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ISS Symposium 2012 – Draft Programme
Day 1: Wednesday 2nd May 2012
11.00 Registration
13.15 Countdown
Uli Bobinger, Moderator ISS Symposium 2012
13.30 Welcome addresses
Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General
Johann-Dietrich Wörner, CEO DLR
Philipp Rösler, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology,
Federal Chairman of FDP and Vice-Chancellor of Germany
14.20 Agencies Leaders’ Roundtable
‘Research on ISS for the benefit of mankind’
‘ISS as a stepping stone for Human Exploration’
Mark Uhran, ISS Director, NASA
Alexey Krasnov, Director of Human Spaceflight Programme Department, Roscosmos
Takaaki Iwasa, Director, Office for Space Utilization Promotion, MEXT
and Kiyoshi Higuchi, Vice President, JAXA
Gilles Leclerc, Director General, Space Exploration, CSA (Candian Space Agency)
Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General
15:45 ‘Europe’s decision to participate in the ISS and the importance of research in
difficult times’
Heinz Riesenhuber, Member of Parliament,
former Federal Minister for Research and Technology
16:00 Coffee break / interview opportunity for media
16:30 ‘Research Overview of ISS Partnership’
Julie Robinson, ISS Programme Scientist NASA
17:00 ISS Research Highlights: ‘The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment on ISS –
An endeavour for a Global Research Collaboration’
Stefan Schael, Professor for Experimental Physics, RWTH Aachen
18:00 ISS Inspirations
‘Living and Working in Space’
Sergey Krikalev, Chief of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC)
18:15 End of 1st Day Programme
19.30 – 23:30 Gala Reception/Dinner at the ‘Museum for Communication’
Day 2: Thursday 3rd May 2012
09.00 Opening remarks inc. Introduction to Exhibition: ‘A world without gravity –
research on ISS for the benefit of life on Earth’
Thomas Reiter, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight & Operations
09.15 Multimedia Presentation: ‘Message from ISS/PromISSe Mission video’
Uli Bobinger, Moderator ISS Symposium 2012
09.25 Complex Fluids: ‘From Plasma Research on the ISS to Applications on Earth’
Gregor Morfill, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
10.00 Advanced Materials Research: ‘Materials research in space and
industrial R&D practice’
Robert Guntlin, Managing Director, Access
10.35 Fundamental Physics: ‘High precision space clocks and quantum mechanics’
Christophe Salomon, Research Director
11.10 Coffee break
11.40 Roundtable: Physical Research in Space and on Ground: ‘Research for
New Materials and Energy Challenges of tomorrow’
Chair: Mike Cruise, ESA-PSWG Chair
Hans Fecht, Chaired Professor and Director,
Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials, Ulm University
David John Jarvis, Head of New Materials & Energy Research, ESA
Cécile Gehin-Delval, Research Scientist Nestlé Research Center
Koichi Nishino, Professor of the Departement of Mechanical Engineering,
Yokohama National University
Mark Uhran, ISS Director, NASA
John Banhart, Professor at the Technical University, Berlin, Germany
12.35 Lunch
13.45 Biotechnology Research: ‘Biotechnology in space’
Millie Hughes-Fulford, Scientific Advisor to the Undersecretary of the Department of
Veterans Affairs and Professor at the University of California, San Francisco
14.20 Human Research & Space Medicine: ‘Human Research in Space for life on Earth
and future Exploration’
Alexander Choukèr, Senior Physician and Associate Professor at the
Department of Anaesthesiology, Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximalians-University of Munich
15.05 Roundtable: Life Sciences in Space and Health on Earth:
‘Integrated Human Research for Benefits on Earth and for Exploration’
Chair: Rupert Gerzer, Head of DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne, Germany
Chiaki Mukai, JAXA Astronaut, Vice Director for the Human Space System and
Utilization Mission Directorate
Michael Barratt, Physician Astronaut and Manager NASA Human Research Programme
Peter Suedfeld, Dean Emeritus of Gradiuate Studies and Professor Emeritus of
Psychology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Hermann Kuppe, Director, Institute of Anaesthesiology,
Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Germany
Boris Morukov, Physician at the State Research Center RF-Institute for
Biomedical Problems (IBMP), Russia
15.55 Coffee break
16.25 Earth Observation & Climate change: ‘Earth and Athmosphere monitoring from
ISS’
Ryota Sato, Manager of Sensor Technology Office of Earth Observation Research Center
(EORC), JAXA
16.50 Roundtable: Space Technology and Astroscience: ‘Long-term Space Monitoring
and Exposure’
Chair: Waleed Abdalati, NASA Chief Scientist
Pascale Ehrenfreund, Reseach Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs,
Space Policy Institute Washingotn DC and Professor of Astrobiology, Leiden University,
The Netherlands
Julie Robinson, ISS Programme Scientist NASA
Masaru Matsuoka, Senior Advisor, RIKEN
Gerhard Schmidtke, Senior Project Scientist, Fraunhofer Institute for
Physical Measurement Techniques, Germany
Boris Zagreev, Head of Laboratory, Central Research Institute for Machine
Building, TsNIIMash, Russia
Torsten Neubert, Head of Section for Solar System Physics, National Space Institute,
Technical University of Denmark
17.50 ISS Research Outlook: ‘The Importance for Research on ISS –
a perspective from the US National Academies Decadal Survey’
Elizabeth Cantwell, Chair of NRC Decadal Survey, USA
18.20 Day 2 Conclusions: ‘ISS Research Accomplishments’
Waleed Abdalati, NASA Chief Scientist
18.50 End of 2nd Day Programme
20.00 Dinner (River Cruise)
Day 3: Friday 4th May 2012
09.00 Introduction and Synthesis of Day 2
Uli Bobinger, Moderator ISS Symposium 2012
09.15 Future Key Research Challenges:
NASA’s Research Priorities on ISS
Mark Uhran, ISS Director, NASA
JAXA’s ISS Utilisation Strategy
Makato Asashima, AIST/Japan
Russia’s ISS Research Programme
Georgy Karabadzhak, TsNIIMash/Russia
Canadian Research Priorities
Nicole Buckley, Chief Scientist, ISS and Life Sciences, CSA
European ISS Research Strategy
Christer Fuglesang, Head of the Science and Application Division, ESA
10.30 Human Exploration on ISS: ‘Use of ISS for Human Exploration in LEO and
beyond’
Charles F. Bolden, Jr., NASA Administrator
11.00 Future ISS Perspectives: ‘ISS and beyond: What is in there for you?’
Berndt Feuerbacher, ESA-HESAC Chair
11.30 Future ISS Perspectives: ‘The ISS and ESA’s future Science and Technology’
Michael Longair, ESA HIPAC Chair
11:45 Closing Session: ‘Future Perspectives and Closing Remarks’
Thomas Reiter, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight & Operations
12.00 Press Conference
Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General
Charles F. Bolden, Jr., NASA Administrator
Alexey Krasnov, Director of Human Spaceflight Programme Department, Roscosmos
Kiyoshi Higuchi, Vice President JAXA
Gilles Leclerc, Director General for Space Exploration, CSA
Thomas Reiter, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight & Operations,
Head of ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany
12.30 – 14.00 Business Buffet and End of Symposium
