Past Events

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Gerald Pao | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (OISTer registration required). Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

We are calling for Healthcare & Sustainability Startups to participate in "OIST-Lifetime Pitch Elevate 2024", a VC-mentored pitch competition for idea-stage to seed/early-stage which takes place at OIST-Lifetime Startup Elevate held on April 25-26.

Registration deadline for OIST x iTHEMS workshop series -Will We Find Answers? Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe and Life - Series 1 Cosmic ray and Life project is February 25th, 2024.

National holiday

Speaker: Professor Yasha Neiman, Quantum Gravity Unit Title: Gravity just wants to spend more time with you. Chair: Professor Sam Reiter, Computational Neuroethology Unit

Speaker: Kumar, Nitin Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,

Speaker: Kyeong, Jeongsu – PhD student at temple University

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

Speaker：Mr. Le, Minh – PhD student at Michigan State University  

The Samurai – Japan´s history poster boys put into perspective – A tour through 800 years of political and cultural history

Title: Guiding Light to Non-Classicality Speaker: Dr Philipp Schneeweiss, Humboldt University, Germany

Presenter: Sylvain de Léséleuc Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki (Japan) Sponsored by SPIE and Optica Student Chapters  

Title: Metric Embeddings - What, How and Why? Speaker: Professor Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Jyväskylä) Lecture 1 Feb 21, Wednesday  10:00-12:00 L4F01 Lecture 2 Feb 26, Monday 14:00-16:00 L4F01 Lecture 3 Feb 28, Wednesday 14:00-16:00 L4F01 Lecture 4 Mar 1, Friday 10:00-12:00 L4F01        

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).

We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming COI-NEXT Annual Symposium on "Cutting-edge Science Toward Social Implementation," organized by The Global Bioconvergence Center of Innovation at OIST. Don't forget to register to join the event!

Registration deadline for OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations is February 20th, 2024.

Poster Application deadline for OIST-Kyudai Joint Symposium Series 1: Bio-Inspired Wonders and Energy Innovations is February 20th, 2024.

Title: The Discrete Dirac operator and the mass of simple and higher-order networks Abstract: We discuss the properties of the discrete Dirac operator on simple and higher-order and its relevance to capture the coupled dynamics topological signals defined on nodes, links of graphs and even higher dimensional simplices. We will show how the Dirac operator can be coupled with the algebra of gamma matrices to define a Dirac field theory in discrete Lorentzian spacetime in  which the spinor is given a geometrical interpretation. The field theory also includes metric degree of freedom interpreted as the weights of the links for which we can define an action.  We use the discrete topological Dirac operator to define an action for a massless self-interacting topological Dirac field inspired by the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. We propose a theoretical framework that explains how the mass of simple and higher-order networks emerges from their topology and geometry. The mass of the network is strictly speaking the mass of this topological Dirac field defined on the network; it results from the chiral symmetry breaking of the model and satisfies a self-consistent gap equation. Interestingly, it is shown that the mass of a network depends on its spectral properties, topology, and geometry.

Seminar by Prof. Orailoglu (UCSD). Algorithm-Centric Design of Reliable and Efficient Deep Learning Processing Systems

Let’s vote for Class 2022 Group Project Awards! Class 2022 OIST students have been working on group projects for about 10 months as a part of their Professional and Career Development Program (PCD), completion of a group project is mandatory for all students in their Year 1-2, and at the end, students give a presentation on their project.  Each group puts a tremendous amount of time and energy to create great projects. Please join and see their presentation  and vote for; The Best Project Award:  Most ‘Wow-factored’ project Community Award: Most ‘community engaged’ project People’s Choice Award: Just because you LOVE it! Thank you for your participation and support for the Class 2022!