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Japanese-American Frontiers of Science

Eighth Annual Japanese-American Frontiers of Science Symposium

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Shonan Village, Kanagawa, Japan - December 10-12, 2005

2005 PROGRAM
(sessions in alphabetical order)

Behavioral Game Theory
Organizers: David Reiley and Tamotsu Onozaki
CHAIR: Martin Dufwenberg, University of Arizona
SPEAKERS: Jacob Goeree, California Institute of Technology
Naoko Nishimura, Shinshu University

Datamining / Machine Learning
Organizers: Masayuki Numao and Chris Wiggins
CHAIR: Tsumoto, Shimane University School of Medicine
SPEAKERS: Dana Pe’er, Harvard Medical School
Koji Tsuda, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Extra Dimensions of Space
Organizers: Dana Randall, Jens Gundlach and Kae Nemoto
CHAIR: Andreas Karch, University of Washington
SPEAKERS: Masahiro Yamaguchi, Tohoku University
Emanuel Katz, Boston University

Life of a Protein: Protein Trafficking and Degradation
Organizers: Yoshihiro Kubo and Dirk Trauner
CHAIR: Michisuke Yuzaki, Keio University
SPEAKERS: Kohji Takei, Okayama University
Dave Bredt University of California, San Francisco

Mind Reading / Brain Machine Interface
Organizers: Katsuyuki Sakai and Blythe Corbett
CHAIR: Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh
SPEAKERS: Yukiyasu  Kamitani, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATRI)
Krishna V. Shenoy, Stanford University

Plasmodics
Organizers: Yasuyuki Tsuboi
CHAIR: Takayuki Okamoto, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
SPEAKERS: Kei Murakoshi, Hokkaido University
Xiang Zhang, University of California, Berkeley

Ribosome / Molecular Machine
Organizers: Shelley Copley and Tohru Yoshihisa
CHAIR: Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
SPEAKERS: Toshifumi Inada, Nagoya University
Scott A. Strobel, Yale University

Subduction Megathrust earthquakes and the Role of Water
Organizers: Kerry Sieh and Shigeo Yoshida
CHAIR: Kazushige Obara, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
SPEAKERS: Robert Witter, William Lettis & Associates, Inc.
Masao Nakatani, University of Tokyo


The Frontiers of Science symposium series is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and supported, in part, with funding from the Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation, the Agouron Institute, and the Ellison Medical Foundation.

 

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Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers (2009):
KFOS bullet Cyberinfrastructure / LHC Data Challenge
KFOS bullet Drug Design/Protein Structure
KFOS bullet Epgenetics / Disease
KFOS bullet Gamma-Ray Bursts
KFOS bullet Life in Extreme Environments / Early Life
KFOS bullet Neural Plasticity / Sleep
KFOS bullet Organic Devices in Energy and Electronics
KFOS bullet Quaternary Climate Change / Paleoecology

U.S. Kavli Frontiers (2009): 
KFOS bullet Antibiotic Resistance
KFOS bullet Game theory, economic modeling, and economic regulation from a computational perspective
KFOS bullet Geoengineering
KFOS bullet Holography
KFOS bullet MicroRNA
KFOS bullet Our Hot and Uncertain Future: Is Adaptation to Climate Change Possible?
KFOS bullet Sex Differences in the Brain
KFOS bullet Understanding Dark Matter

Japanese-American Kavli Frontiers (2008):
KFOS bullet Bayesian Statistics & Massive Data Streams
KFOS bullet Detecting Dark Matter
KFOS bullet Evolution of Sleep and Memory
KFOS bullet Measurements and Conditions for Happiness
KFOS bullet Nanomedicine
KFOS bullet New Chemistry of Renewable Raw Materials
KFOS bullet Optical Measurement and Control of Neuronal Activity
KFOS bullet Prediction of Future Sea Level in a Greenhouse World - Theory and Observations

Indo-American Frontiers (2009):
KFOS bullet Atmospheric Haze
KFOS bullet Bioinspired Chemistry
KFOS bullet Cellular Mechanisms for Encoding Information
KFOS bullet Infection and Cognition
KFOS bullet Particle physics at the Energy and Intensity Frontiers
KFOS bullet String Theory and Geometry
KFOS bullet The Changing Brain
KFOS bullet Unraveling the tiny wrinkles in Cosmic Microwave Background radiation: Determining the past and future evolution of the Universe

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