Newsletter No.4 October-1998



*Date and time :November 25(Wed.),1998.10:00 - 17:00
*Place:Heart-inn Nogizaka Kempo-Kaikan/Big hall
1-24-4 Minami-aoyama,Minato-ku,Tokyo One minute walk
from Nogizaka station(Subway/Chiyoda Line)
*Entrance fee:free,seating capacity:300

*Program
*Opening address by host10:00 - 10:05
*Address by guest10:05 - 10:10
*Special lecture
"Earth Environmental Issues-Harmony between natural science and politics"
Laboratory Director Shohei Yonemoto:Mitsubishi Chemistry Inc./Life Science Institute/Laboratory for socio-life science		10:10 - 11:10
*"Present state of the Frontier Research System for Global Change"
Director-General Dr.Taroh Matsuno:Frontier Research System for Global Change		11:10 - 11:50
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11:50 - 13:00
*Keynote Lecture
"Toward the Prediction of Atmospheric Composition Change"
Professor Hajime Akimoto :University of Tokyo / Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology,and Program Director-to-be of the Atmospheric Composition Research Program,the FRSGC		13:00 - 13:40
*"Circulation of the Green Effect Gases"
Professor Takakiyo Nakazawa:Tohoku University/Faculty of Science/Graduate School of Physical Science		13:40 - 14:20
*"Airplane exhaust gas and Tropospheric Ozone"
Professor Yutaka Kondoh:Nagoya University/Solar Terrestrial Environment Laboratory/Atmospheric Environment Group		14:20 - 15:00
*"Aerosol and its climatical effect"
Associate Professor Mitsuo Uematsu : The University of Tokyo/Ocean Research Institute/The Center for International Cooperation		15:00 - 15:40
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15:40 - 15:50
*Panel Discussion
"Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Atmospheric Pollution":
Matsuno (M.C.),Yonemoto,Akimoto,Nakazawa,Kondoh,Uematsu		15:50 - 16:50
*Closing speech by host16:50 - 17:00

The FRSGC invited applications for the researchers of FRSGC in FY 1998 from June 9 through August 31.There were 68 applicants from Japan and abroad.The detailed results of this application are shown in the right figure.

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