Past Events

Optomechanics is the science that describes the interaction of light with moving objects. It has developed rapidly over the past ten years and has many applications in developing novel high precision sensors such as LIGO. Dr Harris will describe research which uses magnetically levitated liquid Helium to perform optomechanical experiments.

Officially declaring 2023 the year of the ukulele

Special OIST Teatime! Professor Svante Pääbo will attend. Please bring your own mug. Registration requested: https://groups.oist.jp/cpr/teatime-registration

Marine Genomics Seminar Sereies 39 Title: Interaction between host Chondrus ocellatus and two endophytes Speaker: Dr. Han-Gil Choi, Wonkwang University, Republic of Korea

Prof. Ugur Abdulla  Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit Professor Ugur Abdulla received Ph.D. in Mathematics from Soviet Union Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical & Mathematical Sciences degree from High Attestation Comission of the Azerbaijan Republic, Habilitation Doctor degree in Mathematics from Saxon Ministry of Art and Sciences in Germany. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Nottingham in England, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Paderborn, Bremen and Bonn in Germany, and Max-Planck Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in Natural Sciences in Leipzig , Germany. Prior joining OIST, he was a Professor of Mathematics at the Florida Institute of Technology, United States in 2004-2022. Professor Abdulla is an expert on Partial Differential Equations, Potential Theory, Calculus of Variations & Optimal Control, and Mathematical Biosciences with 62 scholarly publications. He solved an outstanding open problem posed by Kolmogorov in 1928, and proved the Wiener-type criterion at infinity for the second-order elliptic and parabolic PDEs.

Speaker: Prof. Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich, Department of Physics, Institute for Quantum Electronics, Optical Nanomaterial Group

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

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speakers: Goro Akagi (Tohoku University) Jiwoong Jang (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Tianling Jin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Inwon Kim (University of California, Los Angeles) Shuhei Kitano (Waseda University) Olivier Ley (IRMAR, INSA-Rennes) Adam Oberman (McGill University) Norbert Pozar (Kanazawa University) Julio Rossi (University of Buenos Aires) Hung Tran (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Shuntaro Tsubouchi (University of Tokyo) Yifeng Yu (University of California, Irvine) Erbol Zhanpeisov (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) Organizers: Qing Liu (OIST), Hiroyoshi Mitake (University of Tokyo), Xiaodan Zhou (OIST) Visit the conference website for more details. 

Optical sensors can play a role in many technologies ranging from biosensing through to magnetic field sensing. This talk will give some overview on how one can use whispering gallery optical resonators for sensing.

Speaker: Professor Alan Jeffrey Giacomin, Queen’s University, CANADA

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: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rowena Paget, University of Kent Title: Plethysm and the Partition Algebra

OIST Workshop | Program | Visit the workshop's website for more details. | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (working meals are closed sessions).

National holiday

Cosmos episode 7: The Backbone of Night

The Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts and OIST will hold another exhibition at the OIST Tunnel Gallery this year! This event is a voting contest, and you can vote for your favorite works during the exhibition! We hope you will join us! Date ：January 6th - January 20th Venue : OIST Tunnel Gallery

The Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts and OIST will hold another exhibition at the OIST Tunnel Gallery this year! This event is a voting contest, and you can vote for your favorite works during the exhibition! We hope you will join us! Date ：January 6th - January 20th Venue : OIST Tunnel Gallery

The imaging of individual atoms in a atomic cloud or gas is a challenging task. In this talk we will discuss how to experimentally achieve this using techniques from quantum optics and in particular using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency