100th Commemorative Symposium of Shonan Meetings
May 30, 2018
In October 2017, NII finally reached the 100th seminar of the Shonan Meetings. In commemoration of this, NII is holding Shonan Meetings 100th Commemorative Symposium in Tokyo on June 22nd, 2018. We are aiming at building up more advanced and enhanced series of seminar through discussing the announced achievements from the last seminars and the problems to be solved from now on.
The symposium will have two distinguished keynote speakers. Professor Raimund Seidel at Saarland University, a director at Dagstuhl and an authority in Computational Geometry, will talk about the essence of Dagstuhl meetings, and Professor Pierre Casteran at University of Bordeaux, a recipient of the ACM Software System Award for the Coq proof assistant system (a proof assistant system for the first mechanical proof of the four-color theorem), will talk about principles and applications of Coq.
We are looking forward to having many researchers from universities and industries.
*Please notice that this symposium will be done in English and no simultaneous interpretation is provided.
Date
June 22 Friday, 2018
Time
10:00-12:00 (Open at 9:30)
Place
Special Conference Room, National Center of Sciences Building 2F
Please find access information at NII official website.
Program
Opening Remarks: Masaru Kitsuregawa, Director General
Guest Remarks: Kanagawa Prefecture
Introduction of Shonan Meetings: Prof. Zhenjiang Hu
Keynote 1
Title: How Dagstuhl meetings have changed and remained the same over the years
Prof. Raimund Seidel (Scientific Director of Schloss Dagstuhl & Saarland University)
Keynote 2
Title: The Coq proof assistant: principles, examples and main applications
Prof. Pierre Casteran (University of Bordeaux)
Panel Discussion
Title: What should NII Shonan Meetings be in next 10 years?
Panelists: Prof. Raimund Seidel, Prof. Pierre Casteran, Prof. Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Coordinated by Prof. Zhenjiang Hu
Closing Remarks: Prof. Akiko Aizawa, deputy director general/chair of Steering Committee of Shonan Meeting
Language
English (no translation)
Open for
Public
Hosted by
National Institute of Informatics
Supported by
Kanagawa Prefecture
Reservation of a Seat
To observe the symposium, please reserve a seat in advance in the following ways.
In Japanese:
Please reserve a seat via the following reservation form. The link is at the bottom of the page.
https://www.nii.ac.jp/event/2018/0622-shonanmtg.html
In English:
Please send an email to the office of Shonan Meetings with the information of your name, occupation and affiliation.
The office of Shonan Meetings
Email: shonan [ at ] nii.ac.jp