Special Sessions consist of a group of papers having a common, unified theme. These types of sessions are excellent opportunities to give the audience depth and breadth of exposure to a particular issue, in a way not possible through a single paper. Persons wishing to organize a Special Session should submit a proposal in text format or in PDF format to Special Session Chair (ss@nolta2016.org) any time up to Mar. 15 25, 2016 (Extended).

Proposals should include:

1. Title of the proposed session.
2. Scope of the proposed session.
3. Special session organizer, affiliation, and e-mail.
4. List of, at least five (or four), prospective contributed papers. For each paper, the following items should be included: title, author(s), and contact information of the corresponding author.

The shuttle is avalable between Yugawara station and the symposium venue. The shuttle stop locates 4~5 minutes walk from the gate of the station. It takes 10~15 minutes between the station and the venue but will change up to the traffic condition. Please check the detail of the shuttle information:

• Shuttle stop location map
• How to get the shuttle stop (with pictures)
• Time table of shuttle

Plenary Talk 1 (9:10~10:10, Nov. 28th 2016)

Professor Jin Akiyama (Tokyo University of Science)
Math Spectacle Show

Abstract: Akiyama’s Math Spectacle Show has intrigued and inspired people in numerous countries around the world. Not only has he been spreading the intellectual side of mathematics and it’s usefulness to the general public, but his lectures also have a spirit of entertainment filled with humor and wit. The specific topics which will be delivered in the lecture are listed in the followings:
1. Create jigsaw puzzles from a regular tetrahedron.
2. Is this a rabbit or a duck?
3. A bird in a cage.
4. Spider changes to Geisha Girl.
5. It is a donkey or a dog? (Fig.3)
6. A big snake swallows a fox.
7. A pig does gymnastics on a horizontal bar.
8. Who is in the U.F.O?
9. Can two giant pandas live in the same house together? (Fig.1)
10. One type of atom fills space.
11. Why is a manhole cover round?
12. Can you drill a triangular hole?
13. Vehicles with strange wheels like bagels flattened along the edges.
14. How to pack cans efficiently?
15. Soap tells us is the minimum network connecting many cities.
16. A compact disk (CD) works well even if it is damaged.
17. Kidney stone will be cured without operation.
18. Volume and surface area of a sphere. (Fig.2)
19. Fortune-telling by Möbius bands.
20. Pythagorean Theorem and its applications.

Profile: Jin Akiyama is a mathematician at heart. Currently, he is a fellow of the European Academy of Science, the founding editor of the journal Graphs and Combinatorics, and the director of the Research Institute of Math Education at Tokyo University of Science. He is particularly interested in graph theory and discrete and solid geometry, and has published many papers in these fields. Aside from his research, he is best known for popularizing mathematics, first in Japan and then in other parts of the globe: his lecture series was broadcast on NHK television and radio from 1991 to 2013. He was a founding member of the Organizing Committee of the UNESCO-sponsored traveling exhibition "Experiencing Mathematics", which debuted in Denmark in 2004. In 2013, he built a hands-on mathematics museum called "Akiyama’s Math Experience Plaza" in Tokyo. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 books, including Factors and Factorizations of Graphs (jointly with M. Kano, Lect. Notes Math., Springer, 2011) and, A Day's Adventure in Math Wonderland (jointly with M. Ruiz, World Scientific, 2008), which has been translated into nine languages. He was recently awarded the book prize by Japan Math Society.

Plenary Talk 2 (9:00~10:00, Nov. 29th 2016)

Professor Hawoong Jeong (KAIST)
Almighty Google knows everything! - Big-data and Network Science

Abstract: Network science is an interdisciplinary academic field which studies complex networks such as engineered networks, information networks, biological networks, and social networks etc. This field has received a major boost caused by the availability of huge network data resources on the Internet. The field draws on theories and methods including graph theory from mathematics, statistical mechanics from physics, data mining and information visualization from computer science, and social structure analysis from sociology to understand the complex systems, the problem to be solved in 21st century. Yet, another research field gaining huge attention nowadays is about big-data. Big-data is defined as “high-volume, high-velocity, and/or high-variety information assets that require new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization.” by Gartner, Inc. This field of research has huge potential for practical applications but it also promises new discovery in science. However, these big-data should be combined and analyzed together to be useful, and in this respect, network science will shed a light on analyzing these big-data in more combined way. In this presentation, I will briefly review what we can do by combining big-data, especially using Google and network science together to study various complex systems such as social network between people, biological networks, and prediction of science and technology trends &even presidential election results etc.

