Upcoming Events

OIST is advancing science into innovation in many forms. Held as Day 2 of Startup Elevate, OIST Innovation Day invites you to meet the innovation happening across OIST — from early-stage research seeds to startups built on cutting-edge technology. Sessions are organized around Healthcare and Deep Tech, aligned with the themes of Startup Elevate. If you're looking for ways to collaborate with OIST on innovation, this is the event to attend.

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

Seminar by Prof. Xiayun (Sherry) Huang, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

A mini course on the application of machine learning in polymer chemistry Professor Rong Tong is Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech  5 lectures over 5 weeks.  October 16 to November 13 (Friday afternoons)

Prof. Takashi Ohshima, Professor. Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University. Language: English

Celebrate OIST's 15th Anniversary with a special afternoon of chamber music featuring Mitsuki Okada (violin), Itsuko Arakaki (viola), Megumi Shiroma (cello), and Yuka Oyabu (piano). This commemorative performance marks an important milestone in OIST's history, bringing together researchers, students, staff, and the wider community through the shared experience of live music.

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

Seminar by Tobias Raisch, Max Planck Institute

The PCD Team will host the OIST Career Fair 2026 on November 9th and 10th, 2026. This will offer OIST students a unique opportunity to engage directly with companies across Japan and explore diverse career paths beyond academia.  

[Speaker] Prof. Sourav Sil, School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India

Multiscale thinking: understanding how mechanisms observed at one scale connect to behavior, function, and consequences at other scales. Professor Leteng Lin from Linnaeus University is an OIST visitor under the Swedish STINT program. Six sessions over three weeks, from November 10.   All welcome! Eligible PhD students receive 1 credit.

Title: CYCLE Exhibition 2026 Date: Tuesday, November 10 – Sunday, November 29, 2026 Location: OIST Campus  

Introducing differential calculus in infinite-dimensional spaces, with applications to the calculus of variations and optimal control Dr. Denis Brazke is a Postdoctoral scholar at Analysis and Partial Differential Equations (APDE) Unit (Abdulla Unit) Four sessions over four Tuesdays, November 10, 17, 24, and December 1st, from 1000-1200 in L4F01

The East Asia Joint Symposium (EAJS) is an annual event that brings together researchers from East Asia to foster discussions and collaborations. The EAJS focuses on biology, especially cell biology, but also developmental biology, cancer biology and immunology. Established in 1994, the symposium has been hosted in rotation by institutions from Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan.

Seminar by Dr. Lewis Ruks, Research Scientist, Theoretical Quantum Physics Research Group, Basic Research Laboratories

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] Prof. Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Santa-Barbara

Dr. Caroline L. Monteil, Senior Researcher at Aix-Marseille University, CEA, CNRS, Biosciences and Biotechnologies Institute of Aix-Marseille, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France

Seminar by Prof. Spatafora

Digital AgTech Europe–Japan Meetup brings European agricultural technology to Tokyo. Hear how farms in Spain and Cyprus are using sensors, drones, and automation today, see short pitches from companies working in the field, and meet others across Japan's agriculture sector.