Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences (MIMS)

Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences

MIMS has been certified renewal as a MEXT Joint Usage/Research Center. (FY2020~)

Updated November 28, 2025

What’s New

November 19, 2025: [Registration] ICMMA 2025: Registration for participation and poster presentation | Deadline：December 23rd, 2025 (1/14-16, 2026)
November 19, 2025: Registration for Oral Presentations and Poster Presentation starts. "International Active Matter Workshop 2026" The Collaborative research symposium, Center for Mathematical Modeling and Applications, Joint Usage / Research Center (first finish the registration by 2025/12/19) (1/23, 24, 2026)
July 10, 2025: "Meiji University: Math meets art in Kokichi Sugihara’s illusions" featuring Distinguished Professor Emeritus, SUGIHARA Kokichi was published on The Japan Times
June 10, 2025: Prof. Kokichi Sugihara’s original optical illusion was selected top 10 finalists in the Best Illusion of the Year Contest 2024.
February 28, 2025: 3D Optical Illusion Images and Videos by Professor Kokichi Sugihara Now Available on the Meiji Repository

Events in FY2025　(ascending)

December 4, 2025: MIMS/CMMA 12th Interdisciplinary Seminar on Topology and Its Applications, "Topological insulators and topological K-theory" GOMI Kiyonori (Tokyo Institute of Technology) *Online: Zoom Webinar
December 13, 2025: 2025 MIMS Mimura Award ceremony and lectures (in Japanese), Award winners: NAGAYAMA Masaharu (Hokkaido University) and HAYAMIZU Momoko (Waseda University)
December 18, 2025: 37th Meiji Non-linear mathematical seminar, "Chain reactions" Tadashi Tokieda (Stanford University)
January 14-16, 2026: ICMMA 2025: International Conference on "Cooperative Strategies and Dynamics in Social Systems: from Human to Insect Societies" The web page is now available. On site only
January 23-24, 2026: "International Active Matter Workshop 2026" The Collaborative research symposium, Center for Mathematical Modeling and Applications, Joint Usage / Research Center

Closed events in FY2025　(descending)

November 6, 2025: 36th Meiji Non-linear mathematical seminar, "Refined behavior and structural universality of the blow-up profile for semilinear heat equations with non scale invariant nonlinearities" Philippe Souplet (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)
October 30, 2025: 35th Meiji Non-linear mathematical seminar, YANAGISAWA Yusuke (Kyoto University)
October 29, 2025: Cafe Seminar, "Gelation-Induced Dynamics of an Injected Fluid: Effects of Embedded Structures" Kojiro Otoguro （Meiji University）
September 3, 2025: Cafe Seminar, "When it pays to teach: an optimal population structure for dedicated teaching" Hirotaka Goto（Meiji University）
August 19, 2025: CMMA Colloquium (No.051) "Tetrahedral Liquids: From a Tale of Two Liquids to a Tale of Topology" Dwaipayan Chakrabarti (University of Birmingham (UK), WPI-SKCM2, Hiroshima University)
July 30, 2025: Cafe Seminar, "Physical Interpretation of Galactic Dark-Matter-Effect: Combined Action of Gravity and Fluid-Lorentz-Force" Tsutomu Kambe（Meiji University）
July 28, 2025: 34th Meiji Non-linear mathematical seminar, OKAMOTO Jun (Meiji University)
July 16, 2025: 33rd Meiji Non-linear mathematical seminar "Bistable wavefronts of three-species competition-diffusion systems" Chueh-Hsin Chang (National Chung Cheng University)
June 25, 2025: Cafe Seminar, "Sand influx effect on barchan dynamics using crest line model" Speaker: Sofia Navarro Yabe (Meiji University, Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences)
May 22, 2025: MIMS/CMMA 11st Interdisciplinary Seminar on Topology and Its Applications, "Strong Aperiodic Tile Set and Sturmian Sequences" AKIYAMA Shigeki (Tsukuba University) *Online: Zoom Webinar
May 21, 2025: 32nd Meiji Non-linear mathematical seminar "Dynamics of Phase-Locked Solutions in Coupled Oscillators" Kuan-Wei Chen (National Center for Theoretical Sciences)
April 1, 2025: 31st Meiji Non-linear mathematical seminar "Random walk models for heterogeneous diffusion" Yong Jung Kim (KAIST)