The 8th Sweden-Japan Academic Network

Date: 2020-02-05

Time: 17:00 - 20:00

Address: Frescativägen 40, Stockholm

Venue: Lilla hörsalen, The Swedish Museum of Natural History

If you are interested in studying, doing a postdoc or working in Japan, this event is for you. 

Swedish researchers and others interested in science and technology in Japan are most welcome to attend the Sweden-Japan Academic Network together with Japanese researchers in Sweden, alumni members of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Japanese governmental scholarship fellows.

Programme

17:00
Registration

17:15
Opening remarks
Prof. Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

17:20
Opening remarks
H.E. Ambassador Shigeyuki Hiroki, the Embassy of Japan in Sweden

17:25
Introduction of JSPS activities
Dr. Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director of JSPS Stockholm Office

17:35
Planned science with the Japanese-Swedish electric field instrument on board the BepiColombo mission to planet Mercury
Professor Tomas Karlsson, , KTH Royal Institute of Technology

18:05
Chasing water in the Solar System: Exploration of Moon, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter system
Associate Professor Yoshifumi Futaana, Swedish Institute of Space Physics

18:40-20:00
Reception
Toast by Dr. Elin Palm, Chair of JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden

Organisers: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Embassy of Japan in Sweden, JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden and JSPS Stockholm Office

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Contact

Peter Brandén
Program Coordinator