Past Events
Structural Studies of Electron Transfer Complexes in Oxygenic Photosynthesis by Prof. Genji Kurisu
Prof. Genji Kurisu from Institute for Protein Research, the University of Osaka
TSVP Talk: "Freeness and Simplicity Revisited: Silting and Bricks" by Osamu Iyama
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).
"Low-temperature scanning probe microscopy: The era of functionalized tips" by Prof. RuslanTemirov
Speaker: Prof. Ruslan Temirov, Peter Grünberg Institute-3 (Quantum Nanoscience), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2025
OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2025 will be held July 28th-August 6th. Please welcome 20 KEIO undergraduate medical school students to OIST! If you would like to get involved, check out events that OISTers are welcome to join!
[Seminar] "Ultracold polarons and impurities: from lattice polarons to effective field theories" Dr. Felipe Isaule, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Dr. Felipe Isaule, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, will give a seminar on " Ultracold polarons and impurities: from lattice polarons to effective field theories ". Please join us!
Lunchtime TV Screening "Protecting Corals with Genetic Technology"
Lunchtime TV Screening: Science View – Coral Research by Prof. Noriyuki Satoh NHK World's program Science View recently featured an interview with Professor Noriyuki Satoh, showcasing the fascinating journey of his coral research. Join us for a casual lunchtime screening and watch the program together!
【Seminar】"Bosonic Boosts: Dual-Rail Encoding and Nonlinear Vibronic Simulation on Oscillator–Qubit Platforms"
Talk by Professor Joonsuk Huh, Yonsei University
Kolmogorov Problem and Wiener-type Criterion for the Removability of the Fundamental Singularity for the Parabolic PDEs
July 23 2:00 - 3:50 (L4F15) Ugur G. Abdulla , Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
[Seminar] Synergy between gravitational wave detectors and macroscopic optomechanics
Dr Kentaro Komori, Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
On ruling out a class of type II blow-up scenarios in the hyper-dissipative Navier-Stokes equations
Workshop "Singularities and Partial Differential Equations representing Natural Phenomena: from potential theory to fluid mechanics" 23 July, 2025
2-2:50pm / 3:00 - 3:50 pm (L4F01) Ugur G. Abdulla , Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Open Call for Visiting Scholars in FY2026
Open Call for Visiting Scholars in FY2025
Open Call for Pre-Proposals for Thematic Programs FY2027
Open Call for Thematic Programs in FY2027
[Seminar] Visible frequency plasmonic effects in graphene and diamond heterostructures by Prof. Bohuslav Rezek
Title: Visible frequency plasmonic effects in graphene and diamond heterostructures
Speaker: Dr. Bohuslav Rezek, Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia
Language: English
Seminar"The influence of surfactants on bubble bursting and air-liquid-air sheets"Jun Eshima
Language: English
[Seminar] "2 - Dimensional Hybrid Perovskite as a Promising Semiconductor for Large Area Electronics" by Dr. Tomasz Marszalek
Speaker: Dr. hab. eng. Tomasz Marszalek, Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research & Lodz University of Technology
[Seminar] "Plasticity-Stability Balance in Neural Circuits: From basic principles to malfunctions" by Prof. Inna Slutsky, Tel Aviv University
"Plasticity-Stability Balance in Neural Circuits: From basic principles to malfunctions" by Prof. Inna Slutsky, Tel Aviv University
[Seminar] Towards quantum science and technology with Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering
Prof Michael R. Vanner, Imperial College London
TSVP Symposium: Representation Theory and Topological Data Analysis
Title : Representation Theory and Topological Data Analysis: Latest Advances
This symposium is part of the TSVP Thematic Program "Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined" . The program will run from June 23 to August 9, 2025.
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.