Past Events
TSVP Talk: "Models of the ventral visual pathway, from neurobiology to artificial networks" by Wyeth Bair
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).
[Plenary Lecture] Coupling and Ishii-Lions Methods for Tug-of-War Stochastic Games with Noise
July 18 (Friday) 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM, Professor Juan Manfredi, University of Pittsburgh
TSVP Talk: "Knots, Physics, Knotted Vortices and the Topology of Vortex Reconnection" by Louis H Kauffman
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"Tomographic Velocimetry of Time Dependent Flows of Complex Fluids"Kasra Amini
Language: English
2 Expository Talks by Prof. Francois Petit (Sheaves and Persistence & Metric Aspects of Sheaf Theory)
2 Expository Talk by Prof. Francois Petit (FCRESS, France), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined. Title: Sheaves and Persistence & Metric Aspects of Sheaf Theory
*Talk 1 ( Sheaves and Persistence ): 10:00-11:00, July 17, 2025
*Location: OIST, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23
**Talk 2 ( Metric Aspects of Sheaf Theory ): 10:00-11:00, July 18, 2025
**Location: OIST, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23
Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!
[Plenary Lecture] Nonlinear Potentials in PDE: from uniformly to nonuniformly elliptic problems
July 17 (Thursday) 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM, Professor Giuseppe Mingione, University of Parma
[Seminar] "Towards Extending the Boundary of Non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces" by Yansen Wang, Microsoft Research Asia
"Towards Extending the Boundary of Non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces" by Yansen Wang, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia
July 16, 2025, 17:00-18:00 @C700, Lab 3
[Seminar] "Synergizing habitual and goal-directed behaviors for advancing decision-making AI" by Dr. Dongqi Han, Microsoft Research Asia
"Synergizing habitual and goal-directed behaviors for advancing decision-making AI" by Dr. Dongqi Han, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia
July 16, 2025, 16:00-17:00 @C700, Lab 3
TSVP Talk: "Asymptotics for Biological Data in Non-Smooth Spaces" by Ezra Miller
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).
[Plenary Lecture] Kolmogorov Problem and Wiener-type Criteria for the Removability of the Fundamental Singularity for the Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs
July 16 (Wednesday) 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM, Professor Ugur Abdulla, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2025-3 by Dr. Ziyin Liu, MIT and NTT Research
Speaker: Dr. Ziyin Liu, MIT and NTT Research
Title: Universal Phenomena, Irreversibility, and Thermodynamics in Deep
[Plenary Lecture] On ruling out a class of type II blow-up scenarios in the hyper-dissipative Navier-Stokes equations
July 15 (Tuesday) 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM, Professor Zoran Grujic, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2 Expository Talks by Dr. Raphael Bennett-Tennenhaus (Decompositions and classifications, a view towards persistence modules)
2 Expository Talk by Dr. Raphael Bennett-Tennenhaus (Bielefeld University, Germany), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined. Title: Decompositions and classifications with a view towards persistence modules
*Talk 1: 14:00-15:00, July 14, 2025
*Location: OIST, Lab 3, Floor C, Room C700
**Talk 2: 11:00-12:00, July 15, 2025
**Location: OIST, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23
Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!
[Plenary Lecture] Potential Analysis on Nonsmooth Domains
July 14 (Monday) 9:00 AM- 10:50 AM, Professor Hiroaki Aikawa, Chubu University
Recent Advances in Potential Theory and Partial Differential Equations
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.
[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2025-2 by Dr. Gregory Schwartzman (JAIST)
Speaker: Dr. Gregory Schwartzman, Associate Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
Title: Can Synaptic Connectivity Alone Reveal Neuron Types?
TSVP Talk: "Ester Reduction with Milstein-Type Catalysts: Theory and Experiment" by Dmitri Goussev
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] Open-Flask, Ambient Temperature Conjugated Polymer Synthesis to Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors
Speaker: Joost Kimpel, PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology
Expository Talk by Prof. Gordana Todorov (Continuous Cluster Categories)
Expository Talk by Prof. Gordana Todorov (Northeastern University, USA), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined.
Location: OIST campus, Lab 5, Room L5D23
Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94782960593?pwd=R0oI1bBPgL5eCVd9HBdvrv2H7Q8Py9.1 Meeting ID: 947 8296 0593 Passcode: 584111
【Seminar】"Locally recoverable codes from projective spaces"
Talk by Pablo Sanchez Ocal, Postdoc of Speyer Unit (Representation Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics Unit)
Seminar"Nanobiosensors for Diagnostics: Sustainable Point-of-Care Technologies Shaped by Nanotechnology and the REASSURED Framework"Arben Merkoçi
Language: English
[Seminar] Multiscale modeling and simulation of carbon fiber-reinforced composites by Prof. Tomonaga Okabe (Tohoku University)
Prof. Tomonaga Okabe , Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University
[Seminar] Leveraging Supramolecular Chemistry in Organic Electronics - Prof. Bob C. Schroeder (UCL)
Mini-courses on Representation Theory (by Dr. Baptiste Rognerud & Dr. Shijie Zhu)
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)Location: OIST campus, Lab 5, Room L5D23
Schedule: Click Here
Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94782960593?pwd=R0oI1bBPgL5eCVd9HBdvrv2H7Q8Py9.1 Meeting ID: 947 8296 0593 Passcode: 584111
TSVP Talk: "Starting on a Low Note: Playing with Kozak Sequences to Cure Dosage-Sensitive Gene Diseases" by Alessandro Quattrone
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 by Dr. David Jones
Seminar by Dr. David Jones
TSVP Talk: "Indistinguishability and Statistics of Quantum Particles" by Masaki Oshikawa
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] "Multigene phylogeny and expansion microscopy of Discocelia plataet sp. n., a new representative of a poorly characterized order Discocelida (Rhizaria: Cercozoa incertae sedis)" by Dr. Kristina Prokina
Dr. Kristina Prokina, Postdoctoral researcher, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay
[Seminar] Beyond Lotka-Volterra: Modeling Higher-Order Interactions and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Ecological Communities - by BingKan Xue
Internal seminar organized by Biological Complexity Unit.
