The Fifth International Symposium and the Fourth Student Organizing International Mini-Conference will take place at The Westin Sendai on February 22nd (WED) to 24th (FRI), 2012 sponsored by “Center of Education and Research for Information Electronics Systems” of Tohoku University Electro-Related Department Global COE Program (Leader: Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi). This time, this symposium is one of final events and the 22 members will publicize their research outcomes for five years and future plans as well as research assistants will also present their outcomes in the poster session. Furthermore, we will invite famous and distinguished researchers in the worldwide who will give us talks in the wide fields like optical communications, multimedia signal processing, quantum computation, semiconductor device, filter theory, music composition and analysis, and robotics. Especially, Dr. Tingye Li will give a special talk entitled “Strategic Research and Innovation in Optical Communications: An Excited-State Lifetime of Forty Years at AT&T Bell Labs”. The detail of this symposium is shown in the following website. Please visit:

(URL) http://www.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/gcoe/en/sympo/2011.html

Date: February 22 – 24, 2012

Place: The Westin Sendai Contact to: Electro-Related Global COE Program in Graduate School of Engineering

E-mail: gcoe-kikaku(at)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp

Tel/Fax: 81-22-795-7138

Masachika Harada (Designated Professor, Planning Manager, COE Fellow)

harada(at)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp