COLLOQUIUM

2021 colloquium

Communication Information Systems Course 2021 Colloquium Overview

1st

 

Time

Friday, Apr. 16, 2021 at 16:45-18:15

Method
Zoom and PandA

The URL of Zoom will be announced via faculty’s mailing list 3 days before the colloquium.

The lecture material will be available in PandA at 16:15 on the day of the colloquium.

The lecture will be recorded, and video and audio will be available on PandA.

Speaker

Tetsuo Tateishi

ROHM, Member of the Board, Senior Corporate Officer, CTO

Genki Tsuruyama

ROHM, Senior Engineer

Title

Analog circuit design, block and system level design challenges and solutions.

Abstract

Power supplies are likened to circulatory organ of electronic devices, and further conversion efficiency improvement is demanded to realize carbon neutral society. In this presentation, we will present the transition of power supply systems, and design challenges and solutions of a block level analog circuit as an example. An example of how we utilize the technologies we have created is also presented.


2nd

 

Time

Friday, 21 May, 2021 at 16:45-18:15

Method
Zoom and PandA

The URL of Zoom will be announced via faculty’s mailing list 3 days before the colloquium.

The lecture material will be available in PandA at 16:00 on the day of the colloquium.

The lecture will be recorded, and video and audio will be available on PandA.

Speaker

Kazuto YANO

Department Head of Wireless Communication Systems,

Wave Engineering Laboratories,

Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)

Title

R&D on Wave Engineering for Efficient and Flexible Use of Radio Wave in 6G Era

Abstract

Since commercial 5G cellular services have been launched around the world including in Japan, R&D activities for establishing various technologies for realizing the next generation (6G) wireless communication systems. Moreover, various non-communication uses of radio wave such as object sensing have been emerged and further developed. This presentation will give an overview of the current trend of in R&D activities of wave engineering. In addition, it will introduce the “wireless COE project”, which is co-managed by ATR and Kyoto University, to accelerate such R&D activities on wave engineering for the 6G era


3rd

 

Time

Friday, June 11, 2021 at 16:45-18:15

Method
Zoom and PandA

The URL of Zoom will be announced via faculty’s mailing list 3 days before the colloquium.

The lecture material will be available in PandA at 16:00 on the day of the colloquium.

The lecture will be recorded, and video and audio will be available on PandA.

Speaker

Dr. Naoki Takeuchi

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Senior Researcher

Title

Ultra-Low-Power Integrated Circuits Using Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron

Abstract

This lecture describes the fundamentals and recent progress in adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron (AQFP), which is an energy-efficient superconductor logic family. AQFP circuits can operate with extremely small energy dissipation due to zero dc resistance in superconductors and reversible state change via adiabatic switching, and thus are a key technology for developing cryogenic information systems, such as low-power microprocessors and single-photon sensors. The lecture briefly explains the mechanism of adiabatic switching, AQFP circuit design methodology, and AQFP-based cryogenic systems, thereby showing the impact and importance of energy-efficient integrated circuits based on AQFP.

Language

English


4th

 

Time

Friday, July 16, 2021 at 16:45-18:15

Method
MS Teams and PandA

The URL of Teams will be announced via faculty’s mailing list 3 days before the colloquium.

The lecture material will be available in PandA at 16:00 on the day of the colloquium.

The lecture will be recorded, and video and audio will be available on PandA.

Speaker

Seiji KAWAMURA

Director of Remote Sensing Laboratory

Radio Propagation Research Center, Radio Research Institute

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Title

Remote sensing technology for environmental monitoring

Abstract

Remote sensing techniques using electromagnetic waves are introduced. Outlines of measurement methods for rainfall, cloud, wind velocity, water vapor, ground surface using ground-based radars and lidars, air-borne radars, space-borne radars are briefly mentioned. Furthermore, a method to measure water vapor using digital terrestrial broadcasting waves is introduced.

