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.

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.

Seminar by Dr. Joseph Samuel, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS): "The Geometric Phase and the Spin-Statistics Theorem: spinning particles as ribbons"

Title: Laser cooling of aluminium monofluoride molecules in the deep ultraviolet

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

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).

Strucshare Meeting by Rafael Ayala Hernandez

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.

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。

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

Title: Subwavelength atomic arrays for superradiance studies

Speaker: Dr Luisa Loranca, Cold-Atom Quantum System Research Team, RIKEN

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

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.

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

[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

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.

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

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

The Provost Lecture Series

QG Seminar (Zoom)

Speaker: Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)

Title: TBA

本イベントは、OIST発のイノベーションに関心を持つ方々が東京に集まる特別な機会です。SusHi Tech Tokyo開催にあわせて沖縄から上京したOISTの研究者・スタートアップに加え、実際に連携を進める事業会社やベンチャーキャピタルが登壇し、OIST発イノベーションの"現在地"とその先にある可能性をお伝えします。登壇セッションの後は、参加者同士のネットワーキングタイムを設け、新たなコラボレーションの芽が生まれる場を創出します。

Biophysical Principles of Regulation in Bacteria including quantitative models, regulatory adaptations, replication control, and gene regulation through gene promoters. Presented by Dr Alberto Sassi, a post-doc in the Pigolotti Unit.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Keshav Dani (Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: William Munro (Quantum Engineering and Design Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

To be held at L4E48 from June 22 (Monday) - July 3 (Friday) 2026

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Ugur Abdulla (Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Amedeo Roberto Esposito (Information Theory, Probability, and Statistics Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Join us to explore how information-theoretic ideas shape modern research across a variety of fields.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tom Froese (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Makoto Yamada (Machine Learning and Data Science Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.