The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Okinawa closer through a shared love of food. Each session will be focused on one dish, taught by someone with a personal connection to the recipe (perhaps you?).

[Speaker] Jessica Nitschke, Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University

[Title] Modelling Social Complexity & State Formation in Early Egypt

Seminar by Dr.Quan ZHU "Applying Spatially-Resolved Single Cell Technologies to Study Human Health and Diseases"

Kino Store (Kinoza) Every Wednesday 15:00-17:00 Center Building, Level C, Center Court

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第４回大学職員向け勉強会　「大学組織」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

Speaker 1: Ms. Weiqiu You (University of Pennsylvania)

Title: Sum-of-Parts: Faithful Attributions for Groups of Features

Speaker 2: Mr. Xiaoyuan Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)

Title : Multiobjective meets machine learning, from a single solution, a finite set of solutions to infinite solutions.

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.

Onna no Eki is coming to OIST every Friday, 12:30-13:30

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

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).

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Dr. Cheryl Lynn AMES, Professor, Tohoku University

Speaker: Dr. Milan Janda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, & Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

[Speaker] Prof. Yasushi Takeda, Prof. em. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, ex Scientist HEST, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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).

Language: English

*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December.

おまけ回「疑問の解消と理解の掘り下げ」 （日本語） Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]Resource Center in the Center Building(right next to the ATM)

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"Grants in Practice" session will be held at OIST on July 25th, for students and researchers interested in learning ways to successfully apply to grants, like the European MSCA

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

OIST-KEIO International Research Summer Camp 2024 will be held July 29th-August 7th. 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!

OIST-Oxford-SLMath 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.

Speaker : Dr. Risa Iguchi (King's College London)

[Speaker] Dr. Katia Del Rio-Tsonis, Professor, Dept. Biology, Miami University (MU)

[Title] Understanding the regenerative powers of ocular pigment epithelium

[Speaker] Prof. Izumi Saito, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]Resource Center in the Center Building(right next to the ATM)

Join us for an insightful seminar on expanding your startup business in Southeast Asia. OIST Innovation is proud to invite distinguished speakers from Singapore (NUS and JSIP) to share their expertise and experiences. Targeted at startups, entrepreneurs, and startup supporters interested in exploring the dynamic markets of Southeast Asia, this event promises valuable insights and networking opportunities.

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).

Speaker: Dr. Emanuele Gallorini, Post Doctoral Researcher , Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano

Presidential Lecture by Professor Michael Stryker on the topic "Why our brains are more flexible when we are younger".

Since 2019, OIST and Keio University have been collaborating in various ways: initially with the School of Medicine, accepting research interns, and hosting a series of showcase talks to learn about each other's research.​ The International Research Summer Camp is planned to be held at OIST for Keio undergraduate medical school students as a part of our efforts to strengthen our educational collaboration. The summer camp is a valuable opportunity for undergraduate medical students to experience hands-on basic research, under the guidance of outstanding researchers from around the world in a global and interdisciplinary environment.

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]Resource Center in the Center Building(right next to the ATM)

Seminar for Entrepreneurs

We will invite a small and medium enterprise management consultant to hold a seminar on creating business plans necessary for starting a business and raising funds.

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).

National holiday

Deadline for Registration---Writing Workshop Series, Module 1: Writing as Process and Story. Please register if you plan to attend at least one of the modules in the series, which are open to all OIST members.

National holiday

Speaker: Dr. Fiorella Ramirez Esquivel, UNSW Canberra, Australia

SHIMA is an annual science educational outreach program to educate high school students in Okinawa on the sustainability of island ecosystems and cultures.

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]Resource Center in the Center Building(right next to the ATM)

The details will be updated

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]The room next to the ATM at the Center Building

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!

PhD Thesis Public Presentation

Sachie Yukawa

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]The room next to ATM in the Center Building

Speaker: Dr. Miwa Takahashi, CERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Environomics Future Science Platform, NCMI | CSIRO

Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

Abstract: Environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a powerful monitoring tool for species detection and distribution mapping, with a remarkable surge in activity over the past decade. Metabarcoding studies have generated millions of DNA sequences with taxonomic assignments, while species-specific eDNA assays have produced comprehensive distribution maps for hundreds of taxa . (...)

Welcome Ceremony for new faculty members joining OIST, and PhD students joining the Class of 2024.

The ceremony is open to all OIST community members and will be held at the Auditorium (Time TBD).

OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) would like to invite you to the TQC2024 conference scheduled for 9-13 September 2024 at OIST Conference Center, Okinawa, Japan.

National holiday