Past Events
Seminar: "Knots, the Jones Polynomial, and Khovanov homology" by Prof. Andrew Lobb
2019-12-04Speaker: Dr. Lobb is a professor at Durham University and is currently visiting OIST (visit his page).
Seminar: "Lorentzian Structures on Branching Spacetimes" by Mr. David O'Connell
2019-11-13Speaker: Mr. O'Connell is currently a Ph.D. student at OIST.
Colloquium: "Classification of 2-manifolds" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski
2019-11-12Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page).
Seminar: "The gravitational Wilson loop and the non-Abelian Stokes' theorem" by Prof. Reiko Toriumi
2019-11-06Speaker: Prof. Toriumi is a member of this research unit (visit her page).
Presidential Lecture: “New perspectives onto the Universe in the multi-messenger astronomy era” by Prof. Samaya Nissanke
2019-10-18Speaker: Prof. Dr. Samaya Nissanke is an astrophysicist and the spokesperson of GRAPPA, the center of excellence in gravitation and astroparticle physics, at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Presidential Lecture: "Science without borders, a key to mankind survival?" by Prof. Vincent Rivasseau
2019-07-23Speaker: Prof. Rivasseau, University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, is a theoretical physicist, specialist of quantum field theory and quantum gravity. He is the president of the Association for the Promotion of Science in Africa which he founded in 2008.
OIST Workshop: "Quantum and Gravity in Okinawa", edition 2019
2019-07-23 to 2019-07-27Aim: To provide an open and versatile atmosphere in order to advance our current understanding of the problem of quantum gravity.