Sessions:

Artificial Scientist: Use of LLMs for Data Science, Literature Review, Reviewing Articles

Planning Group Members: Mariya Toneva, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Mariko Isogawa, Keio University and Will Perkins, Georgia Tech
Introductory Speaker: Ryohei Sasano, Nagoya University
Speakers: Ilia Kuznetsov, Technical University of Darmstadt

Climate Change and its Effects on Biosphere

Planning Group Members: Verena E. Foerster-Indenhuck, University of Cologne, Haruka Takagi, University of Tokyo and Falko Judt, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Introductory Speaker: Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, FU Berlin
Speakers: Atsuko Yamazaki, Nagoya University
Daniel Gebregiorgis, Georgia State University

Extreme Life in the Ocean

Planning Group Members: Falk Butter, Friedrich Loeffler Institute,  Asuka Inoue, Kyoto University and Nikolaos Papastavrou, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
Introductory Speaker: Torben Riehl, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt
Speakers: Masaru K Nobu, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Jeff Bowman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Flatland: The Materials Science and Chemistry of Two-Dimensional Materials

Planning Group Members: Bizan N. Balzer, University of Freiburg, Emiko Kazuma, University of Tokyo and Sarah King, University of Chicago
Introductory Speaker: Alexandra Velian, University of Washington
Speakers: Eisuke Yamamoto, Nagoya University
Alwin Daus, University of Stuttgart

Flows and Pattern Formations

Planning Group Members: Uri Vool, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Gen Motojima, National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) and William Terrano, Arizona State University
Introductory Speaker: Motoki Nakata, Komazawa University
Speakers: David Vartanyan, Observatories of The Carnegie Institution for Science
Claudia Elizabeth Brunner, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

Shrinking Society in Shrinking City? How Demographic Shift Change the Lifestyles in Ageing Societies

Planning Group Members: Jessica Ordemann, German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), Kojiro Sho, University of Tokyo and Vanessa Watts, McMaster University
Introductory Speaker: Russell Weaver, Cornell University
Speakers: Takashi Aoki, Osaka University
Laura Naegele, TU Dortmund University

The Japanese-American-German Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium series is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation. Additional funding is also provided from the National Academy of Sciences.

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