Objective　

Everything that exists in the natural world is made up of several types of elementary particles.  However, we cannot understand nature simply by identifying the properties of these particles.  This is because collections of particles sometimes exhibit completely unexpected collective phenomena, quite independently of the individual particles' properties.  In the physical sciences, the importance of focusing on the properties of objects composed of a large number of constituents is reflected in the phrase, "More is different."

The main concept of the research project, the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas "Deepening and Expansion of Statistical Mechanical Informatics (DEX-SMI)," launched in 2006, is to introduce this perspective into information science under the common slogan,  "More is different in informatics as well."  As milestones in the research activity, the International Workshop on Statistical-Mechanical Informatics (IW-SMI) has been held annually, featuring studies of information and communication (2007),  quantum information (2008), and bioinformatics (2009).  The workshops have provided fruitful opportunities for leading researchers of various disciplines to interact with one another, which have led to several collaborative studies.

The main objective of the final workshop, IW-SMI2010, is to wrap up the achievements of the four years of activity in the DEX-SMI research project.  In addition, the workshop will bring together leading researchers in the physical and information sciences to discuss possible future directions for exploring the successes of DEX-SMI.

Date

March 7-10, 2010

Venue

Shiran Kaikan
11-1 Ushinomiya-cho, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8302 Japan

Registration

There is no registration fee.
We encourage prospective attendees to the workshop to register (although the registration is not mandatory).
Please send an e-mail to iw-smi2010-reg [- atmark -] sp.dis.titech.ac.jp with the following information:

• Name
• Affiliation
  
• E-mail address
• Whether or not to attend the Banquet on March 9 (Hotel New Hankyu Kyoto, Fee: 7,000 Japanese yen, to be paid on-site)

Banquet

Banquet will be held at "Hotel New Hankyu Kyoto" from 19:30 on March 9, 2010. Banquet fee is 7,000 Japanese yen (To be paid on site).

Programme

List of Speakers

To speakers: Information about paper submission
Organized session only: we do not accept submissions from non-invited speakers.

• Hiroki Arimura (Hokkaido Univ., Japan): Discovering frequent and maximal substructures in large semi-structured data
• Masahito Hayashi (Tohoku Univ., Japan): Quantum channel estimation and asymptotic bound
• Koji Hukushima (Univ. Tokyo, Japan): An extended ensemble Monte Carlo study of a lattice glass model
• Shiro Ikeda (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan): Combining binary machines for multi-class: Statistical model and parameter estimation
• Jun-ichi Inoue (Hokkaido Univ., Japan): Deterministic flows of order-parameters in stochastic processes of quantum Monte Carlo method
• Masato Inoue (Waseda Univ., Japan): A haplotype inference method based on sparsely connected multi-body Ising model
• Yoshiyuki Kabashima (Tokyo Tech., Japan): Cavity approach to the first eigenvalue problem in a family of symmetric random sparse matrices
• Ido Kanter (Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel): Towards the generation of random bits at terahertz rates based on a chaotic semiconductor laser
• Kentaro Katahira  (Univ. Tokyo, Japan): Doubly sparse factor models for unifying feature transformation and feature selectio  
• Hikaru Kawamura (Osaka Univ., Japan): Two models of spin glasses ---Ising versus Heisenberg
• Shin-ichi Maeda (Kyoto Univ., Japan): Maximum a posteriori X-ray computed tomography using graph cuts
• Enzo Marinari (Univ. Rome, "La Sapienza", Italy): The solution space of metabolic networks: producibility, robustness and fuctuations
• Marc Mézard (Univ. Paris Sud, France): Correlation-based decimation in constraint satisfaction problems  
• Tatsuto Murayama (NTT, Japan): Optimal aggregation of noisy observations:  
  A large deviations approach
• Klaus Obermayer (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany): On the operating point of cortical computation
• Kazutaka Takahashi (Tokyo Tech., Japan): Energy gap analysis for quantum spin-glass transitions at zero temperature
• Kazuyuki Tanaka (Tohoku Univ., Japan): Statistical performance analysis by loopy belief propagation in Bayesian image modeling
• Toshiyuki Tanaka (Kyoto Univ., Japan): Properties of a certain stochastic dynamical system, channel polarization, and polar codes
• David Saad (Aston Univ., UK): On the robustness of random Boolean formulae
• Tadashi Wadayama (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan): Error detection by binary sparse matrices
• Sumio Watanabe (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan): Asymptotic learning curve and renormalizable condition in statistical learning theory
• Max Welling (Univ. California, Irvine, USA): Statistical inference using weak chaos and infinite memory
• K.Y. Michael Wong (HKUST, Hong Kong): Clusters of resource consuming nodes in transportation networks
• Haijun Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China): Solution space heterogeneity of the random K-satisfiability problem: Theory and simulations

Organizing Committee

Jun-ichi Inoue (Hokkaido University)
Shin Ishii (Kyoto University)
Yoshiyuki Kabashima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)(General Chair, DEX-SMI Head Invetigator)
Masato Okada (University of Tokyo)
Kazuyuki Tanaka (Tohoku University)(Program Chair)
Toshiyuki Tanaka (Kyoto University)(Vice-General Chair)

Sponsor

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area "Deepening and Expansion of Statistical Mechanical Informatics" (DEX-SMI)

In collaboration with

	The Physical Society of Japan (JPS)
	The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)