The 2005 Laureates / Basic Sciences Category / Biological Sciences (Evolution, Behavior, Ecology, Environment)

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Simon Asher Levin

U.S.A. / April 22, 1941
Ecologist; Professor at Princeton University

Workshop

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Symposium:Biosphere as a Complex Adaptive System

Coordinator and Moderator
Yoh Iwasa (Chairman, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University)

1:00
Opening Address
Toshitaka Hidaka
(Chairman, Kyoto Prize Committee; Director-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)
 
Introduction to Laureate
Yoh Iwasa
 
Laureate Lecture
Simon Asher Levin (the Laureate in Basic Science)
"Learning to Live in a Global Commons: Socioeconomic Challenges for a Sustainable Environment"
 
Lecture
Nanako Shigesada
(Professor, Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University)
"Spatial Dynamics in Ecology"
 
Intermission
 
Lecture
Norio Yamamura
(Professor, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University)
"Evolution of Interspecific Interaction and Stability of Biological Community"
 
Lecture
Akio Takenaka
(Team Leader, Biodiversity Conservation Research Project Group, National Institute for Environmental Studies)
"Patterns in Forest Ecosystems and Processes at the Tree Level"
 
Lecture
Mayuko Nakamaru
(Associate Professor, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
"Social Sciences and Ecology"
5:00
Closing