2008/10/21 (Tuesday)
1 9:00 – 9:15 Opening Speech
Kazuo Nishimura (Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University) Video —
2 9:10 – 9:50 Masatoshi Murase (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)
“What is Creativity?” Video PDF
3 10:00 – 11:00 Harald Atmanspacher (Instituts für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V.)
“Biographical Sources and Systematic Studies of Aspects of Creative Work in Science” Video PDF
4 11:20 – 12:00 Yasuko Takezawa (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
“Challenging a Western Paradigm: Questioning “Race” from a Japanese Viewpoint” Video PDF
5 13:30 – 14:30 Mark S. Blumberg (University of Iowa)
“Developing Creations and Creating Development” Video —
14:40 – 15:40 Challenging Session
6 14:40 – 15:00 Trevisan Cynthia (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis)
“Creativity in Science: Theoretical Predictions in Chemical and Biological Physics” Video PDF
7 15:00 – 15:20 Krishan Kapilanjan (Universite de Marne-la-Vallee)
“Potential universal mechanisms for stress focusing in experimental non-equilibrium fluid flows” Video PDF
8 15:20 – 15:40 West Jevin (Department of Biology, University of Washington)
“Measuring Interdisciplinarity: A Flow Cite-ometry Approach” Video PDF
9 16:00 – 16:40 Naoko Tosa (Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University)
“Cultural computing” Video —
10 17:00 – 18:00 Ludwik Leibler (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique)
“Self-healing rubbers via supramolecular assembly” — —
2008/10/22 (Wednesday)
1 9:00 – 10:00 Shigeru Miyagawa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“The Human Linguistic System Engenders Creativity Through Recursive Operations” Video PDF
2 10:30 – 11:30 Adrian David Cheok (National University of Singapore)
“Feeling Communication: Social and Physical Interactive Communication and Entertainment” Video —
3 13:30 – 14:00 Agladze Konstantin (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Science, Kyoto University)
“How chemical waves could help us to heal?” Video —
4 14:10 – 15:00 Shunichi Noma (Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
“Creativity in Pathology — On Dissociation and Questions of the Self-Existence” Video PDF
15:20 – 16:40 Challenging Session
5 15:20 – 15:35 Shu-ichi Kinoshita (Niigata University)
“Statistical properties of the rugged fitness landscape in the NK-Kauffman model with scale-free topology” Video —
6 15:35 – 15:50 Taizo Kobayashi, Toshiya Takami (Research Institute for Inf. Tech., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan), Kin’ya Takahashi (The Physics Lab., Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan), Ryota Mibu (Grad. School of Inf. Sci. and Elec. Eng., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan), and Mutsumi Aoyagi (Research Institute for Inf. Tech., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
“Multi-dynamics approach with scale itinerancy” Video —
7 15:50 – 16:05 Tsuyoshi Hondou (Department of Physics, Tohoku University)
“Music as a material for scientific literacy: Universality and diversity” Video PDF
8 16:05 – 16:40 Arno Suzuki (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
“Improvisation – A Few Notes in Music” — —
9 16:40 – 16:55 Brief Comments on This Workshop
Mark S. Blumberg (University of Iowa)
Adrian David Cheok (National University of Singapore)
Ludwik Leibler (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique)
Shigeru Miyagawa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Video —
10 16:55 – 17:00 Closing Address
Masatoshi Murase (YITP, Kyoto University) Video —