(Sessions in alphabetical order)
Animal Linguistics: Origins and Evolution of Language
Planning Group Members: W. Florian Fricke, Monica Munoz-Torres, Masato Yamamichi
Introduction to the Session
Animal Linguistics: Origins and Evolution of Language: Some Things Never Change: An Ethological Approach to Investigating The Origins of Humpback Whale Vocal Behavior
Michelle Fournet, University of New Hampshire
Speakers:
Linking Communication and Cooperation – Lessons from the Naked Mole-Rat
Alison Barker, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Animal Linguistics: Exploring Elements of Language in Non-Human Species
Toshitaka Suzuki, The University of Tokyo
Environmental Humanities
Planning Group Members: Sarah E. Cowie, Jun Goto, Sandra Kurfürst
Introduction to the Session
Environmental Humanities
Jun Goto, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Speakers:
Food, Water and the Climate Crisis: The Micropolitics of Sustainability in Cape Town, South Africa
Katharina Gröne, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy
Climate Justice through Indigenous Land Rights
Jessica Hernandez, Landesa
Explainable and Robust Machine Learning
Planning Group Members: Simina Branzei, Sebastian Fudickar, Taiji Suzuki
Introduction to the Session
Explainable and Robust Machine Learning
Wojciech Samek, Technical University of Berlin
Speakers:
Robust Machine Learning under Distribution Shifts
Han Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On Multiplicity of Explanation
Satoshi Hara, Osaka University
High-Resolution Global Modeling for Weather and Climate
Planning Group Members: Kim Blisniuk, Kira Rehfeld, Teppei J. Yasunari
Introduction to the Session
Towards Global “Cloud-Resolving” Simulation of Weather and Climate
Tomoki Miyakawa, The University of Tokyo
Speakers:
Improving Tropical Weather and Climate Predictions with Global Cloud-Resolving Models
Falko Judt, National Center for Atmospheric Research
The Coupling of Motion and Moisture Fields from Cloud Scales to Global Scales
Claudia Stephan, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Quantum Science and Technology
Planning Group Members: Charles McCrory, Akinobu Nakada, Anna Schenk
Introduction to the Session
Quantum Science and Technology
Uri Vool, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Speakers:
Molecular Quantum Information Science with Electron Spins
Ryan G. Hadt, California Institute of Technology
Solving Chemistry Problems on a Quantum Computer
Kenji Sugisaki, Keio University
The James Webb Space Telescope: from Exoplanets to Dark Energy and the
Expanding Universe
Planning Group Members: Matthew Comstock, Benedikt Friess, Yuichiro Sekiguchi
Introduction to the Session
Rewriting the History of our Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope
Katherine E. Whitaker, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Speakers:
Exoplanet Science in the Era of JWST
Yui Kawashima, RIKEN
Exploring the Dark Cosmos through Gravitational Lensing and the James Webb Space Telescope
Sherry Suyu, Technical University of Munich