Expository Talk by Prof. Hideto Asashiba (Interval replacements of persistence modules)
Expository Talk by Prof. Hideto Asashiba (Shizuoka University/Kyoto University KUIAS, Japan), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined.
Time: 14:00-15:30, July 2, 2025
Location: L5D23: OIST campus, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23
Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94782960593?pwd=R0oI1bBPgL5eCVd9HBdvrv2H7Q8Py9.1 Meeting ID: 947 8296 0593 Passcode: 584111
Marine Safety Lecture by Naha Coast Guard Office
Just before the summer marine leisure season, there will be a safety lecture on safety for marine leisure by the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters Naha Coast Guard Office.
TSVP Talk: "Designing Human-AI Interaction" by Misha Sra
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] "Harpoons and cartwheels: from heterotrophic protist organism discovery to evolutionary cell biology" by Dr. Yana Eglit
Dr. Yana Eglit, Postdoc, Guichard/Hamel Lab, the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
[Mini-Symposium] "Afternoon on Quantum Gravity" at OIST
Speaker : Sumati Surya (Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru) / Kristina Giesel (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) / Silke Weinfurtner (Nottingham University)
Date and time : 1 st July Tuesday at 14:00 Location : L4F01 Language: English
Seminar: Spatial Biology in multiple dimensions by Milteny Biotech
Spatial biology in multiple dimensions
Speaker: Dr. Stefan Eulitz (Miltenyi Biotec B. V. & Co. KG)
[Seminar] Our mind: systemic control of the brain by Dr. Akira Sawa( Johns Hopkins University )
A seminar by Dr. Akira Sawa at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will be hosted by Prof. Yoshida.
Mini-courses on Topological Data Analysis (by Dr. Emerson Escolar & Dr. Luis Scoccola)
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: geometric motivations, metric stability, and representation theory of posets ( by Dr. Luis Scoccola )Location: OIST campus, Center Building, Room C209
Schedule: Click Here
Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94782960593?pwd=R0oI1bBPgL5eCVd9HBdvrv2H7Q8Py9.1 Meeting ID: 947 8296 0593 Passcode: 584111
[Seminar] "Illusions and biases of human body schema" by Dr. Art Pilacinski
Dr. Art Pilacinski, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)
Seminar "Deciphering geomaterial degradation instability with the help of dynamic radiography"
Speaker: Dr.François Guillard, Particles and Grains Laboratory, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney
Expository Talk by Prof. Thomas Brüstle (Computing generalized ranks and compression multiplicities of persistence modules)
Expository Talk by Prof. Thomas Brüstle (Bishop's University and Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined.
Time: 10:00-11:30, June 27, 2025
Location: OIST, Lab 4, Floor E, Room L4E48
Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94782960593?pwd=R0oI1bBPgL5eCVd9HBdvrv2H7Q8Py9.1 Meeting ID: 947 8296 0593 Passcode: 584111
Slides from the presentation are available here .
Pride 2025: Queer Biology
Come to our lunchtime seminar to learn about biological sex and queer biology! Everyone is welcome!
[Seminar] "Adventures in academic drug discovery with a focus on Pseudomonas aeruginosa" by Prof. Kurt Krause
[Seminar] Dr. Anirudh Chandrasekaran "Higher order Van Hove singularities in quantum materials"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Seminar "Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Control of Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows" by Giorgio Cavallazzi
[Speaker] Giorgio Cavallazzi, Research Student, Department of Engineering, City St George's, University of London
Expository Talk by Prof. Hugh Thomas (Birth and death curves for representations of a grid poset)
Expository Talk by Prof. Hugh Thomas (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined. Title: Birth and death curves for representations of a grid poset
Time: 10:00-11:30, June 24, 2025
Location: OIST, Lab 4, Floor E, Room L4E48
Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94782960593?pwd=R0oI1bBPgL5eCVd9HBdvrv2H7Q8Py9.1
[Seminar] Prof. Sumiran Pujari "«Anticommuting» Z2 quantum spin liquids"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
AIVIA Day
AIVIA DAY
OIST Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2025)
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Erik De Schutter (Computational Neuroscience Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Tutorial sessions and meals are closed sessions (for registered participants only).
TSVP Talk: "Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Matter" by Zhu-Xi Luo
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] "The evolution of metabolic endosymbioses" by Prof. Eric Libby
Dr. Eric Libby, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umea University.