JUNBA 2007

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The First JUNBA Academia Summit and SymposiumJUNBA2007 Poster

We are honored to welcome you to the inaugural Japanese University Network in the Bay Area (JUNBA) Symposium on nano-material science, covering the latest advances in nanomaterials, nanobiology and nanotechnology.

As you might know, Japan's national universities were reorganized into independent semi-private institutions, in April of 2004. This immense change has created a greater priority among all universities in Japan to introduce programs that better tackle collaborative international research, a globalized economy, interdisciplinary study and other emerging trends.

Towards that, Japanese universities have started to launch overseas offices in China, Europe and the US. In particular, many have chosen the San Francisco - Bay Area, since this region has a highly-educated work force, an environment constantly pushing technology's capabilities, and the largest influx of venture capital in the world. Due to these "perfect storms", Japanese universities' Bay Area presence has increased rapidly in the past few years, leading to the creation of JUNBA in August 2006.

JUNBA aspires to speed up internationalization of Japanese universities, support exchange students, collaborate on science and technology symposia and increase the rate of technology transfer from Japanese universities. In order to be more effective, we are working closely with other universities, private companies, non-profit organizations and government offices. We sincerely hope that this new synergy will stimulate more collaborative education and research opportunities between the US and Japan.

We fervently hope that this symposium's cross-disciplinary approach will spark practical applications beyond academia and help develop such relationships. We look forward to meeting you.

Yoshikatsu MUROOKA, President of JUNBA

Venue: JUNBA 2007 Symposium

Date:

  • January 11th（Ｔｈｕ）,12th(Fri), 2007

Hosted by:

  • JUNBA (Japanese University Network in the Bay Area)

Co-organized by

Supported by

 

Programs

Academia Summit

Date: Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Time: (Summit) 1:00 PM - 5:05 PM
          (Reception) 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Venue: (Summit) Conference Room, Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco
          (Reception) Official Residence of the Consul General of Japan in San Francisco
Summit Declaration: Declaration (Pdf)

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The First JUNBA Symposium

Date: Friday, January 12th, 2007
Time: (Symposium) 1:30 PM - 7:30 PM
          (Reception) 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Venue: James H. Clark Center, Bio-X, Stanford University
Symposium Abstract: Abstract (pdf)

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Academia Summit Detail

Date: Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Venue: Conference Room, Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco
50 Fremont Street, Suite 2300, San Francisco, CA 94105

Participants:

Hosei University

  • Hiroshi TAKEDA, Vice President / Professor of Department of Art and Technology
  • Hajime KIYOHARA, Former Director, Hosei University Research Institute, California, Professor of Faculty of Economics
  • Yutaka TANAKA, Professor of Department of Art and Technology

Kagoshima University

  • Toshiaki YANO, Vice President, Executive Director, Planning & Evaluation
  • Yuji IDE, Director, Kagoshima University VBL Silicon Valley Office / JUNBA Board
  • Yasuo SUDA, Deputy President, Research & Community Cooperation, Professor of Graduate School of Science and Engineering
  • Tomotetsu KIRA, Director of Research and Internatinal Affairs Department
  • Teruhiro YOTSUMOTO, Deputy Director, Kagoshima University VBL Silicon Valley Office

Keio University

  • Tatsuya SAKAMOTO, Vice-President for International Collaboration and Education / Professor
  • Shingo ASHIZAWA, Treasurer / Business Officer, Keio Academy of New York

Kyushu University

  • Tisato KAJIYAMA, President
  • Masato MATSUO, Director, Kyushu University California Office / JUNBA Board
  • Atsushi TAKAHARA, Professor, Institute for Material Chemistry and Engineering
  • Kozo MATSUKAWA, International Exchange Administrator, Office of International Affairs
  • Yoshie TAKAHARA, Coordinator for International Affairs, Office of International Affairs
  • Kenji KAJIWARA, Office of International Affairs

Osaka University

  • Kiichiro TSUJI, Presidential Aide for International Affairs / Professor of Graduate School of Engineering
  • Yoshikatsu MUROOKA, Executive Director, Osaka University San Francisco Center, Professor Emeritus / President of JUNBA
  • Tomoji KAWAI, Director, the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research / Professor
  • Tomoko ICHIKI, General Manager, Osaka University San Francisco Center

