The Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA), one of the regional networks of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and of which the Science Council of Japan is a member, has established Special Committees to address specific themes. Among these, the WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Committee engages in activities aimed at promoting science education and advancing the participation of women in science and engineering within the Asia-Pacific region.
On this occasion, the 3rd AASSA WISE Symposium will be held in Japan. The symposium will provide a forum to discuss initiatives supporting women researchers in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields, and to exchange views on the current status of women researchers in STEM across the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the event will aim to build a lasting network among women researchers and to share mentoring practices and support measures to further promote their active engagement.
☆Here are reports from the 2nd AASSA-WISE symposium and you can see some Japanese situations by the paper by Yukari Ito. https://transactions.nast.ph/?p=3727
☆This conference will be held hybrid (in person and online) and start at 13:30 on August 4th.
☆The conference dinner for participants will be August 5th evening.
☆There will be a movie show on August 6th 13:00-15:00 "Marguerite's Theorem". (In person, only!)
The first screening in Japan of the movie "Marguerite"s Theorem" is the result of a French-Japan AHGT initiative [LINK], in collaboration with "Institut Francais du Kansai Kyoto" [LINK] to promote women's participation in mathematics.
☆Please register here to attend this conference by July 31. If you need any supports like a childcare, a visa and so on, let us know before July 15.
Invited Speakers:
- Junko Hibiya (SCJ)
- Frances Separarovic (WISE, Australia)
- Supawan Tantayanon (WISE, Thailand)
- Aura Castillo Matias (WISE, Philippines)
- So Youn Sohn (WISE, South Korea)
- Nadira Karunaweera (WISE, Sri Lanka)
- Bushra Ateeq (WISE, India)
- Aliya Naheed (WISE, Bangladesh)
- Gunakeshari Pradhan Manandhar (WISE, Nepal)
- Natalia Varlamova (WISE, Russia)
- Kadriye Arzum Erdem Gursan (WISE, Turkey)
- Suchana Chavanich (WISE, Thailand)
- Elizabeth Oda (Women in Science Japan)
- Kazuya Masu (The National Instiute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
- Motoko Kotani (SCJ, Tohoku University)
Organizers:
- Yukari Ito (SCJ, WISE, Kavli IPMU)
- Elisa Ferreira (Kavli IPMU)
- Anamaria Hell (Kavli IPMU)
Sponsors: This conference is supported by
- The Science Council of Japan (SCJ) (to be confirmed)
- The Association of Academies and Sosieteis of Sciences of Asia (AASSA)
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) at the University of Tokyo
