The University of Aizu

University of Aizu Distinguished Lecture Series 2009-10

The 1st 　"Current and Future situation of the Advanced ICT Specialist"

Speaker: Mr. Osamu Dairiki
[Executive Director at NS Solutions / Chairperson of the ICT Committee for Strategy and Project Team of Advanced ICT Specialists Development at Nippon Keidanren]
Date and Time:　Thu. April 30, 2009 13:30～17:30
Location: UBIC 3D Theater

The 2nd "Realistic illumination in computer games"

Speaker: Prof. Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos
[Head of the Dept. of Control Engineering and Information Technology at Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
Date and Time: Thu, May 14, 2009 16:30～18:00
Location: UBIC 3D Theater

The 3rd  “Matrix Eigenvalue Perturbation Theorems Made Easy and Matrix Function Definitions Unified”

Speaker: Prof. Yasuhiko Ikebe
[Chairman of International Information Science Foundation, Tokyo/ Professor Emeritus of both the University of Tsukuba and the University of Aizu]
Date and Time: Thu. May 28 , 2009 14:50～16:20
Location: S1 Room275

The 4th  “The consequences of the IEEE 1599 technology for music encoding”

Speaker: Denis Louis Baggi
[Faculty Member and Research Scientist of University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland(SUPSI)/ Founder of IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computer Generated Music(TCCGM) ]
Date and Time: Mon, June 8, 2009　14:50～16:20
Location: UBIC 3D Theater

The 5th   “Economic incentive models for improving peer participation and data availability in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks”

Speaker: Dr. Anirban Mondal
[Specially Appointed Research Associate of Center for Information Fusion, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo]
Date and Time: Fri. June 26, 2009　13:10～14:40
Location: Lecture Room M14; Room364, Research Building 3F)

The 6th “Digital Holographic Displays for Topographical Applications”

Speaker: Mr. Mark Holzbach
[Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Zebra Imaging Inc., Austin, TX; USA]
Date and Time: Fri. October 2nd, 2009　16:30～17:10
Location: UBIC 3D Theater

The 7th “Digital Portraiture”

Speaker: Mr. Dana Friis-Hansen
[Executive Director and Chief Curator of Austin Museum of Art, TX, USA]
Date and Time: Fri. October 2nd , 2009　17:15～18:00
Location: UBIC 3D Theater

The 8th　"Computed micro tomography and micro radiography using synchrotron x-rays"

Speaker: Prof. Jung-Ho Je
[Director of the National Creativity Research Initiative for X-ray Imaging Center, Korea, Professor in POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology)]
Date and Time: Thu. October 8th , 2009 14：50 ～ 16：20
Location: UBIC 3D Theater

The 9th “From grid to cloud computing”

Speaker: Prof. Ron Perrott [School of Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, UK]
Date and Time: Thu. October 22, 2009 14:50～16:20
Location: UBIC 3D Theater

The 10th　 "Seeing Through Augmented Reality"

Speaker: Prof. Steven K. Feiner [Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University]
Date and Time: Mon. November 16, 2009 16:30-18:00
Location: UBIC 3D Theater

The 11th  "Multi-modal Emotion Recognition"

Speaker: Prof. Liyanage Chandratilak De Silva [Associate Professor of Science at University of Brunei]
Date and Time: Thu. November 19, 2009 13:50-16:20
Location: UBIC 3D Theater

The 12th  "Perception Issues in High Dynamic Range Imaging and Real-Time Rendering"

Speaker: Karol Myszkowski
[Senior Researcher of Max-Planck-Institut für Computer Science
Date and Time: Mon. December 7, 2009
Location: UBIC 3D Theater

The 13th  "Computational Manga"

Speaker: Tien-Tsin Wong [Professor of Chinese University of Hong Kong]
Date and Time: Tue. December 15, 2009
Location: UBIC 3D Theater