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).

Dr. Yana Eglit, Postdoc, Guichard/Hamel Lab, the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland

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

Spatial biology in multiple dimensions

Speaker: Dr. Stefan Eulitz (Miltenyi Biotec B. V. & Co. KG)

A seminar by Dr. Akira Sawa at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will be hosted by Prof. Yoshida.

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

Dr. Art Pilacinski, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

Speaker: Dr.François Guillard, Particles and Grains Laboratory, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney

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 .

Come to our lunchtime seminar to learn about biological sex and queer biology! Everyone is welcome!

Seminar by Prof. Kurt Krause, University of Otago, Department of Biochemistry Dunedin, New Zealand

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

[Speaker] Giorgio Cavallazzi, Research Student, Department of Engineering, City St George's, University of London

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

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

AIVIA DAY

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 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).

Dr. Eric Libby, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umea University.

Symposium : Aspects of Generalized Symmetries

From June 16-21, 2025 at OIST Lab 5 D23

This symposium is part of the TSVP Thematic Program "Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Matter" . The program will run from May 12 to July 5, 2025 .

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).

Professor Stefan Rauser, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology (Germany), will present his group’s research focusing on determining the molecular architecture of heart muscle sarcomeres using cryoelectron tomography

Speaker: Dr. Wenyuan Wang, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Lunch-time seminar about the history and importance of pride.

Everyone is welcome to join!

Today’s most advanced ion trap quantum computers have at most one qubit per ion, each defined within the ground state manifold. Additional non-qubit ions provide sympathetic cooling to keep the computational ions cold enough to perform many rounds of high-fidelity coherent operations. Typically, the two subsets of ions must be different species to prevent cooling light from disturbing the computation. To bypass this added system complexity, we can instead promote our computational ions to a long-lived excited state that is isolated from the ground-state cooling transitions. This promotion also enables new features including erasure conversion and projective state preparation and cooling. We will discuss two recent efforts to develop this architecture: entangling gates between metastable qubits and mid-circuit sympathetic cooling and readout of a metastable ion by a ground-state ion. Finally, we will take advantage of the larger metastable manifold to explore high-fidelity qudit control.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Armitage (Integrative Community Ecology Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

A special science outreach talk hosted by iGEM Okinawa , an Okinawan student team applying bioengineering strategies to detect invasive pest species on local mango farms. Come learn how molecular science can drive solutions across continents, from cassava in Africa to mangoes in Okinawa!

Speaker 1) Kim Pham, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France

Speaker 2) Agnès Maurel, Langevin Institute, ESPCI Paris – France

Title: Topological regularity of Busemann spaces, Professor Tadashi Fujioka, Kyoto University Abstract:

We discuss the topological regularity theorem for Busemann spaces of nonpositive curvature, while reviewing the corresponding results for Alexandrov spaces and CAT spaces. All of these are metric spaces with upper or lower curvature bounds in some synthetic senses, and we address the question of when such spaces are topological manifolds. This is joint work with Shijie Gu (Northeastern University, China). Preprint available at arXiv:2504.14455.

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Talk by Professor Henning Sprekeler, Technische Universität Berlin. Target audience : Students and Researchers interested in the field Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration.

CityUHK x OIST Online Workshop (June 4, 2025, 09:00-16:45 HKT/10:00-17:45 JST)

Title: Active materials and reactive fluids

Speaker: Prof. Chun Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Berta Hudak , National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei Title: Representation theory of the Hu algebras

[Speaker] Prof. Giorgio Besagni, Associate Professor, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Speaker: Dr Arnd Roth (University College London, Wolfson Inst for Biomedical Research), hosted by Computational Neurosciece Unit (Erik De Schutter)

Talk by James Cresser, University of Glasgow. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to OIST Community.

Seminar by Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen , Director of Center for Polymers and Organic Solids; Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Presidential Lecture by Jens Nielsen: New insight into cellular metabolism from the use of mathematical models

In my talk I will briefly walk you through my career development from my native country Croatia, via France, Denmark, Sweden and USA and I will explain what I wanted to achieve in my career: why and how I made the decisions that I did, and how those have served me. I will select a few main learnings that can be used as advice for everyone. I will use the example of my current job as the Chief Science Officer, Chief Partnerships Officer and Senior Executive Advisor to the Provost to explain how I work in the context of my union (EU), country (Denmark), in the context of my University (Technical University of Denmark) and the context of my research center (Center for Biosustainability), and how hopefully it all comes together to benefit the world.

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).

OIST Graduate School invites you to join Alumni Workshop, featuring our recent PhD graduates!

Coming from different professional backgrounds, the speakers will present their work and take your questions on issues related to professional and career development. Join this event to learn about career paths leading to the US and Japan, the work and professional life of our graduates, while you can also expand your network and develop a meaningful connection with the newest alumni of OIST!

Dr.Salvatore Andrea Lacava, Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Universitity. Language: English

Speaker: Prof. Smarajit Karmakar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Dr Alexander Wood, The University of Melbourne

[Speaker] Prof. Jae Sung Park, Richard L. McNeel Associate Professor of Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Prof. Akiyoshi Uemura

-Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences

-Uemura Eye Clinic

Dr. Anthony M. Bonacolta, Postdoctoral Reseasrch Fellow, The Keeling Lab, The University of British Columbia.

Speaker: Dr. Bing Wen Brunton, Professor of Biology and the Richard & Joan Komen University Chair at the University of Washington

Language: English

Title: Preservation of concavity properties by the Dirichlet heat flow and applications

Speaker: Prof. Paolo Salani (University of Florence)

Title: Initial traces and solvability of porous medium equation with power nonlinearity

Speaker: Prof. Kazuhiro Ishige (University of Tokyo)