The 25th Science in Japan Forum was successfully held on September 9, 2022. Invited participants gathered at the Cosmos Club and many guests participated in the forum online.
Booklet of the event: The 25th Science in Japan Forum Booklet
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1:00pm – 1:20pm Opening Remarks
Kohji Hirata, Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Washington Office
David S. Draper, Deputy Chief Scientist of NASA
Hitoshi Kuninaka, Director General of ISAS/JAXA (Video message)
Kim Montgomery, Director of International Affairs and Science Diplomacy of AAAS
Tetsuya Mizumoto, Executive Director of JSPS
1:20pm – 2:20pm Keynote Speech: The Origin of Life and Sample Return
Yasuhito Sekine, Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Lindsay E. Hays, Program Scientist, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2:20pm – 2:40pm Coffee Break
2:40pm – 3:40pm Session 1: Science of Sample Return
Shogo Tachibana, Professor, University of Tokyo
Harold Connolly Jr., Founding Chair and Professor, Department of Geology, Rowan University
3:40pm – 4:00pm Coffee Break & Exhibition of the Sample of Asteroid, Ryugu
4:00pm – 5:00pm Session 2: Toward the Origin of Life
George Cody, Senior Staff Scientist, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
Kosuke Fujishima, Associate Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
5:00pm – 5:50pm Session 3: Panel Discussion “Japan-US Collaboration toward the Origin of Life”
All speakers
Moderator:
Lindsay E. Hays, Program Scientist, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
5:50pm – 6:00pm Closing Remarks
Koji Aribayashi, Science Counselor of Embassy of Japan in the United States of America
