Past Events

OIST Workshops

OIST Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2025)

2025年6月23日 (月) (All day)2025年7月10日 (木) (All day)
OIST Seaside House

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Erik De Schutter (Computational Neuroscience Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Tutorial sessions and meals are closed sessions (for registered participants only).

Innovation

OIST Innovation Open Hour

2025年6月20日 (金) 14:00 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? Want to apply for Round 14 of the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Seminar

TSVP Talk: "Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Matter" by Zhu-Xi Luo

2025年6月19日 (木) 15:30 16:30
L4E48 and zoom

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

[Seminar] "The evolution of metabolic endosymbioses" by Prof. Eric Libby

2025年6月19日 (木) 10:30 11:30
L4F01, Lab4

Dr. Eric Libby, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umea University.

Professional Development

第3回 大学職員向け勉強会 (日本語) / #3 Study Session for University Staff (JP)

2025年6月18日 (水) 16:00 17:00
Zoom (要登録)
*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第3回大学職員向け勉強会  「 研究リソースと研究支援 」 (日本語) Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub
Training

【June 18th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【6/18】 旅費相談会

2025年6月18日 (水) 15:00
Meeting Room A151, Center Bldg

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

June 18th, 2025 (Wed) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

Culture

沖縄「慰霊の日」 講演会 2025

2025年6月17日 (火) 15:00 17:00
OIST講堂

June 23 is Okinawa Memorial Day. To mark the occasion, a special lecture on Okinawa's history and war will be held on June 17 (Tue) 15:00-17:00 in the OIST Auditorium.

Recreation

Child-rearing Support Community : lunchtime Chat!

2025年6月17日 (火) 11:30 13:30
Child-rearing Support Community : lunchtime Chat!
Symposium

TSVP Symposium: Aspects of Generalized Symmetries

2025年6月16日 (月) (All day)2025年6月20日 (金) (All day)
L5D23

Symposium : Aspects of Generalized Symmetries

From June 16-21, 2025 at OIST Lab 5 D23

This symposium is part of the TSVP Thematic Program "Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Matter" . The program will run from May 12 to July 5, 2025 .

Innovation

OIST Innovation Open Hour

2025年6月13日 (金) 14:00 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? Want to apply for Round 14 of the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Culture

沖縄 慰霊の日写真展

2025年6月13日 (金) (All day)2025年7月2日 (水) (All day)
OISTセンター棟C階

このたび、沖縄慰霊の日にあわせて特別写真展を開催いたします。

Professional Development

第2回 大学職員向け勉強会 (日本語) / #2 Study Session for University Staff (JP)

2025年6月12日 (木) 16:00 17:00
Zoom (要登録)
*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第2回大学職員向け勉強会 「研究活動の内幕と背景」 (日本語) Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub
Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Advancing LLM Post-training via Bilevel Optimization" by Tianyi Chen

2025年6月12日 (木) 15:00 16:00
L5D23 and zoom

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

Decoy-state optical quantum information processing with coherent states

2025年6月12日 (木) 13:00 14:00
L5D23

Speaker: Dr. Wenyuan Wang, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Professional Development

第1回 大学職員向け勉強会 (日本語) / #1 Study Session for University Staff (JP)

2025年6月9日 (月) 16:00 17:00
Zoom (要登録)
*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第1回大学職員向け勉強会 「科学技術と研究者」 (日本語) Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub
Professional Development

OIST Innovation Open Hour

2025年6月6日 (金) 14:00 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? Want to apply for Round 14 of the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Seminar

[Seminar] Doing more with the same using metastable states of trapped ions, Jameson O'Reilly, University of Oregon

2025年6月6日 (金) 13:00 14:30
L4E01

Today’s most advanced ion trap quantum computers have at most one qubit per ion, each defined within the ground state manifold. Additional non-qubit ions provide sympathetic cooling to keep the computational ions cold enough to perform many rounds of high-fidelity coherent operations. Typically, the two subsets of ions must be different species to prevent cooling light from disturbing the computation. To bypass this added system complexity, we can instead promote our computational ions to a long-lived excited state that is isolated from the ground-state cooling transitions. This promotion also enables new features including erasure conversion and projective state preparation and cooling. We will discuss two recent efforts to develop this architecture: entangling gates between metastable qubits and mid-circuit sympathetic cooling and readout of a metastable ion by a ground-state ion. Finally, we will take advantage of the larger metastable manifold to explore high-fidelity qudit control.

