ISAJ 2010 Symposium Announcement

India - Japan Symposium on Emerging Technologies

Organized by Indian
Scientists Association in Japan (ISAJ)

And Hosted by Embassy of India, Tokyo

The aim of the
symposium is to encourage Indian and Japanese professionals to share the
state-of-the-art information in their respective fields. Considering the
growing importance of India-Japan partnership in science and technology this
symposium will be way forward for building the future
of Japan-India scientific and technological collaboration.

Date
and Schedule 7 October 2010

                                 Plenary Sessions:
(9:00-12:00 and 13:00-16:00)

                                 Poster Session:
(16:00-18:00)

Venue:
Indian Embassy Auditorium, Tokyo

Themes
of the Symposium

§  Information
and Communication Technology

§  Biotechnology
and Agriculture

§  Energy
and Materials

§  Earth Sciences
and Space Technology

Convener

Dr. Sunil Kaul

Co-convener

Dr. Kedar Mahapatra

Organizing
Committee

Prof. Goutam Chakraborty

Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay

Dr. Guntur Subbarao

Dr. Alok Singh,

Dr. R. Gopalan

Dr. Ruby Pawankar

Dr. Michael Chandy

Plenary
speakers

Dr. Pankajakshan Thadathil, Science Counselor,
Embassy of India, Tokyo

Prof. Norio Shiratori, Tohoku
University

Prof. Goutam Chakraborty, Tohoku University

Dr. Glenn Mansfield Keeni, Cyber Solutions Inc., Sendai

Dr. Osamu Ito, Japan
International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba

Dr. G. Subbarao Japan
International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba

Dr. Kaneaki Tsuzaki, National
Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba

Dr. Alok Singh, National
Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba

Prof. Toshio Yamagata, Dean, School of Science, The University of Tokyo

Dr. Swadhin Behera, Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, Yokohama.

Call
for abstracts

Abstract for poster
presentations should be submitted to Dr. Sunil Kaul by
e-mail at s-kaul@aist.go.jp.  A few of the abstracts will be selected for 5-minutes
short oral presentations in addition to the poster presentations.

Abstract submission deadline
June 30, 2010.

Please refer ISAJ webpage http://www.isaj.org/
for further details about the organization and updates about the symposium.