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COI-NEXT Call for New Projects 2025

Monday, March 3, 2025 - 16:35 to Monday, March 31, 2025 - 11:50

The OIST COI-NEXT Program is excited to announce the Call for New Projects 2025! We are looking for interdisciplinary projects that are dedicated to delivering tangible outcomes in support of the One World, One Health vision. Proposals are due by March 31, 2025 , at 12:00 PM.

Prospective Students

Science Challenge 2025

Saturday, March 15, 2025 (All day) to Saturday, March 22, 2025 (All day)
OIST Campus

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

Seminar

Coupled inverse and forward models in the cerebellum

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:00
B503 (Center Building)

Speaker: Javier Francisco MedinaProfessor & Brown Foundation Chair in Neuroscience Department of Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine

Seminar

[Seminar] "How does a neuron grow?" by Prof. Mike Fainzilber

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab5D23 (Seminar Room)

Speaker: Mike Fainzilber, Professor in Molecular Neuroscience, Head, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel [ website ]

Title: How does a neuron grow?

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "The Heisenberg Category" by Jon Brundan

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4E48 and zoom

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).

Holiday

National Holiday 春分の日

Thursday, March 20, 2025 (All day)

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Professional Development

OIST Innovation Open Hour

Friday, March 21, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday .

Research

[Seminar] "Renewable, Recyclable, and Remarkable Aliphatic Polyester Block Polymers as Sustainable Plastics and Elastomers" by Prof. Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota

Monday, March 24, 2025 - 10:30 to 11:30
Seminar Room L4E48

Marc A. Hillmyer, PhD , Professor, Department of Chemistry, Center for Sustainable Polymers, University of Minnesota

Seminar

[Seminar] "Role of axonal importin β1 in presynaptic local translation and spatial memory" by Philip Freund

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:00
Lab5 D23 (Seminar Room)

Speaker: Philip Freund, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Title: Role of axonal importin β1 in presynaptic local translation and spatial memory

Campus Service

[RC] Insurance Company Visits OIST

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 11:00 to 15:00
The room next to the ATM in the center building

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

Seminar

[Seminar] Revisiting Stress Propagation in a Two-Dimensional Circular Disk and a Three-Dimensional Sphere Under Diametric Loading

Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
F01, Lab4 & Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Satoshi Takada, Associate Professor: Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.

language: English

Seminar

Yin Yang of Repetitive RNAs in tissue regeneration and aging

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 14:00
L4E01 (Level E, Lab 4)

Seminar by Prof. Valerio Orlando

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
L4F01 and online on Zoom
Vyacheslav Futorny, Southern University of Science and Technology Title: Smooth representations of Affine Lie algebras
Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 15:30 to 16:30
L4F01 and online on Zoom
Iryna Kashuba, Southern University of Science and Technology Title: One-sided representations of Jordan algebras
Public Lecture

Public Lecture: "How Do Animals Make Sound?" by Coen Elemans

Saturday, April 5, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:30
Auditorium

Public Lecture : "How Do Animals Make Sound? … Even While Holding Their Breath" by Prof. Coen Elemans (University of Southern Denmark)

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

Seminar

Seminar: Multipliers of orbital angular momentum of light

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
on Zoom

Title: Multipliers of orbital angular momentum of light

Speaker: Dr Georgiy Tkachenko, University of Bordeaux, France

Seminar

[Seminar] Does Synaptic Strength Encode Sleep Need?

Monday, April 14, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
D23, Lab5

Title: Does Synaptic Strength Encode Sleep Need?

Speaker: Dr. Shoi Shi, Principal Investigator, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS), University of Tsukuba

Language: English

Campus Service

[RC] Insurance Company Visits OIST

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 11:00 to 15:00
The room next to the ATM in the center building

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

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 18

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
The Provost Lecture Series 18
Seminar

[Seminar] "Synaptic Machinery for Protein Turnover" by Prof. Chao Sun, Aarhus University, Denmark

Friday, April 18, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
L5D23

"Synaptic Machinery for Protein Turnover" by Prof. Chao Sun, Aarhus University, Denmark

Outreach

KAGAKUJIKAN2025 (Science Week 2025)

Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 10:00 to 16:00
Nago museum

This is one of the science event for Japan Science Week.