Tohoku University

  • Tetsuo SHOJI, Executive Vice President for Research and International Affairs, Director, Tohoku University US Office, Professor of Graduate School of Engineering
  • Toshihiko NISHIMURA, Deputy Director, Tohoku University US Office / JUNBA Board
  • Mikiko NAKAJIMA, Associate Professor / Vice Chair of Division of International Education and Exchange, School of Engineering
  • Michio KAMATA, General Manager, Tohoku University US Office

Waseda University

  • Hirochika NAKAJIMA, Professor of Graduate School of Science and Technology
  • Noriyuki MORIZONO, Regional Manager of Waseda University Oregon Office

Yokohama City University

  • Bruce STRONACH, President
  • Mutsuhiko MINAMI, Director, Internationalization Promotion Center / Professor of School of Medicine
  • Hiroko YAMAZAKI, Professor / JUNBA Board
  • Mitsuaki YAMAMOTO, Marubeni Silicon Valley Office

JUNBA Board Members

  • Tai HASEGAWA, Stanford Japanese Society
  • Hiroshi YAGI, , President & CEO, IMAnet, Inc.

Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco

  • Makoto YAMANAKA, Consul General
  • Tadashi MOGI, Consul
  • Sachiyo KASHIHARA, Advisor for Educational Affairs

JETRO San Francisco

  • Yuji MURANAGA, Chief Executive Director

JSPS - Japan Society fot the Promotion of Science

  • Isao KISO, Executive Director
  • Takashi KIYOURA, Head of the Strategic Fund for Establishing International Headquarters in Universities, JSPS
  • Seishi TAKEDA, Director, JSPS San Francisco Office / Vice President of JUNBA / Professor, KEK - High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
  • Kazusa TODA, Deputy Director, JSPS San Francisco Office / JUNBA Office
  • Eiji KOTANI, Program Coordinator, JSPS San Francisco Office / JUNBA Office
  • Mitsuru MIZUNO, Program Coordinator, JSPS San Francisco Office / JUNBA Office
  • Noriko YOKOI, Program Coordinator, JSPS San Francisco Office / JUNBA Office

 

Main Program

Presider: Masato MATSUO: JUNBA Board

12:00PM - 1:00PM  Registration
1:00PM - 1:05PM  Opening Remark

  • Yoshikatsu MUROOKA, President of JUNBA

1:05PM - 1:15PM  Greeting

  • Makoto YAMANAKA, Consul General of Japan in San Francisco

1:15PM - 1:35PM  Keynote Talk

  • Isao KISO, Executive Director of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

1:40PM - 3:40PM  Session 1:

International Strategy by Each Participating University (12min. each)

  • Osaka University
  • Kagoshima University
  • Kyushu University
  • Keio Univerity
  • Tohoku University
  • Hosei University
  • Waseda University
  • Yokohama City University

3:40PM - 4:00PM  Break

4:00PM - 5:00PM  Session 2:

Discussion - JUNBA Academia Summit Declaration

  • Election of JUNBA Academic Summit Chairperson
  • Explanation of JUNBA Academia Summit Declaration
  • Questions and Answers, Conclusion

5:00PM - 5:05PM  ClosingPress Release

  • Statement by JUNBA Academia Summit Chairperson

5:15PM - 5:45PM  Press Conference

Academia Summit Reception

Venue: Official Residence of Consul General of Japan in San Francisco

Emcee: Yuji IDE: JUNBA Board

6:30PM - 7:00PM Registration
7:00PM - 7:05PM Welcome Remark

  • Makoto YAMANAKA, Consul General of Japan in San Francisco

7:05PM - 7:20PM Greeting by JUNBA Representative

  • Introduction of Participating Universities
  • Announcement of JUNBA Academia Summit Declaration

7:20PM - 7:30PM  Remark from an Honorable Guest
7:30PM - 9:00PM  Reception
9:00PM  Closing

 

The First JUNBA Symposium Detail

Date: Friday, January 12th, 2007
Venue: James H. Clark Center, Bio-X, Stanford University

Opening RemarksJUNBA 2007 sympo

Presider:Toshihiko NISHIMURA, JUNBA Board

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

  • Yoshikatsu MUROOKA, President, JUNBA, Executive Director, Osaka University San Francisco Center
  • Isao KISO, Executive Director, JSPS Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Ronald G. Pearl, Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine

