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Culture

Science + Art Exhibit: "Coral Colors by Sputniko!"

Friday, November 29, 2024 - 09:00 to Thursday, January 9, 2025 - 17:00
OIST Tunnel Gallery

"Coral Colors," spectators are invited to confront the ongoing reality of coral bleaching and to spark an awareness of environmental issues.

The artworks on display in this exhibition were created by British/Japanese artist Sputniko!, widely known for her creations and projects exploring the themes of technology, gender, and feminism.

This project was developed in collaboration with OIST’s Marine Climate Change Unit, led by Prof. Tim Ravasi.

OIST Workshops

LeviNet-OIST Workshop "Schrödinger Cats - The Quest to Find the Edge of the Quantum World"

Monday, December 9, 2024 (All day) to Friday, December 13, 2024 (All day)
Main Campus, Seminar Room B250 (Center Building)

OIST organizer: Jason Twamley (Quantum Machines Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Please show your OIST badge when entering the venue.

Campus

Maruesu Farm (Banana Milk Shake)

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - 12:00
Lab 1 parking lot

8/13&27 12:00-16:00 Lab 1 Parking Lot

Research

Seminar "Consequences of Climate-induced Range Shifts for Shared Fish Stocks" by Prof. Mikko Heino

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
L4E48

Seminar by Prof. Mikko Heino

Title: Consequences of Climate-induced Range Shifts for Shared Fish Stocks

Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway

Hosted by Dieckmann Unit

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Topological Defects in Hard and Soft Condensed Matter " by Avadh Saxena

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
L4E01 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).

Seminar

【Seminar】Engineering Heat Flow with Tunable Thermal Systems

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 07:00 to 08:00
Online (Zoom)

Dr. Trevor Shimokusu, Assistant Professor, in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Language: English

Registration: https://forms.gle/cfptxyDVpoxK3pLk6 PleaseRSVP before December 9 17:00 JST

Campus Service

[RC] Insurance Company Visits OIST

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 11:00 to 15:00
The room next to the ATM in the center building

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where] Room next to the ATM in the Center Building

Public

Ken's Burrito

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 11:30
Center Court

Ken's Burrito Dates: Every Wednesday Time: 11:30-until sold out Location: Center Building, Level C, Center Court

Seminar

[Seminar] Prof. Sandvik "The evolving story of deconfined quantum criticality"

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Conference Center Meeting Room 1, Zoom

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

Campus

Kino Store

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 14:30
Center Court

Kino Store (Kinoza) Every Wednesday 14:30-16:30 Center Building, Level C, Center Court

Culture

4th Studium Generale by Prof. Till Weber (The University of the Ryukyus)

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 19:00 to 20:30
OIST Center Bldg C209

4th Studium Generale by Prof. Till Weber (The University of the Ryukyus)

From Bakumatsu to Meiji – How Japan came into the modern age, 1850´s to 1870´s

Training

HPC User Group Meeting

Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 13:00
C700

The December OIST High-Performance Computing User Group Meeting is on the 12th. Everybody is Welcome!

Seminar

A window to the future: using natural CO2 analogues to predict species responses to a changing ocean

Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 16:00
via Zoom

Online seminar by Prof. Davide Spatafora

Symposium

OIST Innovation Accelerator Bootcamp Pitch Day

Friday, December 13, 2024 - 13:00 to 19:00
Center Building, Seminar Room, C209

OIST Innovation Accelerator Bootcamp. Language (English, interpretation proviced). Registration needed. OIST Innovation Acceleratorブートキャンプ。言語(英語、同通有)。登録必須

Seminar

【Seminar】Polarization vision in crustaceans and cephalopods

Friday, December 13, 2024 - 13:30 to 14:00
F01, Lab4

Dr. Martin How, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Animal Behaviour and Sensory Biology, University of Bristol

Language: English

Professional Development

OIST Innovation open-hours

Friday, December 13, 2024 - 14:00
Lab3A731

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Seminar

【Seminar】Stealth and deception: motion camouflage in hunting cuttlefish

Friday, December 13, 2024 - 14:00 to 14:30
F01, Lab4

Dr. Matteo Santon, Research Fellow, University of Bristol

Language: English

Outreach

Call for Beach Cleanup!/ ビーチクリーン参加者募集!

Saturday, December 14, 2024 - 09:00
In front of the Tancha-me-bushi Monument and Tancha-ku Community Center

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Onna Village Tourism Association are conducting a beach cleanup on Saturday, December 14 , and have invited OISTers to attend. Please join and bring your family and friends! Registration is requested. Additional information can be found below.

Culture

Community Cooking Series [Registrations] - Luchi & chicken curry

Saturday, December 14, 2024 - 11:30 to 14:00
Onna Fureai Center (Room #3 Ryukyu Cooking Room)

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Okinawa closer through a shared love of food. Each session has thus far been different, featuring cuisine from different cultures and taught by a different instructor.

Seminar

[Seminar] "Single is beautiful: Exploring neurodegeneration through single-cell transcriptomic" by Federico Pratesi, University of Montreal, Canada

Monday, December 16, 2024 - 11:00
Lab5D23 (Seminar Room)

[Seminar] "Single is beautiful: Exploring neurodegeneration through single-cell transcriptomic" by Federico Pratesi (University of Montreal, Canada )

Seminar

José Senovilla (Basque U.): Singularity theorems in gravitation

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 - 14:00
L4F01

QGU Seminar

Title: Singularity theorems in gravitation

Speaker: José Senovilla (Basque U.)

