ACLS International Summer School 2017 in Singapore

Education Academy of Computational Life Sciences (ACLS), Tokyo Tech, is a graduate educational program that aims to train potential leaders who will play an active role internationally in multiple fields in life sciences and computer science. We organize summer schools annually to offer students opportunities to (i) develop leadership by organizing the summer school as students committee, and (ii) enhance international multidisciplinary networking and scientific exchange between life sciences and computer sciences through various activities.

The core activity of the summer school this year is the group work. We are planning to include lectures and site visits to help students deepen their thoughts and ideas on the group work discussions. There will be a poster session by all the participants to get to know each other.

Organizer

Education Academy of Computational Life Sciences (ACLS), Tokyo Institute of Technology

Co-organizer

(TBA)

Theme

Big Data Analysis for Health and Biomedical Sciences

Date

5 Sep - 12 Sep, 2017

Venue

Nanyang Technological University

Group Work

(TBD)

Participants

We will accept about 40 graduate studedents working in life science, bioinformatics, computer science and related fields who are interested in interacting with students in different diciplines and natioalities.

Applications to this summer school will be open in February, 2017.

Schedule

(TBD)

Tuesday, September 5th

Flight to Singapore

Dinner @ Downtown area

Wednesday, September 6th

• Briefing
• Kickoff​
• Facility Tour
• Invited Lecture
• Poster session
• Group Work 1 (with dinner)

Thursday, September 7th

• Invited Lectures
• Group Work 2
• Intermediate report & feedback

Friday, September 8th

• Group Work 3
• Site Visit
• Group Work 4 (with dinner)​

Saturday, September 9th

• Group Work 5
• Group Work review session
• Culural Exchange Dinner​

Sunday, September 10th

• Intercultural Study

Monday, September 11th

• NTU-Tokyo Tech Joing Symposium
• Flight to home​

Tuesday, September 12th

Arrival (Japanese students)

​Poster session

The poster session is planned on September 6th to help students getting to know each other. Participants are asked to present posters that introduce their research topic with good background explanation.

NOTE: As the summer school attendees derive from a very diverse academic background especially from computational sciences to life sciences, we humbly seek your cooperation to tune your abstract and poster content to a comprehensible level to attendees of all majors.

Poster guideline

1. Poster Format
   1. ​Size: A0
   2. Orientation: Portrait
   3. Content:
      1. Research background
      2. Research details
      3. Research contribution (optional)
2. We advise to keep all experimental data written for your poster to be precise and concise to ensure ease of understanding among all summer school attendees. You may use additional tools as such of tablet, handout or smartphone to assist your explanation if additional experimental data is deem necessary.​

Internet

We will bring wifi routers to the Summer School site and guest wifi service will be available there.

You can also connect to the Internet using "eduroam" service at the Summer School site if you have an eduroam account.

The wifi service at the hotel is not free.  

Executive committee

This event is organized by the ACLS (Education Academy of Computational Life Science), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. http://www.acls.titech.ac.jp/en

Tokyo Tech students (committee leaders)

(TBD)

• Chairperson: 

• Vice-chairperson: 

• Overseas students communication: 

• Cultural exchange: 

• Abstract book: 

• Poster session: 

• Facility tour: 

• Lecture preparation: 

• Group work:

Tokyo Tech faculty members

• Hiroshi Iwasaki

• Yutaka Akiyama

• Fumikazu Konishi

• Shuntaro Chiba

• Hidehiro Ito

• Dragomirka Jovic

• Yumiko Kurokawa

• Takahisa Yano

• Yuri Matsuzaki

Co-organizer

(TBD)

Secretariat

• Tomoko Okada

• Yuka Tamaki