OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024 will be held July 29th-August 7th. Please welcome 20 KEIO undergraduate medical school students to OIST! If you would like to get involved, check out events that OISTers are welcome to join!

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"Grants in Practice" session will be held at OIST on July 25th, for students and researchers interested in learning ways to successfully apply to grants, like the European MSCA

Speaker 1: Mr. Jose Restom (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: MBZUAI, UAE)

Title: Handling Data Heterogeneity via Architectural Design for Federated Visual Recognition

Speaker 2: Dr. Mohammad Sabokrou, Staff Scientist, OIST

Title: Universal Novelty Detection Through Adaptive Contrastive Learning

The details will be updated

Language: English

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December.

おまけ回「疑問の解消と理解の掘り下げ」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

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).

Title : Mechanisms of adaptive learning in biological neural networks Speaker : Nelson Totah This seminar is part of the TSVP Thematic Program: Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Theoretical Lessons Learned From Invertebrate and Vertebrate Brains

[Speaker] Prof. Yasushi Takeda, Prof. em. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, ex Scientist HEST, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Quantum Gravity Unit Guest Seminar Speaker: Paul Luis Roehl (DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK) Title: "The Giant Graviton Expansion"

Dr. Cheryl Lynn AMES, Professor, Tohoku University

The details will be updated

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).

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers developed and hosted annually by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin in November. In 3–minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin.

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第４回大学職員向け勉強会　「大学組織」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Speaker 1: Ms. Weiqiu You (University of Pennsylvania)

Title: Sum-of-Parts: Faithful Attributions for Groups of Features

Speaker 2: Mr. Xiaoyuan Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)

Title : Multiobjective meets machine learning, from a single solution, a finite set of solutions to infinite solutions.

OISTキッズキャンパスツアー2024

[Speaker] Jessica Nitschke, Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University

[Title] Modelling Social Complexity & State Formation in Early Egypt

Speaker: Dr. Shreyas Mandre

University Associate Professor of Fluid-Structure Interaction, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Hosted by: Professor Mahesh Bandi, Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit

When physical processes repeat over either growing or shrinking scales (length and/or time), the dynamics shows self-similarity. The condition of self-similarity appears strict, but it is the building block of mathematical modelling. This lecture covers (i) concept of scale invariance as a pre-requisite for self-similarity, (ii) self-similarity in physical systems and mathematical models, (iii) the two kinds of self-similarity -- the first and second kinds, and (iv) a simple mathematical example to elucidate the second kind of self-similarity. The lecture presents examples from fluid dynamics. No previous knowledge of or experience with scale-invariance or self-similarity is assumed.

Date: July 16, 2024 Speaker: Professor Evan Economo, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit Chair: Professor Nic Shannon, Theory of Quantum Matter Unit

Speaker: Dr. Haruna Fujioka, Assistant Professor of Okayama University

岡山大学 藤岡春菜 助教授 ( 個人HP )

社会性昆虫、 昆虫生態学、動物行動学、時間生物学

Vespa hornet larvae produce a rhythmic 'rasping' sound by rubbing their mandibles against the cell wall of the nest. The call is thought to be a larval provisioning cue. However, detailed observation of larval calls has been limited to a few species, and it is not known whether the call can be influenced by the external environment or internal larval states such as hunger. We conducted laboratory observations of larval calls to investigate the effect of 1) larval stage, 2) daily variation, and 3) larval hunger level. Vespa mandarinia larvae produced sounds independent of light conditions, time of day, worker absence, and hunger level. A key finding of this research is the novel discovery that larvae produce sounds at night, a previously undocumented behavior.

Quantum Gravity Unit Guest Seminar Speaker: Ritankar Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) Title: "Tensionless Strings in a Kalb-Ramond Background"

[Speaker] Geoff Nitschke, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town

[Title] Complexity in Brains and Bodies

Speaker : Dr. Samuel Crew (Imperial College London, UK) Title : The quantum path signature Date and time : 16 ^th July Tuesday at 10:00 Location : L4F01 Language: English

National holiday

Open Call for TSVP Visiting Scholars in FY2025

Coming soon.

