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

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 .

Child-rearing Support Community : lunchtime Chat!

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.

Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.

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

*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

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

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 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).

AIVIA DAY

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

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

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!

*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

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 .

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

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

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.

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!

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 .

Spatial biology in multiple dimensions

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

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!

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

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 .

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 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.

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 .

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.

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 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!

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!

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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.

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)*

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.

Ken Ono , University of Virginia Title: Partitions Detect Primes

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).

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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