Language: English

"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

"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

Speaker: Dr. Ziyin Liu, MIT and NTT Research

Title: Universal Phenomena, Irreversibility, and Thermodynamics in Deep

Speaker: Dr. Gregory Schwartzman, Associate Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

Title: Can Synaptic Connectivity Alone Reveal Neuron Types?

Speaker: Joost Kimpel, PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology

Talk by Pablo Sanchez Ocal, Postdoc of Speyer Unit (Representation Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics Unit)

Language: English

Prof. Tomonaga Okabe , Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University

Seminar by Dr. David Jones

Dr. Kristina Prokina, Postdoctoral researcher, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay

Internal seminar organized by Biological Complexity Unit.

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

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.

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

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

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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

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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).

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

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.

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

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.

Title: Active materials and reactive fluids

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

[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)

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.

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

-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)

Speaker: Dr. Steven L. Brunton, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington.

Language: English