The 2025 Kyoto Prize Symposium to Be Held in the U.S.

Opening Ceremony and Gala (Charity Dinner)

Date：March 12, 2025 (PDT)

Lectures

Advanced Technology

Lecturer：John Pendry（the 2024 Kyoto Prize laureate / Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London）
Subject：Metamaterials, invisibility, & perfect lenses: a new world for electromagnetism
Date and time：March 12, 2025 (10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PDT)
Venue：University of California San Diego

Basic Sciences

Lecturer：Paul F. Hoffman（the 2024 Kyoto Prize laureate / Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria, Sturgis Hooper
Professor of Geology, Emeritus, Harvard University）
Subject：Dancing continents and frozen oceans: reading Earth’s diary in natural stone tablets
Date and time：March 12, 2025 (1:00 – 2:30 p.m. PDT）
Venue：University of California San Diego

Arts and Philosophy

Lecturer：William Forsythe（the 2024 Kyoto Prize laureate）
Subject：Sometimes I Kiss Flowers
Date and time：March 13, 2025 (10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PDT)
Venue：University of California San Diego

*For more details, please visit the event registration page on the KPS website .

KPS features lectures by the latest Kyoto Prize laureates and esteemed scholars in the laureates’ fields. It aims to provide an opportunity for an international audience to learn about the achievements of the laureates and to discuss their accomplishments and contribution to society. The symposium has been held since 2002, thanks to the dedicated and generous support of the Kyoto Symposium Organization, co-hosting universities (University of California San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene University), and local citizens in San Diego.