Keynote Talk

2:00PM - 2:30PM

  • "Globalization of Business-Academia Collaborations"
    George HARA, President, DEFTA PARTNERS GROUP

Introduction

2:30PM - 2:40PM

  • "Brief Introduction to Nano-Material Science"
    Yoshio NISHI, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Director, Stanford Nanofabrication Facility, Stanford University

Session 1

Moderator: Prof. Yoshio NISHI, Stanford University

2:40PM - 3:10PM

  • "Recent Advances in Nano-Characterization of Materials"
    Robert SINCLAIR, Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Stanford University

3:10PM - 3:40PM

  • "Spintronics - From Materials to Circuit - "
    Hideo OHNO, Professor, Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University

3:40 PM - 3:50 PM Coffee Break

3:50PM - 4:20PM

  • "Nanotechnology for the Semiconductor Industry"
    H. S. Philip WONG, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

4:20PM - 4:50PM

  • "Controlled Assembly of Surface-Supported Molecular Nanostructures"
    Takashi YOKOYAMA, Associate Professor, International College of Arts and Science, Yokohama City University

4:50PM - 5:20PM

  • "The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA:
    An Overview of CNSI and Summary of its Collaborative Relationships
    with Asia Universities, Research Institutes, and Corporations "
    David LUNDBERG, Director, International Strategic Alliances, Office of External Affairs
    California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles

5:20 PM - 5:30 PM Coffee Break

Session 2

Moderator: Prof. Yoshio NISHI, Stanford University

5:30PM - 6:00PM

  • "Intrinsic/Artificial Nanostructure in Ferroelectric Single Crystals for Functional Photonic Devices"
    Hirochika NAKAJIMA, Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University

6:00PM - 6:30PM

  • "Surface Nanostructure Control of Polymeric Solids"
    Atsushi TAKAHARA, Professor, Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University

6:30PM - 7:00PM

  • "DNA Nano-Science"
    Tomoji KAWAI, Director, Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University

7:00PM - 7:30PM

  • "Sugar Chips and Sugar-immobilized Gold Nano-particles (SGNPs) :
Advanced Analytical Systems for the Binding Interaction of Sugar Chains 
with Proteins, Cells or Viruses"
    Yasuo SUDA, Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Director
    Venture Business Laboratory, Kagoshima University

Reception

Emcee: Toshihiko NISHIMURA, JUNBA Board

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

  • Venue: James H. Clark Center, BIO-X, Stanford University

Photos from Sessions

United... Yokohama City University: President Stronach
Consul General Makoto YAMANAKA Keio University: Prof. SAKAMOTO
JSPS Director Isao KISO JUNBA President Yoshikatsu MUROOKA
Photo by Tim Wagner

DIRECTIONS to the James H. Clark Center8

318 Campus Drive, Stanford CA, 94305BIO-X

From Bayshore US Highway 101 North or South
Exit on University Ave. South/West.
Proceed for several miles on University Ave.
University Ave. becomes Palm Dr. after you pass El Camino Real.
Take Palm Dr. past Arboretum Rd.
Then turn right on Campus Drive and follow the road directly to the Clark Center.
Parking is free after 4pm right next to the Clark Center (west side).?　?　From 280 North or South
Exit Sand Hill Rd. East. Follow this road for several miles.
Take a right on Arboretum Rd. Then take a right on Quarry Rd.
Then turn right on Campus Dr. and follow this road directly to the Clark Center.
Parking is free after 4pm right next to the Clark Center (west side).

Click here for a map showing the location of the Clark Center

Visitor parking scratchers can be purchased at:
The Parking & Transportation Services office at 340 Bonair Siding (open weekdays 7:30-5)
The Memorial Auditorium Visitor Center window (across from Hoover Tower, open 9 am-5 pm, seven days a week)

Enforcement Hours

" A," "C," and "shared" resident/commuter lots are enforced Monday-Friday, 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Meters are enforced 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. You are free to park in these areas after enforcement hours.

You can park at the Meter Parking Lots near the Clark Center. (Credit Card).
See the campus parking map.

 

Contact

Please contact the JUNBA office (see the left column) with any questions related to JUNBA 2007.