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 January 15, 2025

What’s New

December 6, 2024: Prof. KIKUCHI Hiroaki and Dr. Andres Hernandez-Matamoros receive the CSEC Excellent Research Award from the Computer Security Group of the Information Processing Society of Japan
December 2, 2024: MIYASHITA Homei Laboratory’s Technology “Edible Lenticular Cuisine” selected for the Advanced Technology Society Implementation Program (TIP)
November 28, 2024: 2024 MIMS Mimura Award ceremony and lectures (in Japanese), Award winners: KONDO Shigeru (Osaka University) and AKIYAMA Masakazu (University of Toyama)(1/11, 2025)
November 22, 2024: Kirin’s Electric Salt Spoon, developed jointly with Meiji University, wins two CES Innovation Awards® 2025
November 6, 2024: Professor NAKABAYASHI Mariko receives the 2024 APRIA Kyobo Life Contribution Award from the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association
September 25, 2024: Optical illusion art works by Dr. SUGIHARA Kokichi was selected for the sculpture section of the 108th Nika Art Exhibition
September 24, 2024: MIYASHITA Laboratory at Meiji University presents fat-free oil and fat-free and sugar-free cream generators
May 31, 2024: Electric Salt Spoon, a tableware that enhances the taste of low-salt food through electric taste technology is released: Technology developed through joint research between MIYASHITA Laboratory and Kirin Holdings Company, Limited is used on the product
March 29, 2024: Professor MIYASHITA Homei wins the Interaction 2024 Interactive Presentation Award
February 27, 2024: ICMMA 2023: Lecture Notes are now available for download. "International Conference on Reaction-diffusion systems: from the past to the future" — in memory of Prof.Masayasu Mimura —
February 26, 2024: “Tasting is Believing ~Can a Low-Sodium Diet Still Deliver Savor?” featuring Prof. MIYASHITA Homei was published on The Wall Street Journal
February 20, 2024: Prof. MIYASHITA Homei’s Laboratory, Received the Science Council of Japan President's Award at the "Japan Open Innovation Prize" event by the Cabinet Office for the development of a technology that enhances the salty taste of low-sodium food approximately 1.5 times via stimulation and for " Electric Salt " that uses this technology

Events in FY2024　(ascending)

January 24，25，2025: "International Active Matter Workshop 2025" The Collaborative research symposium, Center for Mathematical Modeling and Applications, Joint Usage / Research Center

Closed events in FY2024　(descending)

January 11, 2025: 2024 MIMS Mimura Award ceremony and lectures (in Japanese), Award winners: KONDO Shigeru (Osaka University) and AKIYAMA Masakazu (University of Toyama)
December 11, 2024: Cafe Seminar, "Penguin study with bio-logging techniques" Speaker: Ui Shimabukuro (Meiji University)
October 31, 2024: 27th Meiji Non-linear mathematical seminar "Forward and backward logarithmic drifts when converging to a pulled traveling front" Thomas Giletti (University Clermont-Auvergne)
September 9-11, 2024: ICMMA 2024: International Conference on "Self-organization in Life and Matter" The web page is now available. On site only
August 28, 2024: Cafe Seminar, "Blocking and propagation in two-dimensional cylinders with spatially undulating boundary" Speaker: Mori Ryunosuke (Meiji University)
July 31, 2024: Cafe Seminar, "Interface motion of Allen-Cahn equation with anisotropic and porous-medium diffusion" Speaker: PARK, Hyunjoon (Meiji University)
July 23, 2024: CMMA Colloquium (No.050) YONEYAMA Takau (Meiji University, Hitotsubashi University)
June 25, 2024: 33rd MIMS/CMMA Seminar on Self–Organization, Speaker: Olaf Karthaus (Chitose Institute of Science and Technology), Hideshi Ooka (RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science), Yasumasa Nishiura (Hokkaido University, Chubu University, Tohoku University), J. Nobuhiko Suematsu (Meiji University)
April 8, 2024: 24th Meiji Non-linear mathematical seminar "The stability-compactness method and qualitative properties of nonlinear equations" Henri Berestycki (EHESS, University of Maryland)