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Culture

Okinawa Memorial Day Exhibition

Friday, June 13, 2025 (All day) to Wednesday, July 2, 2025 (All day)
OIST Center Building Level C

This special exhibition to commemorate Okinawa Memorial Day presents a selection of wartime photographs from the Onna Village Museum Collection.

Symposium

TSVP Symposium: Aspects of Generalized Symmetries

Monday, June 16, 2025 (All day) to Friday, June 20, 2025 (All day)
L5D23

Symposium : Aspects of Generalized Symmetries

From June 16-21, 2025 at OIST Lab 5 D23

This symposium is part of the TSVP Thematic Program "Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Matter" . The program will run from May 12 to July 5, 2025 .

Recreation

Child-rearing Support Community : lunchtime Chat!

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 11:30 to 13:30
Child-rearing Support Community : lunchtime Chat!
Culture

Okinawa Memorial Day Lecture 2025

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 15:00 to 17:00
OIST Auditorium

June 23 is Okinawa Memorial Day. To mark the occasion, a special lecture on Okinawa's history and war will be held on June 17 (Tue) 15:00-17:00 in the OIST Auditorium.

Training

【June 18th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【6/18】 旅費相談会

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 15:00
Meeting Room A151, Center Bldg

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

June 18th, 2025 (Wed) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

Professional Development

第3回 大学職員向け勉強会 (日本語) / #3 Study Session for University Staff (JP)

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom (要登録)
*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第3回大学職員向け勉強会  「 研究リソースと研究支援 」 (日本語) Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub
Seminar

[Seminar] "The evolution of metabolic endosymbioses" by Prof. Eric Libby

Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 10:30 to 11:30
L4F01, Lab4

Dr. Eric Libby, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umea University.

Innovation

OIST Innovation Open Hour

Friday, June 20, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab 3 A731 — OIST Innovation lounge

OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? Want to apply for Round 14 of the Proof of Concept (POC) Program? We welcome your ideas and questions!

OIST Workshops

OIST Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2025)

Monday, June 23, 2025 (All day) to Thursday, July 10, 2025 (All day)
OIST Seaside House

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Erik De Schutter (Computational Neuroscience Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Tutorial sessions and meals are closed sessions (for registered participants only).

Workshop

AIVIA Day

Monday, June 23, 2025 - 09:00 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 17:00
Lab1 B380

AIVIA DAY

Seminar

[Seminar] "Developing Polymer Brush Chemistry for Advanced Functional Coatings" by Prof. Christian Pester (University of Delaware)

Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:30 to 11:30
Seminar Room L4E01

Prof. Christian W. Pester , Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Sumiran Pujari "«Anticommuting» Z2 quantum spin liquids"

Monday, June 23, 2025 - 13:00 to 14:00
C210 Center, and Zoom

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Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Lecture

Expository Talk by Prof. Hugh Thomas (Birth and death curves for representations of a grid poset)

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:30
L4E48 -- Located on floor E of Lab 4

Expository Talk by Prof. Hugh Thomas (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined. Title: Birth and death curves for representations of a grid poset

Time: 10:00-11:30, June 24, 2025

Location: OIST, Lab 4, Floor E, Room L4E48

Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!

Professional Development

第4回 大学職員向け勉強会 (日本語) / #4 Study Session for University Staff (JP)

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom (要登録)
*Japanese session. English sessions will be held from September to December. C-Hub 第4回大学職員向け勉強会  「 大学組織 」 (日本語) Presenter: Mizuki Shimanuki, Provost Office. Facilitator: Ayumi Nagai, C-Hub
Innovation

Prototyping, hardware and product development for beginners

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 14:30 to 16:00
Center Building, B503

This presentation will expose students to open-source and low cost solutions to prototyping and hardware development as well as affordable paths in product development.. In particular, we will cover advances and opportunities in microcontrollers and sensors, enabled by the Arduino ecosystem and Platform.io .

Culture

Japan in the Age of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912) – Shaping a future in a turbulent world

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:30
OIST Center Bldg C210

Japan in the Age of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912) – Shaping a future in a turbulent world

Seminar

Pride 2025: Queer Biology

Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 12:00 to 13:00
C700

Come to our lunchtime seminar to learn about biological sex and queer biology! Everyone is welcome!

Innovation

Proof of Concept (POC) Program — New call for applications (Round 14 Info Session)

Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab 3 C700

The OIST Proof of Concept (POC) Program can set you up with funding, mentoring, industry collaborations, a supportive community and more. Learn about the new call for applications and get ready to turn your groundbreaking idea into a technology, product or service.

