Purpose
The formation of an international network for Circular Economy (CE), is an important goal of this initiative. Information will be exchanged on the status of CE construction in Asia Oceania, Europe and the United States, and the role of the SR facility as an international hub will be discussed.
Events
DAY1
Evening Welcome Session & Individual meetings
DAY2
Opening Session
Asia Oceania Session I, USA Session, EURO Session
Poster/Exhibition Session
Banquet
DAY3
Asia Oceania Session II & Synchrotron Radiation
Poster/Exhibition Session
Panel Discussion
Press Conference
Joint Forum 5th AOBA SUMMIT (International Forum for Innovation in Next Generation Synchrotron Radiation)
- October 23-25, 2023
- Sendai Kokusai Hotel, Sendai, Miyagi,Japan
- 17+ Speakers from Asia Oceania, Europe, USA
- Host: SIP Circular economy system, Tohoku Univ
- Co-Host: QST, PhoSIC
- Sponsor: MEXT, AOFSRR
Room 01
01
- 19:00 -
- October 23, 2023
Evening Welcome Session
Welcome: Hideo Ohno (President of Tohoku University)
Shigeo Koyasu (President of QST）
Speech： Richard Garrett (Secretary-Treasurer, AOFSRR Asia Oceania Forum for Synchrotron Radiation Research)
Closing: Kohzo Ito (Program Director of CE, SIP)
*Chair: Daichi Chiba (Director of SRIS, Tohoku University Japan)
Individual Meetings
As needed, individual meetings will be conducted for pre-symposium opinion alignment.
Room 02
01
- 9:00 - 9:30
- October 24, 2023
Opening Session
*Chair : Jerome Hastings (SLAC National Lab., USA)
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15 – 9:30 Congratulatory Speeches by Guests of Honor
Room 02
02
- 9:30 - 12:45
- October 24, 2023
Asia Oceania Session I
*Chair: Stephen Streiffer (Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
9:30 - 10:00 SIP-Circular Economy Project of Japan
Prof. Tomonaga Okabe (Tohoku University, JAPAN)
10:00 - 10:30 Circular Economy Research at National Taiwan University-Plastic Wastes as an Example
Prof. Ru-Jong Jeng (Advanced Research Center for Green Materials Science and Technology, Taiwan)
10:30 – 11:00 Applied Circularity in Revegetation and Construction Materials - Industry of the Future Now
Letiscia Xavier( Director & Chief Scientist, Vital Chemical)
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
*Chair: Hideki Komatsu (Fellow, Bridgestone Corporation, Japan)
11:15 - 11:45 Micro and Nano Scale Investigations to Create Novel Waste Derived Construction Materials for a Circular Economy
Prof. Sujeeva Setunge (Royal Melbourne Institute Technology: RMIT, Australia)
11:45 ‐ 12:15 The Impact of Radiation Processing in Plastic Waste Recycling and Reutilization
Prof. Jordan Madrid (Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, PNRI, Philippine ）
12:15 - 12:45 Vitrimers: Next Generation Reusable Plastics
Prof. Matthieu Gresil (Monash University, Australia)
Foyer
03
- 12:45 - 15:00
- October 24, 2023
Lunch & Poster/Exhibition Session
Room 02
04
- 15:00 - 16:00
- October 24, 2023
USA Session
*Chair : Sujeeva Setunge (Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Innovation Director, ARC TREMS hub, RMIT)
15:00 - 15:30 A New Energy Economy enabled through the Design of Circularity in Products and Feedstocks
Prof. Cynthia J Jenks (Associate Lab. Director for Physical Sciences, Oak Ridge National Lab., USA)
15:30 - 16:00 Circular Economy & SR Facilities in US
Prof. Laurent Chapon (Director of APS, USA)
Room 02
05
- 16:00 - 17:30
- October 24, 2023
EURO Session
*Chair : Chair : Prof. Misuzu Asari(Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (GSGES) Kyoto Universiy)
16:00 - 16:30 DESY-KTH-cooperation in circular economy research
Prof. Dr. Stephan Roth(DESY, Hamburg, & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
16:30 – 17:00 Circular Economy at LEAPS Facilities
Jean Daillant (Director of SOLEIL, LEAPS Chair, France)
17:00 - 17:30 ESRF Challenge to drive a sustainable society
Francesco Sette ( Director General, ESRF, EU)
Room 02
06
- 17:00 - 17:40
- October 24, 2023
DAY2 Summary
17:30 - 17:35 Day2 Wrap-up
Tomonaga Okabe
17:35 - 17:40 Closing Remarks
Daisuke Kawakami（Deputy Director General for Science, Cabinet Office of Japan)
Room 03
07
- 18:00 - 21:00
- October 24, 2023
Banquet
*Chair: Takafumi Aoki (Tohoku University ,Executive Vice President for Strategic Planning, Provost)
fee：10,000 yen
Welcome Address: Hideo Ohno (Tohoku University)
Room 02
08
- 9:00 - 12:30
- October 25, 2023
Asia Oceania Session II & Synchrotron Radiation
*Chair : Toshiaki Yoshioka (Tohoku University Japan)
9:00 - 9:30 Advanced Concrete Technology Including Opportunities for Synchrotron Based R&D Towards Net Zero
Prof. Priyan Mendis (University of Melbourne, Australia)
9:30 - 10:00 Circular Economy Challenges and Opportunities:
An Approach from Policy Development to New Technologies and Business Models for Construction and Demolition
Waste Recycling in Vietnam.
