Outcomes

Visiting Program in Numbers

updated 2026-01-15

	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024	FY2025 as of 2026-01-15	TOTAL as of 2026-01-15
Total Number of Visitors	23	93	150	160	426
Visiting Scholars	21	13	29	29	92
Domestic Visitors	0	5	10	16*	31*
Thematic Programs	0	2	2	3	7
invited participants		64	73	109	246
Affiliates and Colloquium Speakers	2	11	38	16*	67
General-Audience Talks	19	19	33	36*	107
Total number of Talk participants	1042	952	1793		4482
(average)	56	49	49		53
Youtube views, running total	2824	6123	11717		19123
(average per video)	202	219	230		230
Workshops	3	3	5	3	14
participants	75	144	272		591
Research Seminars	1	45	77	53*	176
Career talks, Courses, Outreach	5	11	19		58
No. of OIST units visitors have interacted with, running total	25	38	75		80+
Home institutions (countries), running total	20 (12)	80 (18)	150 (30)	260 (35+)	260 (35+)
Publications	8	36	53	165	165

Publications

All 165+ Publications acknowledging OIST's Visiting Program can be found on Google Scholar.

 Videos, Awards, Articles

"Do octopuses dream?" nature video summarizing the paper on "Wake-like skin patterning and neural activity during Octopus Sleep" that resulted from a collaboration of TSVP Visiting Scholar Leenoy Meshulam and OIST professor Sam Reiter.

Awards

• Shinichi Nakagawa was named as "Highly Cited Researcher" in the Cross-Field category of 2023. He was a TSVP Visiting Scholar from 2023/03/02 to 2023/09/30

 

Articles

• Public Lecture "How Do Animals Make Sounds" by Coen Elemans was reported on in the Okinawa Times and on NHK television
• Article about the Greener Mobility Ideathon hosted by the Visiting Program
• Article about the first Thematic Program on "Exact Asymptotics: From Fluid Dynamics to Quantum Geometry"
• Article about the French-Japanese Seminar on "Metaverse and Virtual Reality"
  • fr.techtribune.net (French)
  • bitcoinisle.com
• Articles about the research on "Octopus sleep is surprisingly similar to humans" which was published in the journal "nature" in June 2023. It results from a collaboration between Visiting Scholar Leenoy Meshulam and OIST's Professor Sam Reiter and his group.
  • BBC
  • Guardian
  • OIST news article

Books

Computational Models of Astrocyte Function at Glutamatergic Synapses K. Lenk et al. Part of the Series Neuromethods (NM,volume 2780)

 

Visiting Mathematics Professor Program (until 2020)

Publications

1. J. E. Greene and A. Lobb. "The Rectangular Peg Problem" (2020). arXiv:2005.09193. (See also this Quanta Magazine article)

2. J. McCoy, G. Wheeler, and Y. Wu. "Higher Order Curvature Flows of Plane Curves with Generalised Neumann Boundary Conditions" (2020). PDF

3. J. A. McCoy. "Contracting Self-Similar Solutions of Nonhomogeneous Curvature Flows" (2020). PDF

4. J. A. McCoy. "Contraction of Convex Hypersurfaces by Nonhomogeneous Functions of Curvature" (2020). PDF

5. S. Y. Kholmatov and P. Piovano. "Existence of Minimizers for the SDRI Model" (Submitted 2021). arXiv

6. P. Piovano and I. Velčić. "Microscopical Justification of the Winterbottom Problem for Well-Separated Lattices" (Submitted 2021). arXiv:2111.13604

7. P. Piovano and I. Velčić. "Microscopical Justification of Solid-State Wetting and Dewetting" J. Nonlinear Sci. 32, 32 (2022). arXiv:2010.08787

Lectures

• OIST Presidential Lecture: "The Rectangular Peg Problem" by Andrew Lobb (2020/07/30) https://vimeo.com/444445868

Acknowledgements

Please list TSVP/OIST as one of your affiliations when publishing about research (partially) conducted during your visit.
Please also include a short phrase in the acknowledgements, see below.

Affiliation:
Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program (TSVP), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, 904-0495, Japan

Acknowledgement:
This research was conducted while visiting the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) through the Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program (TSVP).

Acknowledgement in case of salary:
This research was conducted while funded by the Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program (TSVP) at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).

*EVSP visitors please replace accordingly with "Experimental Visiting Scholar Program (EVSP)"