Wednesday 16th May 2012

1:30 p.m.-

"Immersion Haptic Design"

English

This talk will begin with an overview of Immersion Corporation, its technologies and markets. Immersion was founded in 1993 and is a world leader in developing technologies that bring the sense of touch to consumer electronic devices. The company's technologies can be found in more than 400 million devices worldwide including smartphones, automobiles, game controllers and surgical simulators. After the overview, we will discuss the value of tactile feedback from the perspective of embodied cognition, design and affect. The talk will include videos showing some of the experiential research conducted by Immersion and with demonstrations of Immersion's latest mobile phone technologies.

Mr. Chris Ullrich, Vice President, User Experience,

Immersion Technologies.

Wednesday 9th May 2012

0:30 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

"Aphrodite's compass"

Japanese

Dr Koida, Tenure Track Associate Professor whose research interest includes Visual psychophysics, Color vision will appear in NHK BS premium program called
"Aphrodite's compass" as an interviewee, and give some comments on color coordination from researcher's point of view.

13:30-15:30

Current understanding of brain's neural networks

All slides will be provided in English, and the talk will be given in Japanese or English depending on the language spectrum of the audience.

Dr Tomoki FUKAI,PhD

Senior Team Leader

Laboratory for Neural Circuit Theory

Dr Arindam Ghosh,

Associate Professor

Department of physics,Indian Institute of Science

Dr. Nguyen TK Thanh, FRSC, CChem, CSci,MRI, is a UCL-RI Reader (Associate Professor) in nanotechnology and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy,University College London, and The Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution of GreatBritain, United Kingdom.

All Members of Tenure Track Members will have speeches

'1. National agenda on Science and technology policy in Korea
2. Research plans on Nano-Bio-Information-Cognition(NBIC) fusion technology
3. Research on NanoBioEngineering and Spintronics

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The researches on "smell" as a chemical substance.

And latest findings.

Clarification of a whole picture of smell mechanisms is still unrealized.
However, since especially the 2004 Nobel Prize, the nowledge of olfactory sense has been accumulated over time from the molecular biology and biochemistry aspects.
Recently, some researchers reported some curious topics concerning smell.
In this talk, I will touch on such topics and introduce some chemical sensing method of recent date.

'Phase Engineered Interference Lithography for Complex Photonic Structure Fabrication'

'High Density Holographic Data Storage and Search'

1. Optical interference and holography has long been a powerful tool in many areas of optics such as precision measurement, and information processing/storage etc.
Recently researchers have found a great potential in two and multiple beam interference techniques in forming 2-D and 3-D volumetric structures in photosensitive materials.
Even though, the fabrication of photonic structures on relevant length scales (i.e., nanometer, sub micrometer, and micrometer) can be achieved by means of various techniques such as electron or ion beam writing, deposition methods and

self assembly, the prime advantage of interference lithography is, to fabricate large area defect-free nano-photonic structures both rapidly and cheaply.
The presentation gives an overview of the technique of holographic lithography for photonic structure fabrication, and describes a novel reconfigurable phase engineering based fabrication technique which is least complex and provide more

flexibility compared to existing techniques at the same time this technique is capable of fabrication highly complex photonic structures.

2. A volume holographic data storage system (VHDS) employs holographic principles for the storage and retrieval of huge amounts of data at fast parallel transfer rates.
It provides high storage densities and fast data transfer rates with extremely short random access times.
A holographic storage disk can support a transfer rates in Gb per second in comparison to current technology's few Mb per second.
These features have been achieved by the page-oriented storage principle and the multiplexing of a large number of such data pages in a single location. In addition to conventional address-based read-out, VHDS offers the potential for simultaneous search of an entire database by performing multiple optical correlations between the stored data pages and a search argument.
Such an added feature of content-addressable searching is always beneficial considering its huge storage density.
Since a holographic search engine performs an entire database search with a single optical exposure, it can potentially search massive databases orders of magnitude

faster than conventional alternatives.