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Sunday, November 8
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7:30-9:00 p.m.
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Pre-registration/Reception at the Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach (Garden)
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Monday, November 9
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From 7:00 a.m.
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Buses depart hotel for Beckman Center. Breakfast at the Beckman Center.
(In 15 min. increments. Last bus is 7:45 a.m.)
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8:30
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Welcome
-- George M. Bugliarello, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Engineering
-- Akira Takamatsu, Executive Director, Japan Science and Technology Corporation
-- Tsuneo Nakahara, Engineering Academy of Japan
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Opening Remarks – Arup Chakraborty and Ichiro Kanaya, Co-Chairs, Organizing Committee
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9:00-10:30
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State-of-the-Art Technologies for Knowledge Management
Co-chairs: Hideki Mima, University of Tokyo, and Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University
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Wikipedia Mining
Kotaro Nakayama, University of Tokyo
Large-Scale Cross-Domain Information Retrieval and its Visualization for Next-Generation Knowledge Management and Sharing
Yoshinori Takenami, Sumitomo Electric Information Systems Co., Ltd.
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10:30-11:15
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Break
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11:15-12:45
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State-of-the-Art Technologies for Knowledge Management (cont.)
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Cyber-Infrastructure Support for Engineering
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas at El Paso
Large Knowledge-Based Systems and the Semantic Web
Mark Greaves, Vulcan, Inc.
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12:45-2:00
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Lunch
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2:00-2:45
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Poster Session – Group 1
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2:45-3:30
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Poster Session – Group 2
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3:30-4:00
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Break
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4:00-5:30
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Breakthrough Technologies in Brain Science
Co-chairs: Tamami Fukushi, Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Warren Grill, Duke University
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Optogenetic Interfaces for Recording and Stimulation of the Nervous System
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University
Engineering Approach to Brain Signal Processing: Development of Intelligent Si Neural Probes
Tetsu Tanaka, Tohoku University
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5:30
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Reception (Fountain Courtyard)
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6:00
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Dinner (Dining Room)
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7:00
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Dinner Speech: Notes from My Journey through Entrepreneurship and Science
Fred Kavli, Chairman, The Kavli Foundation
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8:00 (approx.)
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Buses return to hotel
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Tuesday, November 10
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From 7:00 a.m.
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Buses depart hotel for Beckman Center. Breakfast at the Beckman Center.
(In 15 min. increments. Last bus is 7:45 a.m.)
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8:30-10:00
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Breakthrough Technologies in Brain Science (cont’d)
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Exogenous Control of Neuronal Activity to Decipher the Role of Neural Populations in Disease
Joanna Jankowsky, Baylor College of Medicine
Social Neuroscience: New Insight of Neural Population Activity Explained by Next-Generation Brain-Machine Interface
Naotaka Fujii, RIKEN
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10:00-10:30
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Break
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10:30-12:00
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Novel Materials for Industrial Applications
Co-chairs: Mohan Manohara, GE Global Research, and Hideyuki Murakami, National Institute for Materials Science
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Development of Self-Oscillating Gel for Novel Biomimetic Materials
Ryo Yoshida, University of Tokyo
Molecularly-directed Nanostructure Synthesis, Assembly, and Interfacial Engineering for Emerging Applications
G. Ramanath, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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12:00-1:00
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Lunch
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1:00-2:30
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Novel Materials for Industrial Applications (cont’d)
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Development of Multifunctional Alloy “Gum Metal” and its Industrial Application
Shigeru Kuramoto, Toyota Central Research Lab
Nanomanufacturing
James Ruud, GE Global Research
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2:30
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Break
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3:00
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Technical Tours: National Fuel Cell Research Center and Beckman Laser Institute
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5:00
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Buses return to the hotel
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6:00
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Reception/Dinner at the Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach (Terrace Room)
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Wednesday, November 11
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From 7:00 am
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Buses depart hotel for Beckman Center. Breakfast at the Beckman Center.
(In 15 min. increments. Last bus is 7:45 a.m.)
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8:30-10:00
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Modeling Global Climate Change
Co-chairs: Junichi Fujino, National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Impacts of Aerosols on the Climate System and the Challenge of Modeling Aerosols and their Interactions with Clouds in Earth System Models
Athanasios Nenes, Georgia Institute of Technology
Challenge of Modeling Tropical Convection and Clouds in Very High-Resolution Models and Implications for Climate Prediction
Hiroaki Miura, Frontiers Research Center for Global Change
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10:00-10:25
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Break
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10:25-11:55
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Modeling Global Climate Change (cont.)
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Global Water Resources Issues and the Challenge of Global Hydrological Modeling
Naota Hanasaki, National Institute for Environmental Studies
Modeling Global Climate Change: Challenge of Integrated Assessment Modeling and Relevance to Economic and Climate Policy
Geoffrey Blanford, Electric Power Research Institute
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11:55
12:00
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Closing Remarks
Lunch
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