All Alumni Meeting“Japan-Finland 100 years / JSPS Alumni Club inFinland 10-year Anniversary Seminar”

Date and Time: December 12 (Thu), 2019

13:15 – 16:50 Seminar

17:00 – 19:00 Reception

Venue: Academy of FinlandHakaniemenranta 6, 00531 Helsinki

Speakers:

Organizers:

Ms. Motoko IshiiLightining Designer(Video message)

Ms. Akari-Lisa IshiiLightining Designer

Prof. Maarit KarppinenAalto University

Prof. Shinichiro TabataHokkaido University

Dr. Kristiina JokinenAI Research Center of AISTTokyo Waterfront

Dr. Aki TsurutaFinnish MeteorologicalInstitute (FMI)

13:15-13:30 Opening remarks-Dr. Ville Syrjälä, Chair of ACF-Dr. Yasuhiro Iye, Executive Director of JSPS

13:30-14:30 Special Lecture-Video message from Ms. Motoko Ishii, Lighting designer, President of Motoko IshiiLighting Design Inc., 100 years of Finnish-Japanese Friendship Envoy

-Lecture “Valo from Finland, Hikari from Japan” by Ms. Akari-Lisa Ishii, Lighting designer

14:30-15:00 Lecture “Novel functional materials for different energy technologies throughquarter-century long Finnish-Japanese research collaboration”by Prof. Maarit Karppinen, Aalto University

15:00-15:20 Coffee break

15:20-15:50 Lecture “People and Community in the Arctic: Possibility of sustainable development”by Prof. Shinichiro Tabata, Hokkaido University

15:50-16:20 Lecture “Interactions with Social Robots - Issues, challenges and future views”by Dr. Kristiina Jokinen, AI Research Center of AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Former ACF Chair

16:20-16:50 Lecture “Collaboration between Finland and Japan on greenhouse gas studies”by Dr. Aki Tsuruta, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

16:50-16:55 Closing remarks by Dr. Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director of JSPS Stockholm Office

17:00-19:00 Reception

Program

This seminar is open to public and entry free.Registration in advance is required byDecember 5, 2019.For your registration, please visit here.