8:00am-

Registration

9:00am-9:30am

Opening / Welcome Address

Osamu Shimomura
Director, Washington Office, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Yuichiro Anzai
President, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Cora B. Marrett
Acting Director, National Science Foundation

H. N. Cheng
Chair of International Activities Committee, American Chemical Society

Kenichiro Sasae
Ambassador, Embassy of Japan in the United States of America

9:30am-10:35am

Session 1(Chair: Osamu Shimomura)

Introduction to Artificial Photosynthesis: How can we get through the Bottle Neck?
Haruo Inoue
Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Science, Technology and Innovation Policy toward Sustainable Society
Masuo Aizawa
Counselor to the President, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Former Executive Member of Council for Science and Technology Policy

10:35am-10:50pm

Break

10:50am -12:00am

Session 2(Chair: Haruno Inoue)

Artificial Photosynthetic Chemical Process (ARPChem)
Kazunari Domen
Professor, The University of Tokyo

Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
Nathan S. Lewis
Professor, California Institute of Technology

12:00am-1:30pm

Lunch, hosted by JSPS

1:30pm-2:20pm

Session 3: Plenary Lecture(Chair: Daniel G. Nocera)

Magical Power of d-Block Transition Metal Catalysis as Exemplified in Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling and Zr-Catalyzed Asymmetric Carboalumination of Alkenes
Ei-ichi Negishi
Professor, Purdue University., Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

2:20pm-2:30pm

Break

2:30pm-3:40pm

Session 4: (Chair: Michael R. Wasilewski)

Finding the Way to Solar Fuels with Dye Sensitized Photoelectrosyntheisis Cells
Thomas J. Meyer
Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Water-splitting and oxygen-evolving photosystem II in natural photosynthesis
Nobuo Kamiya
Professor, Osaka City University

3:40pm -3:50pm

Break

3:30pm -5:35pm

Session 5(Chair: Kazunari Domen)

Integrating Light Capture with Catalysis for Solar Fuels
Micahel R. Wasilewski
Professor, Northwestern University

Utilization of carbon dioxide using solar light: photocatalytic reduction
Osamu Ishitani
Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Power curves of the artificial leaf
Daniel G. Nocera
Professor, Harvard University

5:35pm-5:45pm

Closing Remarks
Thomas J. Meyer
Professor, University of the North Carolina at Chapel Hill

5:50pm

Adjournment

6:30pm-

Reception (Spouses are welcome)