Language

Japanese


5th

 

Time

Friday, Oct 15th, 2020 at 16:45-18:15

Method
Zoom and PandA

The URL of Zoom will be announced via faculty’s mailing list 3 days before the colloquium.

The lecture material will be available in PandA at 16:00 on the day of the colloquium.

The lecture will be recorded, and video and audio will be available on PandA.

Speaker

Yusuke Koda

University of Oulu,

Centre for Wireless Communications,

Postdoctoral Researcher

Title

Visual Data-Driven Millimeter Wave Communication Systems & Life in Finland as a Researcher on Wireless Communications

Abstract

This talk will briefly explain my Ph.D. work entitled “Visual Data-Driven Millimeter Wave Communication Systems” by detailing the capability of millimeter communication, the blockage problem in it, and the solution driven by visual data, i.e., time-sequence of camera images, and machine learning techniques. Moreover, I will talk about my life in Finland as a visitor/postdoctoral researcher and shed light on the difference from the research life in Japan.

Language

English


6th

 

Time

Friday, November 12th, 2021 at 16:45-18:15

Method
Zoom and PandA

The URL of Zoom will be announced via faculty’s mailing list 3 days before the colloquium.

The lecture material will be available in PandA at 16:00 on the day of the colloquium.

The lecture will be recorded, and video and audio will be available on PandA.

Speaker

IMAI KATSUYUKI

Senior Assistant General Manager, Hybrid Products Division, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

Title

What is Luneberg Lens?

Abstract

Luneberg Lens is one of the radiowave lenses. We will briefly explain the principle, characteristics, and manufacturing process of Luneberg Lens. Furthermore, we will introduce wind profiler radar and Ku-band weather radar using Luneberg Lens as antenna.

Language

Japanese


7th

 

Time

Friday, December 17th, 2021 at 16:45-18:15

Method
Zoom and PandA

The URL of Zoom will be announced via faculty’s mailing list 3 days before the colloquium.

The lecture material will be available in PandA at 16:00 on the day of the colloquium.

The lecture will be recorded, and video and audio will be available on PandA.

Speaker

Taro Sekiyama

Assistant Professor

National Institute of Informatics & The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

Title

Program Verification with Machine Learning

Abstract

This talk first offers an overview of program verification. A main challenge in program verification is to verify programs with loops because it requires finding loop invariants, properties that hold while executing the loops. Discovering loop invariants is an undecidable problem in general. Therefore, the research community has made a lot of effort thus far for developing heuristic approaches to automated discovery of loop invariants. The second half of this talk will introduce recent applications of statistical machine learning methods to the problem of loop invariant discovery, focusing on the research conducted in our group.

Language

English


8th

 

Time

Friday, January 21st, 2022 at 16:45-18:15

Method
Zoom and PandA

The URL of Zoom will be announced via faculty’s mailing list 3 days before the colloquium.

The lecture material will be available in PandA at 16:00 on the day of the colloquium.

The lecture will be recorded, and video and audio will be available on PandA.

Speaker

Rui Kang

Oki Lab, Intelligent Communication Networks Area,

Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.

Title

Resource Allocation with Maintenance Schedule in Network Virtualization

Abstract

Network function virtualization (NFV) decouples the functions from specialized hardware. The functions are virtualized to virtual network functions (VNFs) and form a service function chain (SFC) in a specific order to provide a service. The flexible allocation of VNFs deploys the network functions rapidly and improves network performance. The unavailability of a node interrupts the VNF running on the node. By using the operation records and maintenance plans, the possible locations and time of node availabilities can be obtained. This talk calls them an availability schedule. The service provider may avoid interruptions and improve the continuous serviceable time when performing the VNF allocation with availability schedules. This talk presents three models with corresponding analyses for different applications in the deterministic availability schedule, uncertain availability schedule, and backup VNF allocation. This talk introduces both mixed-integer linear programming approaches and greedy approaches for solving the models. This talk introduces applications of these models in a container orchestration platform as demostrations at last.

Language

English