organized by its Washington Liaison Office
Cosponsored by National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation,
U.S. Department of Energy, and American Association for the Advancement of Science
Washington DC on June 15, 2001
9:00am-09:30am | Registration at the Warne Lounge, the Cosmos Club |
9:30am-10:20am |
How is the Matter Dominated Universe Created? Dr. Motohiko Yoshimura, Director, Institute for Cosmic Ray, University of Tokyo |
10:20am-11:10am |
Does Particle and Anti-particle Behave Symmetric in B-mesons? Dr. Fumihiko Takasaki, Professor, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) |
11:10am-12:00am |
From the Structure of Protons to the Structure of Proteins – Electron Accelerator-based Science Dr. Jonathan M. Dorfan,Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University |
12:00am-1:20pm | Luncheon |
1:20pm-2:20pm |
Plastic Can be Made Electrically Conductive – Research and Development on Polyacetylene – Dr. Hideki Shirakawa, Professor Emeritus,University of Tsukuba |
2:20pm-2:40pm | Dr. Alan J. Heeger, Professor,Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara |
2:40pm-3:00pm | Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania |
3:00pm-3:20pm | Coffee Break |
3:20pm-4:10pm |
Physics and Biology of Protein Folding Dr. Nobuhiro Go, Professor,Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University |
4:10pm-5:00pm |
Structure, Function and Structural Organization of Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase Dr. Tomitake Tsukihara, Professor, Institute of Protein Research,Osaka University |
6:00pm-8:00pm | Cocktail at Westin Fairfax Hotel |
6:30pm-9:00pm |
Dinner at Westin Fairfax Hotel |