【Awards and Commendations】Shumpei Kikuta(M2), Toriumi labo, received Best oral presentation award at Complex Networks 2019

【Awards and Commendations】Shumpei Kikuta(M2), Toriumi labo, received Best oral presentation award at Complex Networks 2019 1. NameShumpei Kikuta 2. Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) /Major Year:(B4, M1, M2, D1, D2, D3) M2, Department of System Innovation,School of Engineering,Toriumi Laboratory 3.Name of award and short explanation about the award Best oral presentation award This award is sent to the researcher who made the best presentation. 4.About awarded research Discovering the roles of nodes in a network is important for solving various social issues. Role discovery aims to infer nodes’ roles from a network structure, and it has received considerable attention recently. The conventional methods of role discovery mainly use unsupervised learning, but due to the lack of information, it is difficult to discover the roles we want or to ascertain the results. In this paper, we attempt to improve accuracy through using supervised information. Specifically, we adopt transfer learning using adversarial learning. As a result of computational experiments, we show that the proposed model discovers a node’s role more effectively than do the conventional methods. Furthermore, we found that domain-invariant features lead to higher accuracy, the proposed method discovers roles better even with different network sizes, and the proposed method works well even if the networks have nodes of various structures.

5.Your impression & future plan I am honored to win such a wonderful award. I will make an effort to improve this research to apply the proposed method to real-world datasets. 

【Press Releases】Visualisation method for the broad distribution of seafloor ferromanganese deposits: Lecturer Kazutaka Yasukawa, Professor Yasuhiro Kato, Frontier Research Center for Energy and Resources, and other researchers

【Press Releases】Visualisation method for the broad distribution of seafloor ferromanganese deposits: Lecturer Kazutaka Yasukawa, Professor Yasuhiro Kato, Frontier Research Center for Energy and Resources, and other researchers

http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/soee/press/setnws_201912112002546089424844.html

 

The increasing global demand for industrially critical metals has driven the development of deep-sea mineral resources. In the past, acoustic exploration has been utilised as an efficient technique for investigating deep-sea mineral resources. However, a practical method applicable to a wide distribution of resources has not yet been established. We show that the acoustic backscatter intensity of the seafloor determined using a vessel-equipped multi-narrow beam echo sounder provides an inherent threshold that bounds different types of geology, e.g. barren pelagic sediment and dense ferromanganese nodules. We found that multiple datasets from different sounders and/or the observation periods could be integrated on the basis of the thresholds that indicate the same geological boundaries. Furthermore, the integrated data and threshold provided visualisation and quantitative estimations regarding the distribution of ferromanganese deposits covering thousands of square kilometres. Our method is applicable after minimal data processing and ground-truth observations, and provides expeditious and exhaustive reconnaissance exploration.

 

Marine Georesources & Geotechnology:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1064119X.2019.1696432

 

 

 

 

【Awards and Commendations】 Hisaki Matsuda, Gutao Shen, Hao, Wu, Johan Friemann (M1, Takahashi lab.) received Best Bridge Award (First Price of Category B) of IHI/SAMPE Japan Student Bridge Contest

【Awards and Commendations】 Hisaki Matsuda, Gutao Shen, Hao, Wu, Johan Friemann (M1, Takahashi lab.) received Best Bridge Award (First Price of Category B) of IHI/SAMPE Japan Student Bridge Contest 1. Name: Hisaki Matsuda, Gutao Shen, Hao Wu, Johan Friemann 2. Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major: Department of Systems Innovation, M1 3. Name of award and short explanation about the award: Best Bridge Award (First Price of Category B) of IHI/SAMPE Japan Student Bridge Contest 4. About awarded research: Using carbon fiber composite materials to build the lightest bridge with a certain load-carrying capacity. 5. Your impression & future plan: It is with great privilege and honor that we have received the award. And at the same time, we also want to congratulate the IHI Corporation and The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) for their great work of organizing and making this event possible. Furthermore, we must express our sincere gratitude in particular to our supervisors Prof. Takahashi and Dr. Ice, as well as all the lab members who have provided us with enormous help from many perspectives. In the near future, the world tournament of this contest will be held in the U.S.A. next May, and our team share a common goal of bringing the champion back to Japan. For achieving this ambition, not only shall we continuously improve our skills in design and fabrication, but also the power from every each one of you who support us is indispensable. We again truly appreciate for the help and support from you that encourage us to move forward.    

【Press Releases】A Miocene impact ejecta layer in the pelagic Pacific Ocean : Lecturer Kazutaka Yasukawa, Professor Yasuhiro Kato, Frontier Research Center for Energy and Resources, and other researchers.

A Miocene impact ejecta layer in the pelagic Pacific Ocean : Lecturer Kazutaka Yasukawa, Professor Yasuhiro Kato, Frontier Research Center for Energy and Resources, and other researchers.

Meteorite impacts have caused catastrophic perturbations to the global environment and mass extinctions throughout the Earth’s history. Here, we present petrographic and geochemical evidence of a possible impact ejecta layer, dating from about 11 Ma, in deep-sea clayey sediment in the Northwest Pacific. This clay layer has high platinum group element (PGE) concentrations and features a conspicuous negative Os isotope anomaly (187Os/188Os as low as ~0.2), indicating an influx of extraterrestrial material. It also contains abundant spherules that include pseudomorphs suggestive of porphyritic olivine as well as spinel grains with euhedral, dendritic and spherical forms and NiO contents as great as 23.3 wt%, consistent with impact ejecta. Osmium isotope stratigraphy suggests a most plausible depositional age of ~11 Ma (Miocene) for this layer, as determined by fitting with the seawater evolution curve. No large impact crater of this age is known on land, even within the relatively large uncertainty range of the relative Os age. Thus, we suggest that an unrecognised impact event in the middle or late Miocene produced the impact ejecta layer of the Northwest Pacific.

 

Scientific Reports:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-52709-1

 

References

Press Releases:
https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/…/setnws_2019112111235657315787…

JAMSTEC:
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/j/about/press_release/20191120/

Tokyo Institute of Technology :
https://www.titech.ac.jp/news/2019/045695.html

KYUSHU UNIVERSITY :
https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/researches/view/397

NIKKEI, Inc:
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLRSP523673_Z11C19A1000000/