Speaker: Dr. Wenyuan Wang, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Lunch-time seminar about the history and importance of pride.

Everyone is welcome to join!

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第１回大学職員向け勉強会　「科学技術と研究者」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

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? Want to apply for Round 14 of the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Today’s most advanced ion trap quantum computers have at most one qubit per ion, each defined within the ground state manifold. Additional non-qubit ions provide sympathetic cooling to keep the computational ions cold enough to perform many rounds of high-fidelity coherent operations. Typically, the two subsets of ions must be different species to prevent cooling light from disturbing the computation. To bypass this added system complexity, we can instead promote our computational ions to a long-lived excited state that is isolated from the ground-state cooling transitions. This promotion also enables new features including erasure conversion and projective state preparation and cooling. We will discuss two recent efforts to develop this architecture: entangling gates between metastable qubits and mid-circuit sympathetic cooling and readout of a metastable ion by a ground-state ion. Finally, we will take advantage of the larger metastable manifold to explore high-fidelity qudit control.

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.

A special science outreach talk hosted by iGEM Okinawa , an Okinawan student team applying bioengineering strategies to detect invasive pest species on local mango farms. Come learn how molecular science can drive solutions across continents, from cassava in Africa to mangoes in Okinawa!

Speaker 1) Kim Pham, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France

Speaker 2) Agnès Maurel, Langevin Institute, ESPCI Paris – France

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

Talk by Professor Henning Sprekeler, Technische Universität Berlin. Target audience : Students and Researchers interested in the field Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration.

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

Title: Active materials and reactive fluids

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

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

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

The Round 14 call for application of the OIST Innovation Proof of Concept (POC) Program ends on 1 October. Apply to receive funding, training, and a supportive community to help you turn your groundbreaking research idea into a technology, product or service.

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

Talk by James Cresser, University of Glasgow. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to OIST Community.

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)

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

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.

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

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!

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).

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

2025/05/22(Thu) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

OIST Graduate School invites you to join Alumni Workshop, featuring our recent PhD graduates!

Coming from different professional backgrounds, the speakers will present their work and take your questions on issues related to professional and career development. Join this event to learn about career paths leading to the US and Japan, the work and professional life of our graduates, while you can also expand your network and develop a meaningful connection with the newest alumni of OIST!

Dr.Salvatore Andrea Lacava, Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Universitity. Language: English

Speaker: Prof. Smarajit Karmakar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Dr Alexander Wood, The University of Melbourne

[Speaker] Prof. Jae Sung Park, Richard L. McNeel Associate Professor of Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Prof. Akiyoshi Uemura

-Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences

-Uemura Eye Clinic

Dr. Anthony M. Bonacolta, Postdoctoral Reseasrch Fellow, The Keeling Lab, The University of British Columbia.

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: Dr. Bing Wen Brunton, Professor of Biology and the Richard & Joan Komen University Chair at the University of Washington

Language: English

Title: Preservation of concavity properties by the Dirichlet heat flow and applications

Speaker: Prof. Paolo Salani (University of Florence)

Title: Initial traces and solvability of porous medium equation with power nonlinearity

Speaker: Prof. Kazuhiro Ishige (University of Tokyo)

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).

Speaker: Dr. Steven L. Brunton, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington.

Language: English

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to another seminar in the OCQT Seminar series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Andreas M. D. Thomasen from QunaSys. He will deliver a talk on: "Architectures and algorithms for early FTQC"

Speaker: Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo

Caleidoscope is a collective exhibition presented by the OIST Photographic Society. This collection features photographs that vary in technique, proficiency, and personality, yet unknowingly explore similar emotions. These images silently connect, mirroring each other from the surrounding landscape to the most introspective reflections of self, captured in a sparkle of bokeh.

Speaker : Prof. Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford, UK) Date/time : Wednesday 14 May, 14:00-15:00 Location : Lab 5 D23 lecture theatre Title : An energetic view of life on Earth

We would like to invite you to to our next ORC Schrödinger's Cake Assembly during which there might be cake, but you will only know if you come (online version not available).

Location: C209 (Center Building)

Time: 12:00 PM, May 14 (Wednesday). Please go ahead and bring your lunch with you!

Sebastian Opper , Charles University, Prague Title: Autoequivalences of triangulated categories via Hochschild cohomology

Speaker: Dan Kehila, Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit, OIST

Speaker: Mr. Niklas Muennighoff (Stanford University)

Title: s1: Simple test-time scaling

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!

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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