Kyoto Laureate Symposium slated for April:
Posted By: Tom Braswell
The Inamori Foundation and the Kyoto Symposium Organization announced Friday that they will host the fifth annual Kyoto Laureate Symposium, April 18-20, 2006, bringing the three latest laureates of the Kyoto Prize to San Diego for a three-day celebration of the laureates' lives and works. "The Kyoto Laureate Symposium brings unprecedented worldwide recognition to the greater San Diego area and is therefore a priceless resource for our region's incumbent institutions of higher learning, as well as our high-tech and biomedical industries," said Malin Burnham, chairman of the Burnham Companies, who serves as volunteer chair of the Kyoto Symposium Organization. "As San Diegans, we are proud that our community serves as home to the Kyoto Laureate Symposium, and our city and county officials join us in welcoming the latest Kyoto Prize laureates."
The Symposium will open at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 18, with a benefit gala at the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina, continuing with free public presentations by the laureates April 19-20 on the campuses of Symposium co-hosts San Diego State University; University of California, San Diego; and University of San Diego.
Burnham and Tom Fat, Esq., president of Fat City, Inc., will co-chair the event's benefit gala under the theme, The Kyoto Prize: Celebrating Outstanding Human Achievement, joined by Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM - news) Chairman Dr. Irwin Jacobs as honorary chair. The event will assist in funding the Kyoto Scholarships, available to San Diego and Tijuana-area high school students through The San Diego Foundation.
Six Kyoto Scholarship recipients will be recognized at the gala -- three from San Diego and three from Tijuana -- in the Kyoto Prize categories of Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, and Arts and Philosophy. Laureate presentations in each category will be hosted over the following two days.
Dr. George H. Heilmeier, the latest Kyoto Prize laureate in Advanced Technology, will speak from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 19, at San Diego State University's Montezuma Hall. Heilmeier, 69, of Dallas, is an electronics engineer and chairman emeritus of Telcordia Technologies, Inc. He received the Kyoto Prize for his groundbreaking research in the field of liquid crystals, and his direct contributions to the development of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD).Professor Simon A. Levin, the latest Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences, will speak from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 19, at the University of California, San Diego's Price Center Theatre. Levin, 64, of Princeton, NJ, is an ecologist and director of Princeton University's Center for BioComplexity. He received the Kyoto Prize for establishing the field of Spatial Ecology and expanding scientific understanding of the biosphere as a "complex adaptive system."
Maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the latest Kyoto Prize laureate in Arts and Philosophy, will speak and conduct a public rehearsal with local symphony musicians from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Thursday, April 20, at University of San Diego's Shiley Theatre, followed by the Symposium's closing ceremony. Harnoncourt, 76, of St. Georgen, Austria, is a musician and conductor specializing in European early music. He received the Kyoto Prize for his exceptional creativity as a performer and conductor who has contributed to the establishment of the "historically informed performance" of European early music, and who has extended his principles and interpretation to modern music as well.The Kyoto Prize is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement, presented each November by the non-profit Inamori Foundation to honor individuals and groups worldwide who have contributed significantly to mankind's scientific, cultural, and spiritual development.
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