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Seminar

[Seminar] "Particle-hole origin of thermal beating in dipole-compression modes of a 1D Bose gas" Prof. Giulia De Rosi, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Monday, July 13, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar room L4E48, Level E, Lab 4

Seminar by Prof. Giulia De Rosi, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

Lecture

Mini Course: Convexity and semiconvexity in the Heisenberg group and Carnot groups with applications

Monday, July 13, 2026 - 10:00 to 12:00
Lab 4, Seminar room F01

Convexity and semiconvexity in the Heisenberg group and Carnot groups with applications

4 hours over the week July 13 to July 17 (Monday and Friday) NOTE: Dates have changed .

Room: Lab 4 F01.

Professor Federica Dragoni, Cardiff University, TSVP visitor

Seminar

【Seminar】"Extending the Reach of CryoEM" by Dr. Christopher J. Russo, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Monday, July 13, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00
Seminar Room B250 (Center Bldg.)

【Seminar】"Extending the Reach of CryoEM" by Dr. Christopher J. Russo

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Seminar

[Seminar] Uniform Mean Estimation for Heavy-Tailed Distributions via Median-of-Means.

Monday, July 13, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:30
Seminar Room L4E48

Prof. Andrea Paudice, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Seminar

[Seminar] "Transposon-Colonized Intron Gain follows Parasitism-Mediated Horizontal Transfer of a Cytochrome P450 Gene" by Dr. Eiichiro Ono

Monday, July 13, 2026 - 15:30 to 16:30
L4F01, Lab4

Dr. Eiichiro Ono, Senior General Manager/Research Specialist at Research Institute, Suntory Global Innovation Center Ltd., Kyoto, Japan

OIST Workshops

Developing Neurocircuit Course (DNC) 2026

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 (All day) to Wednesday, July 22, 2026 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Seminar Room C209 and C210)

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama (Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Seminar

[Seminar] "Ion polarons in Bose gases: from perturbative regime to many-body bound states" Prof. Gregory Astrakharchik, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain 

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar room L4E48, Level E, Lab 4

Seminar by Prof. G. E. Astrakharchik, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

Seminar

Seminar "Mangroves… from text mentions in ancient times to biomes in modern open-world games"

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00
C016, Lab1

Title: Mangroves… from text mentions in ancient times to biomes in modern open-world games

Speaker: Prof. Farid DAHDOUH-GUEBAS,Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Lecture

Mini Course: Brownian motion from a PDE point of view

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 10:00 to 12:00
Lab 4, Seminar room F01

Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Dirr from Cardiff University

Establishing the existence of solutions to stochastic ordinary differential equations and the relation with Dirichlet and Neumann problems for linear differential operators.

2 x 2-hour sessions. July 15 and July 22.

Research

Monthly Co-working by The Bioinformatics User Group

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 13:00 to 17:30
Cafe Private Room C102, Ctrl Building

Monthly Co-working space - by Bioinformatics User Group

Seminar

[Seminar] Mechanistic Insights into Peptide Recognition by Abl Kinase for Therapeutic Peptide Design by Dr. Ai Shinobu, WPI-PRIMe, Osaka University

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 13:30 to 14:30
Seminar Room ( LAB4 E01)

Dr. Ai Shinobu, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, WPI-PRIMe, Osaka University

Lecture

Mini Course: Convexity and semiconvexity in the Heisenberg group and Carnot groups with applications

Friday, July 17, 2026 - 10:00 to 12:00
Lab 4, Seminar room F01

Convexity and semiconvexity in the Heisenberg group and Carnot groups with applications

4 hours over the week July 13 to July 17 (Monday and Friday) NOTE: Dates have changed .

Room: Lab 4 F01.

Professor Federica Dragoni, Cardiff University, TSVP visitor

Research

Strucshare meeting: Presentation by Alberto Perez and Professor Mihnea Bostin

Friday, July 17, 2026 - 10:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Strucshare Meeting & Presentation

Research

Mini Course: Good Enough Computing in Science (GECS)

Friday, July 17, 2026 - 13:00 to 15:00
Lab 3 Classroom B700

Session 2:

Automated workflow , version-controlled scripts, and Structured project

Presenters: Igors Dubanevics Y4 @KondrashovU, Vitoria Yumi Uetuki Nicoleti Y1 @FukunagaU, Yui Tateyama Y1 @PaoU

Please contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.

