Science in Japan Forum 2005

8:30 am-9:00 am

Registration, Cosmos Club

9:00 am-9:10 am

Opening Remarks

Morning Session

9:10 am-9:25 am

Moderator’s Speech

Michael S. Turner
Assistant Director, Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, NSF
Professor, University of Chicago

9:25 am-10:15 am

Search for the Limit of Einstein’s Relativity
— Extreme Cosmic-Rays and More —

Humitaka Sato
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Professor, Department of Physics, Konan University

10:15 am-10:35 am

Coffee Break

10:35 am-11:25 am

Super-Kamiokande

Yoichiro Suzuki
Director, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo

11:25 am-12:15 pm

Amazing Cosmos: Highlighting Japan-U.S. Collaboration

Yasuo Tanaka
Director, Bonn Office of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

12:15 pm-1:45 pm

Luncheon at Old and New Dining Room, Cosmos Club

Afternoon Session

1:45 pm-2:00 pm

Moderator’s Speech

Peter D. Barnes
Former Director, Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory

2:00 pm-2:50 pm

Discoveries of Quasi-Stable Exotic Atoms and Nuclei Involving Antiprotons, Pions and Kaons
— Their impacts on fundamental physics —

Toshimitsu Yamazaki
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo

2:50 pm-3:40 pm

Flavored Nuclear Matter and Nuclear Force

Ken’ichi Imai
Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

3:40 pm-4:10 pm

Coffee Break

4:10 pm-5:00 pm

Small Sciences at Large Facilities — Condensed matter science studied by neutron and synchrotron radiation —

Yasuhiko Fujii
Director, Center for Neutron Science, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute

5:30 pm-6:00 pm

Cocktails at the Westin Embassy Row Hotel

6:00 pm-8:00 pm

Buffet-style Reception at the Westin Embassy Row Hotel