Event Report/International Symposium on Innovation of Energy Storage Device by Interdisciplinary Synergy

Event Report

FIRST International Symposium
"Innovation of Energy Storage Device by Interdisciplinary Synergy"

The symposium was concluded with great success.

The FIRST International Symposium on Innovation of Energy Storage Device by Interdisciplinary Synergy was held at Takeda Hall, the University of Tokyo on 17-18 January 2013 as one of the dissemination activities under the FIRST Program on "Innovative Basic Research Toward Creation of High-performance Battery" (Core Researcher: Professor Noritaka Mizuno, Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo).

The leading scientists from abroad and the project members were invited as speakers / panelists including Mr. Masanori Ikeda, President of Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd., and Prof. M. Stanley Whittingham, State University of New York at Binghamton. The symposium brought together a total of about 420 participants and ended on a high note.

Thank you very much for your participation and cooperation.

Speakers (in order of appearance)

<Opening Remarks> Noritaka Mizuno The University of Tokyo	<Plenary Lecture> Masanori Ikeda Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.	Kisuk Kang Seoul National University	Claude Delmas Université Bordeaux 1
Jean-Marie Tarascon Université de Picardie Jules Verne	Hideki Oki Toyota Motor Corporation	Itaru Honma Tohoku University	Atsuo Yamada The University of Tokyo
Jinghua Guo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Ying S. Meng University of California, San Diego	Robert Kostecki Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Masaharu Oshima The University of Tokyo
Yuichi Ikuhara The University of Tokyo	<Keynote Lecture> M. Stanley Whittingham State University of New York at Binghamton	Linda Nazar University of Waterloo	Peter G. Bruce University of St Andrews
Mitsuhiro Hibino The University of Tokyo	Haoshen Zhou Advanced Industrial Science and Technology	Amy L. Prieto Colorado State University	Yet-Ming Chiang Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Takashi Kato The University of Tokyo	Takuzo Aida The University of Tokyo	Toshiya Saito Toyota Motor Corporation

Panel Discussion

Audience

Thank you very much for your participation and cooperation.