6th Japanese-German Symposium
Jointly organized by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.
Date: May 11–12, 2001
Venue: TREFF Hotel Rheingold Bayreuth, Austraße 2/Unteres Tor, 95445 Bayreuth
PROGRAMMay 11, 2001 |
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| Moderation: Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki (Chairman of Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.) | |
| 13:30 | Welcoming Remarks |
| 14:00 | Brain Mechanisms of Object Recognition Prof. Dr. Keiji Tanaka (RIKEN Brain Science Institute) |
| 15:00 | Cocktail Parties and Hearing Aids: Neurosensory Analysis of the Auditory System and its Applications Prof. Dr. Birger Kollmeier (Medical Physics, University of Oldenburg) |
| 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 | Computational Approach to Natural Language Processing Prof. Dr. Junichi Tsujii (Department of Information Science, University of Tokyo) |
| 17:30 | Break |
| 18:00 | Guided walking-tour, sight-seeing in Bayreuth |
| 19:30 | Reception / Dinner Stadthalle Bayreuth, Friedrichstraße, 95444 Bayreuth |
Saturday, May 12, 2001 |
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| 09:00 | Active Promotion – Report of the Working-group JSPS-Postdoc-Promotion Dr. Achim Hassel |
| 09:30 | Cognitive Psychophysics: A Machine Vision Approach to Human Image Understanding Prof. Dr. Ingo Rentschler (Institute of medical Psychology, University of München) |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Molecular Motors, „Kinesin Superfamily Proteins, KIFs“, Key Molecules for Neuronal Function: From Gene, Structure, Dynamics to Function and Disease Prof. Dr. Nobutaka Hirokawa (Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Tokyo) |
| 12:00 | Japan-Germany – Some Thoughts on Mutual Reflection Prof. Dr. Josef Kreiner (Research Unit ‚Modern Japan‘, University of Bonn) |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Annual Assembly, Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V. |
