Past Events

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé (大学院説明会) 2021年6月

2021年6月11日 (金) 17:00
Online

STEM分野で博士課程やリサーチインターンシップに興味がある人を対象としたセッションです。言語は英語で行われます。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。そのうち1名はOISTでリサーチインターンシップの経験者。今回は物理学と脳神経科学を専門とした2名が登壇しますが、それ以外の分野の方も、もちろん歓迎です!

Professional Development

The Fundamentals of Academic Writing - Style

2021年6月11日 (金) 15:00
Zoom

In this seminar we will look at verbs, noun phrases and the types of choices that you will need to make to suit your discipline's specific style.

Seminar

[Seminar] Coagulation driven turbulence in binary fluid mixtures

2021年6月10日 (木) 17:00 18:00
Zoom

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Seminar

[Seminar] Ferroelectricity in novel frustrated quantum magnets

2021年6月10日 (木) 16:00 17:00
Zoom

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Training

Mini Course: Algebraic geometry and topology of neural codes 2 of 4

2021年6月10日 (木) 15:00 17:00
Lab3, A720

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

Training

Mini Course: Graphic Design in Science 2 of 2

2021年6月10日 (木) 13:00 15:00
B701, Computer Lab, Lab 3

After Mini Course: Graphic Design in Science, your beautiful graph will make people forget about your poor fashion sense.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for anyone.

Professional Development

Webinar: "Nature Research Academies: Writing impressive grant applications" [Day 2].

2021年6月10日 (木) 9:00 11:00
You must RSVP to attend.

These two 2-hr webinar series provided attendees with the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . Upon completion of this workshop series, attendees were able to articulate relevant research questions, search for appropriate grant opportunities aligned with their research focus, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research to enhance their career.

To register CLICK HERE.
Training

Mini Course: Algebraic geometry and topology of neural codes 1 of 4

2021年6月9日 (水) 15:00 16:00
B701, Computer Lab, Lab 3

This course will incorporate some “flipped classroom” content. There is a short video you should watch before coming to each session plus an optional reading.

◆Target audience The course is explicitly multi-disciplinary in its content, being a blend of neuroscience and mathematics. However, no prior knowledge in either discipline is expected or necessary and anyone interested is welcome to join.

Seminar

2021 Summer Analysis on Metric Spaces Seminar

2021年6月9日 (水) 15:00 16:00
Seminar Room L4F01 | Zoom
Title: Microlocal analysis of d-plane transform on the Euclidean space Speaker: Hiroyuki Chihara, University of the Ryukyus
Professional Development

Webinar: "Nature Research Academies: Writing impressive grant applications" [Day 1].

2021年6月8日 (火) 9:00 11:00
You must RSVP to attend.

These two 2-hr webinar series provided attendees with the necessary skills to successfully compete for grant funding . Upon completion of this workshop series, attendees were able to articulate relevant research questions, search for appropriate grant opportunities aligned with their research focus, and write impressive grant applications to help secure funding for their research to enhance their career.

To register CLICK HERE.
Training

Mini Course: Graphic Design in Science 1 of 2

2021年6月7日 (月) 13:00 15:00
B701, Computer Lab, Lab 3

After Mini Course: Graphic Design in Science, your beautiful graph will make people forget about your poor fashion sense.

◆Target audience This course is suitable for anyone.

Recreation

Cyanotype Workshop - Solar Prints

2021年6月4日 (金) 17:00 19:00
OIST Clay Factory
Teacher: Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ogarrio

Juan Carlos is a professional photographer and researcher from the Autonomous University of Mexico City, UACM. He has 28 years of experience. He began working on photography before the digital era. He learned the analog techniques and worked reproducing paintings for professional catalogs. He specialized in lab printing techniques. Currently, he is a researcher in the Autonomous University of Mexico City, UACM and belongs to the Communication and Culture Academy. He is specialized in narratives and photobook solutions.

Professional Development

The Fundamentals of Academic Writing - Organisation

2021年6月4日 (金) 15:00
Zoom

Learn to see that there are common patterns for writing academic texts. We will consider response letters and look at the problem-solution pattern as an example before discussing others.

Public Lecture

Artificial Intelligence in Pathology

2021年6月4日 (金) 8:00 9:00
Zoom link will be provided upon registration

In this talk we will discuss: 1) Data-efficient methods for weakly-supervised whole slide classification with examples in cancer diagnosis and subtyping, allograft rejection etc. (Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021). 2) Harnessing weakly-supervised, fast and data-efficient WSI classification for identifying origins for cancers of unknown primary (Nature, 2021). 3) Discovering integrative histology-genomic prognostic markers via interpretable multimodal deep learning (IEEE TMI, 2020). 4) Deploying weakly supervised models in low resource settings without slide scanners, network connections, computational resources and expensive microscopes. 5) Bias and fairness in computational pathology algorithms.

Speaker: Dr. Faisal Mahmood, Assitant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School Register here .

