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Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo JAPAN 
Venue: University Conference Hall 

Thursday,8 March

       9:00-9:15 Welcome Address: Kuon Inoue, Director of RIES
Opening Remarks: Tateo Shimozawa, Chair of Organizing Committee
 

Session 1: Multi-disciplinary Introduction to yoh12p-1.gif (862 バイト)

Chairman: Koichi Kawahara (RIES)

      9:15-955 Toshiaki Iwai (RIES, Sapporo)
Multiple scattering of laser light
      9:55-10:35 Phyllis M. Gootman (SUNY Downstate Med. C., USA)
Changes in the complexity of heart rate dynamics as a function of development

Coffee break

Chairman: Tetsuo Ueda (RIES)

    10:50-11:30 Toshirou Yagi (RIES, Sapporo)
Fluctuations in solids observed by the t- and ω- domain spectroscopies
    11:30-12:10 Masataka Kinjo (RIES, Sapporo)
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy in Cell Biology
    12:10-13:10 Photos and Lunch
 

Session 2: yoh12p-1.gif (862 バイト) , dissipation, and structures

Chairman: Takayoshi Nakamura (RIES)

    13:10-13:50 David Williams (Cambridge U., UK)
Single-electronics
    13:50-14:30 Toshio Yanagida (Osaka U., Osaka)
Single molecule nano-bioscience
    14:30-15:10 Masatsugu Shimomura (RIES, Sapporo)
Mesoscopic patterning of polymers based on dissipative structures

Coffee break

 

Session 3: yoh12p-1.gif (862 バイト) as a Seed of Diversity

Chairman: Takeshi Karino (RIES)

    15:30-16:10 Tetsuya Yomo (Osaka U., Osaka)
Development of genetic information
    16:10-16:50 Yoshiharu Yamamoto (U. Tokyo, Tokyo)
Use of neural noise in sensitizing human brain
    16:50-17:30 Keith A. Nelson (MIT, USA)
New tools for study of spatial and temporal evolution: Spatiotemporal imaging, spatiotemporal femtosecond pulse shaping, and spatiotemporal coherent control
    18:00-20:00 Mixing Banquet at RIES faculty room, with Poster Presentation
 

Friday, 9 March

Session 4: Trans-disciplinary futurity with yoh12p-1.gif (862 バイト)

Chairman: Mamoru Tamura (RIES)

     9:00-9:40 Rupert Krautbauer (Ludwig-Maximilians U., GERMANY)
Molecular mechanics of DNA
     9:40-10:20

Elliot Elson (Washington U., USA)

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy measurement in microrheology of reconstituted model tissues

Coffee break

Chairman: Nobuhiro Ohta (RIES)

    10:35-11:15 Kizhakeyil L. Sebastian (Indian Institute of Science, INDIA)
Activated barrier crossing by long chain molecules-A Kramers problem in infinite dimensions
    11:15-11:55 Tsuneyoshi Nakayama (Hokkaido U., Sapporo)
Glasses: Dynamics at THz frequencies and below
    11:55-12:35 Toshiyuki Nakagaki (RIES, Sapporo)
Maze-solving by an amoeboid organism
 

Closing remarks