This event is part of UMIGOMI ZERO WEEK ( https://uminohi.jp/umigomi/zeroweek/) .

Please:

In case of rain, the event will be postponed to Sunday, May 21.

Volunteer certificates are issued on request.

Contact Mayu at +81 50 54696440 with questions.

This event is part of OIST SDGs Initiative.

Please see attached flyer for map to the event.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to students who have graduated in the period May 2022 to April 2023.

Please join us for an informal discussion with Prof Serge Haroche…Serge was joint awardee of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”!

Speakers: Dr. Jani Tanzil, the Deputy Director of the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory and a Senior Research Fellow at the Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI), National University of Singapore Dr. Lionel Ng, Research Fellow at TMSI, National University of Singapore Mr. Ow Yong Wei Long, Research Assistant with the Coral Team at TMSI, National University of Singapore

Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

This talk will a broad overview of marine science research conducted in Singapore, with a focus on coral reef ecology and restoration efforts. This talk will also share more about Singapore’s only offshore marine research facility, the St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory (SJINML), as a research infrastructure open to all marine science researchers, both local and international ( https://sjinml.nus.edu.sg/ ).

Come buy and sell your 2nd hand things.

No registration required.

Grab a table from Conference Center Meeting Room 4. Put back your table at the end.

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).

Seminar by Dr. Tomas Pluskal (IOCHB, Prague, CZ)

Aivia Workshop: Image Analysis Software

Teen Night for junior high school and high school kids only! Social night - play games, watch movies, do projects, socialize. Wednesdays from 18:30-19:30 in conference center meeting room 4. All teen s welcome!

Seminar "Development of novel fast scintillators based on organic polymers" by Professor Masanori Koshimizu.

Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Prof. Ichiro Oda, University of the Ryukyus Title: BRST formalism of Weyl conformal gravity in Weyl geometry

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

OIST-UT Joint talk series for future science-Season7:Exploring synaptic function through fluorescence imaging. *Please register in advance if you are participating onsite.

Come have lunch and talk about sustainability related things!

New restaurants, event ideas, campus gossip, anything goes.

OIST Science 100 Symposium: Mapping OIST's Scientific Expansion to 100 PIs.

The symposium will explore OIST's current scientific standing in each field and encourage an exchange of ideas about the future direction. Additionally, it will offer an opportunity for colleagues and community members to connect and contribute to driving forward OIST's research and collaboration for achieving the university mission.

Open to all OIST members.

Registration required

This is a "Key Symposium" arranged by the Journal of Internal Medicine and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | Special Registration for OIST members: Register here (OIST login required) | For general information please go the symposium's website .

Q: What is the difference between a ukulele player and a savings bond? A: One will mature and make money.

Teen Night for junior high school and high school kids only!

Social night - play games, watch movies, do projects, socialize.

Wednesdays from 18:30-19:30 in conference center meeting room 4.

All teens welcome!

National holiday

National holiday

National holiday

Dr Huai-Ti Lin, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering

National holiday

Artificial neural network for understanding neural basis of mouse decision making by Akihiro Funamizu (Lecturer, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), University of Tokyo)

If you've never sung "Closing Time" to an audience of hermit crabs have you ever really lived?

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).

Language: English

Transcriptional heterogeneity arising from a signal transduction-transcription factor network

Prof. Mariko Okada

Laboratory for Cell Systems, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University

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

科学技術週間＆アースデースペシャル

親子映画会

Public Lecture on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture in the evening

One day French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality - The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds” including a public lecture and Lab tours in the evening

Prof Tim Taminiau from QuTech in Delft, Netherlands, is an experimentalists who studies the use of defects in diamond continaing electron and nuclear spins for quantum technology. In this talk he will discuss recent progress in controlling such electron-nuclear spin systems for quantum networks and for distributed quantum computations and simulations.

A faculty-Grad School discussion on the use of AI tools in higher education .

OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to host Prof. Jimmy Dooley from the department of biological sciences, Purdue University, USA. If you are interested in knowing how slight twitchy movements during your sleep in your infancy shape your brain, make sure to join the seminar!

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Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Connolly

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

Join us next week on Tuesday, April 18th in seaside lounge from 18:30!

Visitor Seminar hosted by Quantum Gravity Unit Speaker: Dr. Hisayoshi Muraki, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics Title: "BMS algebra from Virasoro algebras"

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

Speaker: Nina Stiesdal, Institut of Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany

This is an externally organized event, For more information please go the conference website .

You can't spell "Ukulele Club" without U! And also "bulk eel cul" but that's harder to interpret.

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).

Prof. Hiroki Takahashi, Assistant Professor of the Experimental Quantum Information Physics Unit

Quantum Gravity Unit visitor seminar. Speaker: Dr. Marco Michel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Title: Quantum Informational Analogue Models of Black Holes: What Happens After Half Evaporation?

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

Language: English

[Speaker] Prof. Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara