title: Deformations of Frobenius algebras and noncommutative 2d topological quantum field theories

We are delighted to invite you to an engaging talk by Erlend T. Hovgaard , advisor, venture builder, innovation manager, and co-owner of Reodor —an Oslo-based venture and innovation studio dedicated to driving sustainable growth and creating impactful solutions. Erlend’s work spans multiple areas, with a particular focus on venture building and innovation for decarbonization and the green transition. In this session, he will share insights on building early-stage startups, complete with case studies, followed by an interactive Q&A.

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).

[Speaker] Dr. Damir Juric, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, UK and Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique, CNRS, France

Cultural Event Series (CluES): SCOTLAND Presented by OISTers from Scotland

Via Cultural Event Series we want to boost everyone’s experience by giving OISTers the opportunity to share their culture with the community and the community members to learn about a variety of cultures.

Speaker : Keiko Yamamoto (Korea Institute of Science and Technology: Networks, synaptic regulations, and functions in the cerebellum )

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).

Speaker :Devika Narain (Erasmus Medical Center, Circuit dynamics of temporal control)

イベントでは、OISTの最新研究・産学連携・スタートアップ支援プログラムを紹介いたします。

OISTと一緒に、産学連携の可能性について一緒に考えましょう！

*ネットワーキングあり

QG Seminar (Online) Speaker: Josh O'Connor (University of Mons, Belgium)

Title: Unfolding dual gravity fields in E11

OIST and JAIST entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) last year. As part of our collaborative efforts in research, both universities have agreed to leverage each other's strengths through cooperation. To commemorate the first anniversary of the MOU signing, a celebratory event will be held at OIST on November 27th.

Human prosperity has advanced alongside the development of science and technology, opening numerous uncharted frontiers. This symposium aims to foster transdisciplinary research and catalyze new collaborations among researchers from diverse fields. We warmly invite your participation.

Dutch pastries and quiches

Dr. Maxim Berezovski, Professor, University of Ottawa. Language: English.

National holiday

Every Friday 12:00-15:30 Lab 1 Parking lot

9th Okinawa Marine Science Workshop

Dr. Geraldine Echue, Deputy Editor, Advanced Materials, WILEY

Every Thursday 14:30-16:30 Baked goods Visitor parking near AEON

OIST Innovation and Suntory joint event. No registration needed.

Speaker: Prof. Ki-Ahm Lee (Seoul National University)

Title: Degenerate nonlinear partial differential equations in curvature flows

Speaker: Prof. John Parker(Durham University)

Cinematic Chemistry: The Journey of Electron Microscopy from Molecular Movies to Molecular Statistics

This event will bring together some junior and senior researchers to exchange and discuss the new developments in representation theory of algebras, combinatorics, algebraic geometry, polytopal geometry, cluster algebras and some aspects of theoretical physics. After a 5-day school centred around 4 mini-courses on some new directions of research, the event resumes with a 5-day conference that includes a broader range of subjects and speakers, as well as a poster session. We hope to encourage collaboration and collective research.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/autumn-oist-school-conference/home

東京でOIST Café大学院説明会を開催します！

沖縄科学技術大学院（OIST）での博士課程、リサーチインターンシップ、また様々なサイエンスワークショップについて紹介されます。

Session 2: November 15th, Friday, 13:30-15:00 @L5DE13 - Research Resources and Research Support - Organization of Universities

QG Seminar

Speaker: Yasuaki Hikida

Title: Engineering perturbative string duals for symmetric product orbifold CFTs

Prof. Jun Rekimoto, The University of Tokyo / Sony CSL Kyoto.

Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

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).

CYCLE展 2024~創造するエネルギー~

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) will organize the first OIST Career Fair on November 14th (Thu.), 2024. This career fair aims to provide opportunities for OIST students and companies in Japan to connect, build professional network, and create future employment. Through this, OIST students will be able to explore industry career paths, and companies will be able to learn the benefits of employing PhD holders.

沖縄科学技術大学院大学（OIST）では初となる、「OISTキャリアフェア2024」を11月14日（木）に開催します。本キャリアフェアは、本学の学生と日本の企業がつながり、プロフェッショナルなネットワークを構築し、将来の雇用を創出する機会を提供することを目的としています。キャリアフェアを通じて、OISTの学生は産業界でのキャリアパスを模索することができ、企業は博士号取得者を雇用するメリットを知る機会となることが期待されます。是非、参加をご検討ください。

Session 1: November 13th, Wednesday, 14:30-16:00 @L5DE13 - Researchers, and Science & Technology - Inside Story and Background of Research Activities Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki (Provost), Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai (C-Hub)

Daisuke Sagaki, University of Tsukuba

Title: Toward a Pieri rule for double quantum Grothendieck polynomials

Speaker: Prof. Yoldas Havva

Hands-on Workshop by Drs. Martin Kolisko, Elisabeth Hehenberger, Kacper Maciszewski, Monika Wisniewska, Biology Center CAS CZ. No registration required.