Program (tentative)

November 29, 2000

[8:30--9:10] Registration (2nd floor)

[9:10--9:20] Opening (HAGI, 2nd floor)

Opening address: Yasuji Sawada

[9:20--10:20] SESSION I: MOLECULAR MACHINES

• Role of thermal fluctuations in fuctions of bio-molecular machines.
  T. Yanagida, Osaka University

coffee break

[10:40--12:30]

• DNA/protein interactions at the single molecule level.
  D. Bensimon, ENS
• Control and Sensing in Thermally Fluctuating Systems.
  K. Sekimoto, Kyoto University

lunch

[14:00--16:30] SESSION II: MULTI-CELLULAR BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

• Periodic Growth of Bacterial Colonies.
  M. Matushita, Chuo University

• The Physics of Collective Microorganism Patterns.
  H. Levine, UCSD

• Cell Migration and Correlated Cell Velocity.
  J. Glazier, Notre Dame University

coffee break

[17:00--18:40] SESSION III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO COMPLEX SYSTEMS

• Effects of nonlocality on the dynamics of large assemblies of oscillatory and excitable units.
  Y. Kuramoto, Kyoto University

• Geometrical Aspects on Dynamics of Learning in Neural Networks.
  S. Amari, Riken

November 30, 2000

[9:00--10:00] SESSION IV: SYNTHETIC AND REVERSE-ENGENEERING APPROACHES

• A Virus: Mediator of Encoded Protein Evolution.
  Y. Hushimi, Saitama University

coffee break

[10:20--12:10]

• Reverse-engineering of gene regulation circuits: the temproal program of E. coli flagella assembly.
  U. Alon, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot

• Life Science as Complex Systems: Constructive and inter-intra-dynamic approach to development and evolution.
  K. Kaneko, University of Tokyo

lunch

[13:30--15:20] SESSION V: PATTERN FORMATION OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

• The Importance of Being Spiral: Models and Tests of Territory Size in Slime Mold Communities.
  E. Cox, Princeton University

• Self-organized Patterns in Biological Systems from Reaction-Diffusion Modelling viewpoints.
  M. Mimura, Hiroshima University

[15:45--18:00] Poster Session (SAKURA, 2nd floor)

More than 60 posters will be presented. Space available for each poster is about 180cm wide X 120cm high.

[18:30--20:00] Banquet (SAKURA, 2nd floor)

December 1, 2000

[9:00--10:00] SESSION VI: NEURAL DYNAMICS IN BRAIN

• Information and Optimization Principles.
  W. Bialek, NEC Research Institute

coffee break

[10:20--12:20]

• Motor Selection Based on Visual, Motivational, and Numerical Signals.
  J. Tanji, Tohoku University

• Neural Dynamics in Cortical Networks: Precision and Variability.
  Ad Aertsen, Albert-Ludwigs University

lunch

[13:20--15:20] SESSION VII: MACROSCOPIC BRAIN

• Can fMRI probe fast dynamics of neural system-interaction occurring at milliseconds time scale ?
  S. Ogawa, Bell Laboratory
• Cognition-like behavior of Drosophila.
  A. Guo, CAS, Beijing

short break

[15:30--16:30]

• Physics of Structures, Functions and Living States of Biological Organism
  Y. Sawada, Tohoku University
  

[16:30] Closing