Past Events

The registration deadline for OISTxWPI-AIMEC (Tohoku U & JAMSTEC) Joint Workshop  "Changing Marine Ecosystems: Biogeography of Habitat Shifts and Adaptation to Oceanographic Variability" is November 12, 2025.

OIST Innovation will host a seminar on “Smart Work with Generative AI” as follows. Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 13:30–15:30 Venue: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Conference Center, Meeting Room Admission: Free (pre-registration required) Simultaneous interpretation will be provided No online streaming

As a continuation of the Greener Mobility Ideathon held in December last year, this mid-term workshop serves as a platform to share interim results and engage stakeholders, including local citizens, in shaping the next phase of development. The project aims to explore practical and community-driven solutions for sustainable transportation, combining digital tools, behavioral insights, and collaborative design. Language: English and Japanese (partially)　発表は日本語通訳つき Location: Seminar Room Lab 4 E48 at OIST

Speaker: Mr. Pritam Halder, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj

Prof. Jun Zhang, graduated and received his BS degree from Wuhan University in China, and earned his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. After a postdoctoral experience in biophysics at Rockefeller University, he came to NYU and started building the Applied Math Lab at the Courant Institute and later he became a faculty member (physics and math) there. His research interest has been in the field of physics of fluids and complex systems, which includes biomechanics or bio-locomotion (organismal swimming and flying), geophysical fluids (thermal convection, continental dynamics, and erosion), solid-on-solid friction, urban heat-island effect, and self-organization phenomena at many different scales.  

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tom Froese (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

How to became a Scientist

How to became a Scientist

Speaker: Prof. Sachihiro Matsunaga, Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

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: Professor Yohei Sakurai, Saitama University Title: Almost splitting and quantitative stratification for super Ricci flow Abstract: I will discuss almost rigidity properties of super Ricci flow whose Muller quantity is non-negative. I will present almost splitting and quantitative stratification theorems that have been established by Bamler for Ricci flow. This talk is based on the joint work with Keita Kunikawa (Tokushima university). **ZOOM** Please register here

Seminar by Dr. Essie Rodgers

Speaker: Prof. Konrad Banaszek, University of Warsaw

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:00 Title: Model for tension propagation in crumpled compartmentalised cell membranes Speaker: Prof. Michael M. Kozlov      Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

QG Seminar Speaker: Tom Wetzstein (OIST)  Title: The Holographic BMS Anomalies

Seminar by Dr. Jose Ricardo Paula

[Speaker] Prof. Alfredo Soldati, Professor, Institute of Fluid Mechanics & Heat Transfer, TU Wien, Austria/ Dept. Eng. & Arch., University of Udine, Udine, Italy

National holiday

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).

"AI is saving science" - public debate by OIST Debate Club (C209), 17:00 - 18:00