The 18th
"SCIENCE IN JAPAN" FORUM

"Chemistry saves the earth
- toward sustainable society -"

On June 21, 2013 at Cosmos Club
2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20008


Opening / Welcome address 9:00 - 9:30

Session 1 (9:30 - 10:35)

  • Haruo Inoue (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) : Introduction to Artificial Photosynthesis

  • Masuo Aizawa (Counselor to the President, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Former Executive Member of Council for Science and Technology Policy) :
    Science,Technology and Innovation Policy toward Sustainable Society
Coffee Break

Session 2 (10:50 - 12:00)

  • Kazunari Domen (Univ. Tokyo) : Artificial Photosynthetic Chemical Process (ARPChem)

  • Nathan S. Lewis (Cal. Tech.) : Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
Lunch Break

Session 3 Plenary lecture (13:30 - 14:20)

  • Ei-ichi Negishi (Purdue Univ., Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) : Magical Power of d-Block Transition Catalysis as Exemplified in Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling and Zr-Catalyzed Asymmetric Carboalumination of Alkenes
Coffee Break

Session 4 (14:30 - 15:40)

  • Thomas J. Meyer (Univ. North Carolina) : Artificial Photosynthesis and Solar Fuels. Science and Technology Challenges for the 21st Century

  • Nobuo Kamiya (Osaka City Univ.) : Water-splitting and oxygen-evolving photosystem II in natural photosynthesis
Coffee Break

Session 5 (15:50 - 17:35)

  • Michael R. Wasielewski (Northwestern Univ.) : Integrating Light Capture with Catalysis for Solar Fuels

  • Osamu Ishitani (Tokyo Inst. Tech.) : Utilization of carbon dioxide using solar light: photocatalytic reduction

  • Daniel G. Nocera (Harvard Univ.) : Personalized Energy - What We Did for Computing, We Can Do for Energy
Followed by Reception (18:30 - )

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Cosmos Club dress code : business attire, jacket and tie required for gentlemen.

Organized by
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Washington Office (JSPS-WO)
Advance Registration requested at
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