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Seminar

Seminar "Nonlinear dynamics of transitional and turbulent flows" by Prof. Jae Sung Park

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 13:30 to 14:30
Lab3 B700

[Speaker] Prof. Jae Sung Park, Richard L. McNeel Associate Professor of Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Seminar

Seminar: “Annealing Amorphous Solids using Oscillatory Shear and Active Dopants and Memory Formation” by Prof. Smarajit Karmakar

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar room L4E01, Lab 4

Speaker: Prof. Smarajit Karmakar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Seminar

[Seminar] Classical Rotation of Quantum Spins and Quantum Rotations of Classical Particles

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room C700 - Lab 3

Dr Alexander Wood, The University of Melbourne

Seminar

[Seminar] Integrating connectivity and spatial transcriptome at single cell resolution in the cerebellar nuclei of the zebrafinch

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
D015, Lab 1

Dr.Salvatore Andrea Lacava, Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Universitity. Language: English

Workshop

OIST Alumni Workshop

Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 14:00 to Friday, May 23, 2025 - 12:00
B250

OIST Graduate School invites you to join Alumni Workshop, featuring our recent PhD graduates!

Coming from different professional backgrounds, the speakers will present their work and take your questions on issues related to professional and career development. Join this event to learn about career paths leading to the US and Japan, the work and professional life of our graduates, while you can also expand your network and develop a meaningful connection with the newest alumni of OIST!

Training

【May 22th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【5/22】 旅費相談会

Thursday, May 22, 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。

2025/05/22(Thu) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Mechanical Problem Solving in Mice" by Henning Sprekeler

Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
L5D23 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).

Professional Development

OIST Innovation Open Hour

Friday, May 23, 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? We welcome your ideas and questions!

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

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture by Jens Nielsen

Monday, May 26, 2025 - 13:30 to 15:00
B250 Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater

Presidential Lecture by Jens Nielsen: New insight into cellular metabolism from the use of mathematical models

Seminar

Seminar "Bubble column fluid dynamics: a multi-scale perspective" by Prof. Giorgio Besagni

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab3 C700

[Speaker] Prof. Giorgio Besagni, Associate Professor, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Seminar

OIST Representation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4F01 and online on Zoom
Berta Hudak , National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei Title: Representation theory of the Hu algebras
Seminar

[Seminar] "Active materials and reactive fluids" by Prof. Chun Liu

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4E48

Title: Active materials and reactive fluids

Speaker: Prof. Chun Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Seminar

Analysis on Metric Spaces Seminar 2025 | Topological regularity of Busemann spaces, Professor Tadashi Fujioka, Kyoto University

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 16:00
L4F01+zoom
Title: Topological regularity of Busemann spaces, Professor Tadashi Fujioka, Kyoto University Abstract:

We discuss the topological regularity theorem for Busemann spaces of nonpositive curvature, while reviewing the corresponding results for Alexandrov spaces and CAT spaces. All of these are metric spaces with upper or lower curvature bounds in some synthetic senses, and we address the question of when such spaces are topological manifolds. This is joint work with Shijie Gu (Northeastern University, China). Preprint available at arXiv:2504.14455.

ZOOM Register from here

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.

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

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 .

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.

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

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
TBD

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 and bottleneck stability (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). * There will be no minicourse on Wednesday (July 2)*

In the same week, there will be an Expository Talk (by Prof. Hideto Asashiba) on the related topics.

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
TBD

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

In the same week, there will be an Expository Talk (by Prof. Gordana Todorov) on the related topics.

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.

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)*
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
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.

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

Holiday

National Holiday スポーツの日

Monday, October 13, 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.

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)

National holiday

Holiday

National Holiday 振替休日

Monday, November 24, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

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 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.