🚌 Important Notice
The bus meeting point has been changed from Hakata Station to the Fukuoka Airport Bus Terminal. Details will be notified via email, so please be aware.
📅 Date
October 17-19, 2025
3 days, 2 nights
📍 Location
Kuju Joint Training Center
Oita, Japan
🔗 Facility Details
A shuttle bus departs from Fukuoka Airport at 11:30 on the first day.
💰 Fee
¥2,000
All meals, accommodation & shuttle bus included
Essential Information
👥 Participants
Max 23 participants
Students & young researchers
🌍 Language
English
📍 Where
Kuju Joint Training Center
Kokonoe-machi, Oita, Japan
Shuttle bus from Fukuoka Airport
🏠 Accommodation
Female participants:
kokonoe.student.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Male participants:
Training center dormitory
🍽️ Meals (6 meals included)
- Day 1 dinner — Chicken/Kimchi hot-pot set
- Day 2 breakfast
- Day 2 lunch
- Day 2 dinner — Dago-jiru set
- Day 3 breakfast
- Day 3 lunch — Pork-shabu set
Registration
🚀 Ready to join us?
Applications are open for students and young researchers interested in brain science, mathematics, and computational neuroscience. Please fill out the form below to apply for the workshop.
📅 Application Deadline: September 17, 2025 17:00
We have already sent notification emails. If you registered but have not received any contact, please contact ken.nakae [at] gmail.com.
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Team & Mission
Join a hand‑picked team of young Japanese and Korean researchers, debate face‑to‑face in English, and sprint toward a 10‑minute joint proposal that could spark the next cross‑border collaboration.
Surrounded by hot‑spring steam and star‑filled skies, pack your laptop and meet us in Kyushu this October.
Teams: 4-6 participants per team, organized by organizers based on research interests and motivation from registration.
Workshop Objectives
The goal of this workshop is for teams to collaborate and develop joint proposals for digital brain construction. Through invited speaker presentations, participants will engage in approximately 5 hours of team discussions in total. Evening poster sessions will foster mutual understanding among participants.
Final Presentations
On the final day, each team will present a 12-minute + 3-minute Q&A collaborative research proposal related to digital brain research. Each team will designate one presenter and focus on a single, well-defined research theme.
Workshop Activities
- Invited Talks: Research presentations by expert speakers
- Team Discussions: ~5 hours of collaborative planning
- Poster Sessions: Evening presentations by participants
- Final Presentations: Joint research proposals (12min + 3min Q&A)
Invited Speakers
Takaaki Kaneko
Assistant Professor, National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Research Profile →Taiki Yamada
Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Information Science, University of Tokyo
Research Profile →Program
Day 1 - October 17 (Friday)
"Decoding the Molecular Mechanisms of Sleep Dysregulation in the Aging Brain."
"Unsupervised Learning of Topological Dynamical Systems in Canonical Neural Networks"
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) for understanding decision making of brain"
Day 2 - October 18 (Saturday)
"Understanding the brain as a mentalizing machine"
"Computational Insights into Primate Decision-Making: Gaze Dynamics and Changes-of-Mind in Virtual Navigation"
"Mesoscopic connectional mapping of the marmoset brain"
"Decoding Noisy Time-Series: Filtering, Topological Data Analysis, Neural Networks."
Day 3 - October 19 (Sunday)
Access & Location
📍 Venue
Kuju Joint Training Center
600-1 Yutsubo, Kokonoe-machi, Kusu-gun, Oita
〒879-4912 大分県玖珠郡九重町湯坪字八丁原600-1
🚌 Transportation
Shuttle Bus Service
From: Fukuoka Airport Domestic Terminal Bus Stop
Departure: 11:30 on October 17
Return: 15:00 on October 19
→ Arrival at Fukuoka Airport: 17:30
🏔️ About the Location
Surrounded by beautiful mountain ridges and natural hot springs, the Kuju area offers the perfect environment for focused discussions and networking. The venue provides a peaceful setting away from city distractions, ideal for collaborative research planning.
🛏️ Accommodation
On-site accommodation at the training center
kokonoe.student.kyushu-u.ac.jp
📍 Location Map
💡 Note: Shuttle bus transportation is included in the participation fee. No need to arrange individual transportation!