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Seminar

[Seminar] Research and Development of in-Space Transportation Systems for Small Spacecraft`s and CubeSats` Applications

Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 07:00 to 08:00
Zoom

Speaker: Giuseppe Gallo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Manoa

Please RSVP by noon on Jan. 22nd: https://forms.gle/31uFi7VNEmmKFa38A

Symposium

[Registration Deadline] OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 7- Science meets Society: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences

Monday, January 27, 2025 (All day)
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)

Registration deadline for OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 7 - Science meets Society: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences is January 27th, 2025.

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

Symposium

OIST x JST Act-X joint mini-symposium "Life and Chemistry"

Monday, January 27, 2025 - 13:00 to 17:30
L5D23

This is a joint mini-symposium between OIST and JST Act-X. Act-X is a JST grant program designed to support young researchers. The symposium features four speakers from Act-X’s research area, “Life and Chemistry,” and four speakers from OIST. While the symposium is titled “Life and Chemistry,” the topics covered are quite diverse. The primary aim of this event is to foster meaningful interactions between researchers at OIST and those from outside institutions.

Lecture

TSVP Talk: "Quantum Groups and Quantum (Relativistic) Symmetries" by Anna Pachol

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00
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).

Lecture

Keynote lecture in cryo electron microscopy workshop

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 10:30 to 12:00
C209, center building

Keynote lecture in cryo electron microscopy workshop: Professro Yoshinori Fujiyoshi ( Science Tokyo)

Workshop

Allen Neural Dynamics Workshop at OIST

Thursday, January 30, 2025 (All day)
OIST center buldg. C209 & Lab1, C015

Neural Computation Unit will host a joint workshop with Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics.

Symposium

OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 7- Science meets Society: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences

Friday, January 31, 2025 (All day)
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)

OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK Series 7

Seminar

Action, valence, dopamine (ONOS)

Friday, January 31, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
Zoom + Lab1 D015

Prof. Bertram Gerber, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Seminar

Optics Seminar: Imaging in 3D and other fun things to do through multimode fibres

Monday, February 3, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:30
C209, Centre Building

Title: Imaging in 3D and other fun things to do through multimode fibres

Speaker: Dr Peter Mekhail, University of Glasgow, Scottland

Seminar

[Seminar]Dr. Tsutomu Momoi "Numerical Approaches to Low-Energy Effective Hamiltonians in Many-Body Systems: Applications to Spin Excitations"

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 13:00 to 14:00
C209/Zoom

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

Symposium

OIST-Kyudai Joint Workshop Series 2: Evolution of a Digital Society through Next-Generation AI and Quantum Technology

Thursday, February 6, 2025 (All day) to Friday, February 7, 2025 (All day)
Kyusyu University, Ito Campus

OIST and Kyusyu University have signed an MOU in 2023 to pursue broad research collaboration. As part of this initiative, we have been holding joint symposia to deepen exchanges between our researchers. The first symposium was held at OIST last year with the theme "Bio-inspired Energy." The 2nd Joint Workshop will be held in Kyushu University focusing on Quantum Technology and AI.

Presidential Lecture

Presidential Lecture by Robert D. Holt

Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:30

TBA

Colloquium

[OCQT Colloquium] Creation of spin defects in wide bandgap semiconductors and their applications for quantum sensing

Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 13:30
Seminar Room E48 in Lab 4

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to another colloquium in the OCQT Colloquium series. This time, we are excited to host Prof. Ohshima from the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST). He will deliver a talk on:

"Creation of Spin Defects in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors and Their Applications for Quantum Sensing: Potential of Diamond Quantum Sensors"

Seminar

[Seminar] "Dissecting the senescence regulatory network" by Dr. Chanhee Kang

Monday, February 17, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
Lab3, C700

[Affiliation] Associate Professor, SSTF Investigator, SUHF Young Investigator School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University

[Seminar Title] Dissecting the senescence regulatory network

Workshop

Neural Computation Workshop 2025 (FY2024)

Saturday, February 22, 2025 (All day)
Seminar Room B250 - Ctr Bldg

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

Symposium

Convergence: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Solving Complex Problems

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 14:00 to Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 17:00
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)

COI Annual Symposium 2025 Convergence: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Solving Complex Problems

Time: 14:00 Feb 25 – 16:30 Feb 26 Venue: Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)

Seminar

Late Night Science (ONOS)

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 18:00 to 20:00

ONOS Seminar + Social Event

Prof. Claudia Clopath - Bioengineering Department at Imperial College London

Seminar

Seminar by Prof. Chihaya Adachi, OPERA, Kyushu University

Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar Room L4E48

Language: English. Registration: Not required.

Seminar

Seminar by Dr. Fabrice Mathevet, Research Director, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Friday, February 28, 2025 - 13:00 to 14:00
Seminar Room L5D23 (Lab5)

Language: English. Registration: Not 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
Seminar Room: L5D23 (Lab5 D floor)

Title : Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing

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

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 17

Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
The Provost Lecture Series 17
Workshop

Mechanism of Brain and Mind Winter workshop 2025

Monday, March 10, 2025 - 17:30 to Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 12:00
Rusutsu Resort Hotel & Convention, Hokkaido, Japan
Mechanism of Brain and Mind Winter Workshop 2025

The workshop will be held March 10 (Mon) – 12 (Wed), 2025 at Rustsu Resort Hotel. Registration is available now.

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.

Workshop

Silver Workshop : Complex geometry and related topics VII (Series final)

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 (All day) to Thursday, March 13, 2025 (All day)
Room123, The University of Tokyo, Math. Department.
Silver Workshop : Complex geometry and related topics VII (Series final)

(List updated on January 23, 2025)

Organizer: N. Yui (Queen’s Univ.), K. Saito (RIMS, Kyoto), S. Hikami (OIST) Local organizer: N. Kawazumi (Univ. Tokyo) Support: OIST funding

Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 18

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
The Provost Lecture Series 18
Lecture

The Provost Lecture Series 19

Friday, April 25, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:30
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater B250
The Provost Lecture Series 19
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.