Thursday, September 18, 2008, 1:00PM - 6:00PM
JAPANESE
Third-Party Event
Organization Name: Osaka University and Tohoku University

INVITATION TO JOINT FORUM
Organized by Osaka University and Tohoku University, Japan
on
INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

PROGRAM

OPENING/Opening Remarks: Kiichiro TSUJI, Vice-President, Osaka University
Opening Address: H.E. Yasumasa NAGAMINE, Consul General of Japan

Kiyokazu WASHIDA, President, Osaka University: Keynote Speech: “Re-creation of Tradition: Connecting Historical Roots with Frontier Research”
Toshiya UEKI, Executive Vice-President, Tohoku University: Keynote Speech: “Tohoku University’s Global Strategy for the 21st Century”

Tadahiro OHMI, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University: “New Era of Silicon Technologies due to Damage-Free Radical Reaction Based Semiconductor Manufacturing”
Satoshi KAWATA, Director, Photonic Advanced Research Center, Osaka University: “A Dream: Seeing Structures through Light in Nano-Resolution”
COMMENTS: Thomas M Baer, Executive Director, Stanford Photonics Research Center, Stanford University

Hiroshi ISHIGURO, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University: “Development of Intelligent Artifacts and Systems by Learning from Biological Fluctuation ‘YURAGI’–Yuragi in Adaptive, Interactive and Complicated Robots-“
Terunobu MIYAZAKI, World Premier International Research Center, Advanced Institute for Material Research, Tohoku University: “Recent Progress of Large Tunnel Magnetoresistance Junctions and their Applications”

Richard Dasher, Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center, School of Engineering, Stanford University; Member, Management Council of Tohoku University, Special Advisor to the President, Tohoku University

6:30-8:30pm RECEPTION (Ralston Room)
MC: Sachiko TAKEDA, Vice-President, Osaka University

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