Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Research Cooperation Division I,
International Program Department,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
5-3-1 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083, JAPAN
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Date	:	September 26~September 29,2019
Venue	:	Kyoto Brighton Hotel (Kyoto, Japan)
Co-organizers	:	U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (AvH)


	Session Topics:
	- Phase-changing droplets as nontraditional organelles - Soft matter & metamaterials - Plastics in Ocean and Microplastic - Collective Intelligence - The entanglement frontier: Quantum Information - The Origin of Cooperation
	Program (PDF) Abstract (PDF) Report on the 2nd JAGFOS Symposium by PGM Co-Chair Dr. Minejima (PDF) Questionnaire Results (PDF)


	List of Participants:
	PGM: Planning Group Member

Biology/Life Science - Phase-changing Droplets as Nontraditional Organelles
PGM	Akiko Hayashi-Takagi	Center for Brain Science, Riken
PGM	Zachary Pincus	Developmental Biology and Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis
PGM	Tim Nicolai Siegel	Department of Veterinary Sciences, Experimental Parasitology, LMU Munich
Introductory speaker	Stephanie Weber	Department of Biology, McGill University
Speaker	Tokiwa Yamasaki	Instructor Department of Physiology (I), Keio University School of Medicine
Speaker	Edward A. Lemke	European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, JGU & IMB Mainz, Germany AND Johannes Gutenberg University
Chemistry/Materials Science - Soft Matter & Metamaterials
PGM	Itaru Osaka	Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Applied Chemistry, Hiroshima University
PGM	Jodie Lutkenhaus	Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University
PGM	Stefan Schiller	Center for Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA), University of Freiburg
Introductory speaker	Yasuhiro Ishida	Riken Center for Emergent Matter Science
Speaker	Jennifer Dionne	Deparment of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University,
Speaker	Bizan N. Balzer	Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Earth Science/Geosciences/Environmental Sciences - Plastics in Ocean and Microplastics
PGM (Co-chair)	Chika Minejima	Department of Material Science College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
PGM	Kristy Kroeker（Absent）	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz
PGM	Ilka Weikusat	Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research
Introductory speaker	Shuhei Tanaka	Graduate School of Global Environmental studies, Kyoto University
Speaker	Jenna Jambeck	Departmant of Engineering, University of Georgia
Speaker	Annika Jahnke	Department Cell Toxicology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research -UFZ
(Applied) Mathematics/Computer Science/Engineering - Collective Intelligence
PGM	Shohei Nobuhara	Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
PGM	Wesley Pegden	Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
PGM (Co-chair)	Sanaz Mostaghim	Otto von Guericke, University Magdeburg
Introductory speaker	Sarah Cannon	Claremont McKenna College
Speaker	Yoh-ichi Mototake	The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Speaker	David Bierbach	Thaer-Institute AND Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Physics/Astrophysics - The Entanglement Frontier: Quantum Information
PGM	Keiko Takase	Quantum Solid State Physics Research Group, Physical Science Laboratory, NTT Basic Research Laboratories
PGM	Kate Ross	Department of Physics, Colorado State University
PGM	Ursula Wurstbauer	TUM, Walter Schottky Institute and Physics Department, Technical University of Munich
Introductory speaker	Kai Müller	Technical University of Munich
Speaker	Yoshifumi Nakata	Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Speaker	Marina Radulaski	Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis
Social Sciences - Origin of Cooperation
PGM	Hisaki Kono	Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
PGM (Co-chair)	Scott Kominers	Entrepreneurial Management Unit & Department of Economics, Harvard University
PGM	Mandy Boehnke	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), University Bremen
Introductory speaker	Dirk Semmann	University of Göttingen
Speaker	Jun Goto	Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
Speaker	Erez Yoeli	Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

General Participants (Japan)
General Participant	Kentaro Noma	Graduate school of Science, Nagoya University
General Participant	Kazuharu Arakawa	Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
General Participant	Tomoki Ogoshi	Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
General Participant	Osami Shoji	Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
General Participant	Teppei J. Yasunari	Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University
General Participant	Saeko Kita Uchida	Interational Instutute of seismology and earthquake Building Research Institute, National Research and Development Agency
General Participant	Masako Kishida	Principles of Informatics Research Division, National Institute of Information
General Participant	Masayuki Karasuyama	Department of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology
General Participant	Akari Takayama	Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
General Participant	Akito Kusaka	Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
General Participant	Fujio Toriumi	Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
General Participant	Kazuhiro Kezuka	Institute for Liberal Arts, The University of Tokyo

General Participants (United States)
General Participant	Kelley Harris	University of Washington
General Participant	Elizabeth Heller	University of Pennsylvania
General Participant	Brett Helms	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
General Participant	Charles McCrory	University of Michigan
General Participant	Sheng Xu	University of California San Diego
General Participant	Ann Cook	The Ohio State University
General Participant	Brian Smith	Columbia University
General Participant	Anna Grassellino	Fermilab
General Participant	Martin Mourigal	Georgia Institute of Technology
General Participant	Sarah Cowie	University of Nevada, Reno

General Participants (Germany)
General Participant	Matthias Meier	Helmholtz Zentrum München
General Participant	Florian Fricke	University of Hohenheim
General Participant	Stephan E. Wolf	Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
General Participant	Christine Beemelmanns	Hans-Knöll-Institute Jena
General Participant	Christiane Zarfl	Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
General Participant	Hannes Imhof	Technical University of Munich
General Participant	Tim Landgraf（Absent）	Freie Universität Berlin
General Participant	Michael Tangermann	University of Freiburg
General Participant	Benedikt Friess	Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
General Participant	Fabian Hassler	RWTH Aachen
General Participant	Nadine Schoeneck-Voss	Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences
General Participant	Franziska Deutsch	Jacobs University Bremen