Seminar

TOSHIBA Seminar & Working Lunch Poster Session

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Lab 4, Level E, Seminar Room 48 (L4E48)

On Wednesday, December 18, 2024, representatives from the TOSHIBA Corporate Research & Development Center will visit OIST to present a seminar and engage in discussions about potential collaborations

Campus Service

[RC] Insurance Company Visits OIST

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 - 11:00 to 15:00
The room next to the ATM in the center building

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]The room next to the ATM at the center building

Seminar

Seminar "Direct and Indirect Descending Control of Primate Hand Movements and Sensation" by Dr. Kazuhiko Seki

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 - 14:00 to 16:00
Lab5D23

Dr. Seki is a director of the Department of Neurophysiology of NCNP.

Seminar

"How the new and old modulate hippocampal function" Thomas McHugh, Ph. D.

Thursday, December 19, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
L5D23

Speaker : Thomas McHugh, Ph.D.

RIKEN CENTER FOR BRAIN SCIENCE

Team Leader, Circuit and Behavioral Physiology

Date: Thursday, December 19, 2024

Time: 13:00 – 14:00

Location: Lab5 Level D Seminar Room -L5D23

Workshop

Nikon Day @ OIST

Friday, December 20, 2024 - 09:00
OIST Lab1B380 or @ your microscope

Nikon day

Professional Development

OIST Innovation open-hours

Friday, December 20, 2024 - 14:00
Lab3A731

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Professional Development

OIST Innovation Open Hours

Friday, December 27, 2024 - 14:00
Lab3A731

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Holiday

New Years Holiday 年末年始 2025

Sunday, December 29, 2024 (All day) to Friday, January 3, 2025 (All day)

National holiday

Campus Service

[RC] Insurance Company Visits OIST

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 - 11:00 to 15:00
The room next to the ATM in the center building

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]The room next to ATM in the Center Building

Professional Development

OIST Innovation Open-hours

Friday, January 10, 2025 - 14:00
Lab3A731

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday .

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Persistence of Working Memory Computation Without Continuous Attractors" by Il Memming Park

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
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).

Professional Development

No-Nonsense Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Action: Fireside Chats with Lily Zheng

Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Lab 5, Seminar room D23

C-Hub warmly invites you to join us for an engaging session on actionable DEI strategies in higher education.

Workshop

2025 Cryo-Electron Microscopy Course

Monday, January 27, 2025 - 09:00 to Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:00
B503, L4E48, and EM facility

Internal and external workshop

Outreach

OIST Science Festival 2025

Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 10:00 to 16:00
OIST (1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son)

Official webpage is published! Please click here for more information.

Culture

Sounds of the Ryukyu 2025

Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 14:00 to 16:45
OIST Auditorium

Admission free. Registration required.

OIST Workshops

OIST Machine Learning Workshop

Monday, March 3, 2025 (All day) to Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium+Meeting Rooms)

OIST Workshop | 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.

Symposium

TSVP Symposium: Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - 14:00 to Sunday, March 9, 2025 - 18:00
TBD

Title : Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing

TSVP Symposium linked to Thematic Program on "Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing"

OIST Workshops

Spinal cord formation, function, and beyond

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 (All day) to Friday, March 14, 2025 (All day)
Main Campus, Seminar Room B250 (Center Building)

OIST organizer: Yutaka Yoshida (Neural Circuit Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Please show your OIST badge when entering the venue.

Prospective Students

Science Challenge 2025

Saturday, March 15, 2025 (All day) to Saturday, March 22, 2025 (All day)
OIST Campus

OIST Science Challenge is a unique opportunity for participants to extend their scientific education and experience research at OIST.

OIST Workshops

12th International Symposium on Leaf Surface Microbiology (“Phyllosphere 2025”)

Friday, June 6, 2025 (All day) to Monday, June 9, 2025 (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium+Meeting Rooms), OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Armitage (Integrative Community Ecology Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshops

Recent Advances in Potential Theory and Partial Differential Equations

Monday, July 14, 2025 (All day) to Friday, July 18, 2025 (All day)
OIST Seaside House and Main Campus (L4E48)

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 Workshops

Quantum Reference Frames: a QISS workshop

Monday, October 13, 2025 (All day) to Friday, October 17, 2025 (All day)
OIST Seaside House, OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

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.

OIST Workshops

Cephalopod International Advisory Council 2025 in Okinawa (CIAC2025)

Saturday, October 25, 2025 (All day) to Saturday, November 1, 2025 (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium+Meeting Rooms), OIST Seaside House

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.

OIST Workshops

Emerging Concepts in Cell Division Cycles: From Early Development to Cancer and Aging

Monday, March 2, 2026 (All day) to Thursday, March 5, 2026 (All day)
OIST Seaside House, OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tomomi Kiyomitsu (Cell Division Dynamics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshops

Building a Sustainable and Resilient Future: Addressing Demographic Challenges, Health and Gender Disparities, and Economic Inequality

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 (All day) to Friday, March 20, 2026 (All day)
OIST Seaside House, OIST Main Campus Seminar Room B250

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yuliya Kulikova (Science and Technology Group)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.