The 3rd Global COE Symposium will be held on 27, 28 February 2012.
Global COE Program‘s activities for five years will be reported. Also, several invited talks by overseas collaborative research partners and a panel discussion by distinguished persons at Japanese ICT business will be held.

Symposium Title:
Information, Electrical Engineering and Electronics in Keio University
3rd Global COE Symposium
– Global Leadership of Science & Technology –
Date: February 27, 28, 2012
Place: Hiyoshi Campus, Keio University
Raiosha (for Technical Workshop on 27th), Kyoseikan (for Symposium on 28th)
Participation: Free of charge
Registration: http://www.gcoee.keio.ac.jp/?page_id=2826

For details, please see here.

Prof. Yamanaka will make a keynote speech on Nikkei symposium on the environment on 24 February 2012.

The Subjects and the detailed time-line are seen at Nikkei symposium on the environment (in Japanese).

The program is here (in Japanese).

Prof. Yamanaka will paticipate as a panelist at International industry-academia-government cooperation symposium in Keio 2012 Spring on March 2, 2012.

Date : Friday, March 2, 2012
Time : 1:00PM – 5:00PM
Venue: Keio University, Mita Campus, North Building Hall
Admission: Free Entrance

[Panel Discussion]
Time: 3:15PM – 5:00PM
Theme: Consider the way of future independence of the intellectual property and the technology licensing section of a university
Panelist:
Ashley J Stevens (Lecturer, Senior Research Associate, ITEC, School of Management, Boston University)
Kevin Edward Cullen (Chief Executive Officer, New South Innovations Pty Limited, University of New South Wales)
Toshikatsu Miki (Chairman, Natinal Center for Industrial Property Information and Training)
Toshihiro Masaki (Director of Planning and Promotion and Director of Intellectual Property Management, Osaka University Office for University-Industry Collaboration)
Shin Ito (Professor, Center for Innovation and Intellectual Property, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Naoaki Yamanaka (Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University)
Moderator:
Kenichi Hatori (Deputy Director, Headquarters for Research Coordination and Administration, Keio University) 　

Prof. Yamanaka will participate as a panelist at Cloud Network Symposium 2012 on Feb. 23, 2012.

Date : Thursday, February 23, 2012
Time : 1:00PM – 5:10PM
Venue: THE GRAND HALL, Shinagwa, Tokyo
Admission: Free Entrance

[Panel Discussion]
Time: 3:50PM – 5:10PM
Theme: What is the next generation technology which Japan should take the initiative in for post-Cloud?
Coordinator: Atsuhiro Goto, Professor, Institute of Information Security
Panelist:
Yoshinori Suzuki, Executive Vice President & CIO (IT Planning and Business Process Re-Engineering) , Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.
Takehiko Koyanagi, Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.
Naoaki Yamanaka, Professor, Keio University
Toshiya Asaba, Representative Director, IIJ Innovation Institute Inc.

Yamanaka Lab. will exhibit at Cloud Network Symposium 2012 on Feb. 23, 2012.

The exhibition will show the demostration of service routing which is the technology to mash-up resources for cloud network service by using IP routing.

In this symposium, several talks and a panel discussion will be held. For example, Winston Bumpus, DMTF(Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.) President, will give an invited talk.

Date : Thursday, February 23, 2012
Time : 1:00PM – 5:10PM
Venue: THE GRAND HALL, Shinagwa, Tokyo
Admission: Free Entrance

Yamanaka Lab. will exhibit at Kawasaki International Eco-Tech Fair 2012 on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11, 2012.
As one of advanced researchs about ecology technology at Keio University Shin-Kawasaki Town Campus,
Yamanaka Lab. will introduce the research about Smart Network which includes EVNO, energy efficient smart house/city system, and so on.
Please come and see us!

Date : Friday, February 10 and Saturday, February 11, 2012
Time : 10:00AM – 5:00PM
Venue: Todoroki Arena
1-3 Todoroki, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki
Admission: Free Entrance

Mr. Tokuhashi’s paper regarding with active optical access network was accepted for journal of Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking as follows.

Title: MPCP based active optical access network with PLZT high-speed optical switch
Authors: Kazumasa Tokuhashi, Kunitaka Ashizawa, Daisuke Ishii, Satoru Okamoto, Naoaki Yamanaka, Koji Wakayama, Keiichi Nashimoto
Summary: An active optical access network architecture with our newly developed PLZT ((Pb,La)(Zr,Ti)O3) high-speed optical switch is introduced, with a view to realizing the next-generation high capacity scalable access network. This system is developed based on the latest IEEE standard of PON (10G-EPON; IEEE802.3av) in consideration of the coordination with future high capacity PON. PLZT high-speed optical switches are able to switch an optical signal at nano-second speed (<5–10 ns). Generally, the merits of using optical switches are increasing the number of subscribers and transmission distance easily, preventing malicious ONUs from interfacing with the communication between OLT and the other ONUs, realizing fast fiber and OLT protection/restoration and providing various services by controlling optical switches dynamically. This paper focuses on two key technologies; a PLZT optical switch and a new discovery process for active optical access network based on MPCP defined at IEEE802.3. A major challenge in designing active optical access network is supporting the discovery process of MPCP because it does not offer broadcast transmission unlike the regular PON. We propose here a new discovery process; it has been tested successfully in an implementation of our proposed system.

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