Spring Concert hosted by the joint collaboration of OIST x OPUA (Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts)

Cultural Event Series (CluES): Germany , presented by OISTers from Germany, will take place on Saturday, March 28 , at the Conference Center (Main Campus) starting from 5:00 PM. ALL members of the community, relatives, children and friends are welcome to attend this event. Entry is FREE. Join us for an evening of culture, music, crafts, and celebration. Don’t miss this chance to immerse yourself in German traditions! We will start with an interactive lecture, followed by a miniconcert of German classical music by Hokulani, then prepare May heart and Lanterns during workshops and finish with a Cologne-inspired carnival celebration with food tasting, music and a costume contest.

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

[Hybrid 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

ZOOM

Meeting ID: 982 0243 6241 Passcode: 834475

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

Short introductory survey on R programming

Short introductory survey on R programming

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

Abberior Super Resolution Nanoscopy

From PhD to Possibility: Careers, Confidence, and Finding Your Way Making sense of uncertainty, articulating your value, and navigating non-linear career paths

The Provost Lecture Series

QG Seminar (Zoom)

Speaker: Matthieu Vilatte, (University of Mons)

Title: TBA

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.

Title: Neural control of cuttlefish camouflage and octopus arms

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.