Date：17/March/2026 (Tue)

Venue: Convention hall (An bldg.), Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo 

Style: Hybrid (on-site & online) Registration is REQUIRED.

1. Aleksandra Walczak: École Normale Supérieure

   1. Organisation of immune repertoires (tentative)

2. Joel Mainland: Monell Chemical Senses Center 

   1. Predicting Mixture Character from Chemical Structure (tentative)

3. Katy Craig: University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Mathematics

   1. Vector-valued optimal transport (tentative)

4. Naoki Honda: Nagoya University 

   1. Frontier of data science  (tentative)

5. Shin-ichi Ohta: University of Osaka

   1. Frontier of geometric analysis  (tentative)

6. Akira Funahashi: Keio University

   1. Deep learning technologies for sequences and images (tentative)

7. Tsuyoshi Minami: University of Tokyo 

   1. Engineering a system to identify a chemical mixture (tentative)

8. Chiori Ijichi:  AJINOMOTO Co., Inc, 

   1. Topic from quantitative analysis and design of olfactory perception 

9. Tetsuya J. Kobayashi: University of Tokyo

   1. Discrete geometric analysis (tentative)

9:30-11:30 Session 1: Towards integrative geometric analysis

• 9:30-10:00 Tetsuya J Kobayashi

• 10:00-10:30 Shin-ichi Ohta

• 10:30-11:20 Katy Craig

13:00-15:00 Session 1: Advanced data science for discrete and continuous data

• 13:00-13:50 Aleksandra Walczak

• 13:50-14:20 Akira Funahashi

• 14:20-14:50 Naoki Honda

15:30-17:30 Session 3: Science and engineering of chemical sensing and perception

• 15:30-16:00 Chiori Ijichi

• 16:00-16:30 Tsuyoshi Minami

• 16:30-17:20 Joel Mainland

Sponsored by

• JST CREST "Decoding of Information in Multi-Sourced Chemical Mixtures and its Applications"

• JST CREST "Integrative Geometric Analysis of Discrete and Continuous Structures for the Prediction and Control of Complex Biological Phenomena"

Cosponsored by

• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) "Emergence of Novel Functional Assembly by Evo-Physico Information Coupling (EPIC Assembly)"

• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B) "Life-Nonlife Transition"