Step into the vibrant world of Onna Village through Crafted Traditions , an exhibition celebrating the timeless beauty of Okinawan ceramics and glass art.

ICIIBMS is the joint effort of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), the University of the Ryukyus, and the National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College in order to create opportunities for scholars, technology, industry leaders, scientists, and graduate students to present their original research (full papers, short papers, and poster presentations) on various topics. Including Signal Processing, Information Engineering, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Biomedical, Medical Imaging, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Natural Sciences, and related fields, and not only get credit from their Institutions and impact on technology development. ICIIBMS is a conference recognized, sponsored, and indexed by IEEE and other influential index agencies, such as Engineering Village and Scopus.

ICIIBMS 2025 will be held at OIST University , December 2-5, 2025, Okinawa, Japan

A symposium featuring short talks selected from across OIST neuroscience research units, panel discussions, and a poster session.

Target audience: Open to the OIST community

Language: English

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to the next installment of the OCQT Seminar Series. This time, we are excited to host Prof. Giulio Chiribella from the University of Hong Kong, who will deliver a talk entitled:

“The quantum communication power of indefinite causal order”

Monday, December 8, 2025, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Speaker: Dr. Kotaro Inami, Nagoya University

Speaker: Dr. Xavier Bonet-Monroig, Honda Research Institute Europe

Speaker: Dr. Riko Hatakeyama, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Title: TORC1-containing signaling endosomes: Discovery and characterization of a cellular signaling centre.

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).

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "Cubic interactions of massless fields in (A)dS lightcone formalism - Part 2"

The High-Performance Computing User Group Meeting is December 11. Everybody is Welcome!

Speaker: Dr. Ariel Boiardi, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanics and Materials Unit (Fried Unit), OIST

This is your chance to help shape StrucShare and make it as useful as possible for you and all structural biologists at OIST. Please feel free to spread the word to anyone interested in structural biology, from beginners to experts.

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

December 12, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 (JST UTC+9), Online (Zoom), Language: English, Target: Prospective students

【Seminar】Prof. Mathias Middelboe

Marine Biological Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, Denmark

Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

"The role of bacteriophages in marine ecosystems and their potential use in disease control in aquaculture"

Dr. A. Kevin G. DJOTAN, who will soon join the Microbial and Ecosystem Ecology Unit, is a JSPS postdoctoral researcher currently based at Mie University in Japan.

OIST will be hosting a Science Talk for Students in Itoman on Saturday, December 13th.

OIST-Keio Showcase Talk Series Vol. 8 "Science Meets Society: Twist, Flow, and Instability"

The 8th OIST-Keio joint symposium explores the interplay of fluid mechanics, wave phenomena, and structural transformations, highlighting their impact on science and society. From gravity waves and multiphase reactors to extreme wave events, evaporating drops, and geometric linkages, six talks will showcase cutting-edge research at the intersection of physics, engineering, and applied mathematics. Additional topics will be explored in a poster session. The event aims to foster a dialogue between Keio and OIST researchers, enabling innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration.

In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.

The featured VC for this round is Karry Fund (Karry Impact & Innovation Fund)

Registration is required. If the number of applicants exceeds the available slots, OIST Innovation will select participants based on the information provided in the registration form and the strategic fit with the VC.

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to the next installment of the OCQT Seminar Series. This time, we are excited to host Prof. Kazuki Sakurai from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw (Poland), who will deliver a talk entitled:

“Quantum Measurements at Particle Colliders and Their Applications to New-Physics Searches”

Dr Marion Cromb, Post-doctoral experimental researcher, University of Nottingham

Japan as an Asian superpower – Rise and fall 1912-1945

Lecture by Prof. Till Weber, OIST 16th December, 2025

ISLAND SONGS

National holiday

Dr. Iori Morita, SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Science and Technology Austria

The Provost Lecture Series 21

This training course will show you how to make best use of the high-performance computing resources at OIST. In the first session we show you how computing clusters are organized and introduce the fundamental concepts of parallel computing.

In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.

The featured VC for this round is D4V (Design for Ventures)

The command line is the primary way to use the high performance computing resources at OIST. Here we quickly learn the basics we need to become comfortable and productive.

QG Seminar Speaker: Max Velasquez Cotini Hutt (Imperial College London)

Title: Non-invertible Symmetries of 2d Non-Linear Sigma Models

A beginner's introduction to using the clusters and other computing resources at OIST. This is the second, hands-on session.

Stakeholders in Smart Agriculture related companies or supporting organizations will come together at OIST to discuss how we can bridge research and community . The event includes talks about the agricultural landscape of Okinawa Challenges and Prospects and the Future of Okinawa followed by startup pitches and networking.

QG Seminar Speaker: Veronica Collazuol (IFT Madrid) Title: The Boundary of Symmetric Moduli Spaces and the Distance Conjecture

Title : "Introduction to Isogeny-based Cryptography"

Abstract : Isogeny-based cryptography is a fast-moving field, and recent developments have introduced several new techniques, making the barrier of entry particularly high for young researchers wishing to work in the field. To aid new researchers in the field is the aim of this "summer" school, which introduces all of the many essential tools that are used today. Among the topics to be covered are the correspondences between ideals and isogenies that give rise to both the Deuring correspondence, which is an essential part of protocols such as SQIsign, and the class group action on CM curves and oriented supersingular curves, which gives other cryptographic primitives such as CSIDH and SCALLOP. Further, higher dimensional abelian varieties and isogenies between these have recently become an integral part of isogeny-based cryptography, providing huge improvements to many existing protocols, as well as creating new protocols.

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who graduated in the period May 2025 to January 2026. The ceremony will take place at the OIST Auditorium on Friday, February 27, 2026.

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

The Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2026

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.

International Symposium of Life-Nonlife Transition: Boundaries Between Life and Nonlife, March 18-19, at Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Language: English, Registration needed.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: William Munro (Quantum Engineering and Design Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Makoto Yamada (Machine Learning and Data Science Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.