JSPS Sweden Alumni Club 20-Year Anniversary Symposium

The symposium is held at KVA, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm on Monday 2 March. We are excited that so many are coming. We are very much looking forward to what the promises to be a most interesting and productive day. Please find the necessary practical information below.   

 The JSPS Sweden Alumni Club (SAC) was established in 2005. To celebrate the Club’s 20-year anniversary, members of the Alumni Club will together with JSPS Stockholm Office, will organize a symposium, focusing on the outlook toward the 30-year milestone of the Alumni Club. The symposium is free to attend.  

The theme of the day will be to consider the fields in which Swedish–Japanese academic collaboration can grow further as the Alumni Club moves toward its next 10 years. 

Registration:

Please note that registration is possible until the 1st of March.
NOTE that Registration with allergy or dietary preference can only be made until the 18th of February.

Registration form

Additionally:

After the event, The 14th Sweden-Japan Academic Network (SJAN) Seminar is scheduled at the same venue.

We hope you will also be able to attend the afternoon seminar.
Please register from here: https://www.kva.se/evenemang/the-14th-sweden-japan-academic-network/

Program:　-20th Anniversary of SAC- 

9:30-10:00 Registration 

Chair Dr. Kazuyuki Kuroda, Director of JSPS Stockholm Office 

10:00-10:05　Greetings by Hideaki Mizukoshi, Embassy of Japan in Sweden 

10:05-10:10　Opening remarks by Akie Hoshino, Director of International Program Department of JSPS  

10:10-10:20 

• Johan Eriksson, Chair of the JSPS Sweden Alumni Club, The history and future of the JSPS Sweden Alumni Club 

<Keynote speeches > 

Chair Prof. Johan Eriksson 

10:20-10:50 

• Prof. Tetsuya Ogata, Waseda University, Open Robot Foundation Models: Advancing Towards Physical AI 

10:50-11:00　Short break 

11:00-11:20 

• Assistant Prof. Didem Gürdür Broo, Uppsala University, From Physical AI to Symbiotic Robot Ecosystems: Nature-Inspired Multi-Agent Learning 

11:20-11:40 

• Assistant Prof. Ilaria Torre, Chalmers University of Technology, Intent signaling and social understanding in Human-Robot Interaction

11:40-12:00 

• Senior Associate Prof. Elin Palm, Linköping University, Moral Agency in the Age of Autonomous Machines 

Chair Prof. Imre Pazsit and the other bord member 

12:00-12:45　Discussion on the future of the JSPS Sweden Alumni Club 

12:45-13:45　Lunch