Seminar

[Seminar] Two charge sectors in the strange metal regime of overdoped cuprates

2021年6月3日 (木) 16:30 17:30

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Seminar

[Zoom] Efficient, high-resolution bioinformatic approaches for integrative sequencing analyses of complex diseases

2021年6月2日 (水) 16:00 17:00
Zoom
Title Efficient, high-resolution bioinformatic approaches for integrative sequencing analyses of complex diseases
Public Lecture

OIST Quantum/Cyber Security Initiative

2021年6月1日 (火) 8:20 10:50
Zoom link sent to registered participants

OIST Quantum/Cyber Security Initiative The Science, the Opportunities, and the Real-World Challenges Co-hosted by Asia Society Japan Center & OIST

Innovation

Climate Launchpad 21 - Join the Largest Green Business Idea Competition

2021年5月31日 (月) 16:00 17:00
Zoom

You have a green idea? You want to create impact and scale this idea? You should apply to the EU backed initiative Climate Launchpad. Christian Schmitz, Founder/CEO of PDIE Group will tell us about this exciting program.

Graduate School

2nd Admissions Workshop 2021

2021年5月31日 (月) (All day)2021年6月4日 (金) (All day)
Online via Zoom

Selection workshop for students seeking admission to the OIST PhD program in 2021

Outreach

【オンライン配信】SCIENCE TALK 沖縄から世界に羽ばたく未来の科学者トーク vol.4

2021年5月28日 (金) 18:30
OIST Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_NaQbrtQBF24HF_dvWBFg

【オンライン配信】SCIENCE TALK 沖縄から世界に羽ばたく未来の科学者トーク vol.4

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

2021年5月28日 (金) 16:30 17:30
Speaker: Max Gurevich , Technion, Israel Title: New constructions for irreducible representations in monoidal categories of type A
Professional Development

The Fundamentals of Academic Writing - Strategies, Audience and Purpose

2021年5月28日 (金) 15:00
Zoom

Learn about the different purposes and strategies of different academic texts and see how this effects the vocabulary, the grammar and other characteristics.

Professional Development

Survival Japanese: Introductions

2021年5月28日 (金) 12:00
https://oist.zoom.us/j/95811989706

Learn how to introduce yourself, answer questions about your nationality and speak about your job in Japanese.

No Japanese experience necessary!

Watch the videos at this link , then join us on Zoom for more practice (Meeting link:https://oist.zoom.us/j/95811989706)

Innovation

Fireside Chat with "Hardy" Kagimoto

2021年5月28日 (金) 12:00 13:00
C210

Fireside chat with Dr. Tadahisa “Hardy” Kagimoto, MD, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Healios K.K., a biotechnology company leading the development of stem cell derived regenerative therapies.

Seminar

2021 Summer Analysis on Metric Spaces Seminar

2021年5月28日 (金) 9:00 10:00
On Zoom
Title: Uniformization of weighted Gromov hyperbolic spaces and uniformly locally bounded geometry. Speaker: Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Cincinnati
Seminar

[Seminar] Intrinsic Reward in Birdsong Learning, Prof. Hahnloser

2021年5月27日 (木) 16:00
ZOOM

Professor Richard Hahnloser

Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich

Zoom link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/98260915981?pwd=dWNFRVQrcUhCNWhrbGhtYWs0TEZPUT09

Meeting ID: 982 6091 5981

Passcode: 959053

Wellness

Parenting Lunch - Keeping Children Safe: Child abuse and how to talk to children about this

2021年5月26日 (水) 12:00 13:00
B503

Parenting Series Lunch - Keeping Children Safe: Child abuse and how to talk to children about this.

This will be a lunchtime presentation and discussion session for parents or anyone interested in the topic.

Bring your lunch and come and join us to learn about and discuss this important topic.

Training

Mini Course: Asymptote 2 of 2

2021年5月25日 (火) 15:00 17:00
B701, Computer Lab, Lab 3.

Mini Course: Asymptote will let you draw things with your keyboard!

◆Target audience Everyone interested in learning how to draw beautiful vector graphics. Some familiarity with LaTeX is useful but not a requirement.

Seminar

Seminar "Towards a quantitative understanding of high-order interdependencies in complex systems"

2021年5月24日 (月) 16:30 17:30
Zoom

Seminar "Towards a quantitative understanding of high-order interdependencies in complex systems" by Fernando E. Rosas, Imperial College of London.

Training

Introduction to HPC and scientific computing - Session 1

2021年5月24日 (月) 13:00
L4E01

A beginner's introduction to using the clusters and other computing resources at OIST. This is the first, introductory session.

Wellness

Online Wellbeing Event

2021年5月24日 (月) 11:25
Free online wellbeing event

Free online wellbeing event

Research

沖縄科学技術大学院大学学園第31回理事会

2021年5月21日 (金) 21:00

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Graduate School

Graduation Ceremony 2021

2021年5月21日 (金) 14:00 16:00
OIST Auditorium (live streaming available)

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who gradauted in the period May 2019 to April 2021.

