Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Outline of the 17th HOPE Meeting

Date

Monday, 2 March through Friday, 6 March 2026
*Registration: Sunday, 1 March 2026

Meeting Format

On-site and in-person (lecturers may participated in the meeting through the online-conferencing platform)

Venue

Tsukuba International Congress Center (Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki, Japan)

Organizer

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Chairperson of the Organizing Committee

KAJITA Takaaki (Nobel Laureate in Physics 2015)

Language

English

Participants

The participants comprised about 20 PhD students and young researchers from the institutions in Japan and 80 were nominated by the Overseas Cooperating Institutions of the Asia-Pacific and Africa region;
Australia, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam.

Lecturers

Nobel Laureates and other distinguished scientists in the fields of natural sciences (tentative)

Nobel Laureates at the 17th HOPE Meeting

Donna STRICKLAND

Takaaki KAJITA

Susumu KITAGAWA

William E. MOERNER

Svante PÄÄBO

Tim HUNT