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Mini Course: Okinawa Lectures on Entropy

Friday, April 10, 2026 - 10:00 to Friday, June 12, 2026 - 12:00
Lab 5 D23

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

【Seminar】"Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers" by Prof. Thomas Powers

Monday, April 20, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
Seminar Room C210 - Center Building

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Powers from Brown University

Title: Axisymmetric membranes under external force: buckling, minimal surfaces, and tethers

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Seminar by Dr. Poulami Chatterjee (Presidency University) and Dr. Masayuki Shiba (Tokyo City University)

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:30
Lab 3, C700

Seminar by Dr Masayuki Shiba and Dr. Poulami Chatterjee

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[Seminar] Prof. Henrik M. Rønnow "Neutron studies of SrCu2(BO3)2 under extreme conditions – a fruit fly for quantum many body physics"

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
C210 / Zoom

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

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Playing With Magnets, Geometry and Bacteria." by Andrés Concha

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00
L4E48 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).

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QG Seminar (Zoom): Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 16:00
L4E01

QG Seminar (Zoom)

Speaker: Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)

Title: TBA

Research Training

HPC User Group Meeting

Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
L5D23

The next High-Performance Computing User Group Meeting is April 23. Everybody is Welcome!

Lecture

Public Lecture: "A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery" by Oliver Alaami and Torbjörn Lundh

Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 19:00 to 20:00
Seminar Room C210 (OIST's Center Building)

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。

Outreach

Expanding the World of Science Through Yanbaru: KAGAKUJIKAN2026

Saturday, April 25, 2026 - 10:00
Nago Museum

Innovation

[Registration Closed] OIST Deeptech Mixer (SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 Partner Event) | Powered by Bank of the Ryukyus

Monday, April 27, 2026 - 18:00 to 20:30
Inspired. Lab (Otemachi Building B2F, Otemachi 1-6-1, Chiyoda, Tokyo)

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

[Seminar] Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
E01, Lab4

Title: Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms

Speaker: Dr. Xitong Liang, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University.

Training

【April 28th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【4/28】 旅費相談会

Tuesday, April 28, 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。

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National Holiday

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 (All day)

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Seminar

[Seminar] "Single-cell genomics and fluorescence microscopy indicate permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid" by Prof. Fabien Burki

Friday, May 1, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
L4E01, Lab4

Prof. Fabien Burki, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Organismal Biology; Systematic Biology at Uppsala University, Sweden

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Monday, May 4, 2026 (All day)

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Tuesday, May 5, 2026 (All day)

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Wednesday, May 6, 2026 (All day)

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Mini Course: Biophysical Principles of Regulation in Bacteria

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 - 13:00 to Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 15:00
Lab 3 B712

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.

Workshop

International Day of Light Celebrations

Thursday, May 14, 2026 - 16:00
C700

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.

Outreach

Scientist Career Talk Series No.2: How I Became a Scientist - A Journey into the Mysteries of the Brain -

Saturday, May 23, 2026 - 14:00
OIST Science Studio (Inside the Yomitan Public Library)

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.

OIST Workshops

Advances in Photoemission Techniques: Probing Space, Energy, Momentum, and Time

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 (All day) to Friday, June 5, 2026 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Seminar Room L4E48)

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 Workshops

[OIST Workshop] Solid State Systems for Quantum Information Processing (SQuIP)

Monday, June 8, 2026 (All day) to Friday, June 12, 2026 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250) and Seminar Room L4E48

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

[Seminar] Prof. Claudio Castelnovo "Spin-charge separation and resonant valence bond spin liquid in a kinetically-frustrated lightly-doped Mott insulator"

Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
L5D23 / Zoom

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

Workshop

2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations

Monday, June 22, 2026 (All day) to Friday, July 3, 2026 (All day)
L4E48
To be held at L4E48 from June 22 (Monday) - July 3 (Friday) 2026
OIST Workshops

2nd OIST-Oxford-SLMath Summer Graduate School on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations

Monday, June 22, 2026 (All day) to Friday, July 3, 2026 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Seminar Room L4E48)

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.

OIST Workshops

Information Theory in Modern Science

Monday, July 6, 2026 (All day) to Friday, July 10, 2026 (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium + Meeting Rooms)

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.

Workshop

Information Theory in Modern Science 2026

Monday, July 6, 2026 - 09:00 to Friday, July 10, 2026 - 17:30
OIST Coference Center

Join us to explore how information-theoretic ideas shape modern research across a variety of fields.

Innovation

Innovator's Toolbox: From Lab to Market

Thursday, July 9, 2026 - 13:30 to 15:30
C209 (Center Court)

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.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 (All day)

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 (All day)

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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.

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Monday, September 21, 2026 (All day)

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Tuesday, September 22, 2026 (All day)

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Wednesday, September 23, 2026 (All day)

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Monday, October 12, 2026 (All day)

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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)

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

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Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (All day)

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OIST Workshops

International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogS 2026)

Monday, November 9, 2026 (All day) to Friday, November 13, 2026 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)

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

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Monday, November 23, 2026 (All day)

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New Years Holiday

Tuesday, December 29, 2026 (All day) to Sunday, January 3, 2027 (All day)

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OIST Workshops

Machine Learning Summer School 2027

Monday, March 1, 2027 (All day) to Friday, March 12, 2027 (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium + Meeting Rooms)

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.