Upcoming Events
Mini Course: Okinawa Lectures on Entropy
A lecture series on classical and quantum entropy, by Klaas Landsman with Philipp Höhn.
Klaas Landsman is a TSVP fellow and Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, at the Radboud University Nijmegen
Seminar"Chaos in confinement: Using polymers to mix fluids and speed up chemical reactions in porous media"Sujit Datta
Language: English
【Seminar】"Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers" by Prof. Thomas Powers
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Powers from Brown University
Title: Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers
Seminar by Dr. Poulami Chatterjee (Presidency University) and Dr. Masayuki Shiba (Tokyo City University)
Seminar by Dr Masayuki Shiba and Dr. Poulami Chatterjee
[Seminar] Prof. Henrik M. Rønnow "Neutron studies of SrCu2(BO3)2 under extreme conditions – a fruit fly for quantum many body physics"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
TSVP Talk: "Playing With Magnets, Geometry and Bacteria." by Andrés Concha
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 Seminar (Zoom): Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)
QG Seminar (Zoom)
Speaker: Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)
Title: TBA
HPC User Group Meeting
The next High-Performance Computing User Group Meeting is April 23. Everybody is Welcome!
Public Lecture: "A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery" by Oliver Alaami and Torbjörn Lundh
Public Lecture : "A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery" by Oliver Alaami (Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign) and TSVP Visiting Scholar Torbjörn Lundh (Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg) Open to all interested in the topic! OISTにて開催される Torbjörn Lundh 氏および Oliver Alaami 氏による公開講演に、ぜひご参加ください。
Expanding the World of Science Through Yanbaru: KAGAKUJIKAN2026
[Registration Closed] OIST Deeptech Mixer (SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 Partner Event) | Powered by Bank of the Ryukyus
Held alongside SusHi Tech Tokyo, the OIST Deeptech Mixer brings together OIST researchers and OIST-born startups visiting from Okinawa, alongside corporate partners and venture capitalists already working with OIST. Through featured presentations, you'll gain insight into where OIST innovation stands today — and where it's headed. Following the sessions, a dedicated networking time will provide fertile ground for new collaborations to take shape.
[Seminar] Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms
Title: Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms
Speaker: Dr. Xitong Liang, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University.
【April 28th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【4/28】 旅費相談会
Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.
旅費相談会を開催いたします。
[Seminar] "Single-cell genomics and fluorescence microscopy indicate permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid" by Prof. Fabien Burki
Prof. Fabien Burki, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Organismal Biology; Systematic Biology at Uppsala University, Sweden
Mini Course: Biophysical Principles of Regulation in Bacteria
Biophysical Principles of Regulation in Bacteria including quantitative models, regulatory adaptations, replication control, and gene regulation through gene promoters. Presented by Dr Alberto Sassi, a post-doc in the Pigolotti Unit.
International Day of Light Celebrations
SPIE/OPTICA OIST student chapter celebrates International Day of Light. Come join us as we watch a documentary, play trivia to win lots of prizes, and enjoy pizza, snacks, and drinks.
Scientist Career Talk Series No.2: How I Became a Scientist - A Journey into the Mysteries of the Brain -
As the second installment of the “Career Talk Series by Scientists,” we are pleased to present a career talk by Aleksandra Gavrilova, a PhD student at OIST from Russia.
Advances in Photoemission Techniques: Probing Space, Energy, Momentum, and Time
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Keshav Dani (Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
[OIST Workshop] Solid State Systems for Quantum Information Processing (SQuIP)
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.
[Seminar] Prof. Claudio Castelnovo "Spin-charge separation and resonant valence bond spin liquid in a kinetically-frustrated lightly-doped Mott insulator"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Ugur Abdulla (Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
Information Theory in Modern Science
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Amedeo Roberto Esposito (Information Theory, Probability, and Statistics Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
Information Theory in Modern Science 2026
Join us to explore how information-theoretic ideas shape modern research across a variety of fields.
Innovator's Toolbox: From Lab to Market
Join OIST Innovation’s commercialization training program designed to help students, researchers, and administrators explore how research can move from lab to market. Through monthly, hands-on sessions from July to February, participants will learn the fundamentals of commercialization, customer discovery, business strategy, and pitching while developing their own innovation ideas.
Falling Walls Lab Okinawa 2026
The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers developed and hosted annually by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin in November. In 3–minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin.
Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems
Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems
International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogS 2026)
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tom Froese (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).
New Years Holiday
National holiday
Machine Learning Summer School 2027
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.



























