OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who graduated in the period May 2024 to April 2025. The ceremony will take place at the OIST Auditorium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.

The event will be streamed online for those who cannot attend in person. For more information on the graduation program, speakers, and graduates, please visit: https://www.oist.jp/graduation

For any questions, please contact: graduation@oist.jp

In my talk I will briefly walk you through my career development from my native country Croatia, via France, Denmark, Sweden and USA and I will explain what I wanted to achieve in my career: why and how I made the decisions that I did, and how those have served me. I will select a few main learnings that can be used as advice for everyone. I will use the example of my current job as the Chief Science Officer, Chief Partnerships Officer and Senior Executive Advisor to the Provost to explain how I work in the context of my union (EU), country (Denmark), in the context of my University (Technical University of Denmark) and the context of my research center (Center for Biosustainability), and how hopefully it all comes together to benefit the world.

Presidential Lecture by Jens Nielsen: New insight into cellular metabolism from the use of mathematical models

Seminar by Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen , Director of Center for Polymers and Organic Solids; Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Speaker: Dr Arnd Roth (University College London, Wolfson Inst for Biomedical Research), hosted by Computational Neurosciece Unit (Erik De Schutter)

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!

[Speaker] Prof. Giorgio Besagni, Associate Professor, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Berta Hudak , National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei Title: Representation theory of the Hu algebras

Title: Active materials and reactive fluids

Speaker: Prof. Chun Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology)

CityUHK x OIST Online Workshop (June 4, 2025, 09:00-16:45 HKT/10:00-17:45 JST)

Title: Topological regularity of Busemann spaces, Professor Tadashi Fujioka, Kyoto University Abstract:

We discuss the topological regularity theorem for Busemann spaces of nonpositive curvature, while reviewing the corresponding results for Alexandrov spaces and CAT spaces. All of these are metric spaces with upper or lower curvature bounds in some synthetic senses, and we address the question of when such spaces are topological manifolds. This is joint work with Shijie Gu (Northeastern University, China). Preprint available at arXiv:2504.14455.

ZOOM Register from here

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Armitage (Integrative Community Ecology Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Symposium : Aspects of Generalized Symmetries

From June 16-21, 2025 at OIST

This symposium is part of the TSVP Thematic Program "Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Matter" . The program will run from May 12 to July 5, 2025 .

June 23 is Okinawa Memorial Day. To mark the occasion, a special lecture on Okinawa's history and war will be held on June 17 (Tue) 15:00-17:00 in the OIST Auditorium.

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

June 18th, 2025 (Wed) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

These two introductory mini-courses are offered by experts in Topological Data Analysis, as part of the thematic program TDA PARTI: Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined (TP25TD).

Invariants for persistence (by Dr. Emerson Escolar) Introduction to persistence and bottleneck stability (by Dr. Luis Scoccola)

The lectures for the minicourses will be between 9:30-12:00, on Monday (June 30), Tuesday (July 1), Thursday (July 3), and Friday (July 4). * There will be no minicourse on Wednesday (July 2)*

In the same week, there will be an Expository Talk (by Prof. Hideto Asashiba) on the related topics.

Dr. Kristina Prokina, Postdoctoral researcher, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay

These two introductory mini-courses are offered by experts in Representation Theory, as part of the thematic program TDA PARTI: Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined (TP25TD).

Posets and representation theory​ (by Dr. Baptiste Rognerud) Monomorphism categories and applications (by Dr. Shijie Zhu)

The lectures for the minicourses will be between 9:30-12:00, on Monday (July 7), Tuesday (July 8), Thursday (July 10), and Friday (July 11). * There will be no minicourse on Wednesday (July 9)*

In the same week, there will be an Expository Talk (by Prof. Gordana Todorov) on the related topics.

OIST 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.

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Title : Representation Theory and Topological Data Analysis: Latest Advances

This symposium is part of the TSVP Thematic Program "Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined" . The program will run from June 23 to August 9, 2025.

This introductory mini-course & tutorial is offered by an expert in Topological Data Analysis & Machine Learning, as part of the thematic program TDA PARTI: Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined (TP25TD).

Topological Data Analysis for Machine Learning (by Dr. David Loiseaux)

​ The lectures & tutorials for the minicourse will be between 10:00-12:00, on Monday (July 28), Tuesday (July 29), Thursday (July 31), and Friday (August 1).

* There will be no minicourse on Wednesday (July 30)*

Ken Ono , University of Virginia Title: Partitions Detect Primes

Speaker: Prof. Markus Ullsperger Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg Institute of Psychology Department of Neuropsychology

Title: Multiplexed cortical representations of performance monitoring and reinforcement learning variables in humans

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Ocean-themed art by CDC chilren and children of SAP ages 6-12.

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OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Elkouss Coronas (Networked Quantum Devices Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Philipp Höhn (Qubits and Spacetime Unit)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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OIST Workshop | Website | Conference Chair Ryuta Nakajima and Dan Rokhsar | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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

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OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tomomi Kiyomitsu (Cell Division Dynamics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yuliya Kulikova (Science and Technology Group)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.