Program of Conference “Women in STEM”
August 4 (Monday)
13:30 Welcome message Jun-ichi Yokoyama (Director of Kavli IPMU)
Opening message Junko Hibiya (Vice President of Science Council of Japan)
13:40-14:10 Frances Separovic (Australian Academy of Science/University of Melbourne) Supporting and increasing the visibility of women in science
14:20-14:50 Supawan Tantayanon (The Science Society of Thailand Under the Patronage of His Majesty the King/Chulalongkorn University)
Women in STEM and Small-Scale Chemistry: Empowering Change through Innovation and Inclusion
--- Group Photo & Tea time ---
15:40-16:10 Aura Castillo Matias (National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines/University of the Philippines)
Advancing Human Resource Development for Women in Science and Engineering in the Philippines
16:20-16:50 Suchana Chavanich (The Science Society of Thailand Under the Patronage of His Majesty the King/Chulalongkorn University)
Breaking Waves: Empowering Women in Marine Science in Thailand
August 5 (Tuesday)
10:00 -10:30 So Young Sohn (The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)/Yonsei University)
Strategies for Utilizing Highly Experienced Korean Women Scientists and Engineers in an Era of Population Decline
--- Coffee time ---
10:50-11:20 Nadira Karunaweera (National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka/University of Colombo)
Gender gap in research and development in Sri Lanka
11:30-12:00 Kadriye Arzum Erdem Gürsan (Turkish Academy of Sciences/ Ege University)
Turkish Women in Science and Technology: Current Status and Empowering Strategies
--- Lunch time ---
13:40-14:10 Gunakeshari Pradhan Manandhar (Nepal Academy of Science and Technology/Women in Information Technology)
Barriers to Breakthroughs: Women in Nepal's Information and Communication Technology's Landscape
14:20-14:50 Bushra Ateeq (Indian National Science Academy/Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Indian Women in STEM: Catalysts for Change and Innovation
--- Tea time ---
15:40-16:10 Natalia Varlamova (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Women in Science in Russia
16:20-16:50 Aliya Naheed (Bangladesh Academy of Sciences/International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research)
Challenges of building research career in biomedical sciences and way forward: women perspective of a low- and middle-income country in South Asia
--- Conference dinner ---
August 6 (Wednesday)
10:00-10:30 Elizabeth Oda（Women in Science Japan）
Six years of Women in Science Japan: Lessons on community-building, mentorship, and professional development
--- Coffee time ---
10:50-11:20 Kazuya Masu（The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)/ Previous President of Tokyo Institute of Technology）
Opening Doors to Diversity: Gender Reform at Tokyo Tech (now Science Tokyo)
11:30-12:00 Motoko Kotani（Science Council of Japan/CWM/Vice President of Tohoku University）
Women in Math
--- Lunch time ---
13:00-15:00 Movie “Marguerite’s Theorem”
--- Tea time ---
15:40-17:00 Free discussion
Organizers: Yukari Ito(Kavli IPMU, Science Council of Japan, WISE),
Elisa Ferreira (Kavli IPMU)
Anamaria Hell (Kavli IPMU)
This conference is supported by
1. Science Council of Japan
2. The Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia
3. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo
