Sessions:
- Artificial Scientist: Use of LLMs for Data Science, Literature Review, Reviewing Articles
- Climate Change and its Effects on Biosphere
- Extreme Life in the Ocean
- Flatland: The Materials Science and Chemistry of Two-Dimensional Materials
- Flows and Pattern Formations
- Shrinking Society in Shrinking City? How Demographic Shift Change the Lifestyles in Ageing Societies
Artificial Scientist: Use of LLMs for Data Science, Literature Review, Reviewing Articles
Planning Group Members: Mariya Toneva, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Mariko Isogawa, Keio University and Will Perkins, Georgia Tech
Introductory Speaker: On Toward the Realization of Artificial Scientists: Progress and Concerns, Ryohei Sasano, Nagoya University
Speakers: Peer review in the Age of AI, Ilia Kuznetsov, Technical University of Darmstadt
Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? Diyi Yang, Stanford University
Climate Change and its Effects on Biosphere
Planning Group Members: Verena E. Foerster-Indenhuck, University of Cologne, Haruka Takagi, University of Tokyo and Falko Judt, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Introductory Speaker: An Earth History Perspective on Climate, Christian Zeeden, LIAG-Institute for Applied Geophysics
Speakers: Invisible Nutrient Cycle in Coral Reefs, Atsuko Yamazaki, Nagoya University
Locusts, Monsoons, and Livelihoods: A Climate-Induced Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight, Daniel Gebregiorgis, Georgia State University
Extreme Life in the Ocean
Planning Group Members: Falk Butter, Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Asuka Inoue, Kyoto University and Nikolaos Papastavrou, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
Introductory Speaker: From Taxonomy to Conservation: Mapping Extreme Life in the Ocean, Torben Riehl, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt
Speakers: The Unseen Life in the Deep Sea Reshaping Our View of Evolution, Masaru K Nobu, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology
Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins and Other Hypersaline Environments as Windows to Microbial Life on Other Worlds, Jeff Bowman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Flatland: The Materials Science and Chemistry of Two-Dimensional Materials
Planning Group Members: Bizan N. Balzer, University of Freiburg, Emiko Kazuma, University of Tokyo and Sarah King, University of Chicago
Introductory Speaker: Chemistry in Flatland, Alexandra Velian, University of Washington
Speakers: Engineering Flatness: Creating 2D Materials from Non-Layered Compounds, Eisuke Yamamoto, Nagoya University
2D Materials for Low Temperature Integrated Complementary Electronics, Alwin Daus, University of Stuttgart
Flows and Pattern Formations
Planning Group Members: Uri Vool, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Gen Motojima, National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) and William Terrano, Arizona State University
Introductory Speaker: Everything Flows: Collective Dynamics Across Scales, Motoki Nakata, Komazawa University
Speakers: From Stellar Death to Cosmic Rebirth: A Symphony of Structure in Supernovae, David Vartanyan, Observatories of The Carnegie Institution for Science
How do Wind Turbines Interact with the Atmosphere?, Claudia Elizabeth Brunner, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Shrinking Society in Shrinking City? How Demographic Shift Change the Lifestyles in Ageing Societies
Planning Group Members: Jessica Ordemann, German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), Kojiro Sho, University of Tokyo and Vanessa Watts, McMaster University
Speakers: Re-Defining the Suburbs for adapting Conurbation to its Shrinkage, Takashi Aoki, Osaka University
Active and Healthy Ageing, Shrinking Cities and the Role of Age-friendly Communities in Germany, Michael Weinhardt, German Center of Gerontology
The Japanese-American-German Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium series is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation. Additional funding is also provided from the National Academy of Sciences.
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