The 1991 Laureates / Basic Sciences Category / Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Edward Norton Lorenz

U.S.A. / May 23, 1917-2008
Meteorologist; Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Workshop

Forum "From Weather Forecasting to Chaos"

Organization Members:
Masaya Yamamoto (Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University)
Ryozaburo Yamamoto (Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Basic Sciences; Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
Isamu Hirota (Professor, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University)
Humitaka Sato (Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Basic Sciences; Professor, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University)

13:10
Greetings
Kazuo Inamori
President, The Inamori Foundation
 
Opening Remarks
Heisuke Hironaka
Chairman, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Basic Sciences;
Professor, Harvard University
13:20 
Chairperson:Ryozaburo Yamamoto
 
Introduction of the Laureate
Isamu Hirota
13:30 
Lecture
Edward Norton Lorenz
Laureate in Basic Sciences
"How Good Can Weather Forecasting Become?–The Start of a Theory"
14:15 
Chairperson:Isamu Hirota
 
Lecture
Shigeo Yoden
Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
"Local Lyapunov Stability and Atmospheric Predictability"
15:00 
Lecture
Hiroshi Kokubu
Lecturer, Faculty of Sciences, Kyoto University
"Bifurcations of Homoclinic and Heteroclinic Orbits and Chaos"
15:35
Intermission
 
15:50
Chairperson:Humitaka Sato
 
Lecture
Yasuji Sawada
Professor, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University
"Chaos in Thermal Convection"
16:35 
Lecture
Ichiro Tsuda
Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology
"Chaotic Computation in Biological Systems"
17:10
Closing Remarks
Masaya Yamaguchi
17:25 
Closing
 

Workshop Abstract(PDF)