Past Events

OIST-Keio Showcase Talk Series Vol. 8 "Science Meets Society: Twist, Flow, and Instability" The 8th OIST-Keio joint symposium explores the interplay of fluid mechanics, wave phenomena, and structural transformations, highlighting their impact on science and society. From gravity waves and multiphase reactors to extreme wave events, evaporating drops, and geometric linkages, six talks will showcase cutting-edge research at the intersection of physics, engineering, and applied mathematics. Additional topics will be explored in a poster session. The event aims to foster a dialogue between Keio and OIST researchers, enabling innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration.

OIST will be hosting a Science Talk for Students in Itoman on Saturday, December 13th.

12月13日（土）に糸満市にて学生向けのサイエンストークを開催いたします。

Dr. A. Kevin G. DJOTAN, who will soon join the Microbial and Ecosystem Ecology Unit, is a JSPS postdoctoral researcher currently based at Mie University in Japan.

*Venue has Changed=> L5D23 * 【Seminar】Prof. Mathias Middelboe Marine Biological Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, Denmark Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark "The role of bacteriophages in marine ecosystems and their potential use in disease control in aquaculture"

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. December 12, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 (JST UTC+9), Online (Zoom), Language: English, Target: Prospective students

This is your chance to help shape StrucShare and make it as useful as possible for you and all structural biologists at OIST. Please feel free to spread the word to anyone interested in structural biology, from beginners to experts.

Speaker: Dr. Ariel Boiardi, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanics and Materials Unit (Fried Unit), OIST  

QG group meeting Speaker: Yasha Neiman Title: "Cubic interactions of massless fields in (A)dS lightcone formalism - Part 2"

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).

Duc-Khanh Nguyen, OIST Title: Branching rule on winding subalgebras of affine Kac-Moody algebras

The deadline to submit proposals for cultural events to be considered by the OIST Culture Committee for activation in FY2026 (April ’26-March ’27) is coming up on Friday, Dec 12. If you’re planning to submit, please make sure everything is finalized before the deadline. 

Speaker: Dr. Riko Hatakeyama, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Title: TORC1-containing signaling endosomes: Discovery and characterization of a cellular signaling centre.  

Speaker: Dr. Xavier Bonet-Monroig, Honda Research Institute Europe

Monday, December 8, 2025, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Speaker: Dr. Kotaro Inami, Nagoya University

The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to the next installment of the OCQT Seminar Series. This time, we are excited to host Prof. Giulio Chiribella from the University of Hong Kong, who will deliver a talk entitled: “The quantum communication power of indefinite causal order”

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).

QG Seminar Speaker: Arundhati Goldar (IIT Mandi) Title: Bulk Reconstruction in De Sitter Spacetime

A symposium featuring short talks selected from across OIST neuroscience research units, panel discussions, and a poster session. Target audience: Open to the OIST community Language: English

Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00 Title: "Patterning the cerebral cortex by transcription factor gradients" Speaker: Dr. Shen-Ju Chou, Research Fellow,  Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan