Japan-German Science Cooperation: Past-Present-Future

PROGRAM

May 20, 2011

10:30

Eugen und Ilse Seibold Prize award ceremony

12:30

Registration, Lunch Snack

13:30

Ceremonial Session

13:40

Welcome Remarks
Dr. Takahiro Shinyo, Ambassador (Embassy of Japan)
Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner, President (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Prof. Dr. Makoto Kobayashi, Executive Director (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Menkhaus, Chairman (Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.)

14:10

Keynote Talks by Nobel-Laureates
Collaboration in High Energy Physics

Prof. Dr. Makoto Kobayashi (Prof. em., KEK, Executive Director, JSPS)

Presentation Kobayashi (5.4 MB)
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Nobel Prizes, Fundamental Constants and Metrology

Prof. Dr. Klaus von Klitzing (Director, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart)

Presentation von Klitzing (4.8 MB)

15:10

Memorial Talks
Recent Works

Prof. Ryue Nishizawa (Yokohama National University, Graduate School of Architecture)

A New Initiation Mode for Bacterial Translation: The 70S Scanning Initiation

Dr. Markus Pech (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics)

Shuzo Aoki and the Iwakura Mission

Prof. Dr. Shiro Ishii (Prof. em., The University of Tokyo, Senior Advisor, Research Center for Science Systems, JSPS):

Presentation Ishii (102 KB)

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16:10

Coffee Break

16:40

Special Session regarding March 11th
Convener: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Menkhaus (Meiji University)

17:15

Mari Miyoshi (Embassy of Japan in Germany)

Experiencing the Earthquakes on March 11th and the Situation Afterwards

Dr. Alexander Schnase (Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), J-PARC Center)

Presentation Schnase (3.7 MB)
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Q&A

Prof. Dr. Viktor Meineke (Institut für Radiobiologie der Bundeswehr):

19:00

Conference Dinner

May 21, 2011

08:40

Session 1: Humanities & Social Sciences
Convener: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bock (TU München)

Genocide and Genocide Prevention

Prof. Dr. Yuji Ishida (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)

Presentation Ishida (200 KB)
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09:20

Session 2: Life Sciences
Convener: Prof. Dr. Knud Nierhaus (MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin)

Physical Modeling of Biological Interfaces

Prof. Dr. Motomu Tanaka (University of Heidelberg, Institute of Physical Chemistry)

The Periodic System of Natural Products

Prof. Dr. Herbert Waldmann (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund)

10:40

Coffee Break

11:10

Session 3: Natural Sciences
Convener: Prof. Dr. Geerd Diercksen (MPI für Astrophysik, Garching)

Study of Polar Ice Cores

Prof. Dr. Nobuhiko Azuma (Nagaoka University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering)

Presentation Azuma (5 MB)
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The Largest Structures in the Universe and their Origin

Prof. Dr. Volker Springel (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)

Presentation Springel, part 1 (4.1 MB)
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Presentation Springel, part 2 (5 MB)
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12:30

Lunch

14:00

Annual Assembly of the German JSPS-Club (for members only)

14:00

Sight-seeing Program, Tour 1
Alternatively: Charité or City Tour Berlin

16:00

Sight-seeing Program, Tour 2

(only for participants who attend the general assembly of the German JSPS-Club)
Alternatively: Charité or City Tour Berlin