Lecture

Expository Talk by Prof. Thomas Brüstle (Computing generalized ranks and compression multiplicities of persistence modules)

Friday, June 27, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:30
L4E48 -- Located on floor E of Lab 4

Expository Talk by Prof. Thomas Brüstle (Bishop's University and Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined. Title: Computing generalized ranks and compression multiplicities of persistence modules

Time: 10:00-11:30, June 27, 2025

Location: OIST, Lab 4, Floor E, Room L4E48

Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!

Lecture

Mini-courses on Topological Data Analysis (by Dr. Emerson Escolar & Dr. Luis Scoccola)

Monday, June 30, 2025 - 09:30 to Friday, July 4, 2025 - 12:00
C209: OIST, Center Building, Room C209

These two introductory mini-courses are offered by experts in Topological Data Analysis, as part of the thematic program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined (TP25TD).

Invariants for persistence ( by Dr. Emerson Escolar ) Introduction to persistence: geometric motivations, metric stability, and representation theory of posets ( by Dr. Luis Scoccola )

The lectures for the minicourses will be between 9:30-12:00, on Monday (June 30), Tuesday (July 1), Thursday (July 3), and Friday (July 4).

Location: OIST campus, Center Building, Room C209

Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!

* There will be no minicourse on Wednesday (July 2)*

On Wednesday (July 2), at 14:00 , there will be an Expository Talk by Prof. Hideto Asashiba on the related topics. Further information can be found here .

Seminar

Seminar: Spatial Biology in multiple dimensions by Milteny Biotech

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 13:30
B503, Center Building

Spatial biology in multiple dimensions

Speaker: Dr. Stefan Eulitz (Miltenyi Biotec B. V. & Co. KG)

Lecture

Expository Talk by Prof. Hideto Asashiba (Interval replacements of persistence modules)

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:30
L5D23 -- Located on floor D of Lab 5

Expository Talk by Prof. Hideto Asashiba (Shizuoka University/Kyoto University KUIAS, Japan), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined. Title: Interval replacements of persistence modules

Time: 14:00-15:30, July 2, 2025

Location: OIST campus, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23

Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!

Seminar

[Seminar] "Multigene phylogeny and expansion microscopy of Discocelia plataet sp. n., a new representative of a poorly characterized order Discocelida (Rhizaria: Cercozoa incertae sedis)" by Dr. Kristina Prokina

Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 10:30 to 11:30
L4F01, Lab4

Dr. Kristina Prokina, Postdoctoral researcher, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay

Lecture

Mini-courses on Representation Theory (by Dr. Baptiste Rognerud & Dr. Shijie Zhu)

Monday, July 7, 2025 - 09:30 to Friday, July 11, 2025 - 12:00
L5D23: OIST campus, Lab 5, Room L5D23

These two introductory mini-courses are offered by experts in Representation Theory, as part of the thematic program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined (TP25TD).

Posets and representation theory​ (by Dr. Baptiste Rognerud) Monomorphism categories and applications (by Dr. Shijie Zhu)

The lectures for the minicourses will be between 9:30-12:00, on Monday (July 7), Tuesday (July 8), Thursday (July 10), and Friday (July 11).

Location: OIST campus, Lab 5, Room L5D23

Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!

* There will be no minicourse on Wednesday (July 9)*

On Wednesday (July 9), at 14:00 , there will be an Expository Talk by Prof. Gordana Todorov on the related topics. Further information can be found here .

Lecture

Expository Talk by Prof. Gordana Todorov (Continuous Cluster Categories)

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:30
L5D23 -- Located on floor D of Lab 5

Expository Talk by Prof. Gordana Todorov (Northeastern University, USA), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined. Title: Continuous Cluster Categories

Time: 14:00-15:30, July 9, 2025

Location: OIST campus, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23

Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!

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 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.

Innovation

Incubator Open House Week

Monday, July 14, 2025 (All day) to Friday, July 18, 2025 (All day)
OIST Innovation Core1, Core2

OIST Innovation opened its brand-new incubator facilities in May. To celebrate this milestone, we're opening our doors to both the innovation community and the entire OIST community for a special Open House Week .

Innovation

Incubator Guided Tour

Monday, July 14, 2025 - 10:00 to Friday, July 18, 2025 - 17:00
OIST Innovation Core1, Core2

Join us for guided tours of our state-of-the-art incubator facilities as part of Incubator Open House Week. Discover the resources, equipment, and collaborative spaces designed to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship. Our gathering space is for OIST community and incubator tenants only but during this week, we also open our collaborative work areas for external guests after the tour.

