Past Events
【April 28th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【4/28】 旅費相談会
Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.
旅費相談会を開催いたします。
[Seminar] Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms
Title: Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms
Speaker: Dr. Xitong Liang, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University.
[Seminar] Matrix Bootstrap Approximation without Positivity Constraint | Reishi Maeta (Hiroshima University / McGill University)
Speaker : Reishi Maeta (Hiroshima University / McGill University) Title : Matrix Bootstrap Approximation without Positivity Constraint Date and time : 28 th April Tuesday at 9:00 Language: English
[Registration Closed] OIST Deeptech Mixer (SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 Partner Event) | Powered by Bank of the Ryukyus
Held alongside SusHi Tech Tokyo, the OIST Deeptech Mixer brings together OIST researchers and OIST-born startups visiting from Okinawa, alongside corporate partners and venture capitalists already working with OIST. Through featured presentations, you'll gain insight into where OIST innovation stands today — and where it's headed. Following the sessions, a dedicated networking time will provide fertile ground for new collaborations to take shape.
Expanding the World of Science Through Yanbaru: KAGAKUJIKAN2026
Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Large deviation theory
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
[CAEE] "The nature of LUCA, and the timeline of metabolic evolution" by Dr. Edmund R. R. Moody, University of Barcelona / University of Bristol
CAEE invited talk, Dr. Edmund R. R. Moody, University of Barcelona / University of Bristol
Public Lecture: "A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery" by Oliver Aalami and Torbjörn Lundh
Public Lecture : "A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery" by Oliver Aalami (Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign) and TSVP Visiting Scholar Torbjörn Lundh (Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg) Open to all interested in the topic! OISTにて開催される Torbjörn Lundh 氏および Oliver Aalami 氏による公開講演に、ぜひご参加ください。
[CAEE] "Hunting novel lineages and their genomes" by Prof. Ben J. Woodcroft, QUT
CAEE invited talk, Prof. Ben J. Woodcroft, QUT
HPC User Group Meeting
The next High-Performance Computing User Group Meeting is April 23. Everybody is Welcome!
[CAEE] "Predicting interaction partners and generating new protein sequences using protein language models" by Prof. Anne-Florence Bitbol, EPFL
CAEE invited talk, Prof. Anne-Florence Bitbol, EPFL
QG Seminar (Zoom): Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)
QG Seminar (Zoom)
Speaker: Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)
Title: Black hole thermodynamics at future null infinity
TSVP Talk: "Playing With Magnets, Geometry and Bacteria." by Andrés Concha
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).
[CAEE] "Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes: Reconstructing and deconstructing the Tree of Life" by Dr. Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès, UOC-TECH, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
CAEE invited talk, Dr. Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès, UOC-TECH, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
[CAEE] "Integration of phylogenetics-independent tools for brainstorming evolution of metabolism" by Dr. Masaru K. Nobu, JAMSTEC
CAEE invited talk, Dr. Masaru K. Nobu, JAMSTEC
[Seminar] Prof. Henrik M. Rønnow "Neutron studies of SrCu2(BO3)2 under extreme conditions – a fruit fly for quantum many body physics"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
[CAEE] "Network approaches for thinking about early metabolic evolution" by Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo
CAEE invited talk, Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo
Seminar by Dr. Poulami Chatterjee (Presidency University) and Dr. Masayuki Shiba (Tokyo City University)
Seminar by Dr Masayuki Shiba and Dr. Poulami Chatterjee
[CAEE] "Dating deep divergences: challenges and emerging strategies in Bayesian phylogenomic dating" by Dr. Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, University College London
CAEE invited talk, Dr. Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, University College London
[CAEE] "The origin of eukaryotes: recent progress and open questions" by Prof. Tom A. Williams, University of Bath
CAEE invited talk, Prof. Tom A. Williams, University of Bath
Computational Approaches to Early Evolution
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Gergely Szöllősi (Model Based Evolutionary Genomics (Szöllősi) Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
[CAEE] "Towards a robust and complete species tree" by Prof. Phil Hugenholtz, University of Queensland
CAEE Keynote, Prof. Phil Hugenholtz, University of Queensland
【Seminar】"Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers" by Prof. Thomas Powers
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Powers from Brown University
Title: Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers
Seminar"Chaos in confinement: Using polymers to mix fluids and speed up chemical reactions in porous media"Sujit Datta
Language: English
Seminar "Epigenetics for recombination during meiosis: The role of PRDM9"
Dr. Bernard de Massy, Institute of Human Genetics Montpellier
The Provost Lecture Series 23
【Seminar】"Ecophysiological strategies of plants inhabiting harsh environments: leaf trichomes in Hawaii and root distributions in Alaska." by Dr. Gaku Amada
Dr. Gaku Amada, a JSPS Research Fellow PD at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, mechanisms of maintaining plant biodiversity in permafrost environments.
Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Classical entropies from the point of view of asymptotics and large deviations
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
[Analysis and PDE Seminar] Geometry and the Solvability of the Parabolic Dirichlet Problem
Talk on April 17, 9:00 am (JST) by James Warta, University of Missouri
TSVP Talk: "Bond Activation and Homogeneous Catalysis Beyond Classical Reactivity Patterns" by Robert Langer
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).
From PhD to Possibility: Careers, Confidence, and Finding Your Way
[Seminar]"Temperature-induced effects in organic thin films comprising energy donor-acceptor systems" by Dr. Piotr Ślęczkowski
Seminar by Dr. Piotr Ślęczkowski, Lodz University of Technology
Seminar Abberior Super Resolution Nanoscopy
Abberior Super Resolution Nanoscopy
QG seminar: Self-dual holography
QG seminar. Speaker: Richard van Dongen (University of Mons) Title: Self-dual holography
Seminar "Plant Mobile Domain proteins regulate gene expression"
Dr. Guillaume Moissiard, LGDP UMR5096 CNRS/UPVD
[Seminar] "Horizontal mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group as scaling limit of an interacting particle system" by Prof. Nicolas Dirr
Title: Horizontal mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group as scaling limit of an interacting particle system
Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Dirr (Cardiff University)
【Seminar】"Quantum Approaches to Time Synchronization and Network Services"
Professor Swaraj Shekhar Nande, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dresden University of Technology. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to OIST Community.
Towards Fair Resource Distribution in Quantum Networks
Okinawa Lectures on Entropy: Introductory overview
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
TSVP Talk: "Non-Hermitian Quantum Systems: Qubits, Decoherence, Information, Entropy and Beyond" by Avadh Saxena
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).
[Seminar] A structural journey through molecular life, death and design by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hiller
Seminar: A structural journey through molecular life, death and design by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hiller , the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland
[Analysis and PDE Seminar] Stochastic Partial Differential Equations of Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
Talk by Nicolas Dirr, Cardiff University, on April 8 (Wed) from 3:00 p.m. at L4F01
【Seminar】 Dynamic nanoscale organization of AMPAR control short and long term synaptic plasticity by Prof. Daniel Choquet
Date-Time
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00
Description
Title: Dynamic nanoscale organization of AMPAR control short and long term synaptic plasticity
Speaker: Prof. Daniel Choquet
Research director at the CNRS
Bordeaux Imaging Center (Director)
Neuroscience Cluster of Excellence, Bordeaux University (Director)
Member of the National Academy
Website: https://www.iins.u-bordeaux.fr/en/teams/56854-dynamic-organization-and-function-of-synapses/
[Seminar] Multi-Faceted Aspects of Arene Ruthenium Complexes, Dr. Daya Shankar Pandey
Dr. Daya Shankar Pandey, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Science
Banaras Hindu University
【Seminar】How synaptic plasticity regulates Intracellular Transport of AMPAR by Dr. Françoise Coussen
Date-Time
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
Description
Title: How synaptic plasticity regulates Intracellular Transport of AMPAR
Speaker: Dr. Françoise Coussen
Research Director at the CNRS
Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience (IINS)
University of Bordeaux and CNRS
Early life sleep shapes brain development and social behavior in the socially monogamous prairie vole
Lecture title: Early life sleep shapes brain development and social behavior in the socially monogamous prairie vole
Speaker: Miranda M. Lim, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University.
Mini Course: On the Tutte polynomial invariant for graphs and matroids
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
Ocean Dynamics and Turbulence
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.
Introduction to R Programming Day 2
Short introductory survey on R programming
Introduction to R Programming Day 1
Short introductory survey on R programming