The 8th SFG symposium supported by Saitama Univ and Kajima Foundation was held on October 26th & 27th, 2018 at JA Kyosai Saitama Building in Omiya with the following speakers:
October 26th
Friday Session 1, chair: Yukio Ouchi (Tokyo Inst Tech)
12:30 - 13:10 Yuen Ron Shen (UC Berkeley)
13:10 - 13:40 Tahei Tahara (RIKEN)
13:40 - 14:10 Yuki Nagata (Max Planck Inst)
Friday Session 2, chair: Taka-aki Ishibashi (Univ of Tsukuba)
14:30 - 15:10 Ali Dhinojwala (Univ of Akron)
15:10 - 15:40 Kazuya Watanabe (Kyoto Univ)
15:40 - 16:10 Shoichi Yamaguchi (Saitama Univ)
Friday Session 3, chair: Akihiro Morita (Tohoku Univ)
16:30 - 17:10 Masakazu Matsumoto (Okayama Univ)
17:10 - 17:40 Ellen Backus (Max Planck Inst)
17:40 - 18:10 Shen Ye (Tohoku Univ)
19:00 - 21:00 Banquet at L'oasi
October 27th
Saturday Session 1, chair: Tahei Tahara (RIKEN)
9:00 - 9:40 Heather Allen (Ohio State Univ)
9:40 - 10:10 Akihiro Morita (Tohoku Univ)
Saturday Session 2, chair: Shoichi Yamaguchi (Saitama Univ)
10:30 - 11:00 Eric Tyrode (KTH Royal Inst Tech)
11:00 - 11:30 Taka-aki Ishibashi (Univ of Tsukuba)
11:30 - 12:00 Satoshi Nihonyanagi (RIKEN)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Box Time
Saturday Session 3, chair: Kazuya Watanabe (Kyoto Univ)
13:00 - 13:40 Gen Sazaki (Hokkaido Univ)
13:40 - 14:10 Tatsuya Ishiyama (Toyama Univ)
14:10 - 14:40 Takayuki Miyamae (AIST)
Saturday Session 4, chair: Shen Ye (Tohoku Univ)
15:00 - 15:30 Yukio Ouchi (Tokyo Inst Tech)
15:30 - 16:00 Marie-Pierre Gaigeot (UEVE Paris)
(Talk by Toshiki Sugimoto (Inst Mol Sci) was canceled.)
Please take a look at the abstract.