OIST Workshops

12th International Symposium on Leaf Surface Microbiology (“Phyllosphere 2025”)

2025年6月6日 (金) (All day)2025年6月9日 (月) (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium+Meeting Rooms), OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Armitage (Integrative Community Ecology Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Seminar

Seminar "Homogenized Boussinesq and Korteweg-De Vries models for anisotropic propagation of water waves over a structured ridge In collaboration with Amin Chabchoub"

2025年6月5日 (木) 11:30 12:30
Seminar Room C700, Lab 3

Speaker 1) Kim Pham, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France

Speaker 2) Agnès Maurel, Langevin Institute, ESPCI Paris – France

Seminar

Analysis on Metric Spaces Seminar 2025 | Topological regularity of Busemann spaces, Professor Tadashi Fujioka, Kyoto University

2025年6月4日 (水) 16:00 17:00
L4F01+zoom
Title: Topological regularity of Busemann spaces, Professor Tadashi Fujioka, Kyoto University Abstract:

We discuss the topological regularity theorem for Busemann spaces of nonpositive curvature, while reviewing the corresponding results for Alexandrov spaces and CAT spaces. All of these are metric spaces with upper or lower curvature bounds in some synthetic senses, and we address the question of when such spaces are topological manifolds. This is joint work with Shijie Gu (Northeastern University, China). Preprint available at arXiv:2504.14455.

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Seminar

[Seminar] "Why presynaptic inhibition?" by Henning Sprekeler

2025年6月4日 (水) 15:00 16:00
L5D23 and zoom

Talk by Professor Henning Sprekeler, Technische Universität Berlin. Target audience : Students and Researchers interested in the field Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration.

Research

CityUHK x OIST Online Workshop 

2025年6月4日 (水) 10:00 17:45
Online

CityUHK x OIST Online Workshop (June 4, 2025, 09:00-16:45 HKT/10:00-17:45 JST)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Active materials and reactive fluids" by Prof. Chun Liu

2025年6月3日 (火) 16:00 17:00
L4E48

Title: Active materials and reactive fluids

Speaker: Prof. Chun Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

2025年6月3日 (火) 15:00 16:00
L4F01 and online on Zoom
Berta Hudak , National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei Title: Representation theory of the Hu algebras
Seminar

Seminar "Bubble column fluid dynamics: a multi-scale perspective" by Prof. Giorgio Besagni

2025年6月3日 (火) 14:00 15:00
Lab3 C700

[Speaker] Prof. Giorgio Besagni, Associate Professor, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Innovation

POC Program — Round 14 Call for Applications

2025年6月1日 (日) (All day)2025年10月1日 (水) (All day)

The Round 14 call for application of the OIST Innovation Proof of Concept (POC) Program ends on 1 October. Apply to receive funding, training, and a supportive community to help you turn your groundbreaking research idea into a technology, product or service.

Professional Development

OIST Innovation Open Hour

2025年5月30日 (金) 14:00 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Seminar

Seminar: Ultrastructural readout of in vivo synaptic activity for functional connectomics by Dr Arnd Roth, UCL

2025年5月29日 (木) 15:00 16:00
Lab3 C700

Speaker: Dr Arnd Roth (University College London, Wolfson Inst for Biomedical Research), hosted by Computational Neurosciece Unit (Erik De Schutter)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Harnessing Sunlight: A Villager’s Dream" by Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, UCSB

2025年5月28日 (水) 10:00 11:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Seminar by Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen , Director of Center for Polymers and Organic Solids; Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture by Jens Nielsen

2025年5月26日 (月) 13:30 15:00
B250 Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater

Presidential Lecture by Jens Nielsen: New insight into cellular metabolism from the use of mathematical models

Seminar

Career Talk: A few learnings from my career in leadership at University by Dr. Dina Petranovic Nielsen

2025年5月26日 (月) 10:00 11:00
C210

In my talk I will briefly walk you through my career development from my native country Croatia, via France, Denmark, Sweden and USA and I will explain what I wanted to achieve in my career: why and how I made the decisions that I did, and how those have served me. I will select a few main learnings that can be used as advice for everyone. I will use the example of my current job as the Chief Science Officer, Chief Partnerships Officer and Senior Executive Advisor to the Provost to explain how I work in the context of my union (EU), country (Denmark), in the context of my University (Technical University of Denmark) and the context of my research center (Center for Biosustainability), and how hopefully it all comes together to benefit the world.

Campus

Graduation Ceremony 2025

2025年5月24日 (土) (All day)
OIST Auditorium

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who graduated in the period May 2024 to April 2025. The ceremony will take place at the OIST Auditorium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.

