Upcoming Events
Okinawa Memorial Day Exhibition
This special exhibition to commemorate Okinawa Memorial Day presents a selection of wartime photographs from the Onna Village Museum Collection.
TSVP Symposium: Aspects of Generalized Symmetries
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!
Okinawa Memorial Day Lecture 2025
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.
【June 18th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【6/18】 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。
June 18th, 2025 (Wed) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00
第3回 大学職員向け勉強会 (日本語) / #3 Study Session for University Staff (JP)
[Seminar] "The evolution of metabolic endosymbioses" by Prof. Eric Libby
Dr. Eric Libby, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umea University.
OIST Innovation Open Hour
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 Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2025)
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
AIVIA DAY
[Seminar] "Developing Polymer Brush Chemistry for Advanced Functional Coatings" by Prof. Christian Pester (University of Delaware)
Prof. Christian W. Pester , Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware
[Seminar] Prof. Sumiran Pujari "«Anticommuting» Z2 quantum spin liquids"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Expository Talk by Prof. Hugh Thomas (Birth and death curves for representations of a grid poset)
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!
第4回 大学職員向け勉強会 (日本語) / #4 Study Session for University Staff (JP)
Prototyping, hardware and product development for beginners
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
Japan in the Age of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912) – Shaping a future in a turbulent world
Pride 2025: Queer Biology
Come to our lunchtime seminar to learn about biological sex and queer biology! Everyone is welcome!
Proof of Concept (POC) Program — New call for applications (Round 14 Info Session)
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 (Computing generalized ranks and compression multiplicities of persistence modules)
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!
Mini-courses on Topological Data Analysis (by Dr. Emerson Escolar & Dr. Luis Scoccola)
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 .
Seminar: Spatial Biology in multiple dimensions by Milteny Biotech
Spatial biology in multiple dimensions
Speaker: Dr. Stefan Eulitz (Miltenyi Biotec B. V. & Co. KG)
Expository Talk by Prof. Hideto Asashiba (Interval replacements of persistence modules)
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!
[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
Dr. Kristina Prokina, Postdoctoral researcher, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay
Mini-courses on Representation Theory (by Dr. Baptiste Rognerud & Dr. Shijie Zhu)
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 (Continuous Cluster Categories)
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!
Recent Advances in Potential Theory and Partial Differential Equations
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.
Incubator Open House Week
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 .
Incubator Guided Tour
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 Talks by Dr. Raphael Bennett-Tennenhaus (Decompositions and classifications, a view towards persistence modules)
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 (Asymptotics for biological data in non-smooth spaces)
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 Talks by Prof. Francois Petit (Sheaves and Persistence & Metric Aspects of Sheaf Theory)
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!
TSVP Symposium: Representation Theory and Topological Data Analysis
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.
Mini-course & Tutorial on Topological Data Analysis for Machine Learning (by Dr. David Loiseaux)
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)*VC Mentoring Hours: GX Partners [Japanese Only]
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.
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
TSVP Talk: “Swimming in Data” by Ken Ono
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 NetCafé Online Information Session in August 2025 (EN)
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
[Seminar]"Multiplexed cortical representations of performance monitoring and reinforcement learning variables in humans" by Prof. Markus Ullsperger
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
CDC Art Exhibition "OCEAN"
Ocean-themed art by CDC chilren and children of SAP ages 6-12.
OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in August 2025 (JA)
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
Okinawa School in Physics: From quantum key distribution to the quantum internet
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.
Quantum Reference Frames: a QISS workshop
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.
Cephalopod International Advisory Council 2025 in Okinawa (CIAC2025)
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.
International Conference on Embodied of Cognitive Science (ECogS 2025)
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tom Froese (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).