Organizing Committee

Symposium Co-Chairs

Sarah E. Cowie, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada

W. Florian Fricke, Department of Microbiome and Applied Bioinformatics, Institute of Nutrition Sciences, University of Hohenheim

Teppei J. YASUNARI, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University


Planning Group Members:

Animal Linguistics: Origins and Evolution of Language

W. Florian Fricke, Department of Microbiome and Applied Bioinformatics, Institute of Nutrition Sciences, University of Hohenheim

Monica Munoz-Torres, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Masato YAMAMICHI, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

Environmental Humanities

Sarah E. Cowie, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada

Jun GOTO, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University

Sandra Kurfürst, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Cologne

Explainable and Robust Machine Learning

Simina Branzei, Computer Science, Purdue University

Sebastian Fudickar, Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Luebeck

Taiji SUZUKI, Department of Mathematical Informatics, The University of Tokyo

High-resolution Global Modeling for Weather and Climate

Kim Blisniuk, Department of Geology, San Jose State University

Kira Rehfeld, Geo- and Environmental Research Center (GUZ) University of Tuebingen

Teppei J. YASUNARI, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University

Quantum Science and Technology

Charles McCrory, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan

Akinobu NAKADA, Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

Anna Schenk, Physical Chemistry – Colloidal Systems, University of Bayreuth

The James Webb Space Telescope: from Exoplanets to Dark Energy and the

Expanding Universe

Matthew Comstock, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University

Benedikt Friess, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Yuichiro SEKIGUCHI, Department of Physics, Toho University