The 2015 Kyoto Prize Workshops

Formations Mechanisms of Planetary Systems and the Quest for Earth-Twins

Michel Mayor

/　　Astrophysicist

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

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2015

11 /12 Thu

11:00 - 17:15

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

11:00

Opening Address	Humitaka Sato (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
Introduction of Laureate	Shoken Miyama

11:10

Laureate’s Lecture	Michel Mayor (Laureate in Basic Sciences) “Doppler Spectroscopy as a Path to the Detection of Earth-like Planets”

12:00

Intermission

13:00

Lecture	Bun’ei Sato (Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology) “Searching for Exoplanets at Okayama and Subaru”

13:40

Lecture	Motohide Tamura (Professor, the University of Tokyo) “Subaru Observations of Exoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks”

14:20

Lecture	Eiichiro Kokubo (Professor, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) “Simulating Formation of Planetary Systemse”

15:00

Intermission

15:15

Lecture	Shigeru Ida (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology) “Origins of Diversity and Ubiquity of Exoplanets”

15:55

Lecture	Tetsuo Hasegawa (Director, NAOJ Chile Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) “ALMA Discoveries on Planet Formation”

16:35

Lecture	Yasushi Suto (Professor, the University of Tokyo) “Beyond a Pale Blue Dot”

17:15

Closing

Laureates

Michel Mayor

Astrophysicist

Dr. Mayor answered a fundamental age-old question of astronomy regarding the existence of exoplanets by discovering the first one orbiting a Sun–like star. This achievement was facilitated by his continuous refinement and improvement of observation technology, including the development of a series of spectrographs. His continuing contributions have revealed the diversity of exoplanets, opening an entirely new field of research.

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date: Thursday, November 12, 2015
place: Kyoto International Conference Center
Coordinators: Shoken Miyama (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)

: Organized by Inamori Foundation
: Supported by Kyoto Prefectural Government, Kyoto City Government, NHK
: With the cooperation of The Astronomical Society of Japan, The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences, and The Physical Society of Japan