Prof. Hiroaki Yanagida Memorial International Symposium

October 22, 2008 Yanagida’s night (Reception) at Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba
October 23, 2008 International Symposium at Tsukuba Center for Institutes 

This symposium will be held in memory of the late Professor Hiroaki Yanagida of the University of Tokyo.  
He created new fields in electronic ceramics.
This event is composed by two sessions, Yanagida’s night and International Symposium.  All speakers are Outstanding Scientists who have special friendship with Prof. Yanagida. 

Organizing Committee

Chair of Symposium	Masasuke Takata	Nagaoka University of Technology
Committee Members	Satoru Fujitsu	Shonan Institute of Technology
	Tadashi Takenaka	Tokyo University of Science
	Hajime Haneda	National Institute for Materials Science
	Shun-ichi Hishita	National Institute for Materials Science

Yanagida’s night: Reception
from 19:00 on October 22, 2008 at Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba
Participation fee: 1,000 JP Yen 
 
International Symposium
from 14:30 on October 23,2008 at Tsukuba Center for Institutes
(2nd day of AMEC6, all AMEC6 technical sessions are closed.)
Participation fee: free 

Program (tentative)
14:30 Opening Address by Prof. Masasuke Takata (Nagaoka Univ. of Technology, Japan)
Invited Talks (14:35-16:05)
    Prof. Richard J. Brook (Univ. of Oxford, UK: by Video)
    Prof. Makoto Kuwabara (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
    Prof. David A. Payne (Univ. of Illinois, USA)
coffee break
Invited Talks (16:15-17:45)
Prof. Amar S. Bhalla (Pennsylvania State Univ., USA)
Prof. Enrico Traversa (Univ. of Rome, Italy)
Prof. Hideki Ishida (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Closing Address by Dr.Hideaki Matsubara (Japan Fine Ceramic Center, Japan) 
 

Sponsored by Prof. Yanagida Memorial Foundation