OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Keshav Dani (Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Seminar title: How Circuits Learn: Projection Operators, Memory, and Computation in Analog Hardware

Speaker: Dr. Frank Barrows from Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)

Title: Convexity: from the Euclidean space to Riemannian and sub-Riemannian manifolds

Speaker: Prof. Federica Dragoni (Cardiff University)

Speaker: Huy Truong, Kansas State University Title: Base Modulus for Matroid Truncation, Strength, and Fractional Arboricity Abstract:

In previous work, we studied the -modulus of the family of all bases of a matroid and showed that it recovers several classical concepts in matroid theory, including strength, fractional arboricity, and principal partitions. These results generalize corresponding concepts for spanning trees in graphs. Due to computational constraints, one may impose a bound on the number of elements sampled from a base. For instance, when exploring a tree, we may stop at forests with edges. Such objects are captured by matroid truncations. In this paper, we study the modulus of matroid truncations and determine the universal density for every truncation of a given matroid. As a consequence, we show that the truncation modulus serves as an approximation of the original matroid modulus.

Biophysical Principles of Regulation in Bacteria including quantitative models, regulatory adaptations, replication control, and gene regulation through gene promoters. Presented by Dr Alberto Sassi, a post-doc in the Pigolotti Unit.

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"Controlling and Sensing Spin Systems with Free Space Electrons" by Prof. Philipp Haslinger, Vienna University of Technology

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"Electron-Photon Entanglement in Electron Microscopy" by Mr. Alexander Preimesberger, Vienna University of Technology

Speaker: Professor Alexander Menovschikov, HSE University Title: Nonlinear Neumann Eigenvalues in Outward Cuspidal Domains With Weighted Measure Abstract:

We consider the nonlinear Neumann eigenvalue problem in outward cuspidal domains with a weighted measure. Using composition operators on Sobolev spaces, we establish embeddings of Sobolev spaces into weighted Lebesgue spaces. These embeddings give the solvability of the Neumann spectral problem in this setting and provide estimates for the corresponding weighted Neumann eigenvalues

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. Frank Barrows from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), who will deliver a talk entitled: “Decoherence as Algebraic Contraction”

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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).

A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.

Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: William Munro (Quantum Engineering and Design Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zurich, Switzerland Guest Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

A casual space to chat and share about parenting!

June 9 (Tue), 2026 15:00 - 16:00 @B503, Center Bldg.

From spontaneous to intentional action: measuring and modelling 3-month-olds’ behavior during environmental interaction, Dr. Ryo Fujihira, National Institute for Physiological Sciences

June 9 (Tue), 2026 16:00 - 17:00 @B503, Center Bldg.

On human emergence, Prof. Gentaro Taga, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo

Evgeny Mukhin , Indiana University Title: TBA

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. Diego Dalvit from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), who will deliver a talk entitled: “Quantum Radar with Undetected Photons”

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. Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), who will deliver a talk entitled: “Scientific Applications of Quantum Annealer Hardware”

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. Diego Dalvit from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), who will deliver a talk entitled: “Breakdown of the Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation by a spatiotemporally modulated nonreciprocal metasurface”

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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).

A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.

Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen

OIST–Keio Biomedical Innovation Exchange Day aims to connect researchers, startups, and industry collaborators from both universities to foster meaningful exchange in biomedical innovations.

This special exhibition to commemorate Okinawa Memorial Day presents a selection of wartime photographs from the Onna Village Museum Collection. The images provide a visual account of the events of the Battle of Okinawa.

Okinawa Memorial Day, observed on June 23, marks the end of the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 and honors the over 200,000 lives lost, including many civilians. We invite visitors to take a moment to learn more about this battle, and to reflect on the importance of remembrance.

This exhibition offers visitors and the OIST community a chance to delve into Okinawa's rich history and explore a pivotal event that forever transformed life on the island. To learn more about Okinawa Memorial Day (Irei no Hi) and about the Battle of Okinawa, please visit Uchinaa Culture 09 - Irei no Hi ~慰霊の日~

This event is organized by OIST with thanks to Onna Village Museum.

Free of charge, no registration required.

Learn About Okinawa's History: Irei No Hi (Battle of Okinawa) (Language: Japanese with simultaneous English translation) June 23 is Okinawa Memorial Day. To mark the occasion, a special lecture on Okinawa's history and war will be held on June 17 (Wed) 14:00-16:00 in the OIST Auditorium.

This is a valuable opportunity to learn about the history of the land and people of Onna Village.

We will welcome Takahiro Seto,from the Onna Village Museum, who will provide context on the Battle of Okinawa, combat zones in Onna Village, and how these events impacted local residents. In addition, Terunobu Yamauchi, who was born and raised in Onna Village, will join Mr. Seto in a dialogue to share his personal experiences of life in Nakadomari during that time.

Okinawa to Space

To be held at L4E48 from June 22 (Monday) - July 3 (Friday) 2026

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Ugur Abdulla (Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

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Curious about startups, patents, licensing, or careers beyond academia, but not sure where to begin? This short session introduces OIST students to OIST Innovation and the many ways students can engage with commercialization and entrepreneurship. Participants will hear real examples of innovation pathways at OIST and learn how programs like Innovator’s Toolbox , Proof of Concept funding , and Open Hours can help them explore what is possible.

In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.

The featured VC for this round is Lifetime Ventures .

Workshop on the Neural Basis of Democracy

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Amedeo Roberto Esposito (Information Theory, Probability, and Statistics Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Join us to explore how information-theoretic ideas shape modern research across a variety of fields.

Join OIST Innovation’s commercialization training program designed to help students, researchers, and administrators explore how research can move from lab to market. Through monthly, hands-on sessions from July to February, participants will learn the fundamentals of commercialization, customer discovery, business strategy, and pitching while developing their own innovation ideas.

Dr J AUME C UNILL -S UBIRANAS , Physics Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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This workshop offers hands-on microscope activities with OIST geologist Mirona Chirienco, exploring the rocks and minerals found in Okinawa.

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Seminar focusing on the rapidly advancing field of synthetic biology. Latest researches on the Darwinian evolution of RNA-protein self-replication systems, synthetic gene circuits, and mirror-image biology will be presented.

DISCOVER THE LEAN STARTUP METHODOLOGY Learn to identify commercial opportunities that come from your academic research. Apply the Lean Startup methodology to real OIST technologies, guided by instructors from the NSF I-Corps™ network. Teams (3–4 people) will conduct interviews, validate their ideas, and explore real-world commercialization.

The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers developed and hosted annually by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin in November. In 3–minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin.

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Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems

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