Venue: Nago Museum

Admission Free

Campus Service

[RC] Insurance Company Visits OIST

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 11:00 to 15:00
The room next to the ATM in the center building

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

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 19

Friday, April 25, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
The Provost Lecture Series 19
Holiday

National Holiday 昭和の日

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

Campus Service

[RC] Insurance Company Visits OIST

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 11:00 to 15:00
The room next to the ATM in the center building

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

Holiday

National Holiday 憲法記念日

Saturday, May 3, 2025 (All day)

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Holiday

National Holiday みどりの日

Sunday, May 4, 2025 (All day)

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National Holiday こどもの日

Monday, May 5, 2025 (All day)

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National Holiday 振替休日

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 (All day)

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Campus

Graduation Ceremony 2025

Saturday, May 24, 2025 (All day)
OIST Auditorium

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who graduated in the period May 2024 to April 2025. The ceremony will take place at the OIST Auditorium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.

The event will be streamed online for those who cannot attend in person. For more information on the graduation program, speakers, and graduates, please visit: https://www.oist.jp/graduation

For any questions, please contact: graduation@oist.jp

OIST Workshops

12th International Symposium on Leaf Surface Microbiology (“Phyllosphere 2025”)

Friday, June 6, 2025 (All day) to Monday, June 9, 2025 (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium+Meeting Rooms), OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Armitage (Integrative Community Ecology Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshops

Recent Advances in Potential Theory and Partial Differential Equations

Monday, July 14, 2025 (All day) to Friday, July 18, 2025 (All day)
OIST Seaside House and Main Campus (L4E48)

OIST 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.

Holiday

National Holiday 海の日

Monday, July 21, 2025 (All day)

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Holiday

National Holiday 山の日

Monday, August 11, 2025 (All day)

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Holiday

National Holiday 敬老の日

Monday, September 15, 2025 (All day)

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National Holiday 秋分の日

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 (All day)

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OIST Workshops

Quantum Reference Frames: a QISS workshop

Monday, October 13, 2025 (All day) to Friday, October 17, 2025 (All day)
OIST Seaside House, OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Philipp Höhn (Qubits and Spacetime Unit)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Holiday

National Holiday スポーツの日

Monday, October 13, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

OIST Workshops

Cephalopod International Advisory Council 2025 in Okinawa (CIAC2025)

Saturday, October 25, 2025 (All day) to Saturday, November 1, 2025 (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium+Meeting Rooms), OIST Seaside House

OIST Workshop | Website | Conference Chair Ryuta Nakajima and Dan Rokhsar | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Holiday

National Holiday 文化の日

Monday, November 3, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

OIST Workshops

International Conference on Embodied of Cognitive Science (ECogS 2025)

Monday, November 10, 2025 (All day) to Friday, November 14, 2025 (All day)
OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

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

Holiday

National Holiday 勤労感謝の日

Sunday, November 23, 2025 (All day)

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National Holiday 振替休日

Monday, November 24, 2025 (All day)

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New Years Holiday 年末年始2026

Monday, December 29, 2025 (All day) to Saturday, January 3, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

OIST Workshops

Emerging Concepts in Cell Division Cycles: From Early Development to Cancer and Aging

Monday, March 2, 2026 (All day) to Thursday, March 5, 2026 (All day)
OIST Seaside House, OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

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 Workshops

Building a Sustainable and Resilient Future: Addressing Demographic Challenges, Health and Gender Disparities, and Economic Inequality

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 (All day) to Friday, March 20, 2026 (All day)
OIST Seaside House, OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

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.