The CiNet Monthly Seminar is CiNet’s flagship seminar series, designed to strategically invite leading researchers from Japan and abroad.

No. Date & Time Speaker Audience Format Host
89 Jul. 29(Wed.),2026 16:00- Elif Akata(Helmholtz Institute Munich, University of Tubingen) Close In-person Haruno
88 TBA
87 Jun. 22(Mon.),2026 15:00- Shin’ya Nishida(Kyoto University) Close In-person Kobayashi
86 Apr. 20(Mon.),2026 14:00- Jörn Diedrichsen(University of Western Ontario)& Samuel D. McDougle(Yale University) Open Hybrid Yokoi
85 Mar. 23(Fri.),2026 16:00- Azusa Kamikouchi(Nagoya University) Close In-person Haruno
84 Feb. 6(Fri.),2026 16:00- Chien-Chung Chen(National Taiwan University) Open In-person Chen
83 Feb. 2(Mon.),2026 16:00- Masako Tamaki(RIKEN Center for Brain Science/Keio University) Close In-person Haruno
82 Jan. 28(Wed.),2026 14:00- Nahoko Kuga-Sasakil(Tohoku University) Close Online Yokoi
81 Dec. 12(Fri.),2025 14:00- Jun Kunimatsul(University of Tsukuba) Close In-person Yokoi
80 Nov. 25(Tue.),2025 16:00- Louis Kangl(RIKEN Center for Brain Science) Open In-person Mok
79 Nov. 7(Fri.),2025 16:00- Luke Rosedahl(Florida Atlantic University) Close In-person Hagura
78 Oct. 20(Mon.),2025 15:30- Georgios Michalareas(Cooperative Brain Imaging Center (CoBIC), Goethe University Frankfurt)& Matthias Grabenhorst(Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society) Close In-person Hayashi
77 Jul. 8(Tue.),2025 16:00- Florian Waszak(Integrative Neuroscience & Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Cité) Open In-person Kitazawa
76 May 22(Thu.),2025 16:00- Nikolai Axmacher(Ruhr University Bochum) Open In-person Mok
75 Mar. 25(Tue.),2025 16:00- Shinsuke Shimojo(California Institute of Technology) Open In-person 和田
74 Mar. 14(Fri.),2025 15:00- Michael J. Frank & Thomas Serre(Brown University) Close In-person Haruno
73 Jan. 7(Tue.),2025 16:00- Jan B. Engelmann(University of Amsterdam) Close In-person Haruno
72 Dec. 5(Thu.),2024 16:00- Edwin Robertson(University of Glasgow) Hagura
71 Aug. 9(Wed.),2024 15:00- Matthew Rushworth(University of Oxford) Haruno
70 Jul. 17(Wed.),2024 15:00- Bahador Bahrami & Ophelia Deroy(Ludwig Maximilian University) Hagura
69 Jun. 24(Mon.),2024 15:00- Benedetto De Martino(University College London) Haruno
68 Jun. 7(Fri.),2024 16:00- David Whitney(University of California) Murai
67 Mar. 27(Wed.),2024 16:00- Mauro Costagli(University of Genova) Kida
66 Feb. 21(Wed.),2024 16:00- Neil W. Roach(University of Nottingham) Hayashi, Ueda
65 Nov. 27(Mon.),2023 16:00- Matthew Lambon Ralph(University of Cambridge) Ishibashi
64 Oct. 30(Mon.),2023 16:00- Andrea d’Avella(University of Messina) Gurgone
63 Sep. 6(Wed.),2023 15:30- Marc Himmelberg(New York University) Takemura
62 Aug. 8(Tues.),2023 16:00- Sam Gilbert(University College London) Hagura
61 Aug. 7(Mon.),2023 16:00- Matthew Longo&Lúcia Garrido(University of London) Hagura
60 Mar.27(Mon.),2023 16:00- Lennart Verhagen(Donders Institute, Radboud University) Haruno
59 Feb.28(Tue.),2023 16:00- Jennifer Cook(University of Birmingham) Ikegami
58 Nov. 7(Mon.),2022 15:00- Serge Dumoulin(Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging) Takemura
57 Oct. 26(Wed.),2022 16:00- Sungshin Kim(Hanyang University) Yokoi
56 Jul. 7(Wed.),2022 16:00- Ganesh Gowrishankar(CNRS : French National Centre for Scientific Research) Ikeami
55 Sept. 22(Wed.),2021 15:00- Shogo Kajimura(Kyoto Institute of Technology) Nakano
54 Aug. 24(Tue.),2021 14:00- Hiromasa Takemura(NICT CiNet) Hagura
53 Jul. 26(Mon.),2021 10:00- Shosuke Suzuki, PhD student(Emory University) Haruno
52 Jun. 4(Fri.),2021 10:00- Kenji Kobayashi (University of Pennsylvania) Haruno
51 Apr. 28(Wed.),2021 16:00- Jun Kunimatsu (University of Tsukuba) Hagura
Special Mar.25(Thu.),2021 16:00- Kaoru Amano (NICT CiNet) Hagura
50 Mar.18(Thu.),2021 16:00- Amitai Shenhav (Brown University) Haruno
49 Feb.1(Mon),2021 16:00- Naoya Takahashi(Université de Bordeaux) Hagura
48 Dec. 17(Thu.),2020 16:00- Vincenzo Romei(University of Bologna) Hayashi
