JSPS Quarterly No.30 2009

The following fellows participated in JSPS’s Science Dialogue Program during the period from August through September 2009. For details about the program, please see its webpage: http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-plaza/e-sdialogue/

- Overseas Fellowship Division

Fukui Prefectural Koshi Senior High School

Date: 26 September
Dr. Andrew S. Utada (USA)
Host institution: The University of Tokyo
Title: “Drop Formation in Microfluidics”

Kumamoto Prefectural Daini High School

Date: 15 September
Dr. Truong Minh Pham(Vietnam)
Host institution: University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
Title: “Tobacco Smoking and Our Health”

Nagano Prefecture Suwa Seiryo High School

Date: 4 September
Dr. Ling Bai (China)
Host institution: The University of Tokyo
Title: “Introduction to Earthquake”

Shizuoka Kita High School (Shizuoka)

Date: 10 September
Dr. Mark W. Sherwood (UK)
Host institution: RIKEN
Title: “Understanding Memory”

Shizuoka Prefectural Iwata Minami High School

Date: 30 September
Dr. Gora Diop (Senegal)
Host institution: Kyoto University
Title: “How to Identify Genetic Factors Controlling HTLV-1 Virus Infection?”

Dr. Bantu Prasanta K. Patro (India)
Host institution: The University of Tokyo
Title: “Understanding the Mother Earth through Geology and Geophysics Spectacles”

Yamanashi Prefectural Tsuru High School

Date: 17 September
Dr. Marc A. Humblet (Belgium)
Host institution: The University of Tokyo
Title: “Coral Reefs: Wonder of the Sea”

Yokohama City Municipal Yokohama Science Frontier High School (Kanagawa)

Date: 18 August
Dr. Spela Kunej (Slovenia)
Host institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
Title: “The Sol-gel Process and Its Nanostructured Materials”

Dr. Zaneta E. Swiatkowska-Warkocka (Poland)
Host institution: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Title: “Nano-scale Science”

Dr. Oleg Gusev (Russia)
Host institution: National Institute of Agrobiological Resources
Title: “‘Sleeping’ Chironomid and Its Utilization in Space Life Science”

Dr. Padmalatha Koilkonda (India)
Host institution: KDRI
Title: “Introduction to Genomics”

Dr. Timothee Levi (France)
Host institution: The University of Tokyo
Title: “Neuromorphic Engineering”

Dr. Mostafa A. Shaikh (Bangladesh)
Host institution: The University of Tokyo
Title: “Information Science = Playing with Information”

Dr. Zhenzhu Xu (China)
Host institution: National Institute for Environmental Studies
Title: “Climate Change and Grassland Ecosystem Degradation”

Dr. Noya A. M. Loew (Germany)
Host institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
Title: “Dye-sensitized Solar Cells”

JSPS Quarterly No.30 2009