Computer Science Research Seminar 2025

The Computer Science Research Seminar provides a research forum for doctoral students and faculties of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science. The seminar consists of research talks by doctoral students and invited talks by guest speakers, both in English. All participants are encouraged to discuss the talk topics. All students and faculty members of the degree program are warmly invited to the seminar.

Doctoral students can obtain the credits of the elective course "Cross-Disciplinary Seminar in Computer Science" (0BLD514, 2 credits) by attending the seminar and giving a talk in it (pre-registration on TWINS is required).

Dates, time and room

• Semester: Spring ABC
• Time: Mondays, 6th period (16:45-18:00)
• The first seminar will be held on April 21, 2025.
• Place: Hybrid (As a rule, students should attend in person)
• In-person attendance: Laboratory of Advanced Research B (sougou-kenkyutou B), 10F, Room 1001
• Online attendance: Microsoft Teams
  (You can install it as a part of Microsoft Office 365. More information: [en] [jp]). Please make sure you can join a Teams meeting before the first seminar.

Format

• Each student's talk spans 10-15 minutes, and the discussion spans 10-15 minutes.
• Two or three speakers will give talks for each seminar.
• This is a forum for discussion; all participants are strongly encouraged to ask questions and discuss various topics from different viewpoints. Naive questions are much better than nothing; please don't be shy! This is a place for your exercise.

Expected attendees

• Doctoral students who have registered for the course "Cross-Disciplinary Seminar in Computer Science" (0BLD514)
• Other doctoral students
• The academic advisors of the speakers of the day
• Seminar organizers: Yasunori Futamura and Youhei Akimoto
• Guest commentator: Prof. Neil Millar
• Faculty members of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science
• Guests

Preparing a talk

• Prepare your presentation in English.
• You should prepare your recorded presentation video (about 10 min) and share it on manaba at least one week before your (real-time) presentation.
• You are encouraged to upload slides or supplementary materials (such as extended abstracts, draft papers, and videos) to Manaba before your talk so that the attendees can see them online (but please don't rely on the supplementary materials too much).
• Be aware that most attendees will not be familiar with your research field.
• The talk schedule will be announced later.
• Attendance of your academic advisor(s) is encouraged; please ask your advisor(s) to attend your talks.

Report and Grade

• Besides the presentation and attendance at the seminars, each student is requested to submit a report (details will be announced later).

Instructions for registration

If you would like to attend this seminar at least partly, please follow the instruction below:

1. Register for the corresponding TWINS course "Cross-Disciplinary Seminar in Computer Science" (0BLD514). You will be given access to the Manaba page for this course on the next day of TWINS registration.
2. Access the Manaba page, and answer a questionnaire in "Surveys".

The due date for registration is April 22.