The Summer Festival for the 30th Anniversary of the JSPS Washington Office held in hybrid

The Summer Festival for the 30th Anniversary of the JSPS Washington Office was successfully held on September 3, 2021. Honored friends of WO were gathered at Capital Hilton and many guests were participated through online.

Booklet of event: JSPS Washington Office 30th Anniversary e-Booklet

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10:00am – 10:10am Opening Remarks

HIRATA Kohji, Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Washington Office

ARIBAYASHI Koji, Science Counselor, Embassy of Japan in the United States of America

10:10am – 10:55am Lecture

KAJITA Takaaki, Director, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo

“Research in Kamioka – Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves -”

10:55am – 11:25am Commentaries Part I – Video Addresses

SATOMI Susumu, President, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Corey A. Cohn, Senior S&T Advisor for International Programs, Office of Science, US Department of Energy

Shaun Baron, International Policy Advisor, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Mary Voytek, Senior Scientist for Astrobiology, NASA

Christine Pilcavage, Managing Director, MIT-Japan Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ranil Wickramashinghe, Distinguished Professor, Ralph E Martin Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas

Anthony Tosi, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department & School of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University

Christina Laffin, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia

Jamie Kass, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

Baofeng Feng, Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistics Sciences, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Kimberly Bowen, Associate Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University

Shelly Bagchi, Robotics Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Sampa Bhadra, Professor Emeritus, Physics and Astronomy, York University

Rodney D. Priestley, Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Vice Dean for Innovation, Princeton University

11:25am – 12:10pm US and Canada JSPS Alumni Association Session

<Board of Directors>

HIRATA Kohji, Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Washington Office

Alan Tokunaga, Astronomer Emeritus, University of Hawaii

Christopher A. Loretz, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Dana Buntrock, Professor, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

Lawrence T. Scott, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno and Boston College

Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University

Duy H. Hua, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University

<IT Committee>

Timothy Devarenne, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University

Sven K. Nelson, Director of Plant Science, Heliponix, Inc.

Dana A. Freiburger, Doctoral Candidate, History of Science Program, University of Wisconsin

<Communications Committee>

Louis Esparza, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles

 Chris Packham, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Texas at San Antonio

12:10pm – 1:10pm Break – Video

1:10pm – 2:00pm History Session

HIRATA Kohji, Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Washington Office

<Video Lecture>

SUGAWARA Hirotaka, Advisor and Former Director General, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)

<Video Comments>

MASAIKE Akira, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto university

NOZAKI Mitsuaki, Professor Emeritus, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)

2:00pm – 2:50pm             Commentaries Part II – Live Addresses

Michael M. Gottesman, Deputy Director for Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health

Anne L. Emig, Cluster Lead, Office of International Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation

Kimberly Montgomery, Director of International Affairs and Science Diplomacy, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Keiko Ozato, Senior Investigator, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health

2:50pm – 3:05pm Break – Video (JSPS Washington Office Memories)

3:05pm – 3:50pm Lecture

Rita R. Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

“Thirty years with JSPS: Highlights and Observations”

3:50pm – 4:00pm Closing Remarks