Perception

6th Japanese-German Symposium

jointly organized by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.

May 11–12, 2001
TREFF Hotel Rheingold Bayreuth, Austraße 2/Unteres Tor, 95445 Bayreuth

Die Vorträge dieses Symposiums sind erschienen als Tagungsband Nr. 3.
 

PROGRAM

May 11, 2001

Moderation: Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki (Chairman of Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.)

 

13:30

Welcoming Remarks

 

14:00

Brain Mechanisms of Object Recognition

Prof. Dr. Keiji Tanaka (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)

 

15:00

Cocktail Parties and Hearing Aids: Neurosensory Analysis of the Auditory System and its Applications

Prof. Dr. Birger Kollmeier (Medical Physics, University of Oldenburg)

 

16:00

Coffee Break

 

16:30

Computational Approach to Natural Language Processing

Prof. Dr. Junichi Tsujii (Department of Information Science, University of Tokyo)

 

17:30

Break

18:00

Guided walking-tour, sight-seeing in Bayreuth

19:30

Reception / Dinner Stadthalle Bayreuth, Friedrichstraße, 95444 Bayreuth

 

Saturday, May 12, 2001

09:00

Active Promotion – Report of the Working-group JSPS-Postdoc-Promotion

Dr. Achim Hassel

 

09:30

Cognitive Psychophysics: A Machine Vision Approach to Human Image Understanding

Prof. Dr. Ingo Rentschler (Institute of medical Psychology, University of München)

 

10:30

Coffee Break

 

11:00

Molecular Motors, "Kinesin Superfamily Proteins, KIFs", Key Molecules for Neuronal Function: From Gene, Structure, Dynamics to Function and Disease

Prof. Dr. Nobutaka Hirokawa (Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Tokyo)

 

12:00

Japan-Germany – Some Thoughts on Mutual Reflection

Prof. Dr. Josef Kreiner (Research Unit 'Modern Japan', University of Bonn)

 

13:00

Lunch

14:30

Annual Assembly, Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.