Holiday

Marine Day 海の日

Monday, July 20, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Outreach

Marine Day Kids Lecture "Clownfish and Sea Anemones: a Strange Friendship Under the Sea

Monday, July 20, 2026 - 14:00
OIST Auditorium

kids lecture

Culture

Crafted Traditions: Artistic Forms from Onna Village (2026)

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 (All day) to Tuesday, August 11, 2026 (All day)
OIST Tunnel Gallery Lobby

Building on the success and positive reception of last year's Crafted Traditions exhibition, this renewed showcase continues a growing collaboration between the Onshu Craft Association and OIST. Featuring works by Tokuzan Seragaki, Akira Tamada, Hideyoshi Matsuda, Emiko Yoshida, Shigeo Abe, and the Teruya Studio, the exhibition celebrates the creativity, craftsmanship, and cultural heritage that make Onna Village unique.

Lecture

Mini Course: Brownian motion from a PDE point of view

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 - 10:00 to 12:00
Lab 4, Seminar room F01

Brownian motion from a PDE point of view. Session 2

Presented by Prof. Nicolas Dirr from Cardiff University.

Innovation

VC Mentoring Hours: HERO IMPACT CAPITAL

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 - 15:00 to 17:00
Zoom

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 HERO IMPACT CAPITAL .

Seminar

Seminar"Effect of surface structures on droplet dynamics"Junichiro Shiomi

Thursday, July 23, 2026 - 11:00
B503

Language: English

Lecture

TSVP Talk: Bringing Shape to Graph Representations: From Topological Contrastive Learning to Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures by Yulia Gel

Friday, July 24, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00
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).

Research

Mini Course: Good Enough Computing in Science (GECS)

Friday, July 24, 2026 - 13:00 to 15:00
Lab 3 Classroom B700

Session 3:

Automated workflow , version-controlled scripts, and Structured project

Presenters: Igors Dubanevics Y4 @KondrashovU, Vitoria Yumi Uetuki Nicoleti Y1 @FukunagaU, Yui Tateyama Y1 @PaoU

Please contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.

Outreach

Hands-on Science Workshop - Let's Discover Rocks and Minerals in Okinawa! -

Saturday, July 25, 2026 - 14:30
OIST Science Studio (Inside the Yomitan Public Library)

This workshop offers hands-on microscope activities with OIST geologist Mirona Chirienco, exploring the rocks and minerals found in Okinawa.

Seminar

2026 Analysis on Metric Space Seminar: "Discrete Approximation on Metric Measure Spaces of Controlled Geometry via Graphs: Dirichlet Forms and Harmonic Functions" by Dr.Liangbing Luo, Queen's University

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 - 10:00
L4E01 + Zoom
Speaker: Dr.Liangbing Luo,Queen’s University Title: Discrete Approximation on Metric Measure Spaces of Controlled Geometry via Graphs: Dirichlet Forms and Harmonic Functions Abstract:

Based on the approximation of a metric measure space via discrete graphs, we construct a Dirichlet form. This Dirichlet form is comparable to the upper gradient energy and can be realized as a -limit of a sequence of induced bilinear forms projected from the discrete energy form on the approximating graphs. Moreover, we approximate harmonic functions on a bounded domain with a prescribed Newton-Sobolev boundary data. Based on joint work with A. Butaev and N. Shanmugalingam.

Zoom registration

Research

Mini Course: AI for Protein Engineering

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 - 13:00 to 17:00
Lab 3 B700

Mini Course: AI for Protein Engineering

this is a hands-on session about using RFDiffusion to engineer yourself a protein!

Dr. Saacnicteh Toledo Patiño is an OIST Buribushi fellow

Training

【July 29th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【7/29】 旅費相談会

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
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。

Research

Mini Course: Good Enough Computing in Science (GECS)

Friday, July 31, 2026 - 13:00
Lab 3 Classroom B700

Session 4:

Automated workflow , version-controlled scripts, and Structured project

Presenters: Igors Dubanevics Y4 @KondrashovU, Vitoria Yumi Uetuki Nicoleti Y1 @FukunagaU, Yui Tateyama Y1 @PaoU

Please contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.

Recreation

Sunset Social for OIST-Keio International Research Summer Camp 2026

Friday, July 31, 2026 - 17:30 to 19:30
Grass area by the pond

All OISTers and family are welcome! OIST-Keio "Sunset Social" will be held as a part of the "OIST-Keio International Research Summer Camp 2026". This is a great opportunity for the campers from Keio University Medical School and OISTers to interact and network. Please join us to meet the campers and enjoy food trucks, traditional craft making, live music, and outdoor games as the sun goes down!

