Past Events

[Webinar] Microbes on the Storm

Each year, an average of 27 named storms affects the Western North Pacific region, many of them making landfall on Okinawa islands. In this webinar, Dr. Angela Ares Pita will show observations on the nearshore microbial community and physico-chemical parameter dynamics encompassing two major storms as well as discuss their potential consequences on the ecosystem due to terrestrial run-off.

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Searching for Habitable Worlds around Nearby Stars with Large Telescopes

Presenter: Dr. Olivier Guyon, MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” Fellow; Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) group leader at the Subaru Telescope; Associate Astronomer, Associate Professor of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona

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Astronomy for Elementary to High School Students

This is a K-12 educational outreach program: In Japanese and Broadcast Live from Hawai’i

Speaker:  Dr. Yuko Kakazu, Astronomer and Outreach Expert, Subaru Telescope; Education Ambassador, OIST Foundation

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BASHOFU: The Bridge Between Science & Art

Celebrate the Japanese holiday Tanabata by joining this online session on the science and art of Okinawa traditional bashofu weaving. Panelists: Dr. Yoko Nomura, OIST; Ms. Roosmarjin Pallandt, Artist.

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Artificial Intelligence in Pathology

In this talk we will discuss: 1) Data-efficient methods for weakly-supervised whole slide classification with examples in cancer diagnosis and subtyping, allograft rejection etc. (Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021). 2) Harnessing weakly-supervised, fast and data-efficient WSI classification for identifying origins for cancers of unknown primary (Nature, 2021). 3) Discovering integrative histology-genomic prognostic markers via interpretable multimodal deep learning (IEEE TMI, 2020). 4) Deploying weakly supervised models in low resource settings without slide scanners, network connections, computational resources and expensive microscopes. 5) Bias and fairness in computational pathology algorithms.

Speaker: Dr. Faisal Mahmood, Assitant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

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[Online] Future of Women in Science

The Future of Women in Science Virtual Discussion and Launch of The Rita R. Colwell Impact Fund for the Advancement of Women in Science. Registration required.

Living Longer and Healthier – Blue Zones and Aging in the U.S. and Japan

Join the OIST Foundation and Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth for a virtual program that will examine aging through the lenses of biology, philosophy, and policy with a goal of shedding light on ways to live longer, healthier lives. 

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SPACES OF INNOVATION: Smart Cities & Innovation Parks from Tsukuba to Okinawa

Join the OIST Foundation, in partnership with the Smart City Institute Japan, for a virtual roundtable that will discuss the ways in which universities can have a positive impact on local communities and future generations through the formation of innovation parks and smart cities.

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[Webinar] Hurricanes in a Warming World

In an article titled, "Slower decay of landfalling hurricanes in a warming world", published in Nature on November 11, 2020, Chakraborty and co-author Lin Li, describe results of their research that suggest that “as the world continues to warm, the destructive power of hurricanes will extend progressively farther inland.” 

Join the OIST Foundation to hear directly from Prof. Chakraborty about this important research on how hurricanes are changing in a warming world.

PRESENTER:  Dr. Pinaki Chakraborty, Professor, Fluid Mechanics Unit, OIST

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[Webinar] International Approaches to Climate Change Planning and Adaptation in the Built and Natural Environments

Earlier this year, the Union of Concerned Scientists warned that “Stopping Climate Change is Not Enough”. In an effort to help communities take stock of existing climate adaptation resources toward mobilizing and building upon them, this webinar will feature three international approaches to climate change planning and adaptation in the built and natural environments. Presenters include:

Colton Ching, Sr. Vice President, Planning and Technology, Hawaiian Electric Company 
Derek Todd, Coastal Geomorphologist and Ian Wiseman, Sr. Environmental Scientist, Jacobs
Tim Ravasi, Professor of Marine Sciences and Principal Investigator of the Marine Climate Change Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) 

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