The event will be streamed online for those who cannot attend in person. For more information on the graduation program, speakers, and graduates, please visit: https://www.oist.jp/graduation

For any questions, please contact: graduation@oist.jp

Professional Development

OIST Innovation Open Hour

2025年5月23日 (金) 14:00 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Mechanical Problem Solving in Mice" by Henning Sprekeler

2025年5月22日 (木) 15:00 16:00
L5D23 and zoom

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).

Training

【May 22th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【5/22】 旅費相談会

2025年5月22日 (木) 15:00
Meeting Room A151, Center Bldg

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

2025/05/22(Thu) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

Seminar

[Seminar] Classical Rotation of Quantum Spins and Quantum Rotations of Classical Particles

2025年5月20日 (火) 14:00 15:00
Seminar Room C700 - Lab 3

Dr Alexander Wood, The University of Melbourne

Seminar

Seminar "Nonlinear dynamics of transitional and turbulent flows" by Prof. Jae Sung Park

2025年5月20日 (火) 13:30 14:30
Lab3 B700

[Speaker] Prof. Jae Sung Park, Richard L. McNeel Associate Professor of Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Seminar

[Seminar]"Inflammation and Fibrosis in Pericyte-Deficient Retina" by Prof.Akiyoshi Uemur_Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciencesa

2025年5月16日 (金) 15:00 16:00
Lab5D23
Prof. Akiyoshi Uemura

-Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences

-Uemura Eye Clinic

Seminar

[Seminar] "Endosymbiotic Apicomplexans of Marine Holobionts: bridging ecology & evolution" by Dr. Anthony Bonacolta

2025年5月16日 (金) 14:00 15:00
C700, Lab3

Dr. Anthony M. Bonacolta, Postdoctoral Reseasrch Fellow, The Keeling Lab, The University of British Columbia.

Professional Development

OIST Innovation Open Hour

2025年5月16日 (金) 14:00 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Seminar

[Seminar] "Preservation of concavity properties by the Dirichlet heat flow and applications" by Prof. Paolo Salani

2025年5月15日 (木) 16:40 17:40
L4E01

Title: Preservation of concavity properties by the Dirichlet heat flow and applications

Speaker: Prof. Paolo Salani (University of Florence)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Initial traces and solvability of porous medium equation with power nonlinearity" by Prof. Kazuhiro Ishige

2025年5月15日 (木) 15:30 16:30
L4E01

Title: Initial traces and solvability of porous medium equation with power nonlinearity

Speaker: Prof. Kazuhiro Ishige (University of Tokyo)

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Experimentally Dealing With the Impacts of an Increasing Number of Factors: Global Change and Soil as a Case Study" by Matthias C. Rillig

2025年5月15日 (木) 15:00 16:00
L5D23 and zoom

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

[OCQT Seminar] Architectures and algorithms for early FTQC

2025年5月15日 (木) 13:30
Lab 5, Level D, Seminar Room 23 (L5D23)

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to another seminar in the OCQT Seminar series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Andreas M. D. Thomasen from QunaSys. He will deliver a talk on: "Architectures and algorithms for early FTQC"

Seminar

[Seminar] How was group transfer potential used in emerging metabolism? by Prof. Shawn McGlynn

2025年5月15日 (木) 9:30 10:30
Lab4, Level F, Seminar Room 01 (L4F01)

Speaker: Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo

Recreation

万華鏡: OISTフォトグラフィック・ソサイエティによるポップアップ写真展

2025年5月15日 (木) 9:00 16:00
センターC レベル

本展では、技法もレベルも表現もさまざまな写真が並びますが、それぞれが不思議と似た感情を映し出しています。風景から内面の深い自己表現まで、きらめくぼかしの中にそっと繋がる瞬間が散りばめられています。

Wellness

ORC Schrödinger's Cake Assembly

2025年5月14日 (水) 12:00
C210 (Center Building)

We would like to invite you to to our next ORC Schrödinger's Cake Assembly during which there might be cake, but you will only know if you come (online version not available).

Location: C209 (Center Building)

Time: 12:00 PM, May 14 (Wednesday). Please go ahead and bring your lunch with you!

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

2025年5月13日 (火) 15:00 16:00
L4F01 and online on Zoom
Sebastian Opper , Charles University, Prague Title: Autoequivalences of triangulated categories via Hochschild cohomology
Seminar

Evolution Seminar - On intracellular structure and disease

2025年5月13日 (火) 10:30 11:30
L5D23

Speaker: Dan Kehila, Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit, OIST

Research

[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2025-1 by Mr. Niklas Muennighoff, Stanford University

2025年5月13日 (火) 10:00 11:00
Online (Zoom only)

Speaker: Mr. Niklas Muennighoff (Stanford University)

Title: s1: Simple test-time scaling

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