Upcoming Events
Mini Course: On the Tutte polynomial invariant for graphs and matroids
A short course on the Tutte polynomial in graphs and matroids.
4 sessions only: April 7 and 9, and 14 and 16 (Tuesday and Thursday 10-12 in L4E45)
Dr. Remi Avohou is a post-doc in the Toriumi Unit
Mini Course: Okinawa Lectures on Entropy
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
Seminar Abberior Super Resolution Nanoscopy
Abberior Super Resolution Nanoscopy
[Seminar]"Temperature-induced effects in organic thin films comprising energy donor-acceptor systems" by Dr. Piotr Ślęczkowski
Seminar by Dr. Piotr Ślęczkowski, Lodz University of Technology
From PhD to Possibility: Careers, Confidence, and Finding Your Way
TSVP Talk: "Bond Activation and Homogeneous Catalysis Beyond Classical Reactivity Patterns" by Robert Langer
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】"Ecophysiological strategies of plants inhabiting harsh environments: leaf trichomes in Hawaii and root distributions in Alaska." by Dr. Gaku Amada
Dr. Gaku Amada, a JSPS Research Fellow PD at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, mechanisms of maintaining plant biodiversity in permafrost environments.
The Provost Lecture Series 23
Seminar "Epigenetics for recombination during meiosis: The role of PRDM9"
Dr. Bernard de Massy, Institute of Human Genetics Montpellier
Seminar"Chaos in confinement: Using polymers to mix fluids and speed up chemical reactions in porous media"Sujit Datta
Language: English
【Seminar】"Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers" by Prof. Thomas Powers
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Powers from Brown University
Title: Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers
Seminar by Dr. Poulami Chatterjee (Presidency University) and Dr. Masayuki Shiba (Tokyo City University)
Seminar by Dr Masayuki Shiba and Dr. Poulami Chatterjee
TSVP Talk: "Playing With Magnets, Geometry and Bacteria." by Andrés Concha
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).
QG Seminar (Zoom): Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)
QG Seminar (Zoom)
Speaker: Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)
Title: TBA
HPC User Group Meeting
The next High-Performance Computing User Group Meeting is April 23. Everybody is Welcome!
Expanding the World of Science Through Yanbaru: KAGAKUJIKAN2026
OIST Deeptech Mixer (SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 Partner Event) | Powered by Bank of the Ryukyus
Held alongside SusHi Tech Tokyo, the OIST Deeptech Mixer brings together OIST researchers and OIST-born startups visiting from Okinawa, alongside corporate partners and venture capitalists already working with OIST. Through featured presentations, you'll gain insight into where OIST innovation stands today — and where it's headed. Following the sessions, a dedicated networking time will provide fertile ground for new collaborations to take shape.
[Seminar] Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms
Title: Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms
Speaker: Dr. Xitong Liang, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University.
【April 28th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【4/28】 旅費相談会
Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.
旅費相談会を開催いたします。
[Seminar] "Single-cell genomics and fluorescence microscopy indicate permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid" by Prof. Fabien Burki
Prof. Fabien Burki, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Organismal Biology; Systematic Biology at Uppsala University, Sweden
Mini Course: Biophysical Principles of Regulation in Bacteria
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.
Advances in Photoemission Techniques: Probing Space, Energy, Momentum, and Time
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.
[OIST Workshop] Solid State Systems for Quantum Information Processing (SQuIP)
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.
2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
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.
Information Theory in Modern Science
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.
Information Theory in Modern Science 2026
Join us to explore how information-theoretic ideas shape modern research across a variety of fields.
Innovator's Toolbox: From Lab to Market
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.
International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogS 2026)
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tom Froese (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).
New Years Holiday
National holiday
Machine Learning Summer School 2027
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Makoto Yamada (Machine Learning and Data Science Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.