The 28th SANKEN International Symposium
Tohru Sekino(Organizer, Professor of SANKEN)
The 28th SANKEN International Symposium was held at Awaji Yumebutai in Hyogo Prefecture from Wednesday, January 8, to Friday, January 10, 2025. The symposium, featuring “Trans-Scale Science and Technology for Future Society,” brought together distinguished researchers, promising young scientists and graduate students from Japan and abroad to discuss cutting-edge scientific achievements and their applications across diverse fields such as quantum science, information technology, materials science, beam science, life science, chemistry, and nanotechnology.
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The symposium highlighted “maximizing the potential of science and technology to contribute to the realization of a sustainable, safe, and secure future society.” The discussions focused on research excellence across different scales of time and space in a multitude of research fields. Participants shared novel perspectives and insights, which marked a major step toward sustainable development and innovative technologies for future society.
It was a great honor to welcome seventeen distinguished researchers from overseas, including:
・Dr. Thomas Fischer, Institute of Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, University of Cologne, Germany
(His lecture title: "Energy transition through small molecule activation")
・Prof. Yan Yu, McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, and Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
(Her lecture title: "Exploiting Multiscale Surface Heterogeneity in Nano-Biomembrane Interactions for Antibacterial Innovation")
・Associate Prof. Chun-Liang Lin, Department of Eletrophysics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
(His lecture title: "How can STM help next-generation semiconductor industry?")
・Associate Prof. Ken Fujiwara, Department of Psychology, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
(His lecture title: "Nonverbal synchrony: An application to human-avatar interactions")
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More than forty researchers participated in the poster session and vibrantly exchanged latest ideas and proposals, which demonstrated the energy and enthusiasm of promising young scientists to pioneer innovative excellent research. The following three participants won the “BEST POSTER AWARD”:
・Ms. Sakura Moriyama (Kuroda Laboratory)
・Mr. Hiroya Yasunari (Sekino Laboratory), and
・Mr. Yuto Yashima (Minatani Laboratory)
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The symposium built a valuable momentum to influence future research and industrial applications, and to foster international collaboration in the next-generation science and technology. We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all participants and the parties concerned who contributed to our success. We will look forward to your participation in our next symposium.
