[Invitation] WPI Exhibit Booth at 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting
February 13, 2012
WPI booth: Exhibiton Hall B1, February 17-19, 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Japan's science ministry and six leading research institutions will be hosting a booth to present the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) at 
this year's American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The WPI booth will showcase the latest advances of a range of research at six WPI centers designated by the ministry, as well as their efforts to create an open environment where scientists of all levels can interact and collaborate across borders and disciplines.
The AAAS annual meeting, entitled Flattening the World: Building a Global Knowledge Society, will feature an exceptional array of speakers at the Vancouver Convention Centre from February 16 to 20. The WPI booth -- part of the Japan pavillion organized by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) -- will be located at the Exhibiton Hall B1 and open on February 17-19.
The WPI centers are: Tohoku University Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), The University of Tokyo Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), Osaka University Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), and Kyushu University International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I²CNER).
WPI booth content
[Video*] WPI in Brief, Part 1/2: Intro, AIMR, MANA, IPMU
[Video*] WPI in Brief, Part 2/2: iCeMS, IFReC, I²CNER
[Posters]
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| WPI (PDF: 3.4MB) |
Top 1% paper productivity (PDF: 0.4MB) |
AIMR, Tohoku U (PDF: 2.4MB) |
MANA, NIMS (PDF: 1.6MB) |
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| IPMU, The U of Tokyo (PDF: 18.2MB) |
iCeMS, Kyoto U (PDF: 3.7MB) |
IFReC, Osaka U (PDF: 3.1MB) |
I²CNER, Kyushu U (PDF: 3.7MB) |
Ralated links
- AAAS Annual Meeting website
- AAAS Annual Meeting Twitter feed
- AAAS Annual Meeting Facebook page
- AAAS YouTube channel
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
About WPI
Launched in 2007 by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the WPI aims to attain the highest levels possible for scientific research environments at six designated centers. This bid to achieve "global visibility", including attracting the world's best brains, also seeks to create a new model for Japanese academia, imparting greater autonomy to each institution in order to spark transformations in leadership, administration, and operation.
About AAAS
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) -- founded in 1848 and based in Washington, DC and Cambridge, UK -- is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide.
Contact
- Mitsuyuki Ueda, Director, Office for Promotion of Basic Research, Basic Research Promotion Division, Research Promotion Bureau, MEXT
toplevel@mext.go.gp | Phone: +81 3 6734 4248 - Yutaka Iijima, Public Relations Manager, Kyoto University iCeMS
pr@icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp | Phone: +81 75 753 9755
*WPI in Brief video production team:
Susumu IKEDA (AIMR)
Chika KAWABATA (MANA)
Kotaro TAKEDA (MANA)
Tomomi HIJIKATA (IPMU)
Yoshihisa OBAYASHI (IPMU)
Ayumi HAGUSA (iCeMS)
Yutaka IIJIMA (iCeMS)
David KORNHAUSER, narration (iCeMS)
Jun SAKANOUE, producer (IFReC)
Takuya IWASAKI, planning/camera/editing (Osaka University)
Sanae AITANI (I²CNER)
Mika HANAMURA (I²CNER)
Masataka ANDO (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Mitsuyuki UEDA (WPI Program Supervisor, MEXT, Japan)