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  • 2nd Ludwig Boltzmann Symposium Tokyo 2010

    Topic “Leadership and Diversity”

    • on Thursday, 18th February 2010
    • 14:00 Welcome by HE the Ambassador of Austria to Japan
    • 14:10 – 14:40 Gerhard Fasol,
      “Ludwig Boltzmann as a local and global leader”
    • 15:00 – 15:20 Atsuko Heshiki, MD and PhD
      President of Medical Woman’s International Association (MWIA) and Professor Emeritus at Saitama Medical School
      “Leadership in Professionalism”
    • 15:20 – 15:40 Robert J Geller
      Professor of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
      “Faculty appointments and promotions in the age of bibliometrics”
    • 15:40 – 16:00 Podium discussion
      “Leadership and diversity”
    • 16:15-17:15 Kiyoshi Kurokawa,
      Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Science, Tokyo, Science and Technology, Former President of the Science Council of Japan, and
      Special Advisor to the Cabinet
      “Leadership and Diversity”
    • Followed by reception (private, invitation only)

    Registration: latest 16 February 2010
    Further information:
    Gerhard Fasol
    Georg Poestinger, Counsellor, Austrian Embassy, Tel 03-3451-8281

    Summary

    As every year this year’s high-light was Professor Kurokawa’s presentation – Professor Kurokawa gave a passionate plea for change on all fronts – most surprising was his suggestion to select a Muslim Malaisian woman as the next President of Tokyo University, in order to achieve urgently needed changes in Japan’s society and Japan’s Universities.

    Professor Heshiki explained about ethics and professionalism focusing on medical sciences and the work of medical professionals.

    Professor Robert Geller explained how today’s bibliometrics revolution allows much better than in the past to measure the impact of scientific work. Robert suggested how to use bibliometric data to make the selection, appointments and promotions of researchers and academics more efficient.

    Gerhard Fasol focused on Ludwig Boltzmann’s leadership qualities and his global impact. Ludwig Boltzmann travelled three times to the United States of America, and he travelled, and had impact all over Europe. He also worked in several different Universities in Austria and Germany.

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    • 1st Ludwig Boltzmann Symposium Tokyo 2009

      1st Ludwig Boltzmann Symposium Tokyo 2009

      on Friday, 20th February 2009 (Boltzmann’s birthday, 165 years ago)

      • 14:00 Welcome by HE the Ambassador of Austria to Japan
      • 14:05-14:35 Hisashi Kobayashi,
        Sherman Fairchild University Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, Executive Advisor, National Institute for Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan.
        “Ludwig Boltzmann: His Impacts on Information and Communications Technologies”
      • 14:35-14:45 Coffee Break
      • 14:45-15:15 Gerhard Fasol, CEO, Eurotechnology Japan KK “Ludwig Boltzmann’s scientific achievements”
      • 15:15-15:45 Kazu Ishikawa (EXA Japan) Demonstrations:
        “Boltzmann’s equation for simulation and visualizing flow for the construction of cars, airplanes…”
      • 15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
      • 16:00-16:30 Kiyoshi Kurokawa,
        Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Science, Tokyo, Science and Technology, Former President of the Science Council of Japan, and
        Special Advisor to the Cabinet
        “Science and Technology Leadership and Society”
      • 16:30-17:00 Gerhard Fasol, “Ludwig Boltzmann’s three trips to America and his human achievements ”
      • Followed by reception (private, invitation only)

      Registration: latest 14 February 2009
      Further information:
      Gerhard Fasol
      Georg Poestinger, Counsellor, Austrian Embassy, Tel 03-3451-8281

      Summary

      Ludwig Boltzmann was one of the most important physicists and philosophers: it is almost impossible for any engineer, chemist or physicist to do a day’s work without using Boltzmann’s tools and results every day. Ludwig Boltzmann is this author’s and Eurotechnology Japan KK’s founder’s great grandfather – and his excellence is our company’s guiding light.

      Ludwig Boltzmann was born 165 years ago on February 20, 1844, and last Friday, February 20, 2009 we celebrated by inviting several of Japan’s science and technology leaders to the Ludwig Boltzmann Symposium in Tokyo with kind cooperation and hospitality by the Ambassador of Austria and the Austrian Embassy.

      First speaker was Professor Hisashi Kobayashi, Founder of the IBM Tokyo Laboratory, former Dean of Engineering of Princeton University. He showed how Entropy and noise in communications is linked to Boltzmann’s generalized Entropy and the H-Theorem. Coming from Princeton, Hisashi also showed us elegantly how strongly Einstein’s work is linked to Boltzmann’s.

      Professor Kiyoshi Kurokawa, former Dean of Medicine of Tokai University, former President of Japan’s Science Council and Advisor to two Japanese Prime Ministers and now Professor at Japan’s new Political Science University, gave an intense and passionate speech about which changes are necessary to live in our future which will be hot (as in global warming), flat (as in global communications and internet) and crowded (due do population growth). (Website of the book “Hot, flat and croweded” by Thomas L Friedman) Kiyoshi also made a passionate appeal to Japanese organisations (including the S&T leaders participating at our Symposium) to change, open up and compete globally.

      Kazu Ishikawa of Exa Japan gave a fantastic demonstration how Boltzmann’s equations are used to simulate airflow for the construction of cars, airplanes, jet engines … Boltzmann’s equations replace the macroscopic Navier-Stokes equations as numerical wind tunnels. Boltzmann’s equations are particularly needed for the simulation of transients.

