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Visiting Program in Numbers

updated 2026-03-31

  FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025
as of 2026-03-31		 FY2026 TOTAL
as of 2026-03-31
Total Number of Visitors 23 93 151 164   431
Visiting Scholars (applicants) 21 (64) 13 (102) 29 (134) 29 (206) (600) 92
Domestic Visitors 0 5 10 6   21
Thematic Programs  0 2 2 3   7
    invited participants   64 73 109   246
Affiliates and Colloquium Speakers 2 11 39 20   72
General-Audience Talks 19 19 33 46   116
Total number of Talk participants  1042 952 1793 2187   5974
    (average) 56 49 49 50   51
Youtube views, running total 2824 6123 11717 21471   21471
    (average per video) 202 219 230 244   244
Workshops  3 3 5 4   15
    participants 75 144 272 192   683
Research Seminars 1 45 77 63   186
Career talks, Courses, Outreach 5 11 20 23   59
No. of OIST units visitors have reportedly interacted with (units of interest), running total 23 (25) 35 (38) 52 (75) 65 (91)   65 (91)
Home institutions (countries), running total 20 (12) 80 (18) 150 (23) 260 (30+)   260 (30+)
Publications, running total 8 36 53 188   188

Publications

All 188+ Publications acknowledging OIST's Visiting Program can be found on Google Scholar.

 Awards and Press Coverage

"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

 

Press Coverage

TSVP Visiting Researcher Shunichi Kasahara quote

Books

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

News

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