Photo by Hiroaki Kono
Information [Oct. 25, 2019 Updated]
The EU Delegation is hosting a photo exhibition that brings together two unique portrait collections: “Women of Mathematics throughout Europe” and “Female Mathematicians in Japan”.
Date: Thursday, 10 October – Friday, 1 November (*Mondays to Fridays only, closed on public holidays)
Time: 10:00 – 17:00 (Last admission on final day will be at 12:00)
Venue: Delegation of the European Union to Japan, 4-6-28 Minami-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan [Access]
Registration: No need for prior registration, but those wishing to see this combined exhibition must provide a photo ID (driver's license or passport) in exchange of a visitor badge and sign a guest book to enter the venue.
WEB site: Delegation of the European Union to Japan Web site
Report: Delegation of the European Union to Japan Report
Time Schedule [Oct. 25, 2019 Updated]
- Master of ceremony: Yoshiaki Maeda (Vice-Director, Tohoku Forum for Creativity, Tohoku University)
- 14:00 – 14:05
- Opening remarks
- Patricia Flor (Ambassador of the European Union to Japan)
- 14:05 – 14:10
- Opening remarks
- Kenichi Bannai (Suri-Joshi / Professor, Department of Mathematics, Keio University)
- 14:10 – 14:20
- Speech
- Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (President of European Research Council)
- 14:20 – 14:25
- Welcome address
- Tomohide Terasoma (President of the Mathematical Society of Japan)
- 14:25 – 14:55
- Shihoko Ishii (Tsinghua University)
- Mathematics, Wonderland, My Way
- 14:55 – 15:25
- Simona Settepanella (Hokkaido University)
- Gender Equality in STEM: From Personal Experiences to Issues for Society
- 15:25 – 15:55
- Maria Leptin (Director of EMBO)
- Efforts and Progress Towards Achieving Fair Representation of Men and Women
- 15:55 – 16:00
- Closing remarks
- Gediminas Ramanauskas (First Counsellor, Head of Science, Innovation, Digital, and Other EU Policies Section, Delegation of the European Union to Japan)
- 16:00 – 16:15
- Break
- 16:15 – 17:15
- Networking
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