Past Events

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 3

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:45
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
Provost Lecture Series 3 Speaker: Prof. Tom Bourguignon, Evolutionary Genomics Unit Title: A passion for little creatures with six legs
Seminar

QG group meeting -Tropical Mirror

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 14:00
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Slava Lysov. Title: Tropical Mirror: Correlation Functions.

Professional Development

WS: "Effective, Fabulous Poster Presentations"

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room L4F01

Come learn how to communicate your impactful ideas visually and engage audiences with poster presentations, an important skill set not only for scientists, but for all presenters! Poster presentations are an interactive, effective format for showcasing research or sharing ideas, programs, and projects.

Seminar

Seminar: " DESHIMA: A Dutch-Japanese Astronomical Spectrometer based on Superconducting Microwave Resonators"

Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - 11:00 to 12:00
L4E01
DESHIMA: A Dutch-Japanese Astronomical Spectrometer based on Superconducting Microwave Resonators

Akira Endo, Associate Prof. PhD., Delft University of Technology, Netherland
Seminar

[Seminar] Autodiagnosis and the Dynamical Emergence Theory of Basic Consciousness

Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - 10:30 to 12:00
Meeting Room C016, Lab1

Speaker: Prof. Shimon Edelman Department of Psychology Cornell University

Title: Autodiagnosis and the Dynamical Emergence Theory of Basic Consciousness

Seminar

[Seminar] Ecocultural range-expansion model of modern humans in the Paleolithic

Monday, December 12, 2022 - 14:45 to 15:25
Seminar Room C210: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/95497214950
Speaker

Prof. Joe Yuichiro Wakano: Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences (IMS), Meiji University, Japan

Seminar

[Seminar] Evolution of dispersal in metapopulation models

Monday, December 12, 2022 - 14:00 to 14:40
Seminar Room C210: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/95497214950
Speaker

Prof. Kalle Parvinen: University Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland

Culture

What would you EAT for a sustainable future? Plant-based food and the possibility サステイナブルな未来のために私たちは何を食べるか。~プラントベースの食べ物とその可能性~

Monday, December 12, 2022 - 14:00 to 15:30
B250

Vegan and plant-based cuisine have been attracting attention for their potential both as a developing market and as a sustainable choice. Haruko Kawano of VegeProject Japan will tell us about global trends, the context of this rising demand, and how to incorporate veganism into our diets.

14:00-15:00 Presentation followed by Q&A at B250 15:00-15:30 Food tasting at foyer and wood deck next to B250

AIEN and Yun-Taku will also sell vegan snacks and sweets after the talk

Outreach

11th Annual SCORE!

Saturday, December 10, 2022 - 09:30 to 17:00
OIST Auditorium 講堂

Seminar

[Seminar] Hake as a climate winner: emerging fishery dynamics and management implications

Friday, December 9, 2022 - 16:45 to 17:25
Seminar Room L4E01: Lab 4, Level E / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/93438269189
Speaker

Dr Xiaozi Liu: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Marine Research, Norway

Seminar

[Seminar] Multiple-trait responses to size-selective harvesting in experimental guppy populations

Friday, December 9, 2022 - 16:00 to 16:40
Seminar Room L4E01: Lab 4, Level E / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/93438269189
Speaker

Prof. Mikko Heino: Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, and also affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Wellness

Ganjuu Open House

Friday, December 9, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:30
Ganjuu Wellbeing Service
Ganjuu Open House

Friday, December 9th *4:00-5:30 PM*

Please join us for tea, coffee, and home baking! Bring yourself, your colleagues, your families and share some time, talk and listen to others. Come and see our new location! All are welcome :)

*Our location is now at the Former President's House by faculty housing and Lab 5.

Seminar

[Seminar] Impact of present and future temperature conditions in North Atlantic fisheries: an elasticity analysis approach

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 17:15 to 17:55
Seminar Room C209: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94799400298
Speaker

Dr Anna Shchiptsova: Researcher in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-Natural Systems Research Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Seminar

[Seminar] Predicting safe operating spaces for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery in a warming ocean using a coupled bio-socio-economic model

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 16:30 to 17:10
Seminar Room C209: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94799400298
Speaker

Dr. Jaideep Joshi: Researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Guest Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Recreation

TSVP Teatime

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 16:00
Lab 4 Level D Break Area (L4D01)

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Seminar

[Seminar] Determining ecosystem vulnerability through meta-analysis of empirical food webs

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 15:45 to 16:25
Seminar Room C209: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94799400298
Speaker

Prof. Karol Opara: Assistant professor at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Seminar

Creation of an isolated turbulent blob fed by vortex rings, Mr. Takumi Matsuzawa, The University of Chicago

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 15:30 to 16:30
Lab4, L4E45 or Zoom

Creation of an isolated turbulent blob fed by vortex rings, Mr. Takumi Matsuzawa, The University of Chicago. Language: English.

