Sessions:
- Artificial Photosynthesis – Solar Energy Conversion into Chemicals
- Conceptions of Place and Space: The Politics and Social Dynamics of Contemporary Place-making and Spatial Negotiation
- Evolution of Life on Earth – Where do we come from?
- Foundation Models
- Nuclear fusion – The future of clean energy?
- Points of no return? Ice-Ocean-Land interactions in the past and future Earth system
A full playlist of symposium session presentations may be found here.
Planning Group Members: Sarah King, University of Chicago, Akinobu Nakada, Kyoto University and Anna Schenk, University of Bayreuth
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Design Principles of Photosynthesis: Bioinspired Optimization of Solar Energy Devices, Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SPEAKERS: Converting Sunlight into Storable Chemical Fuels, Johanna Eichhorn, Technical University of Munich
Solar Hydrogen Production Through Photocatalytic Water Splitting, Takashi Hisatomi, Shinshu University
Planning Group Members: Nicholas Laluk, University of California, Berkeley, Kojiro Sho, Kyushu University and Sandra Kurfürst, University of Cologne
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Conflicts Between Place-making and Spatial Negotiation: Thinking from Community Gardens, Naomi Shimpo, University of Hyogo
SPEAKERS: (New) Frontiers of Place and Space: Indigenous Cosmologies and the Social, Vanessa Watts, McMaster University
Representations of Place and Contestations of Space: Politics of Public Space and the European City of Berlin in New Germany, Noa K. Ha, German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin
Planning Group Members: Falk Butter, Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Monica Munoz-Torres, University of Colorado, Asuka INOUE, University of Tokyo
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Origins of Life: Bridging Geochemistry and Biochemistry, Kosuke Fujishima, Tokyo Institute of Technology
SPEAKERS: Serpentinization and the Origin of Life, Katrina Twing, Weber State University
An Experimental Window to the Past: Modeling the Early Steps of Life on Earth Using Molecular Fossils and Simulated Conditions, Hannes Mutschler, TU Dortmund University
Planning Group Members: Simina Branzei, Purdue University, Sebastian Fudickar, University of Lübeck and Taiji Suzuki, The University of Tokyo
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: From Language Models to World Models, Zhiting Hu, University of California, San Diego
SPEAKERS: Analyzing the Inner Workings of Foundation Models: Towards Insights, Transparency and AI Safety, Oliver Eberle, Technical University Berlin
Privacy Preserving data-based Human State Estimation, Mariko Isogawa, Keio University
Planning Group Members: Matthew Comstock, Michigan State University, Benedikt Friess, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Toho University
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Nuclear Fusion: the Future of Clean Energy?, Athina Kappatou, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching
SPEAKERS: Ignition in the Laboratory and Understanding Implications for Fusion Energy, Daniel Casey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Research Towards Particle Control of the High-temperature Plasma Treated in Nuclear Fusion, Gen Motojima, The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS)
Planning Group Members: Falko Judt, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Kira Rehfeld, University of Tuebingen and Yoshihiro Nakayama, Hokkaido University
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Simulating Climate-ice sheet Interactions with a Complex Climate Model, Marie-Luise Kapsch, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
SPEAKERS: High-resolution Modeling Reveals Powerful Ocean-atmosphere Interactions Driving Unprecedented Environmental Changes Worldwide, Pedro DiNezio, University of Colorado
A Key to Understand the Past: Proxy Carrier “Foraminifera”, A Behind-the-scenes Contributor of Climate Research, Haruka Takagi, Chiba University
The Japanese-American-German Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia are sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation, with additional funding from the National Academy of Sciences.
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