Do you have extra food in your kitchen cupboards? A spare can of pineapples or tomato sauce, perhaps? If you do and you’re willing to part with them, you can give them to a good cause. Between November 27th (Mon) and December 8th (Fri) the Resource Center will accept food donations. These will later be sent to the local non-profit organization “Second Harvest Okinawa,” which will distribute them to families in need.

Pitch Contest open to all campus innovators—students, researchers, and staff—with ideas spanning startups, research themes, community events, and more. Winners will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris to attend the 2024 Hello Tomorrow Global Summit, renowned as the world’s premier tech and science conference.

The workshop will include lectures that will provide an overview of the current status and challenges of research on the marine environment and marine ecosystems, promote the exchange of the latest knowledge among disciplines, and present cross–disciplinary perspectives. Young researchers and graduate students will share and discuss their ideas to formulate recommendations for the future of cross–disciplinary research.

IEEE-NANOMED is one of the premier annual events organized by the IEEE Nanotechnology Council(NTC) to bring together physicians, scientists, and engineers alike from all over the world and every sector of academy and industry, working at advancement of basic and clinical research in medical and biological sciences using nano/molecular medicine and engineering methods.

IEEE-NANOMED is the conference where practitioners will see nano/molecular medicine and engineering at work in both their own and related fields, from essential and advanced scientific and engineering research and theory to translational and clinical research.

Assistant Professor Yen-Liang (Allen) Liu

Master Program of Biomedical Engineering, China Medical University

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)

#5 Study Sessions for Administrative Staff (English) : Overview of OIST organization, Questions and Discussion Speaker: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Come and learn to leverage your phone's capabilities and gain some skills for planning and producing a short film. You will use professional tools and learn from an expert! Finished products will have the opportunity to be featured on OIST's Vimeo account.

2023年12月7日（木）18:00、琉球大学のオープンイノベーション拠点「琉ラボ」とOIST Innovationの共催で、英語に苦手意識を感じる方に向けて英語プレゼンセミナーを開催いたします。（日本語のみの開催となります）

The deadline is approaching to submit a proposal for a concurrent session or poster at C-Hub's Symposium 2024: Inclusive Communication, to be held March 7-8, 2024.

The deadline is next Friday, December 8.

Please consider submitting a proposal for one of the following types of session:

panel discussion professional development birds-of-a-feather/shared interests poster

Here is the link to our Call for Proposals page, which includes full descriptions of each of the session types and links to submit a proposal.

Autoclave annual inspection

Onna no Eki is coming to OIST every Friday, 12:30-13:30

Come and take the chance to learn professional tools & skills for documentary filmmaking from an OIST videography professional!

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?).

Following the success of the previous ORC survey, and the Student Council surveys it was modeled on, the ORC Council is running the biannual survey (~5-10min) to gauge research employee satisfaction at OIST. Please fill the survey in this link: https://groups.oist.jp/ganjuu/oist-researcher-community-survey-2023 .

Academic Job Market Series, Module 5, Writing Diversity Statements will be held next week, December 14 (Thursday), from 4:15-5:30.

Diversity statements are becoming an increasingly common part of job application materials. Knowing how to conceptualize and then write one can greatly improve overall chances of success in a competitive job market.

Here are three recent examples of prompts from jobs posted on Science Careers (jobs.sciencecareers.org):

The University of Minnesota Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Institute on Infectious Diseases (UMIID)

Assistant or Associate Professor - Bacteriology

a one page statement

…of experience/strategies for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tenure Track Scientist - AOPE - Sensing, Robotics, and Machine Learning

one-page diversity statement

The diversity statement should discuss or include their past and/or potential contributions to and experience with diversity, equity and inclusion, such as mentoring, committee service, research, outreach, or teaching.

Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) at the University of California, Riverside

Assistant Professor in the areas of Evolution, Ecology, and/or Organismal Biology

Statement of Past and/or Planned Future Contributions to Advancing Diversity and Inclusive Excellence (2-page maximum)

The University of California is committed to excellence and equity in every facet of its mission. Applicants should summarize their past and planned contributions in relevant areas of faculty achievement that promote equal opportunity and diversity. These contributions to diversity and equal opportunity can take a variety of forms including specific actions and efforts to advance equitable access to education, public service that addresses the needs of diverse populations, research in a scholar's area of expertise that highlights inequalities, or mentoring and advising of students and faculty members, particularly from underrepresented and underserved populations.

If you would like to attend this workshop, please register for the Academic Job Market Workshop Series.

Here is the link.

Date: December 14, from 4:15-5:30 pm

Location: Seminar Room L4E01

Speaker: Kathy Takayama (C-Hub)

Facilitator: Brandon Conlon (C-Hub)

Description of Academic Job Market Series:

This is a series for those who are either currently in the midst of a job search for an academic position and would like to improve their existing materials, or for anyone who plans to engage in a job search on the academic market in the future. The series will cover the most common application materials required for academic jobs, as well as an introduction to the process of searching for a job itself. It is meant to be a complement to a second series on the non-academic job search. One of the main differences between the two searches in terms of application materials is the use of the CV when seeking academic jobs and the use of the résumé when the goal is to attain an industry job that is not academic. (But note that different regions of the world or different organizations may use these terms interchangeably or with variations in meaning.)

In addition to Module 5 above, and the previously held modules the series will include a final workshop:

Module 6: Job Search Process (Date TBD)

If you plan to attend at least one of the next two workshops above, please do register. RSVPs will be sent out for each module separately for all those who have registered.