Prof. Nguyen Hoang Giang（Hanoi University of Civil Engineerring, Vietnam)
10:00 - 10:30 Supporting Thailand's Bio-Circular-Green (BCG) Economic Strategey with Synchrotron Radiation.
Dr. Prapong Klysubun（Deputy Director of Synchrotron Light Research Institute, Thailand)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
*Chair : Richard Garrett (ANSTO, Australia)
10:45 - 11:15 Synchrotron Activities towards the Circular Economy in Singapore
Prof. Yang Ping (Deputy Director of Singapore Synchrotron Light Source, NUS)
11:15 ‐ 11:45 Circular Economy Research at the Australian Synchrotron – from Plastics to Critical Minerals
Prof. Michael James (Director of Australian Synchrotron)
11:45 - 12:15 Circular Economy & NanoTerasu; New Synchrotron Radiation Facility of Japan
Prof. Masaki Takata (Tohoku University, Japan)
Foyer
09
- 12:15 - 13:30
- October 25, 2023
Lunch & Poster/Exhibition Session
Room 02
10
- 13:30 - 14:30
- October 25, 2023
Panel Discussion
*Chair : Jerome Hastings (SLAC National Lab., USA)
Panels:
Kohzo Ito (Program Director of SIP-CE of Japan)
Cynthia J Jenks (Oak Ridge National Lab., USA)
Sujeeva Setunge (RMIT, Australia)
Tom Kuczynski （Delegation EU Japan）
Tomonaga Okabe (Tohoku University, JAPAN)
Room 03
11
- 15:00 - 16:00
- October 25, 2023
Press Conference
Hideo Ohno (President of Tohoku University)
Jerome Hastings (SLAC National Laboratory, USA)
Kohzo Ito (Program Director of SIP-CE of Japan)
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- 16:30 - 18:30
- October 25, 2023
Joint Forum: 5th AOBA SUMMIT (International Forum for Innovationin Next Generation Synchrotron Radiation)
16:30 – 18:30 “What SR Facility Can Do for CE” （Closed Meeting）
Host: Hideo Ohno (President of Tohoku University)
Symposium Chair: Jerome Hastings (SLAC, USA)
co-Chair: Shigeo Koyasu (Presitent of QST)
Hosts
Kozo Ito
(SIP*: Japan)
Hideo Ohno
(Tohoku Univ. Japan)
Co-Host
Shigeo Koyasu
(President, QST, Japan)
Supervisors
Akira Sudo
(Executive Director in charge of SIP, Cabinet Office of Japan）
Daisuke Kawakami
(Deputy Director General for Science, Cabinet Office of Japan)
Gests of Honor
Yasuyoshi Kakita
(Director-General of the Science and
Technology Policy Bureau, MEXT, Japan)
Yoshihiro Murai
(Governor of Miyagi prefecture, Japan)
Kazuko Kohri
(Mayor of Sendai City, OECD Champion Mayor, Japan)
Symposium Chairs
Tomonaga Okabe
(Tohoku Univ. Japan)
Jerome Hastings
(SLAC USA)
Session Chairs
Stephen Streiffer
(Director, Oak Ridge National Lab. USA)
Hideki Komatsu
(Fellow, Bridgestone Corporation, Japan)
Sujeeva Setunge
(Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation Director, ARC TREMS hub, RMIT, Australia)
Misuzu Asari
(Kyoto Univ. Japan)
Takafumi Aoki
(Tohoku Univ., Executive Vice President for Strategic Planning, Provost, Japan)
Toshiaki Yoshioka
(Tohoku Univ. Japan)
Richard Garrett
(ANSTO, Australia)
Daichi Chiba
(Tohoku Univ., Director of SRIS, Japan)
Speakers from Asia Oceania
Tomonaga Okabe
(Tohoku Univ. Japan)
Ru-Jong Jeng
(Director of IPSE, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Letiscia Xavier
(Vital Chemical, Australia)
Sujeeva Setunge
(ASSOCIATE DEPUTY VICE CHANCELLOR, RESEARCH & INNOVATION DIRECTOR, ARC TREMS HUB, RMIT, AUSTRALIA)
Jordan Madrid
(PNRI, Philippine)
Matthieu Gresil
(Monash Univ., Australia)
Priyan Mendis
(Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
Kien Tong Ton
(Hanoi Univ. of Civil Engineering, Vietnam)
Prapong Klysubun
(Deputy Director of Synchrotron Light Research Institute, Thailand)
Yang Ping
(National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Michael James
(Director AS, Australia)
Masaki Takata
(Executive Advisor to the President of Tohoku Univ. / President of PhoSIC, Japan)
Speakers from USA
Cynthia J Jenks
(Associate Lab. Director Oak Ridge National Lab.)
Laurent Chapon
(Director APS)
John Sarrao
(Los Alamos National Lab.)
Speakers from Europe
Stephan Roth
(DESY, Germany /KTH, Sweden)
Jean Daillant
(Director SOLEIL, LEAPS Chair, France/EU)
Francesco Sette
(Director General, ESRF, EU)
Tom Kuczynski
(Horizon Europe, Delegation EU Japan)
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