{"id":15,"date":"2022-01-04T18:09:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avh.mediapool.berlin\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:30:58","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/humboldt-frontiers-of-research.net\/jagfos\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This years\u2018 interdisciplinary Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium is dedicated to the following cutting-edge research topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ancient DNA tracing human history,\u00a0health\u00a0and adaptation\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What can one atom do? How atom-thin materials turn single atoms into powerful catalysts\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Microplastics in the oceans\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Embodied AI: From\u00a0perception\u00a0to action in the physical world\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Quantum information science\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reimaging\u00a0societies\u2018 response\u00a0to the disaster cycle<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A Planning Group comprised of six US American, six Japanese and six German researchers has developed the program for this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The symposium brings together 72 outstanding early-career researchers from various universities and research institutions in Japan, the USA, and Germany to introduce their areas of research and technical work, thus enabling an interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge and methods. Researchers working in different fields of sciences and social sciences build cross-disciplinary networks and take the opportunity to work on future international collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports collaboration between Japanese and German participants as well as between US American and German participants with its dedicated follow-up program&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.humboldt-foundation.de\/en\/apply\/sponsorship-programmes\/frontiers-of-research-symposia\/connect\">CONNECT<\/a>&nbsp;which grants residence allowances for working visits in the partner country for up to 30 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science (JAGFOS) symposia are a series of interdisciplinary conferences co-organized by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the US National Academy of Sciences and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Funding on the German side is provided by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Participation is by invitation only.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This years\u2018 interdisciplinary Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium is dedicated to the following cutting-edge research topics: A Planning Group comprised of six US American, six Japanese and six German researchers has developed the program for this event. The symposium brings together 72 outstanding early-career researchers from various universities and research institutions in Japan, the USA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humboldt-frontiers-of-research.net\/jagfos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humboldt-frontiers-of-research.net\/jagfos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humboldt-frontiers-of-research.net\/jagfos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humboldt-frontiers-of-research.net\/jagfos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humboldt-frontiers-of-research.net\/jagfos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/humboldt-frontiers-of-research.net\/jagfos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/humboldt-frontiers-of-research.net\/jagfos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humboldt-frontiers-of-research.net\/jagfos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}