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Tokyo Institute of Technology Global Workshop on TKT CAMPUS Asia Consortium "Quantum Leap from Asia to a Globally Sustainable Future"

Workshop Overview

Greetings
We are pleased to announce that on February 21, 2014, at its Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology will host the first Global Workshop for the TKT CAMPUS Asia Consortium, which was created by the governments of Japan, China and Korea.

The Global Workshop will provide a platform for faculty and students of the following leading sci-tech universities in Asia to discuss the future of international collaboration and the advancement of Asia's science and technology in the global community.

Tsinghua University (China), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
The program will include special lectures delivered by renowned scholars on strategic approaches to world university rankings, international education, and collaboration in Asia, as well as presentations on joint education by students from the three countries who have participated in TKT CAMPUS Asia programs.

"Quantum Leap," a scientific phrase for a phenomenon in physics, has recently come into use to describe a dramatic step forward in our everyday lives. We hope our workshop, "Quantum Leap from Asia," will help to facilitate international collaboration and further sci-tech development. We look forward to your participation.
Date February 21, 2014
Time 9:40 – 17:30 (registration opens at 9:00)
Venue West Bldg.9, Multi-Purpose Digital Hall, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama Campus
Registration Fee Free
Language Japanese / English (simultaneous interpretation available)
Registration Deadline Feb. 20, 2014
Please click here to register now!

Lecturers

Joseph Hun-wei Lee - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Professor Joseph Hun-wei Lee took office as Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on 1 November 2010.

Prof Lee grew up in Hong Kong and obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969-1977). He joined the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 1980, where he rose to Redmond Chair Professor of Civil Engineering in 1995. At HKU, he was Dean of Engineering from 2000 to 2003, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President from 2004-2010.

Prof Lee's research revolves around the use of hydraulics to solve environmental problems, in particular the prediction and control of water quality. He is Editor of the Journal of Hydro-environment Research and past Vice-President of the International Association for Hydro-environment Engineering and Research - IAHR (2007-2011), and has served as expert consultant on numerous hydro-environmental projects.

Prof Lee is the first Asia based academic to receive the Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (2009); he is also the recipient of the 2013 ASCE Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize and a 2010 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Second Class) by the Chinese State Council. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, United Kingdom, and Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. He serves on the Steering Committee for Theme-based Research and the Land and Development Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government, as well as advisory bodies in Scotland, Germany and Singapore.
Nam-Joon Cho - Nanyang Technological University
Nam-Joon Cho is Nanyang Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Deputy Director of the Renaissance Engineering Programme, and Deputy Director of the Nanyang Institute of Technology in Health and Medicine. In addition, he is a Principal Investigator at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology and Consulting Associate Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His group's research focuses on engineering approaches to solve important biomedical problems and to translate these capabilities into practical applications for global health. Dr. Cho's scientific work has been highlighted by international media organizations such as Reuters, CNBC, and Businessweek, and is leading to major breakthroughs for the treatment of deadly pathogens. He has identified novel classes of drugs to treat hepatitis C virus which affects over 170 million people worldwide. Based on the success of this early work, Dr. Cho's team is now pursuing similar strategies to examine the causes and consequences of infectious diseases, inflammatory disorders and cancer in order to provide improved diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. As part of these activities, Dr. Cho also leads a multi-institution tissue engineering collaboration involving NTU, Singapore General Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine, which focuses on developing an artificial liver platform for regenerative medicine applications. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Masahiko Hara - Tokyo Institute of Technology
Masahiko Hara was born in Tokyo, Japan. He received Bachelor degree in 1980, Master degree in 1983, and Doctor of engineering in 1988 from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials. He was a visiting research fellow of Department of Physics, University of Manchester, UK, from 1981 to 82.
In April 1985, he became Research Scientist at RIKEN, Polymer Chemistry Lab. He worked for the establishment of Advanced Materials Lab and Frontier Research System in RIKEN since 1986 and has served as Deputy Head of Exotic Nano-Materials Lab (1991-99), Head of Local Spatio-Temporal Functions Lab (1999-2007) and Emergent Functions (subsequent renaming Flucto-Order Functions) Lab (2007-13), Director of RIKEN-HYU Collaboration Research Center in Seoul, Korea (2009-13) and Corporate and International Relation Division (2011-13) of RIKEN, Lecturer of Chiba Univ (1991-97), and visiting Professor of Tokyo Tech (1997-2003).
He is now Professor of Electronic Chemistry Department and Chemical Evolution Lab Unit at Earth-Life Science Institute, Project Leader of CAMPUS Asia of Tokyo Tech, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry Department of Hanyang University, Korea, and Senior Visiting Scientist of Global Research Cluster, RIKEN.
His areas of research interests are Nanotechnology and Nanoscience, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Self-Assembled Monolayers, Bio-Interfaces, Spatio-Temporal Functions, Emergent Functions, Flucto-Order Functions, Bio-Computing, Biological Information Processing, Chemical Evolution, and Origin of Life. He published around 330 papers and introduced many new research concepts and terminologies in Japanese.

Timetable

Date: February 21, 2014
Time: 9:40 – 17:30 (registration opens at 9:00)

9:00 - 9:40 Registration
9:40 - 9:45 Welcome Remarks
Kikuo Kishimoto
Dean, Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology
9:45 - 10:00 Speech by Guest of Honor
Kuniaki Sato
Deputy Director, Office for International Planning, Higher Education Bureau
Ministry of Education, Cuture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan
10:00 - 11:35 Session One: Lectures by Guest Speakers
10:00 - 10:45 Journal of Hydro-Environment Research: A Success Story of Asian Collaboration
Joseph Hun-wei Lee
Professor, Vice-President for Research & Graduate Studies
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
10:50 - 11:35 Global NTU: Building a World-Class Research University for the 21st Century
Nam-Joon Cho
Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
11:40 - 13:00 Lunch
13:15 - 14:50 Session Two: Student Presentations
13:15 - 13:30 Two Months in Japan (TKT CAMPUS Asia): Culture, Opportunity and Inspiration
Cheng Tang
Department of Industrial Biological Engineering
Tsinghua University
13:30 - 13:45 Transport & Reaction: Experience and Change from Campus Asia
Yankai Li
Department of Chemical Engineering
Tsinghua University
13:45 - 14:00 PIRF: Position-Invariant Robust Features
SeungKyu Oh
Department of Electrical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
14:00 - 14:15 ASPIRE Project with China, Japan and Korea
Jaemin Kim
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
14:15 - 14:20 Break
14:20 - 14:35 Effects of Bubbles on Optical Properties and Thermal Conductivity of Mould Fluxes
Shunsuke Takahashi
Department of Metallurgy and Ceramics Science
Tokyo Institute of Technology
14:35 - 14:50 My Study Abroad in KAIST
Takuhiro Tsunekawa
Department of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology
14:50 - 15:50 Break
15:00 - 16:30 Session Three: Open Discussion
15:00 - 16:30 TKT CAMPUS Asia: Quality Assurance and Problem-Solving Global Human Resource Education
Masahiko Hara
Professor, Project Leader of the TKT CAMPUS Asia Consortium
Tokyo Institute of Technology
16:30 - 16:45 Break
16:45 - 17:25 General Discussion
17:25 - 17:30 Closing Remarks
Masahiko Hara

Access

W9 Bldg., Multi-Purpose Digital Hall, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama Campus
2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, JAPAN

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