12th Japanese-American Symposium
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - U.S. National Academy of Sciences
December 3-5, 2010
Sessions:
- Advances in Graphene-Based Science and Application
- Body Fat: Hidden Organ, New Source of Hormonal Regulation
- Collective Intelligence
- Modeling Brain Circuits, Brain/Machine Interface – Learning
- Quantum Effects of Motion
- Solar Activity and Climate
- Super-resolution Imaging
- Web-Scale Computation
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Advances in Graphene-Based Science and Application
Organizers: Chekesha Liddell and Yuka Tabe
Chair: Advances in Graphene-based Science and Technology
Hiroki Hibino, NTT Basic Research Laboratoriespeaker:
Speakers:
What’s So Interesting about Graphene?
Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland
More Than New Material – Advances in Graphene-Based Science and Application
Yasuhiro Hatsugai, University of Tsukuba
Body Fat: Hidden Organ, New Source of Hormonal Regulation
Organizers: Lena Hileman, Takeharu Nagai, and Haruhiko Bito
Chair:
Body Fat: Hidden Organ, New Source of Hormonal Regulation
Yasutomi Kamei, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Speakers:
Body Fat: Hidden Organ, New Source of Hormonal Regulation
Toshimasa Yamauchi, University of Tokyo Hospital
Early Life Origins of Obesity: Role of Brain Development
Sebastien G. Bouret, University of Southern California
Collective Intelligence
Organizers: Koji Mizoguchi, Jake Hofman and Don Cooper
Chair:
Collective Intelligence: Quality Management and Scalability
Panagiotis Ipeirotis, New York University
Speakers:
Collective Intelligence for Solving Interdisciplinary Issues
Yuya Kajikawa, the University of Tokyo
Collective Intelligence and Reconciliation
Toby Segaran, Google
Modeling Brain Circuits, Brain/Machine Interface – Learning
Organizers: Haruhiko Bito and Don Cooper
Chair:
Creating Robots/Knowing Human
Taketoshi Mori, University of Tokyo
Speakers:
Robot Learning and Brain-Robot Interface
Jun Morimoto, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
Ila Fiete, University of Texas at Austin
Quantum Effects of Motion
Organizers: Heather Lewandowski and Mihoko Nojiri
Chair:
Quantum Effects in Mechanical Motion
Konrad Lehnert, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Speakers:
Optomechanical Systems as a Testbed for Quantum Measurement
Jack Harris, Yale University
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, NTT Basic Research Laboratory
Solar Activity and Climate
Organizers: Cin-Ty Lee and Yusuke Yokoyama
Chair:
Solar Activity and Climate
Yukihiro Takahashi, Hokkaido University
Speakers:
Solar Activity and Climate Change
Hiroko Miyahara, University of Tokyo
The Climate Oscillations: Analysis, Implications and their Astronomical Origin
Nicola Scafetta, Duke University
Super-Resolution Imaging
Organizers: Teri Odom and Yasuteru Urano
Chair:
Super-Resolution Imaging: Breaking Barriers
Derek Toomre, Yale University
Speakers:
Super-Resolution Imaging
Katsumasa Fujita, Osaka University
STORM: Super-Resolution Light Microscopy with Twinkling Molecules
Bo Huang, University of California, San Francisco
Web-Scale Computation
Organizers: Jake Hofman and Katsuhiro Nishinari
Chair:
Web-Scale Computation
Hilary Mason, Bit.Ly Inc.
Speakers:
How to Construct A Distributed Data Store – A Study on Routing Algorithm
Kazuyuki Shudo, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Astrophysics on the Scale of the Web
Andrew Connolly, University of Washington
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