Program of The 1st Annual Symposium on Planetary Exploration

22 May (Friday)
9:30-9:50 Takafumi Matsui (Director of Planetary Exploration Research Center, Chiba Institute of Technology)
Opening Remarks
9:50-10:00 Keiji Tachikawa (President of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
10:00-11:00 Sean C. Solomon (Director of Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institute of Washington)
MESSENGER's first two flybys of Mercury: New Results and New Questions for BepiColombo and Later Missions to the Innermost Planet
11:00-12:00 Olivier S. Barnauin-Jha (Geophysics Section Supervisor of Space Exploration Group, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
The Mars Program: What is being done and what new areas remain to be pursued?
13:00-13:50 Tour of PERC/Chitech Facilities (for those who wish to attend)
14:00-15:00 Manabu Kato (Professor of Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA)
New Findings from SELENE (Kaguya)
15:00-15:30 Young-Jun Choi (Research Scientist of Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute(KASI), Division of Space Astronomy)
Korean Activity toward Planetary Exploration
15:30-17:00 Social Meeting: Welcome to PERC/Chitech

23 May (Saturday)
9:30-10:30 Louise M. Prockter (Group Supervisor of the Planetary Exploration Group, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
The Europa Jupiter System Mission
10:30-11:30 Athena Coustenis (Director of Research, CNRS of Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA), Paris-Meudon Observatory)
Cassini-Huygens Results and the Future Exploration of the Saturnian System
13:00-14:00 Jun-ichiro Kawaguchi (Program Director of JAXA's Space Exploration Center (JSPEC), JAXA)
Innovative Primitive Bodies Exploration in Japan- Hayabusa and its Successors
14:00-15:00 Michael E. Zolensky (Stardust Curator of NASA Johnson Space Center)
The Stardust Comet Coma Sample Return Mission and it's Unexpected Results
15:15-15:45 Sho Sasaki (Professor of National Astronomical Observatory)
Planetary Geodesy: KAGUYA and Beyond
15:45-16:15 Yoshitsugu Nakagawa (Professor of Kobe University)
Perspectives of Center for Planetary Sciences at Kobe University
16:15-16:30 Takafumi Matsui
and Takayuki Furuta (Director of Future Robotics Technology Center, Chiba Institute of Technology)
Frontier of Planetary Sciences and Robotics at Chiba Institute of Technology


PERC/Chitech Staffs
Takafumi Matsui Director of PERC/Chitech
Noriyuki Namiki Senior Staff Scientist
Tomoko Arai Staff Scientist
Masanori Kobayashi Staff Scientist
Hiroki Senshu Staff Scientist
Koji Wada Staff Scientist
Sohsuke Ohno Staff Scientist
Ko Ishibashi Associate Staff Scientist