Seminar

[Seminar] Climate change and cumulative impact in Arctic ecosystems

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 15:00 to 15:40
Seminar Room C209: Ctr. Bldg., Level C / Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94799400298
Speaker

Prof. Raul Primicerio: Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

Seminar

"Successfully completing the final stretch – termination of DNA replication in bacteria" by Dr. Christian Rudolph

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 16:30
Zoom and L4F23

[Change of room: now L4F23 ]. Online seminar by Dr. Christian Rudolph from Brunel University London. Anyone interested is welcome. Zoom link and abstract in the description.

Seminar

[Hybrid Seminar] "Towards Hierarchical Motor Control" by Dr. Steve Heim, Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 16:00 to 16:45
C209, Center Bldg. (Hybrid)

"Towards Hierarchical Motor Control" by Dr. Steve Heim, Postdoc, Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT

Seminar

Seminar "Universally superposing quantum operations toward quantum functional programming" by Prof. Mio Murao (Univ. of Tokyo)

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 13:30 to 14:30
Seminar Room L4F01 (Lab4 F floor)

Seminar by Mio Murao, Professor at Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Universty of Tokyo, Languate (English)

Research

[Seminar] Temperate carbonate reefs, 'blue carbon' and the 'plastisphere'

Tuesday, December 6, 2022 - 11:00 to 12:00
OIST Seminar room Lab4 L4E01

This talk will introduce two major forms of cold-water biogenic habitats. Deep-sea coral reefs are extensive in the NE Atlantic region due to high food availability and high carbonate saturation levels. Maerl beds are calcified seaweed habitats and are the oldest biogenic habitat type found in shallow waters of the region. (...)

Seminar

[Seminar] "Molecular Tools in Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction" by Dr. Orestes Rivada-Wheelaghan

Monday, December 5, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:00
Lab4 E01

Dr. Orestes Rivada-Wheelaghan, Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Instituto the Investigaciones Químicas (IIQ) at Universidad de Sevilla (Spain).Language: English

Seminar

[Seminar] "Mechanoluminescence - smart visualization of dynamic mechanical behaviors toward innovative evaluation, design, and simulation" by Dr. Nao TERASAKI

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 15:00 to 16:00
B503, Lab1

Dr. Nao Terasaki, Team Leader, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Language: English

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé (Online Information Session) in December 2022

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 15:00
Online

This session will be done in Japanese. The program will start off with a general introduction of OIST, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by a panel discussion by two OIST PhD students.

Seminar

Shaping the future of 3D interaction with virtual worlds by Dr. Anatole Lécuyer

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 14:30 to 16:00
L4E01 and Zoom
Title

Shaping the future of 3D interaction with virtual worlds

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Wei-Hau Chang & Prof. I-Ping Tu, ACADEMIA SINICA

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 10:00 to 12:00
B503 (Center Building)

Speaker:

Professor Wei-Hau Chang, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

“Harnessing the power of Bertozzi reaction for capturing flexible parts in cryo-EM structures”

Speaker:

Professor I-Ping Tu, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

" Garbage in, Einstein out A Mathematical Study of Einstein from Noise”

Seminar

[Seminar] Sharp Uncertainty Principles and their stability, Professor Nguyen Lam, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 09:00
Online via Zoom

Abstract: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which is a fundamental result in quantum mechanics, and related inequalities such as the hydrogen and Hardy uncertainty principles, belong to the family of geometric inequalities known as the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities. In this talk, we discuss some recent results about the optimal uncertainty principles, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities, and their quantitative stability. The talk is based on recent joint works with C. Cazacu, J. Flynn and G. Lu.

Recreation

Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!

Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 20:00
Seaside Lounge OR beach behind Seaside House

With new songs! Probably!

Seminar

[Seminar] Geometric PDE and Applied Analysis Seminar (12/1)

Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 15:00
L4E48 or Zoom

Talk 1: 15:00-16:00

Speaker: Prof. Shigeaki Koike (Waseda University)

Title: ABP maximum principle with upper contact sets for fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs

Talk 2: 16:00-17:00

Speaker: Prof. Michiaki Onodera (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Title: A perturbation theory of overdetermined problems

Seminar

Introduction to Intellectual Property

Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 13:30 to 15:00
Zoom

Curious about Intellectual Property? Please join our introductory seminar, hosted by TDIC alongside guest Patent Lawyer Gregory Kirsch.

This is an introduction-level seminar open to everyone at OIST.

Workshop

OIST/Humanoids2022 Joint Workshop

Thursday, December 1, 2022 (All day)
OIST conference center (Auditorium)

Neural Computation Unit will hold an OIST / Humanoids 2022 joint workshop at Auditorium. If you are interested in joining, please register.