Recreation

Child-rearing Support Community

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 - 11:00 to 13:00
Conference Center Meeting Room#1

A casual space to chat and share about parenting!

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in August 2026 (English)

Friday, August 7, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:30

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!

Holiday

Mountain Day 山の日

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Innovation

Innovator's Toolbox: Intro to Lean Startup

Thursday, August 13, 2026 - 13:30 to 15:30
C209 (Center Building)

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 March, participants will learn the fundamentals of commercialization, customer discovery, business strategy, and pitching while developing their own innovation ideas.

Seminar

【Seminar】"Unfolding the brain: reconstructing corticogenesis from cell maps" by Dr. Tatsuya C. Murakami

Monday, August 17, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab4, E01

Speaker: Dr. Tatsuya C. Murakami, Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University.

Language: English

Outreach

Onna x OIST Children's School of Science Open Class 2026

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 - 09:30 to Thursday, August 20, 2026 - 11:00

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in August 2026 (Japanese)

Friday, August 21, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:30

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!

Seminar

OIST Open Biosafety Seminar 2026

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 - 15:00
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)

Seminar focusing on the rapidly advancing field of synthetic biology. Latest researches on the Darwinian evolution of RNA-protein self-replication systems, synthetic gene circuits, and mirror-image biology will be presented.

Prospective Students

OIST Café at OIST Science Studio in Yomitan

Saturday, August 29, 2026 - 14:00 to 16:00
OIST Science Studio (Yun-Labo Miraikan) [2901-1 Zakimi, Yomitan, Nakagami District, Okinawa 904-0301]

OIST Café Information Session at the OIST Science Studio in Yomitan, Okinawa! Join us for a casual science information session introducing the OIST PhD and Research Internship program!

OIST Graduate School staff will be happy to meet you and answer all your questions regarding the application and admissions process for our programs. In addition, current PhD students will share more about their academic journey and student life at OIST.

Graduate School

Welcome Ceremony Class of 2026

Friday, September 4, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:30
Auditorium

Welcome Ceremony for new faculty members joining OIST, and PhD students joining the Class of 2026.

The ceremony is open to all OIST community members and will be held at the Auditorium.

Innovation

Lean Startup Entrepreneurial Training

Saturday, September 12, 2026 - 09:00 to Sunday, September 13, 2026 - 18:00
C209 and C210 (Main Campus Center Building)

DISCOVER THE LEAN STARTUP METHODOLOGY Learn to identify commercial opportunities that come from your academic research. Apply the Lean Startup methodology to real OIST technologies, guided by instructors from the NSF I-Corps™ network. Teams (3–4 people) will conduct interviews, validate their ideas, and explore real-world commercialization.

Prospective Students

OIST x NAIST Café in Kyoto – Step into Graduate Schools –

Saturday, September 12, 2026 - 14:00 to 16:00
FabCafe Kyoto (554 Motoshiogamacho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan)

Join us for the OIST × NAIST Café Information Session!

Interested in cutting-edge science and technology? Wondering what graduate student life is like in Japan’s leading research universities?

Symposium

New cerebellar computations for diverse sensorimotor behaviors

Sunday, September 13, 2026 - 09:00 to Tuesday, September 15, 2026 - 17:30
C700, OIST

New cerebellar computations for diverse sensorimotor behaviors

Prospective Students

OIST x NAIST Café in Osaka – Step into Graduate Schools –

Sunday, September 13, 2026 - 14:00 to 16:00
FabCafe Osaka (2-Chōme-2-4 Tenjinbashi Osaka, Osaka 530-0041 Japan)

Join us for the OIST × NAIST Café Information Session!

Interested in cutting-edge science and technology? Wondering what graduate student life is like in Japan’s leading research universities?

Outreach

Falling Walls Lab Okinawa 2026

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 - 13:30 to 17:30
OIST Seminar Room B250

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.

Workshop

The promise and perils of neural manifolds

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 - 09:00 to 12:00
C700, Lab3, OIST

A talk by Devika Narain

Associate Professor of Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands )

Holiday

Respect for the Aged Day 敬老の日

Monday, September 21, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

National Holiday 国民の祝日

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

Autumnal Equinox Day 秋分の日

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

Sports Day スポーツの日

Monday, October 12, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Symposium

Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 (All day) to Friday, October 16, 2026 (All day)
C210

Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems

OIST Workshops

EMBO Workshop on Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration

Sunday, October 18, 2026 (All day) to Thursday, October 22, 2026 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Marco Terenzio (Molecular Neuroscience Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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