External Events

沖縄科学技術大学院大学学園第26回評議員会

2021年5月20日 (木) 21:00

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Graduate School

Round-table with OIST Alumni

2021年5月20日 (木) 13:30 14:30
Lab4, E48

Round-table with OIST Alumni

Date: May 20 (Thu.), 2021 Time: 13:30-14:30 (tentative) Venue: Lab4 E48

Professional Development

Meeting with Curriculum and Programs section

2021年5月20日 (木) 10:00 11:00
Lab4 (TBD)

Let’s gather around in casual setting, and please help us support OIST students in their professional and career development.

・Date: May 20 (Thu.), 2021 ・Time: 10:00-11:00 (tentative) ・Venue: Lab4

Seminar

[Seminar] Topological frustration in a quantum spin ladder

2021年5月20日 (木) 9:00
Zoom

TQM unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar!

Seminar

[Seminar] "Revisiting Peng's Q(λ): Good Old-Fashioned Algorithm for Modern Reinforcement Learning” by Dr. Tadashi Kozuno

2021年5月19日 (水) 13:00
Meeting room C016, Center Bldg.

Speaker: Dr. Tadashi Kozuno RLAI Lab, University of Alberta Title: Revisiting Peng's Q(λ): Good Old-Fashioned Algorithm for Modern Reinforcement Learning

Outreach

[Online] Future of Women in Science

2021年5月19日 (水) 8:30
Zoom

The Future of Women in Science Virtual Discussion and Launch of The Rita R. Colwell Impact Fund for the Advancement of Women in Science. Registration required.

Recreation

Art From the Heart Lessons for Children

2021年5月18日 (火) 17:45 19:00
Conference Center Meeting Room 1

Oksana Burduzhan is a mother and an aspiring artist. Her passion and interest is in art, and her educational background is in Economics. Some OIST members may have taken her adult art classes. She will now open classes for children ages 6-14.

Training

Mini Course: Asymptote 1 of 2

2021年5月18日 (火) 15:00 17:00
B701, Computer Lab, Lab 3.

Mini Course: Asymptote will let you draw things with your keyboard!

◆Target audience Everyone interested in learning how to draw beautiful vector graphics. Some familiarity with LaTeX is useful but not a requirement.

Seminar

Towards a Ghost-free Theory of Quantum Gravity

2021年5月18日 (火) 10:00
Lab4 F01

Seminar hosted by QG unit. Speaker: Luca Buoninfante, JSPS postdoctoral fellow Title: "Towards a Ghost-free Theory of Quantum Gravity"

Seminar

[Seminar] A low-cost, pseudo-volumetric reconstruction technique for velocity and density fields of variable-density turbulent flows

2021年5月18日 (火) 8:30 9:30
Zoom

CFF unit is pleased to invite you to the seminar.

Research

Celebrate the International Day of Light Live with Cephi the Cephalopod

2021年5月16日 (日) 8:00
http://london-light.org/lighting-up-2021-live-stream/

Celebrate the International Day of Light Live, Streamed from OIST starring Cephi the Cephalopod

Seminar

2021 Summer Analysis on Metric Spaces Seminar

2021年5月14日 (金) 9:00 10:00
On Zoom
Title: Natural \(p\)-means for the \(p\)-Laplacian in Euclidean space and the Heisenberg Group Speaker: Professor Juan J. Manfredi
Professional Development

Language Seminar Series: Advanced Japanese Conversation

2021年5月13日 (木) 16:00
Zoom- https://oist.zoom.us/j/93424948586

Want to practice your conversation skills with other Japanese learners? Join us for Advanced Conversation in Japanese every Thursday from 16:00 - 17:00 during the summer semester.

The topic will change every week.

Recreation

Lunch Time Iyengar Yoga with Yasuko Rudisel

2021年5月13日 (木) 12:00 13:00
Village Center Ocean View Room
Yasuko-Sensei is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher and she will be teaching on Thursday afternoons in the Ocean View Room from 12:00pm-1:00pm. She is certified in Iyengar Yoga level 1 and level 2. She completed the RYT-200 program in Ashtanga style in Doha, Qatar in 2014 and has been practicing yoga since 1998. Come take a break from work and check it out! Yasuko Rudisel will be giving Iyengar Yoga lessons at lunch time. Instruction will be given in English and Japanese.
Culture

Photo Exhibition "Okinawan Narratives"

2021年5月12日 (水) (All day)2021年5月31日 (月) (All day)
Tunnel Gallery

A photography exhibition by the OIST Community. (The OIST campus is currently not open to visitors.)

Seminar

The Abrahamic fanfictions: 3 great writers vs. fear the mind-killer

2021年5月6日 (木) 12:15
Lab 4, E48

Stories of the great fanfictions on the 3 Abrahamic religions, their writers, their collisions with the anti-intellectual atmospheres of the day, the role of fear, and the uncanny inflammability of manuscripts.

Speaker: Yasha Neiman.

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