The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Okinawa closer through a shared love of food. Each session will be focused on one dish, taught by someone with a personal connection to the recipe (perhaps you?).

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[Speaker] Geoff Nitschke, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town

[Title] Complexity in Brains and Bodies

Speaker : Dr. Samuel Crew (Imperial College London, UK) Title : The quantum path signature Date and time : 16 ^th July Tuesday at 10:00 Location : L4F01 Language: English

Speaker: Dr. Haruna Fujioka, Assistant Professor of Okayama University

岡山大学 藤岡春菜 助教授 ( 個人HP )

社会性昆虫、 昆虫生態学、動物行動学、時間生物学

Vespa hornet larvae produce a rhythmic 'rasping' sound by rubbing their mandibles against the cell wall of the nest. The call is thought to be a larval provisioning cue. However, detailed observation of larval calls has been limited to a few species, and it is not known whether the call can be influenced by the external environment or internal larval states such as hunger. We conducted laboratory observations of larval calls to investigate the effect of 1) larval stage, 2) daily variation, and 3) larval hunger level. Vespa mandarinia larvae produced sounds independent of light conditions, time of day, worker absence, and hunger level. A key finding of this research is the novel discovery that larvae produce sounds at night, a previously undocumented behavior.

Date: July 16, 2024 Speaker: Professor Evan Economo, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit Chair: Professor Nic Shannon, Theory of Quantum Matter Unit

Speaker: Dr. Shreyas Mandre

University Associate Professor of Fluid-Structure Interaction, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Hosted by: Professor Mahesh Bandi, Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit

When physical processes repeat over either growing or shrinking scales (length and/or time), the dynamics shows self-similarity. The condition of self-similarity appears strict, but it is the building block of mathematical modelling. This lecture covers (i) concept of scale invariance as a pre-requisite for self-similarity, (ii) self-similarity in physical systems and mathematical models, (iii) the two kinds of self-similarity -- the first and second kinds, and (iv) a simple mathematical example to elucidate the second kind of self-similarity. The lecture presents examples from fluid dynamics. No previous knowledge of or experience with scale-invariance or self-similarity is assumed.

[Speaker] Jessica Nitschke, Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University

[Title] Modelling Social Complexity & State Formation in Early Egypt

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]Resource Center in the Center Building(right next to the ATM)

Kino Store (Kinoza) Every Wednesday 15:00-17:00 Center Building, Level C, Center Court

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第４回大学職員向け勉強会　「大学組織」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers developed and hosted annually by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin in November. In 3–minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin.

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

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).

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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).

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December.

おまけ回「疑問の解消と理解の掘り下げ」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Language: English

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]Resource Center in the Center Building(right next to the ATM)

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"Grants in Practice" session will be held at OIST on July 25th, for students and researchers interested in learning ways to successfully apply to grants, like the European MSCA

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

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

OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024 will be held July 29th-August 7th. Please welcome 20 KEIO undergraduate medical school students to OIST! If you would like to get involved, check out events that OISTers are welcome to join!

[Speaker] Dr. Katia Del Rio-Tsonis, Professor, Dept. Biology, Miami University (MU)

[Title] Understanding the regenerative powers of ocular pigment epithelium

[Speaker] Prof. Izumi Saito, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]Resource Center in the Center Building(right next to the ATM)

OIST Innovationは、東南アジアにおけるスタートアップビジネスの展開に関するセミナーを開催します。シンガポール（NUSおよびJSIP）から著名な講師をお招きし、それぞれの専門知識や経験を共有していただきます。東南アジアのダイナミックな市場への挑戦に関心のあるスタートアップ企業、起業家、スタートアップ支援者を対象とし、セミナー後には講師と参加者のネットワーキングの機会を提供いたします。

Speaker: Dr. Emanuele Gallorini, Post Doctoral Researcher , Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano

Presidential Lecture by Professor Michael Stryker on the topic "Why our brains are more flexible when we are younger".

Since 2019, OIST and Keio University have been collaborating in various ways: initially with the School of Medicine, accepting research interns, and hosting a series of showcase talks to learn about each other's research.​ The International Research Summer Camp is planned to be held at OIST for Keio undergraduate medical school students as a part of our efforts to strengthen our educational collaboration. The summer camp is a valuable opportunity for undergraduate medical students to experience hands-on basic research, under the guidance of outstanding researchers from around the world in a global and interdisciplinary environment.

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]Resource Center in the Center Building(right next to the ATM)

中小企業診断士を講師に招き、創業や資金調達に必要な事業計画書作成のセミナーを開催します。

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).

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SHIMAは、沖縄県内の高校生を対象に、島の生態系や文化の持続可能性について学ぶ、毎年開催している科学教育アウトリーチプログラムです。

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]Resource Center in the Center Building(right next to the ATM)

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English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]The room next to the ATM at the Center Building

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。

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

Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

Abstract: Environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a powerful monitoring tool for species detection and distribution mapping, with a remarkable surge in activity over the past decade. Metabarcoding studies have generated millions of DNA sequences with taxonomic assignments, while species-specific eDNA assays have produced comprehensive distribution maps for hundreds of taxa . (...)

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 (Time TBD).

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.

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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.

[CQD2024 Open Seminar]

Title: From Quantum Optics to Bits and Pieces

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

EMBO Workshop | Co-funded by OIST | Main organizer: Marco Terenzio ( Molecular Neuroscience Unit ) | Website |