Registration will include access to the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) site for the series, which will provide access to links of carefully curated resources and hopefully some asynchronous discussions based on your needs and desires.

If you do plan to attend Module 5, please respond by the end of Monday, December 11 .

You will be asked to prepare and submit a short reflective assignment on diversity statements ahead of Module 5. More information will be provided upon registration.

Register Now

Speaker: Mr. Motoya Ohnishi

Title: Dynamics and Learning - Future of AI with Robotics Applications

[Speaker] Dr. Céline Gabillet, Associate Professor (Fluid. Mech.), French Naval Academy /Ecole Navale

Speaker: Dr. Maria Quadeer, Nanyang Technological University

Speaker: Dr. Siddhartha Santra, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

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)

TSVP Talk ”Ecology and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in Bacterial Pathogens " by Rachel Wheatley 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).

Learn new skills, meet new people and enjoy the art of filmmaking with OIST's own professional videographer, Scotty!

Finished products will have the opportunity be featured on the OIST Vimeo account.

Levitated quantum systems can be used to build ultra-precise sensors for use in technology but also to search for new fundamental types of forces and dark matter. In this seminar PhD student Trisha Madhavan from Mikhail Lukin's Nanomechanics subgroup at Harvard University will talk about her work on levitating tiny magnets and coupling them to NV defects in diamond.

Speaker: Prof. Nao Hamamuki (Hokkaido University)

Title: Waiting time effects for the wearing process of a non-convex stone

Speaker: Prof. Yohei Fujishima (Shizuoka University)

Title: Quasi self-similarity and its application to the global in time solvability of a superlinear heat equation

Speaker: Professor Yabing Qi , Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit Title: Surface sciences and perovskite solar cells Chair: Professor Evan Economo, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit , Dean of Faculty Affairs

2023年12月15日（金）、OIST Innovationと渋谷区で、スタートアップ・エコシステム構築について考えるイベントを開催いたします。（日英同時通訳あり）

Join us for our Winter Ganjuu Open House!

15th Dec. between 14 to 16 pm.

がんじゅうのオープンハウスのご案内。

12月15日（金）午後2時から4時まで。

This symposium is on quantum information science, which is a new interdisciplinary area of information science and quantum mechanics

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Bhatti, Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum Technologies, University of Stuttgart

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)

This workshop, jointly hosted by RIKEN Pioneering Projects "Prediction for Science" and OIST, aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between OIST and RIKEN researchers.

National holiday

National holiday

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 Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Qing Liu (Geometric Partial Differential Equations) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

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)

Seminar by Prof. Barrett Eichler , Augustana University

2024年1月20日（土）　

「見えない障がいの解明：ニューロダイバージェンスと併発的課題の探求」by Dr. Kana Grace

日本語：11：00～12：15

English: 14:00～15：15

＠ Seminar Room, Seaside House Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)

The same talk will be delivered in two languages. Please select you

11:00 am - 12:15 pm Japanese 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm English

2023年7月29日の第1回講演会に引き続きDr. Kana Grace がニューロダイバージェント者の実際の生活体験と当事者としての過去、現在の困難さと対応方法の紹介、また、科学者として、これらの個人的な洞察に科学的情報を加えてお伝えします。オーティズム（自閉症）、ADHD、ディスレクシア、ディスプラクシア、トゥレットというニューロダイバージェンスと、それらと併発する可能性の高い身体的課題であるエーラス・ダンロスやマスト細胞活性症候群などのトピックをお話しします。

Continuing from the first lecture on July 29, 2023, Dr. Kana Grace will reflect personal experiences as neurodivergent individuals and their past and present difficulties and ways of coping with the challenges, and as a scientist, she will will discuss the neurodivergences of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, and Tourette's, and the physical challenges that are likely to occur such as Ehlers-Danlos and Mast Cell Activity Syndrome.

予約方法：

E メールで valtameri.grace@outlook.com にご連絡ください。

• メールの件名：「１⽉講演会」

• メール本⽂に、お名前、ご希望のセッション（⽇本語または英語）、参加⼈数をご記⼊くださ

い。予約の確認メールを返信いたします。

• メール本⽂：名前・予約完了の返信をいたします。

• 定員 20 名の先着順です。

Booking:

To reserve your spot, kindly send an email to valtameri.grace@outlook.com with the following information.

• Email Subject: “Talk in January”

• In the email, please specify your preferred session (English or Japanese) and

indicate the number of attendees.

• We will send you a confirmation email for your booking.

• Please note that bookings are on a first-come, first-served basis, and we have a

maximum capacity of 20 participants .

Dr. Kana Grace will share her lived experiences in facing and navigating these challenges, interweaving them with the latest scientific information. Following the talk, there will be a Q&A session to further explore these topics.

Science Talk

Online Admissions Selection for shortlisted PhD applicants from January 22 ^nd to February 9 ^th , 2024.

Information sessions about PhD program, faculty talks and interviews all via zoom.

The event is targeted towards shortlisted applicants for our PhD program, but the information sessions and faculty talks are open to the OIST Community.

Please contact phd-selection@oist.jp for further details.

Title and abstract TBA

Website: https://cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/profile/1904/simon-hart

Title TBA

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)

Scientific alumni activities between Japan and the German speaking area: The German JSPS Alumni Association

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Speaker: Professor Tomoyuki Takahashi, Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit Title: To be announced Chair: To be announced

ミサワホーム総合研究所とOIST Innovation共催で、次世代のカーボンニュートラルキャンパスについて新技術の紹介や意見交換を行います。

Science Talk