Dr. Robin Troiville-Cazilhac, Sorbonne Université

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

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 1: Mr. Rahul Steiger (ETH Zurich)

Title: In-Context Predictions on ICU Time-Series

Speaker 2: Mr. Thibault De Surrel (Université Paris-Dauphine)

Title: How Riemannian geometry can help us build better Brain Computer Interfaces

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Okinawa 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?).

Nikon DAY @ OIST

Speaker 1: Mr. Kazusato Oko (The University of Tokyo)

Title: How to learn a sum of diverse features provably: A case study of ridge combinations

Speaker 2: Mr. Yuki Takezawa (Kyoto University)

Title: Polayk Meets Parameter-free Clipped Gradient Descent

This is the 2nd career talk session collabolated with Sokendai. This session is open to other universityes too. Discover the keys to success in academia as accomplished OIST alumnae share personal anecdotes, invaluable advice, and practical strategies for navigating the challenges and seizing the opportunities that lie ahead. Do not miss out this event which offers a golden opportunity to connect with our alumnae, forge meaningful connections, and gain inspiration from those who have walked the path before you.

We will have two of OIST almuni, Dr. Kamila Mustafina and Dr. Swathy Babu.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia. Title: "Non-Supersymmetric Heterotic Strings".

Nutrix is an international digital health startup creating a SaaS platform to support patients with chronic diseases, aiming to enhance their well-being, quality of life, and longevity. Join us as Maria shares her path from startup to success!

Language: English

Everyone is welcome to join (no registration required)

CNS unit will host a seminar "New Insights on the Hippocampus Codes using Complex Spatial Navigation", by Prof. Jean-Marc Fellous, the University of Arizona.

Title : Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Bridging Biological and Artificial Neural Networks

TSVP Symposium linked to Thematic Program on "Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Theoretical Lessons Learnt From Invertebrate and Vertebrate Brains"

This in-person interactive workshop is for graduate students Class2023. This ICOGS* workshop is offered by the Georgia Tech Effective Team Dynamics Initiative and will be facilitated by Prof Mary Lynn Realff (MSE). * (ICOGS) Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Graduate Students Working as part of a team, or group, comes with both benefits and challenges. The benefits include interacting with people who bring different viewpoints, expertise and experiences to the table. However, the challenges include communicating effectively with people who have different backgrounds and dealing constructively with conflict due to different viewpoints. The workshop will explore how diversity in a team can strengthen it, different approaches to dealing with conflict, how to have a “difficult conversation” with both peers and your supervisor, and strategies for avoiding communications problems. Take home tools to improve your team skills will be provided.

Physics colloquium. Speaker: Igor Klebanov (Princeton University). Title: "1+1 Dimensional Gauge Theory: Lattice vs. Continuum".

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Speaker : Sachiko Tsuda (Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University)

[Speaker] Michael D. Graham, Steenbock Professor of Engineering and Harvey D. Spangler Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This in-person interactive workshop is for graduate students, post-docs, and other researchers. This ICOGS* workshop is offered by the Georgia Tech Effective Team Dynamics Initiative and will be facilitated by Prof Mary Lynn Realff (MSE). * (ICOGS) Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Graduate Students Working as part of a team, or group, comes with both benefits and challenges. The benefits include interacting with people who bring different viewpoints, expertise and experiences to the table. However, the challenges include communicating effectively with people who have different backgrounds and dealing constructively with conflict due to different viewpoints. The workshop will explore how diversity in a team can strengthen it, different approaches to dealing with conflict, how to have a “difficult conversation” with both peers and your supervisor, and strategies for avoiding communications problems. Take home tools to improve your team skills will be provided.

This session will be focusing on Contribution and Values, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Crucial Conversation, adn Unconditional Positive Regards.

[Speaker] Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Fluids, University of California at Santa Barbara

Speaker: Sebastian Murk

Title: Light rings and causality for nonsingular ultracompact objects sourced by nonlinear electrodynamics

Open Call for TSVP Thematic Programs in FY2025/26