The UK Ageing Network (UKAN), a consortium of 11 interdisciplinary networks dedicated to understanding the biological mechanisms of ageing and their impact on human health, is pleased to announce an upcoming event hosted by OIST. This event will feature representatives from three key UKAN networks: CELLO, BLAST, and SMiHA.

[CQD2024 Open Seminar]

Title: From Quantum Optics to Bits and Pieces

Speaker: Prof Klaus Mølmer, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

At the upcoming seminar for the professional development program, I will have the opportunity to share my unique experiences transitioning from academia to industry, as well as my involvement with non-profit organizations. These experiences serve as examples of the diverse career opportunities available within the field of science.

Talk 1: 10:00-11:00

Speaker: Prof. Tatsuya Miura (Kyoto University)

Title: Variational stabilization of degenerate p-elasticae

Talk 2: 11:15-12:15

Speaker: Prof. Hiroyoshi Mitake (University of Tokyo)

Title: Quantitative homogenization of state-constraint Hamilton–Jacobi equations on perforated domains and applications

Talk 1: 15:00-16:00

Speaker: Prof. Mitsuru Sugimoto (Nagoya University)

Title: On a global inverse function theorem for homogeneous map and its application

Talk 2: 16:15-17:15

Speaker: Prof. Futoshi Takahashi (Osaka Metroplitan University)

Title: The Hardy inequality on bounded domains for mean zero functions

Ahead of the spring 2025 opening of the YIL (Yagami Innovation Laboratory), which will bring a fresh breeze to education and research, OIST-KEIO will host an exchange event! Tom Froese, Assistant Professor leading the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit, will discuss how the human mind is shaped by interactions with "agents" such as avatars and robots, as well as with the environment. He will share insights from his research and discuss future directions.

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: "New unified formulation of General Relativity and Yang-Mills".

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Síle Nic Chormaic (Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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).

National holiday

National holiday

The AQTTI workshop will be hosted by the Experimental Quantum Information Physics Unit.

Prof. Hiroki Takahashi

OIST発スタートアップと沖縄県認定パートナーVCをゲストに迎え、沖縄・OISTからは始まるイノベーションについて考えるイベントを開催します。

*日英同時通訳あり。

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).

In the talk “Adapting Basic Spectroscopic Research to Commercial Medical Devices: Lessons Learned from EPR Measurements of Molecular Oxygen in Tissues,” Prof. Swartz and Prof. Flood will discuss the application of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) in measuring tissue oxygen levels. The talk will highlight the challenges and successes in developing EPR for human use, particularly in oxygen and radiation exposure measurements.

OIST Town Hall with President Markides

Ganjuu Wellbeing Service thanks those who donated, stopped by, and participated in the "Compassion Chain" artwork.

National holiday

Title: Encoding mechanical and chemical information in cell membrane organization: a sensory engram

Speaker: Dr. Satyajit Mayor

日本語後に続きます。

Enjoy the music and learn the depth of Okinawa’s classical music. English translation is available.

Date: Sep.13, Friday 15:00 - 15:45 Venue: Atrium, Level DE, Lab 5

Ganjuu Wellbeing Service "RU OK? " Day event

Date & Time: September 12th 11:30-13:30

Place: Outside of Cafeteria@ Center Building

Fundraising Event & Compassion Chain Art Work

Language: English

沖縄科学技術大学院大学（OIST）は、BRIDGEネットワークとのパートナーシップのもと、国連大学本部において、サイエンス写真展「HUMAN – MODEL – WORLD（ヒューマン– モデル – ワールド）」を開催します（国連大学協力）。

OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) would like to invite you to the TQC2024 conference scheduled for 9-13 September 2024 at OIST Conference Center, Okinawa, Japan.

We are excited to announce an open call for poster presentations at the upcoming OIST x NanoLSI Joint Symposium. This symposium is a unique opportunity to showcase your research to a diverse audience, including leading experts from both OIST and NanoLSI.

OIST Centre for Quantum Technologies Colloquium

AN ION MEETS A RYDBERG ATOM

Dr. Robert Loew, 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).

MIRAI will organize a digital kick-off event to celebrate the start of MIRAI third phase between 2024-2026. This digital event is open to the public and strongly welcome from all MIRAI member universities in Sweden and Japan as well as other universities, industry, research funding agencies, governmental sectors.

Language: English

[Speaker] Dr. Shintaro Takeuchi, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University

Welcome Ceremony for new faculty members joining OIST, and PhD students joining the Class of 2024.

The ceremony is open to all OIST community members and will be held at the Auditorium.

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Speaker: Dr. Miwa Takahashi, CERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Environomics Future Science Platform, NCMI | CSIRO

Please join our seminar to learn about the FAIR data principles and the project, and start our discussions on the bottlenecks, needs, and strategies to achieve FAIR eDNA.

MIRAI Global Challenges Winter School is an onsite program in the scope of the four global challenges and designed to attract early career researchers (ECRs) from diverse fields, including humanities and social sciences.

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

Mr. Ali Pedram, Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey

"Visualizing how SARS-CoV-2 attacks the olfactory system in COVID-19 patients" by Dr Peter Mombaerts, Director, Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics, Frankfurt, Germany.

沖縄のハイアットリージェンシー瀬良垣島で、菊田一郎のアートとOKEONのサウンドスケープによるサウンドポートレート。

Dr. Farhan Saif, Professor, Quaid-i-Azam Univerity

Deadline for Registration--- Enhancing Your Professional & Scientific Web Presence Workshop Series, Module 2: Developing an Ecology of Different Platforms and Processes . Please register if you plan to attend at least one of the modules in the series, which are open to all OIST members.

セッションは日本語で行われます。OISTの博士課程やリサーチインターン、それぞれの出願プロセス、入学後の流れ、経済支援、大学院生活などが紹介され、ゲストスピーカーとして、OISTの現役博士課程学生2名が登壇します。パネルディスカッションでは参加者が直接学生に質問ができます。

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

We are pleased to announce a "Career Chat with Professor Joshua Goldberg", TSVP Visiting Scholar.

Please join us for a career discussion with Professor Joshua Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In a casual setting, he will, among other topics, be sharing his experiences as a neuroscientist in the medical device industry. He is open to any questions you may have and happy to discuss topics you are interested in.

Dr. Agneesh Barua, HFSP Long-Term Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolution, at the University of Lausanne. Language.

Dr. Yi Hu, Associate Professor, Beijing Normal University

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

Mr. Dustin Dial, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Georgia, USA

Prof. Woowon Kang from the James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, the University of Chicago

https://physics.uchicago.edu/people/profile/woowon-kang/