Conference Venue

The conference will be held at Tsukuba International Congress Center (EPOCHAL TSUKUBA).

Tsukuba International Congress Center is an international conference center located in the heart of Tsukuba City, which is home to a large number of internationally renowned scientists. "Tsukuba Express" train service started operation in August 2005 in Tsukuba City, making it easier than ever for more people to come to the Tsukuba International Congress Center. Tsukuba International Congress Center hosts over 70 international conferences each year in addition to many other events including domestic conferences, training programs and recruitment sessions.

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Floor Plan

Science City Tsukuba

The city of Tsukuba, which locates about 60 km northeast of Tokyo, is known as a "science city." In 1963, Japanese government decided to move number of national laboratories, company’s laboratories and one of the oldest national universities, which is now known as University of Tsukuba, from Tokyo to Tsukuba, in order to promote their synergetic activity in science and technology field, as well as to relieve overcrowding of Tokyo.

In 1985, The International Exposition was held in Tsukuba. More than 20 million people visited Expo'85 from all over the world, making Tsukuba to be more famous as the "science city."

Now, the city has its area of 28,000 ha (112 square miles) with a population of about 207,000. There are more than 40 research and higher education facilities.

Tsukuba City Information - http://tsukubainfo.jp/
Tsukuba Science City Network - http://www.tsukuba-network.jp/pamphlet/

KEK, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, is one of the world's leading accelerator science research laboratories, using high-energy particle beams and synchrotron light sources to probe the fundamental properties of matter.
http://legacy.kek.jp/intra-e/

AIST, The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, led by President Nomakuchi, is a public research institution funded by the Japanese government to a large extent.
http://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html

MRI, the Meteorological Research Institute, is a research facility of JMA, the Japan Meteorological Agency.
http://www.mri-jma.go.jp/Welcome.html

NIMS, National Institute for Materials Science. NIMS is also known as the host institute of MANA (WPI International center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics).
http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/index.html

Univerisity of Tsukuba, is one of the Japan's oldest and best respected universities with over 130 years history. The University is also well known to have produced three Nobel prize winning scientists.
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/english/

Tsukuba Botanical Garden, occupies ca. 14 ha. (36 acres), and has ca. 5000 taxa of domestic and exotic plants, from not only temperate but also tropical as well as humidaral and areas of the world.
http://www.tbg.kahaku.go.jp/english/index.html

Tsukuba EXPO Center, was secured as a permanent memorial facility after the International Science Expo '85. The center offers an excellent opportunity to come into contact with science.
http://www.expocenter.or.jp/

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