Past Events

OISTキッズキャンパスツアー2024

Seminar by Dr.Quan ZHU "Applying Spatially-Resolved Single Cell Technologies to Study Human Health and Diseases"

[Speaker] Jessica Nitschke, Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University [Title] Modelling Social Complexity & State Formation in Early Egypt

Speaker: Dr. Shreyas Mandre University Associate Professor of Fluid-Structure Interaction, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Hosted by: Professor Mahesh Bandi, Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit When physical processes repeat over either growing or shrinking scales (length and/or time), the dynamics shows self-similarity. The condition of self-similarity appears strict, but it is the building block of mathematical modelling. This lecture covers (i) concept of scale invariance as a pre-requisite for self-similarity, (ii) self-similarity in physical systems and mathematical models, (iii) the two kinds of self-similarity -- the first and second kinds, and (iv) a simple mathematical example to elucidate the second kind of self-similarity. The lecture presents examples from fluid dynamics. No previous knowledge of or experience with scale-invariance or self-similarity is assumed.

Date: July 16, 2024 Speaker: Professor Evan Economo, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit Chair: Professor Nic Shannon, Theory of Quantum Matter Unit  

Speaker: Dr. Haruna Fujioka, Assistant Professor of Okayama University 岡山大学 藤岡春菜 助教授 (個人HP)  社会性昆虫、  昆虫生態学、動物行動学、時間生物学   Vespa hornet larvae produce a rhythmic 'rasping' sound by rubbing their mandibles against the cell wall of the nest. The call is thought to be a larval provisioning cue. However, detailed observation of larval calls has been limited to a few species, and it is not known whether the call can be influenced by the external environment or internal larval states such as hunger. We conducted laboratory observations of larval calls to investigate the effect of 1) larval stage, 2) daily variation, and 3) larval hunger level. Vespa mandarinia larvae produced sounds independent of light conditions, time of day, worker absence, and hunger level. A key finding of this research is the novel discovery that larvae produce sounds at night, a previously undocumented behavior.

Quantum Gravity Unit Guest Seminar Speaker: Ritankar Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) Title: "Tensionless Strings in a Kalb-Ramond Background"

[Speaker] Geoff Nitschke, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town [Title] Complexity in Brains and Bodies

OIST Kids Campus Tour 2024

Speaker: Dr. Samuel Crew (Imperial College London, UK) Title: The quantum path signature Date and time: 16th July Tuesday at 10:00 Location: L4F01 Language: English  

Open Call for TSVP Visiting Scholars in FY2025

National holiday

Coming soon.

Coming soon.

Dr. Robin Troiville-Cazilhac, Sorbonne Université

OIST Innovation opens its doors to OIST community every Friday.   

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).

Speaker 1: Mr. Rahul Steiger (ETH Zurich) Title: In-Context Predictions on ICU Time-Series Speaker 2: Mr. Thibault De Surrel (Université Paris-Dauphine) Title: How Riemannian geometry can help us build better Brain Computer Interfaces

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Okinawa closer through a shared love of food. Each session will be focused on one dish, taught by someone with a personal connection to the recipe (perhaps you?).

Nikon DAY @ OIST