Past Events

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizers: Reiko Toriumi (Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit) and Kento Osuga (University of Tokyo) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Letten, ARC Fellow & Lecturer in Quantitative Biology at the University of Queensland

DVSP 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).

The Community Cooking Series aims to bring the OIST community and residents of Onna 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?).

In this meeting we will discuss the proper method to cook and eat a soprano ukulele.

Title: On things that grow Speaker: Professor Simone Pigolotti, Biological Complexity Unit Chair: Professor Izumi Fukunaga, Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit  

OIST Neuroscience Club is excited to host Prof. Takeshi Sakurai from the International Institute for Integrative Sleep (WPI-IIIS) Medicine, University of Tsukuba. Everyone is welcome to join the seminar!

Speaker: Dr. Meiyong LIAO, a Chief Researcher at National Institute for Material Science Zoom:    https://oist.zoom.us/j/96289625266?pwd=TFdtZmRqbG5HSUhCa0xseit5ellIZz09   Passcode: 313298

Speaker Professor emeritus Hans (=J.A.J.) Metz, Institute of Biology and Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rolf Beutel, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, GermanyDateOld: Monday, March 27, 2023 (11:00 - 12:00)New: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 (11:00 - 12:00)RoomOld: Seminar Room C209, Center BuildingNew: Seminar Room C700, Lab 3

Speaker: Dr. Romain Quidant Professor, Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Mr. Yuki Kanai, PhD Student, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan

  EF Polymer, an agritech startup has been working with local farmers in Okinawa to perform pilot tests of their technology. Their team wish to create an enjoyable event to help the farmers harvest the carrots, and also give back to the community. The OIST POWER Club is calling for volunteers to join this event to harvest carrots.

アートインスタレーション　浮遊する海の生き物 -星の砂たち- 「科学とアートの交差展」が3月25日（土）から4月1日（土）まで開催されます。 沖縄の星砂をイメージした巨大なバルーンをキャンパスに設置します。

“Hoshizuna: the floating star-sand” art installation From Saturday, March 25, through Saturday, April 1, OIST will house giant balloons in the shape of Hoshizuna, or Okinawa star sand.

This presentation will cover a new perspective on the definition of chronic pain, coupled with the new brain studies postulating that emotional and physical pains share the same neural networks.

Sanshin classes by Satsuki Agena  (January to March)

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Prof. Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies. Langage: English.

Discussion of progress and roadmap for founding an OIST natural history collection.