OIST COI-NEXT Annual Symposium 2026 Sustaining Innovation Beyond the Lab Date: March 9th, 2026, at 9:30-17:00 Venue: Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250) Target audience: General audience/ open to everyone at OIST and beyond. Registration Deadline: February 23, 2026 Please register by the deadline to secure your spot.

The 10th OIST-Keio Joint Symposium brings together various perspectives on fluid dynamics, highlighting recent advances across theory, computation, and experiment. Through a series of focused talks and poster presentations, the event spans fundamental flow phenomena, complex and multiscale fluids, and engineering‑relevant applications. This 10th showcase continues a series of events bringing Keio and OIST researchers together to foster discussion and enable innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration.

A workshop on developing collaboration across sectors to work effectively with community to advance research and activities addressing social challenges.

Speaker: Takuji Hiroishi, CEO, Empublic Inc. , Japanese with English translation

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Speaker: Dr Lewis Picard, Caltech, USA

Title: Entanglement-assisted readout and cooling of neutral atom qubits in an optical tweezer array

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).

Prof. Mircea Dincă , Department of Chemistry, Princeton University

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: Dr. Samuël Borza, University of Vienna Title: Ollivier-Ricci curvature in non-smooth Lorentzian geometry and causal set theory Abstract:

This talk will explore some aspects of non-smooth Lorentzian geometry, the mathematical framework underlying Einstein’s general relativity, which is currently being developed. Just as metric length spaces provide a synthetic generalisation of smooth Riemannian manifolds, the time-separation function plays the role of a “distance” in Lorentzian geometry. The need for a non-smooth Lorentzian framework appeared early on, most famously with Penrose’s singularity theorems. After introducing the basic concepts and some initial results in this synthetic setting, we will turn to causal set theory, a radical approach to quantum gravity in which spacetime is modelled as a discrete causal graph. I will formulate a new notion of curvature, inspired by Ollivier-Ricci curvature on metric graphs, using optimal transport between causal diamonds. We will see that it does recover Ricci curvature on smooth Lorentzian manifolds, and numerical examples will be presented.

Speaker: Cindy Poo, a senior scientist with the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington

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).

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OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tomomi Kiyomitsu (Cell Division Dynamics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

The Biological, Artificial, and Quantum Intelligence 2026 International Workshop (BAQ2026) will bring together world-leading experts in neural networks, neuroscience, quantum machine learning, and related areas of intelligence and complexity. It aims to provide a platform for discussions on recent developments and future perspectives in these fields. Open to OIST Community!

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

Title: In-plane oscillations of a slack catenary using assumed modes.

Speaker: Dr. Anindya Chatterjee, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

(collaborators: Bidhayak Goswami and Indrasis Chakraborty)

Language: English

Workshop on Cognitive Neurorobotics

Organized by Jun Tani, Tani Unit, OIST

March 5, 13:30—18:00, Seminar room L5D23, Lab 5

Tentative program

13:30-13:40: Introduction, Jun Tani, OIST

13:40-14:40: Collective Intelligence in LLM agents, Takashi Ikegami, Univ. of Tokyo

14:40-15:40: Deep Active Inference for Real-World Robotic Systems, Shingo Murata, Keio Univ.

15:40-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-17:00: A Consideration of Robot Foundation Models as Embodied Intelligence, Tetsuya Ogata, Waseda Univ.

17:00-18:00: Propagation of Mind Through the Mechanism of Superposition, Hiro Iizuka, Hokkaido Univ.

Guest seminar hosted by CDQT.

Speaker: Prof. Jeroen van den Brink (Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden)

Title: Topological surface superconductivity in PtBi2

OIST COI-NEXT Annual Symposium 2026 Sustaining Innovation Beyond the Lab Date: March 9th, 2026, at 9:30-17:00 Venue: Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250) Target audience: General audience/ open to everyone at OIST and beyond. Registration Deadline: February 23, 2026

The 10th OIST–Keio Joint Symposium brings together various perspectives on fluid dynamics, highlighting recent advances across theory, computation, and experiment. Through a series of focused talks and poster presentations, the event spans fundamental flow phenomena, complex and multiscale fluids, and engineering‑relevant applications. This 10th showcase continues a series of events bringing Keio and OIST researchers together to foster discussion and enable innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration.

A Seminar by Tamotsu Yoshimori, Professor Emeritus of Osaka University, Professor of The DAICEL Endowed Chair in Beyond Cell Reborn Research. Hosted by Prof. Yamamoto. Keywords: Autophagy, Rubicon, Longevity, Awabancha

A Seminar by Kazuhiro Nagata, Director General, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Takatsuki (Osaka). Hosted by Prof. Yamamoto. Keywords: molecular chaperone, ER-associated degradation (ERAD), ERdj5, LLPS

Prof. Isabel Bäurle, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany

Prof. Michael Lenhard, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany

Speaker:Dr. Hiroaki Matsunami,the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, the Duke University

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OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yuliya Kulikova (Science and Technology Group)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

International Symposium of Life-Nonlife Transition: Boundaries Between Life and Nonlife, March 18-19, at Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Language: English, Registration needed.

Speaker: Dr. Kenan Qu, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University

Speaker: Dr. Sneha Munshi, CQuERE, The Chatterjee Group Centres for Research and Education in Science and Technology, Kolkata, India

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Amin Chabchoub (Marine Physics and Engineering Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Keshav Dani (Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: William Munro (Quantum Engineering and Design Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Ugur Abdulla (Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Amedeo Roberto Esposito (Information Theory, Probability, and Statistics Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

Join us to explore how information-theoretic ideas shape modern research across a variety of fields.

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

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Makoto Yamada (Machine Learning and Data Science Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.