CAEE invited talk, Dr. Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, University College London

CAEE invited talk, Prof. Tom A. Williams, University of Bath

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Gergely Szöllősi (Model Based Evolutionary Genomics (Szöllősi) Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Powers from Brown University

Title: Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers

Language: English

Dr. Bernard de Massy, Institute of Human Genetics Montpellier

Dr. Gaku Amada, a JSPS Research Fellow PD at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, mechanisms of maintaining plant biodiversity in permafrost environments.

A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.

Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen

Talk on April 17, 9:00 am (JST) by James Warta, University of Missouri

Seminar by Dr. Piotr Ślęczkowski, Lodz University of Technology

QG seminar. Speaker: Richard van Dongen (University of Mons) Title: Self-dual holography

Dr. Guillaume Moissiard, LGDP UMR5096 CNRS/UPVD

Title: Horizontal mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group as scaling limit of an interacting particle system

Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Dirr (Cardiff University)

A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.

Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen

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: A structural journey through molecular life, death and design by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hiller , the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland

Talk by Nicolas Dirr, Cardiff University, on April 8 (Wed) from 3:00 p.m. at L4F01

Dr. Daya Shankar Pandey, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Science

Banaras Hindu University

A short course on the Tutte polynomial in graphs and matroids.

4 sessions only: April 7 and 9, and 14 and 16 (Tuesday and Thursday 10-12 in L4E45)

Dr. Remi Avohou is a post-doc in the Toriumi Unit

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Amin Chabchoub (Marine Physics and Engineering Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Short introductory survey on R programming

Short introductory survey on R programming

[Hybrid Seminar] "Project RAISE, Real-World Adaptive Intelligence Generated through Soft Embodiment" by Prof. Koh Hosoda, Kyoto University

March 30 (Mon) 2026, 11:00-12:00 @L5D23, Lab 5

ZOOM

Meeting ID: 982 0243 6241 Passcode: 834475

Speaker: Dr Ching Tat To, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tunghai University, Taichung City, Taiwan. Language: English

Cultural Event Series (CluES): Germany , presented by OISTers from Germany, will take place on Saturday, March 28 , at the Conference Center (Main Campus) starting from 5:00 PM. ALL members of the community, relatives, children and friends are welcome to attend this event. Entry is FREE. Join us for an evening of culture, music, crafts, and celebration. Don’t miss this chance to immerse yourself in German traditions! We will start with an interactive lecture, followed by a miniconcert of German classical music by Hokulani, then prepare May heart and Lanterns during workshops and finish with a Cologne-inspired carnival celebration with food tasting, music and a costume contest.

Spring Concert hosted by the joint collaboration of OIST x OPUA (Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts)

QG Lecture Series Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia, (OIST) Title: Review of some basic features of the SM and of GUTs

OISTは今年度、「地域中核イノベーション創出環境強化事業」を通じて、エネルギー・モビリティ・ドローン物流の各分野で実証を推進してきました。本シンポジウムでは、各共同事業者による成果報告をはじめ、分野横断的な統合ソリューションの可能性について幅広い関係者とともに議論します。

沖縄が直面する島嶼地域特有の課題を起点に、次年度以降の社会実装・横展開に向けた連携の方向性を展望します。

In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.

The featured VC for this round is Beyond Next Ventures .

Registration is required. If the number of applicants exceeds the available slots, OIST Innovation will select participants based on the information provided in the registration form and the strategic fit with the VC.

Strucshare Meeting by Rafael Ayala Hernandez

TSVP Talk, starting at 2pm 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: Laser cooling of aluminium monofluoride molecules in the deep ultraviolet

Speaker: Dr Dylan Brown, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

Speaker: Prof. Antonio Celani from The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP

Title: Decoding behavior with minimal and interpretable agent models

Coffee/Tea & Cookies will be served before the seminar at 15:00 - 15:30.

Mirror Lab Symposium: Frontiers in Recent Human Evolution

We will describe and discuss projects that explore genetic variants that emerged in the evolution of modern and archaic humans, and how such archaic variants affects humans today. We will also discuss projects that use ancient DNA to reconstruct the early peopling and history of the Japanese Archipelago. We will explore how we can intensify our collaborations in these areas and brainstorm about future research directions.

Admission free. Registration required.

National holiday

Neural Computation Unit will hold a retreat/reunion at Seminar Room B250 on OIST main campus. If you are interested in joining, please contact <ncus@oist.jp>.

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).

Dr. Leandro Quadrana, Institute of Plant Science. University Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France

Title: Hot atomic vapors: From fundamental science to quantum technologies

Speaker: Dr Robert Löw, Deputy Director, 5th Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

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).

RIKEN-OIST Workshop for Hybrid Intelligence & Collective Behaviour ( HIVE ) 2026

We live in a highly interconnected and digitalised world, where information spreads rapidly among vast numbers of humans and autonomous agents, shaping societies in unprecedentedly complex and large-scale ways. Despite long-standing interest in collective behaviour, fully understanding it requires insights from cross-disciplinary approaches. Yet, superficial gaps in terminologies and concepts used across research domains have made interdisciplinary collaborations difficult. To address this gap, we organise HIVE 2026 to foster communication among researchers of collective behavior from diverse fields in OIST and RIKEN CBS, using computational models as a common language.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yuliya Kulikova (Science and Technology Group)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Title: Blow-up rate for the subcritical semilinear heat equation in non-convex domains

Speaker: Dr. Erbol Zhanpeisov (Tohoku University)

Talk by Dr. Nicola De Nitti, University of Pisa, March 17 (Tue) 9:00 - 10:00 am, L4E48

QG Lecture Series Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia, (OIST) Title: Review of some basic features of the SM and of GUTs

Recently, Lohvansuu (2023) introduced the p-modulus for families of k-dimensional Lipschitz chains and their dual families of (n-k)-dimensional chains. While he established an upper bound for the duality of these families on Lipschitz cubes, the corresponding lower bound remained an open question. Subsequently, Kangasniemi and Prywes (2025) developed dMod, a related notion of modulus based on differential forms, and successfully established a full duality result. In this talk, I will explore the implications of these developments and discuss related open problems.