Date：17/March/2026 (Tue)

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

Style: Hybrid (on-site & online)

Registration will open in December. Please register your email here to be kept updated: 

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)

10:00-12:00 Session 1: Towards integrative geometric analysis

• Tetsuya J Kobayashi

• Shin-ichi Ohta

• Katy Craig

13:00-15:00 Session 1: Advanced data science

• Aleksandra Walczak

• Akira Funahashi

• Naoki Honda

15:00-17:00 Session 3: Science and engineering of chemical sensing and perception

• Chiori Ijichi

• Tsuyoshi Minami

• Joel Mainland

Sponsored by

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

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 "