Perception
6th Japanese-German Symposium
jointly organized by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.
Date: May 11–12, 2001
Venue: TREFF Hotel Rheingold Bayreuth, Austraße 2/Unteres Tor, 95445 Bayreuth, Germany
The symposium lectures were published as Conference Proceedings No. 3.
Program
Friday May 11, 2001
Moderation: Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki (Chairman of Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.)
13.30 Welcoming Remarks
14.00 Prof. Dr. Keiji Tanaka (RIKEN Brain Science Institute):
Brain mechanisms of Object Recognition
15.00 Prof. Dr. Birger Kollmeier (Medical Physics, University of Oldenburg):
Cocktail Parties and Hearing Aids: Neurosensory analysis of the auditory system and its applications
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Prof. Dr. Jun'ichi Tsujii (Department of Information Science, University of Tokyo):
Computational Approach to Natural Language Processing
17.30 Break
18.00 Guided walking-tour, sight-seeing in Bayreuth
19.30 Reception / Dinner Stadthalle Bayreuth, Friedrichstraße, 95444 Bayreuth
Saturday May 12, 2001
09.00 Dr. Achim Hassel: Active Promotion – Report of the Working-group JSPS-Postdoc-Promotion
09.30 Prof. Dr. Ingo Rentschler (Institute of medical Psychology, University of München):
Cognitive Psychophysics: A Machine Vision Approach to Human Image Understanding
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Prof. Dr. Nobutaka Hirokawa (Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Tokyo):
Molecular Motors, "Kinesin Superfamily Proteins, KIFs", Key Molecules for Neuronal Function: From Gene, Structure, Dynamics to Function and Disease
12.00 Prof. Dr. Josef Kreiner (Research Unit 'Modern Japan', University of Bonn):
Japan-Germany – Some Thoughts on Mutual Reflection
13.00 Lunch
14.30–16.30 Annual Assembly, Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.