To publicize RIKEN's research achievements, we hold symposia and seminars on topics of major current interest.

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Date	Title	Location
2010/10/24 - 2010/10/26	International Symposium on Plant Productivity	Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

RIKEN Symposia are listed in the table below. Please note that the title or date of the symposium may change. Click on the title of the symposium to view the program for symposia with fixed dates.
The RIKEN Symposia are intended as a medium for disseminating the results of RIKEN's research to a broad audience and are therefore open to the public. Additionally, abstracts of the symposia are donated to the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to be included in the JST JDreamⅡpublications database.

Note: The entrance of the building on the RIKEN Wako campus are locked (except the Hirosawa Club and the Welfare and Conference Building). You will need to scan a RIKEN entry permit (IC card) to enter buildings. Please register and receive an entry permit at the guard station near the gate when you arrive at RIKEN.

Date	Language	Title	Laboratory in charge	Co-sponsoring organization
2010/10/12-13	Japanese	11th Extreme Photonics Symposium	Extreme Photonics Research Group
2010/10/26-27	Japanese/English	Chemical Biology Symposium	Chemical Biology Department
2010/10/29	English	Recent Advance of Genetic bone and joint diseases	Laboratory for Bone and Joint Diseases
2010/10/29	Japanese	Advances in Micro-Fabrication Technologies and Research Activities	Materials Fabrication Laboratory
2010/11/11-12	Japanese	Beam Physics Meeting 2010	Accelerator Group
2010/11/12	Japanese	6th RIKEN Symposium on New Frontiers of Organometallic Chemistry	Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory
2010/11/25	Japanese/English	8th Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Symposium	Metamaterials Laboratory
2010/12/1	Japanese/English	Dynamics hydration structure and molecular processes	Chemical Dynamics Laboratory
2010/12/2	Japanese	Frontiers on Chemistry and Analytical Technology (XI)	Molecular Characterization Team
2010/12/3	Japanese	Expanding Field of Atomic and Molecular Physics	Atomic Molecular & Optical Physics Laboratory
2010/12/16	Japanese	Computational Biomechanics	Organ and Body Scale Team
2010/12/17	Japanese	Trends in Microbial Researches and Supporting BioResources	Microbe Division (RIKEN BRC JCM)
2011/1/21	Japanese	Chemistry of Biomolecules	Synthetic Cellular Chemistry Laboratory
2011/1/25	Japanese	Recent development and forward on "Pass on Skills" in material fabrication field	Materials Fabrication Laboratory
2010/3/2-3	Japanese	VCAD System Research 2010	VCAD System Research Program
2010/3/3	Japanese	Trend of high performance computing technology	Advanced Center for Computing and Communication
2011/3/17	Japanese	Can film device innovate energy conversion?	Film Device Materials Research Laboratory
2010/3/Undetermined	Japanese	6th RIKEN Symposium on Bio-Fabrication	Nano Medical Engineering Laboratory	The Chemical Society of Japan, The Society of Polymer Sicence, Japan, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, The Japanese Biochemical Society, The Society of Biotechnology, Japan, The Biophysical Society of Japan, Japanese Society for Biomaterials, The Japan Society of Drug Delivery System, Japanese Society for Artificial Organs

Laboratories occasionally hold RIKEN Seminars for talks and discussions in their areas of specialty. RIKEN seminars currently scheduled are listed in the table below. Please call the telephone number listed under "Contact" if you would like to attend the seminar. Please note that the title or date of the seminar may change.

Note: The entrance of the building on the RIKEN Wako campus are locked (except the Hirosawa Club and the Welfare and Conference Building). You will need to scan a RIKEN entry permit (IC card) to enter buildings. Please register and receive an entry permit at the guard station near the gate when you arrive at RIKEN.

Date	Language	Title	Speaker	Location	Contact
Monday, Sept. 6, 2010 13:30-15:00	Japanese	Holographic Description of Spatially Modulated Phase Transition	Prof. Hiroshi Ooguri (California Institute of Technology, USA)	Meeting Room 248, Main Building 2F	Mathematical Physics Laboratory Tel.: 048-462-4442
Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 13:30-15:00	English	Synthetic studies on bioactive natural products	Dr. Joji Hayashida (Bioorganic Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA)	Conference Room (S-507), 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building	Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory Tel.: 048-467-9376
Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 14:00-16:00	English	Molecular mechanisms and spectroscopy in OLEDs	Prof. N. Periasamy (Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)	Conference Room (S-507), 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building	Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory Tel.: 048-467-7928
Monday, Sept. 13, 2010 14:00-15:00	English	Quantum phase transitions of polaritons in coupled-cavity/circuit QED systems	Dr. Sebastian Schmidt (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)	Meeting and Seminar Room (435,437), 4F Main Building	Digital Materials Team Tel.: 048-467-9681
Monday, Sept. 13, 2010 14:00-15:00	English	Toward quantum simulation using trapped ions	Dr. Kenji Toyoda (Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University)	227, Main Building	Computational Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory Tel.: 048-462-4485
Monday, Sept. 13, 2010 16:00-17:30	English	How to see Majorana edge fermions in terms of electron spin resonances?	Dr. Ryuichi Shindou (Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory, RIKEN)	Conference Room (S-507), 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building	Low Temperature Physics Laboratory Tel.: 048-467-9328
Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 17:45-18:30	Japanese	Intriguing Molecules Pioneer a New Field in Science	Prof. Daisuke Uemura (Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University)	Meeting Room (L), 2F Welfare and Conference Building	Collaboration Promotion Team Tel.: 048-467-9541
Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010 13:30-15:00	English	On the divergence of the sheet resistivity in graphene and its connection to Kekule induced by a magnetic field	Dr. Christopher Mudry (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)	Meeting and Seminar Room (435,437), 4F Main Building	Condensed-Matter Theory Laboratory Tel.: 048-467-1369
Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010 13:30-16:00	English	Some Aspects of the Structure of Exotic Nuclei	Dr. Augusto O. Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)	Nishina Hall	Radioactive Isotope Physics Laboratory Tel.: 048-462-1111; (ext.) 4752
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010 15:00-16:00	Japanese	Sensing applications in both of Millimeter-wave and Terahertz-wave regions	Prof. Koji Mizuno (Research Institute of Electrical communication, Tohoku University)	Seminer room, Sendai Facility	Sendai Research Promaotion Office Tel.: 022-228-2111; (ext.) 2217