Sony CSL Paris Symposium Program (Tentative)
OPEN SYSTEMS SCIENCE : From Understanding Principles to Solving Problems

OCTOBER 8, 2009
Institut Océanographique, 195 rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris, France

The symposium surveys how novel complex systems approaches to scientific research are currently trying to tackle problems of great importance to our society. It brings together researchers at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Paris and Tokyo and international experts.

9:30 - 9:45 Mario Tokoro (Sony CSL Tokyo)
Welcome Speech : Toward Open Systems Science

9:45 - 10:00 Luc Steels (Sony CSL Paris)
Introduction to the Symposium

1. Environmental Origins of Health and Disease : New Insights from Systems Biology

10:00 - 11:00 Dialogue between Hiroaki Kitano (Sony CSL Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Sakurada (Sony CSL Tokyo)

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

2. Understanding Climate Change through Open Simulation

11:30 - 12:30 Dialogue between Olivier Boucher (MetOffice, UK), Peter Hanappe (Sony CSL Paris) and Taka Sasaki (Sony CSL Tokyo)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

3. Participatory Sensing and Mapping for Sustainable Worlds

14:00 - 14:30 Luc Steels (Sony CSL Paris)
14:30 - 15:00 Jun Rekimoto (Sony CSL Tokyo)

4. Understanding the Recent Economic Crisis through Econophysics

15:00 - 15:45 Dialogue between Eric Briys (Cyberlibris & Ceregmia  - University of the French West Indies) and Hideki Takayasu (Sony CSL Tokyo)

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break

5. Open Entertainment

16:15 - 17:00 Manga Authoring and Interactive Story Telling. Dialogue between Remi van Trijp (Sony CSL Paris) and Hiroaki Tobita (Sony CSL Tokyo)

17:10 - 17:45 Open Music Interaction. Dialogue between Henkjan Honing (Univ of Utrecht) and Francois Pachet (Sony CSL Paris)

17:45 Concluding Remarks : Luc Steels

18:00 End of Symposium