Invitation to the Seminar on Mystery of Brain from an Engineering Point of View
The Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), UTM International Campus would like to extend an invitation to all academicians, scientists, engineers, post- graduate students and other professionals to a mystery of brain seminar which will be held on July 27, 2011 and is FREE. Details as follow:
Venue: Jumaah Hall, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia International Campus, 54100 Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur
Time: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Speaker: Professor Dr Tatsuo Kitajima
Seminar Topic: An approach to the mystery of the brain from an engineering point of view:
>From the study of system control to neuroscience research
Content:
The 21st century is called the "Century of Brain". Brain science/neuroscience research is the
"final frontier" for the natural science along with the study of the universe. What's the best way to approach neuroscience research from an engineering point of view. Here, Prof.
Kitajima will give an outline of each one approach, taking a look over his research history from past studies of optimal control problem to the present computational neuroscience research. As "modeling and simulation" is the principal method in this approach, Prof.
Kitajima will also talk about constructing computational model of nerve cells and neural
networks on the basis of physiological/pharmacological experimental evidences.
Contact:
MJIIT Staff, Tel:03-26973600, Fax: 03-26910342
CV of Speaker:
Dr Tatsuo Kitajima is a Professor of the department of Electronic Systems Engineering in the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), UTM International Campus.
He has received the B.E., the M.E., and the D.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1968, 1970, and 1973, respectively. He joined the department of Information Engineering in Technical Junior College of Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan, as a senior lecturer and an associate professor in 1973 and 1978,
respectively. From 1981 to 1982, he visited the Instiitut für Systemdynamik und
Regelungstechnik (Director: Prof. Dr.-Ing. E.D.Gilles) of Universiät Stuttgart, Stuttgart, West Germany (currently Germany), as a Visiting Researcher. Since 1983, he was an associate professor of the departments of Information Engineering, Electrical Information Engineering, and Bio-System Engineering in Faculty of Engineering of Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan. In 2003, he promoted to a full professor of the department of Bio-System Engineering in Faculty of Engineering of Yamagata University and retired from Yamagata University on March 2011. Since May 2011, he holds a current post in MJIIT. His research interests have been computational algorithms for the optimal control problem of distributed parameter system and the computational neuroscience research to clarify the mechanism of information processing in the brain. His current research activities are mainly focused on modeling and simulation for phenomena observed in the brain, such as synaptic plasticity and subthreshold resonance phenomena, which are now thought to be one physiological fundamental process for learning and memory. The catch copy of his research is "Approach to mystery of the brain from an engineering point of view".