      Finally, Gerhard Fasol, Ludwig Boltzmann’s Great-Grandson, gave two talks: one talk about Ludwig Boltzmann’s scientific achievements, his search for understanding the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics with mechanics, the effects of collisions and the generalization to non-equilibrium – leading the H-Theorem, and the generalization of Entropy and Boltzmann’s philosophical work. The second talk introduced the human side of Ludwig Boltzmann: his life and his passions.

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      • our future: hot, flat, and crowded… celebrating Ludwig Boltzmann’s 165th birthday

        Ludwig Boltzmann was one of the most important physicists and philosophers: it is almost impossible for any engineer, chemist or physicist to do a day’s work without using Boltzmann’s tools and results every day. Ludwig Boltzmann is this author’s and Eurotechnology Japan KK’s founder’s great grandfather – and his excellence is our company’s guiding light.

        Ludwig Boltzmann was born 165 years ago on February 20, 1844, and last Friday, February 20, 2009 we celebrated by inviting several of Japan’s science and technology leaders to the First Ludwig Boltzmann Forum with kind cooperation and hospitality by the Ambassador of Austria and the Austrian Embassy:

        1st Ludwig Boltzmann Forum Tokyo 2009

        First speaker was Professor Hisashi Kobayashi, Founder of the IBM Tokyo Laboratory, former Dean of Engineering of Princeton University. He showed how Entropy and noise in communications is linked to Boltzmann’s generalized Entropy and the H-Theorem. Coming from Princeton, Hisashi also showed us elegantly how strongly Einstein’s work is linked to Boltzmann’s.

        Professor Kiyoshi Kurokawa, former Dean of Medicine of Tokai University, former President of Japan’s Science Council and Advisor to two Japanese Prime Ministers and now Professor at Japan’s new Political Science University, gave an intense and passionate speech about which changes are necessary to live in our future which will be hot (as in global warming), flat (as in global communications and internet) and crowded (due do population growth). Kiyoshi also made a passionate appeal to Japanese organisations (including the S&T leaders participating at our Symposium) to change, open up and compete globally.

        Kazu Ishikawa of Exa Japan gave a fantastic demonstration how Boltzmann’s equations are used to simulate airflow for the construction of cars, airplanes, jet engines … Boltzmann’s equations replace the macroscopic Navier-Stokes equations as numerical wind tunnels. Boltzmann’s equations are particularly needed for the simulation of transients.

        Finally, Gerhard Fasol, Ludwig Boltzmann’s Great-Grandson, gave two talks: one talk about Ludwig Boltzmann’s scientific achievements, his search for understanding the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics with mechanics, the effects of collisions and the generalization to non-equilibrium – leading the H-Theorem, and the generalization of Entropy and Boltzmann’s philosophical work. The second talk introduced the human side of Ludwig Boltzmann: his life and his passions.

        Photo: Hisashi Kobayashi shows why Boltzmann’s work is important for telecommunications, and how Einstein’s work is linked to Boltzmann’s. Her Excellency, the Austrian Ambassador follows closely:

        Hisashi Kobayashi at the Ludwig Boltzmann Symposium - the Ambassador of Austria listens
        Hisashi Kobayashi at the Ludwig Boltzmann Symposium – the Ambassador of Austria listens

        Photo: Hot, flat and crowded. In a passionate speech, former science and tech advisor of two Japanese Prime-Ministers, Kiyoshi Kurokawa talks about the future, and how to be prepared to compete:

        Kiyoshi Kurokawa
        Kiyoshi Kurokawa: Hot, flat and crowded

        Photo: The Austrian Ambassador invited the participants of the Ludwig Boltzmann Symposium to the Austrian Residence:

        Reception by the Ambassador of Austria
        Reception by the Ambassador of Austria

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        • Ludwig Boltzmann – 100 Years

          Founded 10 years ago here in Tokyo, our company continues a great tradition of European excellence combined with Japan’s great traditions, Japan’s creativity & vitality & excellence.

          Ludwig Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) is our company’s founder’s great grandfather – and one of our company’s great inspiration. We are working hard to continue his tradition of innovation and excellence and diligent work.

          Ludwig Boltzmann died exactly 100 years ago today, on September 5, 1906.

          Ludwig Boltzmann worked in many different areas and found the first explanations for many phenomena. He did not just create one single invention, but he created very many.

          Boltzmann is best known for his work in gas theory: using complex mathematical tools, many of which he had developed himself, Boltbmann linked the macroscopic “Entropy” of gases with the microscopic forces between atoms and molecules in gases. “Entropy” was initially just a useful macroscopic concept similar to temperature and pressure of a gas developed during the early days of industrialization in England to optimize steam engines. Boltzmann showed that Entropy is a much much deeper fundamental concept, and showed how Entropy is related to the collissions between atoms and molecules in a gas and that Entropy expresses the probability that a body is found in a certain state.

          In Boltzmann’s days, it was not generally accepted that atoms and molecules exist. Actually, in Vienna in those days, in order to survive socially, Boltzmann had to use very careful words: he usually did not say directly that he is convinced that atoms and molecules exist: he said that they are just a useful concept, whether they exist or not.

          Ludwig Boltzmann was the last great classical physicist. He knew of several unexplained puzzles: Brown’s motion, the discrete spectra of atoms, curvature of space, but he could not explain them with the classical methods he mastered. Today Boltzmann’s methods, the Boltzmann constant, the Boltzmann Equation and much of his work is used every day in telecoms, information technology, electronics, chemical industry and many other areas.

          Read more about Ludwig Boltzmann…

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