Blitz Talks and Closing Ceremony of the Researcher Appreciation Month 2025 (B250), 14:00 - 15:30

The first meeting will be featuring a case study presented by Matthias Wolf “ The struggle of getting the new cryoARM scopes running and productive ”

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).

The FDSF Japan Tour supports innovation and startup creation through science to address regional issues, with the power of finance backing these initiatives. Every year, FDSF, the Future Design Initiative for Science & Finance holds events nationwide to promote science-based innovation and future-oriented financing.

This year, the tour will be held in Okinawa, which has unique regional challenges. The event will bring together Okinawa’s industrial, academic, and financial communities to explore new collaborative possibilities and share the latest knowledge on GX (Green Transformation), circular economy models, and startup support.

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Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

QG Seminar Speaker: Fedor Popov (SCGP, Stony Brook)

Title: Defect Anomalies, a Spin-Flux Duality, and Boson-Kondo Problems

Collective Dynamics and Quantum Transport Unit Guest Seminar Speaker: Jonathan B. Curtis (ETH Zurich) Title: " Listening to Quantum Materials Using Nonlinear Noise Spectroscopy"

Zoom link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/97265615374?pwd=y4sab8ob8FvmTM4nfru1okwxkaJBLF.1

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Virginia Gail Toy

Title: Can we extract climate-friendly geo-resources from active tectonic plate boundaries without increasing earthquake hazard?

Affiliation: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, University of Otago

Hosted by Solar-Terrestrial Environment and Climate Unit (Miyahara Unit)

MIRAI Workshop on Health and Aging brings together researchers from Sweden and Japan, along with health-tech startups that work on aging, to explore challenges and innovations in healthy aging. The event features academic talks, industry showcases, and a keynote by Prof. Craig Willcox (Okinawa Centenarian Study).

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.

[Speaker] Prof. Kohei Ohie, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University

**This seminar had to be cancelled!** The speaker will give a talk at the workshop on Health and Aging on October 27, 2025.

What if AI was not just a tool, but a reflection of human creativity itself?

Marcus Liwicki – and a surprise guest from the future – will attend explore how AI can become a powerful tool for everyone.

Join them on a journey through time to discover how curiosity and hands-on learning can unlock the full potential of human-centered AI – today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Furthermore, Marcus will highlight some general AI research directions and focus in Sweden as well as a few highlights from the gender-balanced Machine Learning group at LTU, which he leads as chaired professor.

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).

Talk from invited guest Dr. Ilya Kolmanovsky: “AI and I" How people collaborate with ai: evolutionary perspective

Talk from invited guest science journalist Dr. Ilya Kolmanovsky: “Science supercharged: How AI is transforming discovery” (central building, B250).

QG Seminar Speaker: David Osten (University of Wrocław)

Title: Exceptional Generalised Geometry as a Symmetry Principle for Sigma Models

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Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Prof. Hisao Hayakawa from Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University

Speaker: Dr. Lenka Zdeborová , Associate Professor, EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Title: Statistical Physics Perspective on Understanding Learning with Neural Networks

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For more information about the workshop click HERE .

*Refreshments (coffee and snacks) will be provided for on-site participants.

The registration deadline for MIRAI GCT1 Workshop: “Health and Aging Population” is October 20th, 2025.

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

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).

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.

Language: English

Ms. Haru Negami (Chiba University)

Title: Integral transformation of KZ-type equation and construction of representation of braid group

QG seminar Speaker: Subhobrata Chatterjee Title: "Contact geometry and quantization"

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.

Speaker: Dr. Marck Shein-Idelson, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Sagol School for Neuroscience.

Title: The evolution terrestrial visual computations

Language: English

Seminar by Prof.Jean-Pierre Eckmann "A mysterious blowup in cosmological effective field theories"

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).

This event will bring together fifty world-class scientists & engineering, researchers and students working in the field of quantum information engineering. They will present their latest research as well as engaging in active discussions about the current state of the field and its future prospects.

Joint seminar on next-generation (cryo-) plasma FIB/SEM by

Dr. Katherine Lau/Development for Life Science/Delmic

Dr. Kathrin Rudolph/Life Science Product Specialist, Tescan

Seminar by Prof.Jean-Pierre Eckmann "Rolling stones reveal new structures in SO(3)"

Dr. Lydia Sosa Vargas , CNRS Research fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France

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).

You are invited to present your poster(s) at RAM 2025 Poster session combined with Opening ceremony and Teatime to share your research with the OIST Community!

Date: 2nd of October Time: from 16:00 Location: Atrium in Lab 5, level D

QG seminar Speaker: Franz Ciceri (ENS Lyon) Title: "Holography for the IKKT matrix model"

Dr. Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont, Medical Imaging and AI Scientist, Lead of AI group and scientific projects of Medical Physics Department, Centre de lutte contre le cancer, François Baclesse, ISTCT UMR6030-CNRS, UNICAEN

Title: Artificial intelligence in medical imaging applied to oncology

Speaker: Prof. Mahendra Verma, Dept of Physics & Kotak School of Sustainability, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Join us for a casual poster presentation with snacks, for a friendly discussion with peers or any curious passerby!

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Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Speaker: Professor Irina Mitrea, Temple University

Talk by Julian Greentree, University of Melbourne (Australia). Language: English. Open to OIST community.

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Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to the next installment of the OCQT Seminar Series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Nikita Astrakhantsev , a Senior Quantum Research Scientist at Google Quantum AI, who will deliver a talk entitled:

“Using interference in Pauli space to measure beyond-classical local out-of-time-order correlator”

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.

Title: Integrin transmembrane domains serve as an allosteric activator for ectodomain folding in the endoplasmic reticulum

Speaker: Prof. Reinhard Fässler

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried, Germany

www.biochem.mpg.de/faessler

Speaker: Prof. Grégory Giannone Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Université Bordeaux, CNRS, UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France

www.iins.u-bordeaux.fr/GIANNONE#pub