Lecture

2 Expository Talks by Dr. Raphael Bennett-Tennenhaus (Decompositions and classifications, a view towards persistence modules)

Monday, July 14, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00

2 Expository Talk by Dr. Raphael Bennett-Tennenhaus (Bielefeld University, Germany), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined. Title: Decompositions and classifications with a view towards persistence modules

*Talk 1: 14:00-15:00, July 14, 2025

*Location: OIST, Lab 3, Floor C, Room C700

**Talk 2: 11:00-12:00, July 15, 2025

**Location: OIST, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23

Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!

Colloquium

Colloquium Talk by Prof. Ezra Miller (Asymptotics for biological data in non-smooth spaces)

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:15

Colloquium Talk by Prof. Ezra Miller (Duke University, USA), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined.

Title: Asymptotics for biological data in non-smooth spaces

Time: 15:00-16:00, July 16, 2025

Location: OIST, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23

Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!

Lecture

2 Expository Talks by Prof. Francois Petit (Sheaves and Persistence & Metric Aspects of Sheaf Theory)

Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:00
L5D23: OIST campus, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23

2 Expository Talk by Prof. Francois Petit (FCRESS, France), as part of the Thematic Program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined. Title: Sheaves and Persistence & Metric Aspects of Sheaf Theory

*Talk 1 ( Sheaves and Persistence ): 10:00-11:00, July 17, 2025

*Location: OIST, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23

**Talk 2 ( Metric Aspects of Sheaf Theory ): 10:00-11:00, July 18, 2025

**Location: OIST, Lab 5, Floor D, Room L5D23

Zoom Link: Will be posted closer to the event!

Holiday

National Holiday 海の日

Monday, July 21, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

Symposium

TSVP Symposium: Representation Theory and Topological Data Analysis

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 (All day) to Friday, July 25, 2025 (All day)
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Lab 4, Room L4E48

Title : Representation Theory and Topological Data Analysis: Latest Advances

This symposium is part of the TSVP Thematic Program "Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined" . The program will run from June 23 to August 9, 2025.

Lecture

Mini-course & Tutorial on Topological Data Analysis for Machine Learning (by Dr. David Loiseaux)

Monday, July 28, 2025 - 10:00 to Friday, August 1, 2025 - 12:00
TBD

This introductory mini-course & tutorial is offered by an expert in Topological Data Analysis & Machine Learning, as part of the thematic program TDA PARTI : Topological Data Analysis, Persistence And Representation Theory Intertwined (TP25TD).

Topological Data Analysis for Machine Learning (by Dr. David Loiseaux)

​ The lectures & tutorials for the minicourse will be between 10:00-12:00, on Monday (July 28), Tuesday (July 29), Thursday (July 31), and Friday (August 1).

* There will be no minicourse on Wednesday (July 30)*
Innovation

VC Mentoring Hours: GX Partners [Japanese Only]

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 13:30 to 16:00
Online (Zoom)

In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. The featured VC for this round is GX Partners . Please note: This session will be conducted in Japanese only.

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4F01 and online on Zoom
Ken Ono , University of Virginia Title: Partitions Detect Primes
Lecture

TSVP Talk: “Swimming in Data” by Ken Ono

Thursday, July 31, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
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).

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in August 2025 (EN)

Friday, August 1, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:30
Online (Zoom)

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops.

August 1, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 (JST UTC+9), Online (Zoom), Language: English, Target: Prospective students

Seminar

[Seminar]"Multiplexed cortical representations of performance monitoring and reinforcement learning variables in humans" by Prof. Markus Ullsperger

Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 10:00
Meeting room C015, Lab1

Speaker: Prof. Markus Ullsperger Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg Institute of Psychology Department of Neuropsychology

Title: Multiplexed cortical representations of performance monitoring and reinforcement learning variables in humans

Holiday

National Holiday 山の日

Monday, August 11, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

Culture

CDC Art Exhibition "OCEAN"

Friday, August 15, 2025 (All day) to Friday, August 29, 2025 (All day)
Center Building Level C and Skywalk

Ocean-themed art by CDC chilren and children of SAP ages 6-12.

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in August 2025 (JA)

Friday, August 22, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:30
Online (Zoom)

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops.

August 22, 2025, 14:00 - 15:30 (JST UTC+9), Online (Zoom), Language: Japanese, Target: Prospective students

Holiday

National Holiday 敬老の日

Monday, September 15, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

OIST Workshops

Okinawa School in Physics: From quantum key distribution to the quantum internet

Sunday, September 21, 2025 - 18:00 to Friday, October 3, 2025 - 12:30
OIST Seaside House

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Elkouss Coronas (Networked Quantum Devices Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Holiday

National Holiday 秋分の日

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

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).

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