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.

Neural Computation Unit will hold a retreat/reunion at Seminar Room B250 on OIST main campus. If you are interested in joining, please contact <ncus@oist.jp>.

Mirror Lab Symposium: Frontiers in Recent Human Evolution

We will describe and discuss projects that explore genetic variants that emerged in the evolution of modern and archaic humans, and how such archaic variants affects humans today. We will also discuss projects that use ancient DNA to reconstruct the early peopling and history of the Japanese Archipelago. We will explore how we can intensify our collaborations in these areas and brainstorm about future research directions.

Speaker: Dr. Sneha Munshi, CQuERE, The Chatterjee Group Centres for Research and Education in Science and Technology, Kolkata, India

Speaker: Prof. Antonio Celani from The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP

Title: Decoding behavior with minimal and interpretable agent models

Coffee/Tea & Cookies will be served before the seminar at 15:00 - 15:30.

Seminar by Dr. Joseph Samuel, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS): "The Geometric Phase and the Spin-Statistics Theorem: spinning particles as ribbons"

Speaker: Dr. Kenan Qu, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University

Title: Laser cooling of aluminium monofluoride molecules in the deep ultraviolet

Speaker: Dr Dylan Brown, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

TSVP Talk, starting at 2pm 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).

Strucshare Meeting by Rafael Ayala Hernandez

QG Lecture Series Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia, (OIST) Title: Review of some basic features of the SM and of GUTs

Speaker: Dr Ching Tat To, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tunghai University, Taichung City, Taiwan. Language: English

[seminar] "Project RAISE, Real-World Adaptive Intelligence Generated through Soft Embodiment" by Prof. Koh Hosoda, Kyoto University

March 30 (Mon) 2026, 11:00-12:00 @L5D23, Lab 5

Title : Objective Rates from Observation Structures: Continuum Mechanics in Constructive Tensor Theory

Speaker : Mr Hiroki Endo, PhD. Student, Nagaoka University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Amin Chabchoub (Marine Physics and Engineering Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

A short course on the Tutte polynomial in graphs and matroids.

4 sessions only: April 7 and 9, and 14 and 16 (Tuesday and Thursday 10-12 in L4E45)

Dr. Remi Avohou is a post-doc in the Toriumi Unit

Co-hosted by Kusumi & Goda Units

Date-Time

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

Description

Title: How synaptic plasticity regulates Intracellular Transport of AMPAR

Speaker: Dr. Françoise Coussen

Research Director at the CNRS

Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience (IINS)

University of Bordeaux and CNRS

https://www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/en/?s=Coussen

https://www.iins.u-bordeaux.fr/

Co-hosted by Kusumi & Goda Units

Date-Time

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Description

Title: Dynamic nanoscale organization of AMPAR control short and long term synaptic plasticity

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Choquet

Research director at the CNRS

Bordeaux Imaging Center (Director)

Neuroscience Cluster of Excellence, Bordeaux University (Director)

Member of the National Academy

Website: https://www.iins.u-bordeaux.fr/en/teams/56854-dynamic-organization-and-function-of-synapses/

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

Speaker: Dr. Sounak Kar, QuTech, TU Delft

The Provost Lecture Series

Title: Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms

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

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 | 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.

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.

To be held at L4E48 from June 22 (Monday) - July 3 (Friday) 2026

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.

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

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

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.