47
(cancelled)
Nov. Haruno
46 Oct. 29(Thu.),2020 14:00- Shuguang Kuai (East China Normal Univ.) Ban
45 Sept. 30(Wed.),2020 11:00- Gouki Okazaki(NYU) Hagura
44 Aug. 27(Thu.),2020 12:00- Dora Hermes(Mayo Clinic) Takemura
44
(cancelled)
Mar. 26(Thu.),2020 15:00- Makiko Yamada(National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS)) Haruno
43
(cancelled)
Mar. 24(Tue.),2020 15:00- Kentaro Miyamoto(University of Oxford) Haruno
42 Feb. 21(Fri.),2020 16:00- Yumiko Yoshimura(National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS)) Tamura
41 Feb. 12(Wed.),2020 15:00- Denis Le Bihan(Neurospin) Takemura
40 Nov. 6(Wed.),2019 16:00- Andrew Jackson(Newcastle University) Hagura
39 Sep. 9(Mon.),2019 15:00- Peter Bendettini(National Institutes of Health) Takemura
38 Sep. 5(Thu.),2019 15:00- Kazushige Touhara( University of Tokyo) Nishimoto
37 Aug. 2(Fri.),2019 15:00- Brian Wandell(Stanford University) Takemura
36 Jun. 28(Fri.),2019 15:00- Azusa Kamikouchi(Nagoya University) Haruno
35 Jun.5(Wed.),2019 15:00- Tomohiko Takei(Kyoto University) Hagura
34 May 20(Mon.),2019 15:00- Shinsuke Suzuki(Tohoku University) Haruno
33 Apr. 22(Mon.),2019 12:00- Jörn Diedrichsen(University of Western Ontario) Yokoi
32 Mar. 14(Thu.),2019 16:00- Fahmeed Hyder(Yale University) Kida
31 Mar. 7(Thu.),2019 16:00- Masanori Murayama(RIKEN Center for Brain Science) Hagura
(Ikegami)
30 Jan. 17(Thu.),2019 Yoshito Otake(Nara Institute of Science and Technology) Hirashima
29 Dec. 4(Tue.),2018 16:00- Shinya Nishida(NTT Communication Science Laboratories) Ban
28 Nov. 30(Fri.),2018 16:00- Karl Zilles(Research Centre Jülich) Takemura
27 Oct. 26(Fri.),2018 16:00- Patrick Haggard(UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) Hagura
26
(cancelled)
Sep. 6(Thu.),2018 16:00- Brian Wandell(Stanford University) Takemura
extra Aug. 6(Mon.),2018 16:00- Bo Zhu(Harvard Medical School) Amano
25 Aug. 2(Thu.),2018 Kunlin Wei(Peking University) Yokoi
24 Jul. 12(Thu.),2018 16:00- Fumitaka Osakada(Nagoya University) Tamura
23 Jun. 28(Thu.),2018 16:00- David Whitney(University of California, Berkeley) Amano
22 Jun. 14(Thu.),2018 14:30- Kendrick Kay(University of Minnesota) Takemura
21 May 21(Mon.),2018 16:00- Yasuo Kawaguchi(National Institute for Physiological Sciences) Haruno
20 May 15(Tue.),2018 14:00- Shizuko Hiryu(Doshisha University) Nakano
19 Apr. 20(Fri.),2018 15:30- Junichi Rekimoto(Tokyo University) Amano
18 Apr. 11(Wed.),2018 16:00- Daniel Margulies(Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière) Takemura
17 Mar. 27(Tue.),2018 14:00- Jonathan Pillow(Princeton University) Haruno
16 Mar. 8(Thu.),2018 16:00- Radoslaw Martin Cichy(Free University Berlin) Amano
15
(cancelled)
Jan. 12(Fri.),2018 16:00- Henrik Ehrsson(Karolinska Institutet) Naito
14 Jan. 10(Wed.),2018 16:00- Marcel van Gerven(Radboud University) Nishimoto
13 Dec. 20(Wed.),2017 16:00- Sang Wan Lee(KAIST) Ben
12 Oct. 13(Fri.),2017 16:00- Ralph Adolphs(California Institute of Technology) Haruno
11 Sep. 22(Fri.),2017 16:00- Hakwan Lau(University of California, Los Angeles) Amano
10 Aug. 4(Fri.),2017 16:00- Masanori Matsuzaki(The University of Tokyo) Haruno
9 Jul. 28(Fri.),2017 16:00- Katsu Yamane(Disney Research) Hirashima
8 Jun. 5(Mon.),2017 Fang Fang(Peking University) Ban
7 May 15(Mon.),2017 16:00- Kazuhiko Seki(National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry) Kobayashi
6 Apr. 14(Fri.),2017 16:00- Ko Matsui(Tohoku University) Nakano
5 Mar. 6(Mon.),2017 16:00- Takayuki Yamashita(Nagoya University) Hagura
4 Mar. 2(Thu.),2017 16:00- Shuntaro Sasai(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Nishimoto
3 Jan. 27(Fri.),2017 Austin Roorda(University of California, Berkeley) Ohzawa
2 Dec. 5(Mon.),2016 16:30- William Newsome(Stanford University) Amano
Special Nov. 22(Tue.),2016 15:00- Kunihiko Fukushima(Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute) Peper
1 Nov. 7(Mon.),2016 16:00- Jon Roiser(Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) Haruno