Profile: Prof. Hawoong Jeong is currently KAIST-chair professor at physics department at KAIST, Korea. He got his Ph.D. in physics at Seoul National University, and his research area includes complex systems, statistical computational physics and interdisciplinary science. He published about 100 research papers with more than 15,000 citations in diverse areas including physics, computer science, social science and biology. He got several awards including KAIST best lecturer, KPS research prize, the Scientist of the month award. He has also been selected as Young Scientist at 2012 Summer Davos World Econo Forum.

Education
1998: Seoul National University (Ph. D. in Physics)
1993: Seoul National University (M.S. in Physics)
1991: Seoul National University (B.S. in Physics)

Employment History
2001 ~ Present: KAIST, Assistant/Associate/Professor/KAIST-Chair-Professor
1998 ~ 2001: Univ. of Notre Dame, Post-doc/Research Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Complex systems
Structure and dynamics of complex networks
Bioinformatics
Molecular dynamic simulation
Computational methods in statistical physics
Dynamics of fluctuating interfaces and growing surfaces

Selected Honors & Awards
2016 National President’s Commendation (Science and Technology Medal)
2014 Hall of Fame: 100 people who will lead Korea after 10 years by Dong-A Newspaper
2013 Research Prize by Korean Physical Society (KPS)
2012 Young Scientist by Summer Davos World Economic Forum
2010 The Scientist of the Month (May 2010) by MOST &KRF
2009 Grand prize for excellence in teaching, by KAIST
2007 Yong-Bong Prize by Korean Physical Society (KPS)

International Activities
2011/7~ Associate Editor for “BMC Biophysics”
2010/3~ Review Editorial Board of “Frontier in Systems Biology”
2015/7~ Chairman of NetSci2016 / Board member of Network Science Society
2012/7~ Editorial Board of EPJ Data Science
2012~ International Advisory Committee of STATPHYS25

Selected Publications (out of 100, over 15,000 total citations)
(for full list, see http://stat.kaist.ac.kr/publications.php)
1.“Large-scale quantitative analysis of painting arts” Sci. Rep. 4 7370 (2014)
2.“Fundamental structural constraint of random scale-free networks”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 118701 (2012)
3."Googling social interactions: Web search-engine based social network construction” PLoS ONE e11233 (2010)
4."Dynamics and Directionality in Complex Networks" Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 228702 (2009)
5."Scaling laws between population and facility densities" PNAS 106 14236 (2009)
6."Price of anarchy in transportation networks: Efficiency and optimality control" Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 128701 (2008)
7."Metabolite essentiality elucidates robustness of E. coli metabolism" PNAS 104 13638 (2007)
8."Universality Class of Fiber Bundle Model on Complex Networks", Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 025501 (2005)
9."Role of the cytoskeleton in signaling networks", J. of Cell Science 117, 2769 (2004)
10."Subnetwork Hierarchies of Biochemical Pathways", Bioinformatics 19 532 (2003)
11."Classification of Scale-free Networks", PNAS 99 12583 (2002)
12."Modeling the Internet's large-scale topology", PNAS 99 13382 (2002)
13."Comparable system-level organization of Archaea and Eukaryotes", Nature Genetics 29 54 (2001)
14."Lethality and Centrality in Protein Networks", Nature 411 41 (2001)
15."The Large-scale Organization of Metabolic Networks", Nature 407 651 (2000)
16."Error and Attack Tolerance of Complex Networks", Nature 406 378 (2000)
17."The Diameter of the World Wide Web", Nature 401 130 (1999)

If a NOLTA2016 invitation letter is needed to obtain a visa or permission of the conference attendance, please request it to the conference committee: secretariat@nolta2016.org with the following information:

1. Please proceed with the payment for conference registration fee. Registration site is going to be open in the middle of July.
2. Your Name, Affiliation, Registration number, Paper ID, Paper title, All author name(s) of the paper.

Basically, we can send a pdf version by e-mail. If you need an original version by postal mail, please let us know that with your postal-mail address.

We will prepare a free discussion room on the night of Nov. 28. The place is Room 6 (Tensho) in Hotel New Welcity Yugawara and is open from 20:00 to 22:00. Note that some drinks and snacks will be prepared but will not be sufficient. You can bring your stuff and it would be really grateful if you could share the stuff with other paticipants.

The 2016 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA2016) will be held at Yugawara, Japan, November 27th–30th, 2016. The objective of the symposium is to provide a forum for exchange of the latest results related to nonlinear theory and its applications. Papers describing original results in all aspects of nonlinear theory and its applications are invited. Topics include, but are not limited to:

We are pleased to inform you that the winners of the NOLTA 2016 Student Paper Award are selected as follows. As an extra prize for winners of BEST Student Paper Award, their registration fees of NOLTA 2017 are free. Congratulations!