Date: 2018/12/27, Thur. 9:30〜17:00

Venue: Toyoda Auditorium of Nagoya University

We are happy to announce that ITbM will be hosting the 7th WPI Science Symposium: "Transformative Science".
The event will take place on 27th of December and will collect representatives from all of our sister WPI institutes (as of FY2017 there are 11 WPI centers). This event (earlier called the "WPI Joint Symposium") will mainly focus on informing about the research achievements of each WPI center to High school students and the general public. Everyone interested is welcome to attend. Note that the lectures will be in
Japanese, whereas the panel discussion will be in both Japanese and English.

【Schedule】:

9:30 Reception is open

10:30 - 10:40 Opening remarks

Keynote lecture

10:40 - 11:30 Prof. Hiroshi Amano (Director of the Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability Center for Integrated Research of Future Electronics, Nagoya University; 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics)

Research lecture

11:30 - 12:00 Prof. Kenichiro Itami (Director of the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University)

WPI Research centers

12:00 - 12:15 Each center gives a 1 minute introduction

12:15 - 14:45 Lunch and Booth session

Research lectures

14:45 - 15:15 Prof. Haruo Kasai (International Research Center for Neurointelligence, the University of Tokyo)

15:15 - 15:45 Prof. Kunio Matsumoto (Nano Life Science Institute, Kanazawa University)

15:45 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 16:55

(1) Panel Discussion:

Panelists: Profs. Itami, Kasai, Matsumoto

Moderators: Drs. Ziadi and Umemura

Language: English (mainly) and Japanese

(2) Science in Aichi Collaborative Project

16:55 - 17:00 Closing remarks by Prof. Itami

Poster

リンク

• 「The 7th WPI Science Symposium
• 「Programme (Japanese)」
• 「Registration」

Contact

Fro-cho, Chikusa, Naogya 464-8601

Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM)

Ayato Sato

wpi-symposium7[at]itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp

TEL:+81-52-747-6856

FAX:+81-52-789-3053