[robocup-worldwide] Call for Participation: Prof. Minoru Asada Retirement Commemoration Symposium

[Komei Sugiura]

Call for Participation

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Prof. Minoru Asada Retirement Commemoration Symposium

The symposium will take place in honor of the retirement of Prof. Minoru 
Asada in Osaka University. He has been studied interdisciplinary 
pioneering robotics, e.g., cognitive developmental robotics, toward the 
symbiotic society of human and robots. In this symposium, he will give 
us his final lecture entitled "Beyond Symbiotic Society." In addition, 
five notable professors will talk. You are cordially invited to the 
symposium. (Japanese speakers will talk in Japanese.)

Webpage: http://www.er.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/asadalab/?p=1060&lang=en

Date: March 15th, 2019
	Symposium: 1:00 - 4:45 p.m.
	Banquet: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Venue:
	Symposium: MO Hall, Convention Center, Suita Campus, Osaka University, 
Japan
	Banquet: Hotel Hankyu EXPO Park

Fee: free (the banquet is not free)

Registration: bit.ly/minoruasada_eng

Invited speakers:
	Prof. Giulio Sandini (Italian Institute of Technology)
	Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University)
	Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos (University of Maryland)
	Prof. Ichiro Tsuda (Chubu University)
	Prof. Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich)
	Prof. Minoru Asada (Osaka University)

Contact: Committee on the Retirement Symposium
anniversary2019 at er.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Organizer: Committee on the Retirement Symposium and Department of 
Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University

Sponsors: Daiwa House Industry Company, Ltd., ABeam Systems Ltd., 
Fujikin Incorporated, Kintetsu Railway Co., Ltd., JTEKT Corporation, and 
the Robotics Society of Japan