Seminar

QG group meeting - anomalous dimensions in HS holography

Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - 15:00
Lab 4, F01

QG group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: Locality of higher-spin gravity from anomalous dimensions of double-trace operators.

Wellness

The Science of Safety: Understanding the Role of the Nervous System in Our Mental Health

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:30
C209

We will take a closer look at the autonomic nervous system and the way our biology helps us navigate daily life, how we respond to cues of safety and danger below the level of conscious thought, and how this guides the way we move through the world, from turning toward and backing away, to connecting and other times isolating.

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 09:30 to 10:30
on Zoom
Nicolle González , University of California, Berkeley Title: Higher Rank Rational (q,t)-Catalan Polynomials and a Finite Shuffle Theorem
Seminar

Seminar "Periodically driven sub-wavelength lattices" Prof. Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Vilnius University

Monday, November 28, 2022 - 11:00 to 12:00
B503, LevelB, Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Vilnius University

Seminar

FY22 _Fixed Asset Inspection session / 2022年度 固定資産実査説明会

Friday, November 25, 2022 - 14:00 to 14:45
on Zoom

FY22 _Fixed Asset Inspection session will be held via Zoom.Those in charge of please participate in this session.

Workshop

Workshop on Life Mind Continuity

Friday, November 25, 2022 - 13:00 to 17:35
Meeting Room 1, Conference Center

Workshop on Life Mind Continuity

The aim: We attempt to deepen understanding of mind through discussions of various issues including life mind continuity, theory of mind, embodied mind, phenomenal consciousness, alife and artificial intelligence.

Date: 1pm - 5:35pm, November 25th, 2022

Location: Room1, OIST Conference Center

Organized by Kazuo Okanoya, Takashi Ikegami, and Jun Tani

Seminar

Seminar: “Deciphering genome evolution: protein fossils and complex rearrangements”, by Pr. Martin Frith.

Friday, November 25, 2022 - 11:00
Lab 3, room C700

Seminar from Pr. Martin Frith, Laboratory for Life Information decipherment (Center for Omics and Bioinformatics), Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo.

Seminar

[Seminar] Martin Biehl: "Interpreting systems as solving POMDPs: a step towards a formal understanding of agency"

Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 14:45 to 15:30
Center Building, C210

Interpreting systems as solving POMDPs: a step towards a formal understanding of agency.

Martin Biehl, senior research scientist at Cross Labs.

Seminar

[Seminar] Christian Guckelsberger: "Four projects on Intrinsic Motivation, Embodiment, Creativity & Videogames"

Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 14:00 to 14:45
Center Building, C210

Four projects on Intrinsic Motivation, Embodiment, Creativity & Videogames.

Christian Guckelsberger, Computer Scientist, Art Historian and Assistant Professor in Creative Technologies at Aalto University.

External Events

Okinawa Christian School International (OCSI) open house registration open

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 10:15 to 11:30
Okinawa Christian School International (OCSI)

Okinawa Christian School International (OCSI) will hold their Open House for prospective families on November 23rd, 2022. Events like this tend to fill up quickly, so if it is a school you are interested in for your children, I recommend you register early.

Holiday

勤労感謝の日 Labor Thanksgiving Day

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 00:00

National holiday

Workshop

Collective Intelligence in Living/Non-Livings Populations

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 09:00 to 17:00
C210, Zoom

"Collective Intelligence in Living/Non-Livings Populations" Workshop 2022. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Invited Guests.

Seminar

Seminar: "The Truesdell Rate in Continuum Mechanics". by Prof. Salvatore Federico

Monday, November 21, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room C209, Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Salvatore Federico

A faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering (2008-present), with an adjunct position in Kinesiology, Human Performance Laboratory (2012-present)

Title: "The Truesdell Rate in Continuum Mechanics"

Research

Marine genomics seminar #39: “Once we were worms: The origin of gills, skeletal ossicles & tubes in the deuterostomes” by Dr. Christopher B. Cameron

Monday, November 21, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
C210

Christopher Cameron is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Montreal.

Seminar

[Seminar] Nathaniel Virgo: "What is an agent?"

Monday, November 21, 2022 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4F01

What is an agent?

Nathaniel Virgo, Associate Professor at Earth-Life Science Insitute (ELSI) in Tokyo.

Seminar

Perovskite/Si tandem solar cells with 30% efficiency

Monday, November 21, 2022 - 10:30
Center Building C209

Speaker: Dr. Lars Korte

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Germany Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Innovation

Meet the Innovation Supporters at OIST - free coffee and snacks

Friday, November 18, 2022 - 14:30 to 16:00
Lab 3 Level C Room C700

Join the staff of the Technology Development & Innovation Center for free coffee and snacks and ask them how OIST can help support innovative ideas, prototyping, starting a business, and more. Come any time between 3 pm-4 pm and bring your coffee cup, mask, and boundless curiosity.

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