Step into the vibrant world of Onna Village through Crafted Traditions , an exhibition celebrating the timeless beauty of Okinawan ceramics and glass art.

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 Karry Fund (Karry Impact & Innovation Fund)

Registration is required. If the number of applicants exceeds the available slots, OIST Innovation will select participants based on the information provided in the registration form and the strategic fit with the VC.

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 Prof. Kazuki Sakurai from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw (Poland), who will deliver a talk entitled:

“Quantum Measurements at Particle Colliders and Their Applications to New-Physics Searches”

A talk by Moritz Piening

Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin

Dr Marion Cromb, Post-doctoral experimental researcher, University of Nottingham

Child-rearing Support Community - Collaboration Event with CDC Teachers!!

Japan as an Asian superpower – Rise and fall 1912-1945

Lecture by Prof. Till Weber, OIST 16th December, 2025

Title: Unbounded viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations with mechanical Hamiltonian in Wasserstein space

Speaker: Dr. Othmane Jerhaoui (IRMAR - INSA Rennes)

Prof. Sushma Nagaraja Grellscheid, Professor of Genomics, University of Bergen (Norway) & Durham University (UK). Seminar on biomolecular condensates and FlickerPRINT, a high-throughput flicker spectroscopy approach to probe condensate mechanics in living cells. Language: English, no interpretation.

Speaker: France Rose(University of Bonn)

Title: Animal behavior analysis enabled by unsupervised deep learning

Public Lecture : "The Evolution of Butterfly Eyespot Patterns" by Prof. Antónia Monteiro (National University of Singapore)

Language: English with Japanese interpretation General audience, anyone with an interest in the topic. Recommended for 10 years old and over Registration required

ISLAND SONGS

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

December 23th (Tue) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

National holiday

Prof. Rachel Kolodny, Professor of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Israel

Dr. Iori Morita, SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Title: Normalized solutions and limit profiles of the Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson equation

Speaker: Prof. Vitaly Moroz (Swansea University)

The Provost Lecture Series 21

This training course will show you how to make best use of the high-performance computing resources at OIST. In the first session we show you how computing clusters are organized and introduce the fundamental concepts of parallel computing.

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 D4V (Design for Ventures)

Pavel Turek , OIST Title: TBA

The command line is the primary way to use the high performance computing resources at OIST. Here we quickly learn the basics we need to become comfortable and productive.

QG Seminar Speaker: Max Velasquez Cotini Hutt (Imperial College London)

Title: Non-invertible Symmetries of 2d Non-Linear Sigma Models

A beginner's introduction to using the clusters and other computing resources at OIST. This is the second, hands-on session.

Join us for Innovator’s Toolbox, a new pilot program helping researchers explore pathways from lab to market. Led by trainer Josh Green, sessions cover tech transfer, licensing, team roles, and business basics. Open to the whole OIST research community—no registration required, just come by!

Join farmers, startups, and innovation leaders to explore real issues facing agriculture in Okinawa with simultaneous interpretation in English and Japanse. Local experts will share short, focused insights on the challenges farmers encounter, followed by a panel discussion on how entrepreneurial solutions can address them. Early-stage startups will pitch technologies and ideas. The event concludes with networking, offering a chance to connect, collaborate, and spark new partnerships for the future of Okinawa’s agriculture.

QG Seminar Speaker: Veronica Collazuol (IFT Madrid) Title: The Boundary of Symmetric Moduli Spaces and the Distance Conjecture

Title : "Introduction to Isogeny-based Cryptography"

Abstract : Isogeny-based cryptography is a fast-moving field, and recent developments have introduced several new techniques, making the barrier of entry particularly high for young researchers wishing to work in the field. To aid new researchers in the field is the aim of this "summer" school, which introduces all of the many essential tools that are used today. Among the topics to be covered are the correspondences between ideals and isogenies that give rise to both the Deuring correspondence, which is an essential part of protocols such as SQIsign, and the class group action on CM curves and oriented supersingular curves, which gives other cryptographic primitives such as CSIDH and SCALLOP. Further, higher dimensional abelian varieties and isogenies between these have recently become an integral part of isogeny-based cryptography, providing huge improvements to many existing protocols, as well as creating new protocols.

“Welcome to Okinawa and OIST”

This orientation is a chance for new family and community members to get to know OIST and its community services. You’ll meet other families and pick up tips and stories from those who’ve been here a while

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who graduated in the period May 2025 to January 2026. The ceremony will take place at the OIST Auditorium on Friday, February 27, 2026.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tomomi Kiyomitsu (Cell Division Dynamics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Science Challenge is a unique opportunity for participants to extend their scientific education and experience research at OIST.

The Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2026

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yuliya Kulikova (Science and Technology Group)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

International Symposium of Life-Nonlife Transition: Boundaries Between Life and Nonlife, March 18-19, at Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Language: English, Registration needed.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Amin Chabchoub (Marine Physics and Engineering Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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.

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.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tom Froese (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

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.