OIST Visiting Program now open for applications 🌟🏝️ Did this last year and very happy to chat to interested folks! It was awesome.

Thu, 08/08 from 15:00 JST via Zoom or in L5D23 OIST: TSVP Talk: "Revisiting Scalarization in Multi-Task Learning" by Han Zhao Han Zhao groups.oist.jp/tsvp/event/tsv… #MachineLearning myamada0

Our call for Visiting Scholars is still open, please take a look if you would like to spend some time at OIST in beautiful Okinawa, Japan!

If you would like to bring all experts from your field together for a month or two of intense discussions, consider submitting a (pre)proposal for a Thematic Program to be held OIST in beautiful Okinawa, Japan (in 2025/2026)!

We are entering the last week to submit pre-proposals for Thematic Programs to be held at OIST in 2025/2026. In this first round the pre-proposal no details are required. Please submit your idea if you would like to bring together a group of experts in your field and discuss

This weekend is the last opportunity to submit a (short) pre-proposals for a Thematic Programs at OIST in 2025/2026. In this first round only basic details are required. The deadline is August 31 but the portal will stay open over the weekend.

鶴見さん、Arvind、森田先生との共著で、backpropを使わず、教師あり学習で使われていたfeedback alignmentを強化学習に用い、活動度・結合重みの非負性などの生物学的制約を課して状態表現と価値を学習するニューラルネットワークを提案したpreprintが公開されました！ Special thanks to OIST TSVP!

On a beautiful day like today, we can’t resist an appreciation post for our home, Onna Village, Okinawa!🌞 Check out this birds eye view of the #OISTCampus surroundings. Share with us your campus photos and be sure to use the hashtag #OISTCampus! oist.jp

OIST's Visiting Program (OIST Visiting Program ) currently has open calls for Visiting Scholars in FY2025. In addition, there is a Domestic Visitor program for researchers working in Japan. Learn more👉 groups.oist.jp/tsvp 📅Apply before Sept. 30

Thu, 09/05 from 15:00 JST via Zoom or in L5D23 OIST: TSVP Talk: "Biodiversity Modelling Under Climate Change: From Individual Species to Communities" by Miguel B. Araújo groups.oist.jp/tsvp/event/tsv… #Ecology #ClimateChange #Biogeography

Miguel Miguel Bastos Araújo was also just announced as the winner of the Marsh Award for Climate Change Research by the British Ecological Society. The prize was awarded for his outstanding contribution to climate change research. Don't miss his talk tomorrow OIST !

Honoured to receive the British Ecological Society Marsh Award for Climate Change. Having spent much of my academic journey in Britain, this recognition holds special meaning. Grateful to the BES and inspired to continue contributing to #biodiversity and #climate_change research. #BES2024

Today, from 15:00 in L5D23 OIST !

Enjoying the sun in Okinawa with Paola Laurino Alina Mikhailova Lars Eicholt OIST OIST Visiting Program

Want to spend a period of 3-12 months in our research lab and you are senior postdoc or higher in academia? Consider applying as a visiting scholar.

If you need any more motivation to visit OIST: this ice cream machine is right in front of the Visiting Program offices. Our call for Visiting Scholars is open until the end of September! groups.oist.jp/tsvp/applicati…

Congratulations Miguel Miguel Bastos Araújo! Miguel will be at OIST as Visiting Scholar until January 20th, so please come and have a chat with him in our Visiting Program area in Lab 5.

Our visitor Ayaka Kato has a podcast on science and related topics (in Japanese). Check out the most recent episode to hear about her experiences at OIST , Japan and Hawaii: Spotify: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ken-e… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E7… Pocket Casts: pca.st/x4x51izn

Thursday, 09/19 from 15:00 JST via Zoom or in L5D23 OIST : TSVP Talk: "How Much of Plasma Physics Can a Mathematician Understand?" by Raphael Winter groups.oist.jp/tsvp/event/tsv… #Fusion #Plasma #Mathematics #Physics

If you are looking for a sabbatical opportunity on a subtropical island consider the visiting program at OIST Calling independent scholars from *all fields*. Deadline September 30 for visits in 2025/early 2026