Recognitions (K. Hono)

Honors and Awards

• 6th Honda Frontier Award (May 2009)
• MRS Outstanding Symposium Paper (J. Mater. Res. 2009)
• Magnetic Society of Japan Outstanding Research Award (September 2008)
• Japan Institute of Metals Metallography Award (March 2007)
• ISIHighlyCited.com (December 2006)
• Excellent presentation award, Annual meeting of Magnetic Society of Japan, November 2005
• Light Metal Advancement Award (November 2003)
• The Japan Institute of Metals Meritorious Honor Award (March 1997)
• Japan Institute of Metals Metallography Award, 1998
• Tsukuba Encouragement Award, 1998
• Japan Instiute of Metals Metallography Award, 1995
• SCIENCE Vol. 266, November 18, 1994
• Acta Metallurgica et Materialia Best Paper Award for 1992, 1994
• Japan Institute of Metals Young Scientist Award, 1993
• Murakami Memorial Young Scientist Award, 1992
• Japan Light Metals Institute Young Scientist Award, 1991
• Honda Memorial Young Scientist Award, 1991
• Japan Institute of Metals Metallography Award, 1985

Invited Talks

• International Magnetism Conferece, 1993, Stockholm
• 41st International Field Emission Symposium, 1994, Rouen, France
• Materials Research Society 1995 Spring Symposium, San Francisco, U.S.A.
• 43rd International Field Emission Symposium, 1996, Moscow
• IUMRS-ICA-97, 1997, Makuhari, Japan
• 121th annual meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals, Symposium Keynote Lecture, 1997, Sendai, Japan
• Microscopy & Microanalysis '98, 1998, Atlanta, U.S.A.
• Materials Research Society 1999 Spring Symposium, San Francisco, U.S.A.
• International Conference on Solid->Solid Phase Transformations 99 (PTM'99), 1999, Kyoto, Japan
• 10th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials, 1999, Bangalore, India
• Microscopy & Microanalysis of Engineering Materials (MMEM2000), 2000, Melbourne, Australia
• Bulk Metallic Galsses, Singapore, 2000.
• MRS 2000 Fall Meeting, 2000, Boston
• TMS 2001 Annual Meeting, "Interanational Symposium on Properties of Nanocrystalline Materials"
• Eotvos Graduate School, Summer Course & Workshop 2001 in Physics, "Application of Atomic Resolution Methods for the Study of Advanced Materials", Lecturer, August 28.
• 22nd RISO International Symposium on Materials Scinece on "Science of Metastable and Nanocrystalline Alloys", Septermber 2001.
• Asia Academic Seminar, December 12-21, 2001, Hyderabad, India, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Department of Science and Technology, government of India.
• International Conference on Advances in Materials and Materials Processing (ICAMMP-2002), 1-3 February, 2002, Kharagpur, India.
• Bulk Metallic Glasses II, March 24-28, 2002, Keelung, Taiwan.
• 11th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched & Metastable Materials 25 - 30 August, 2002, Oxford University.
• The 2002 Korea-US Symposium on Phase Transformations of Nano-Materials, Seoul, Korea, October 25-26, 2002.
• 131th annual meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals, Keynote Lecture, 2002, Sendai, Japan.
• 132th Spring meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals, Invited Lecture, 2003, Tokyo, Japan
• Intermag2003, March 30 - April 3, 2003, Boston
• Lee Hsun Lecture Series, August 28, 2003, Institute of Metal Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science
• 16th Conf. on Soft Magnetic Materials (SMM16), 9.-12. September 2003 in Duesseldorf,Germany
• 1st International Symposium on Nanostructured Materials: Structural Applications, organized by the Center for Nanostructured Materials Technology and KIMM, October 30-31, 2003, KIST, Seoul, Korea
• The 2003 Korea-Japan Symposium "Current Issues on Phase Transformations", Busan, Korea, November 21-22, 2003
• MRS 2003 Fall Meeting, Boston, November 30 - 5, 2003.
• International Conference on Fabrication and Properties of Metallic Nanomaterials, June 17 - 19, 2004, Warsaw, Poland
• ECI Conference on "L1₀ Ordered Intermetallic and Related Phases for Permanent Magnet and Recording Applications", August 15 - 20, 2004, Copper Mountain, Colorado
• 18th International Workshop on High Performance Magnets and Their Applications, August 29 - September 2, 2004, Annecy, France.
• TMS annual meeting, February 2005.
• 9th European Workshop on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis, Florence, Italy, May 22 to 26, 2005
• 12th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials, August 21-26, 2005, Jeju, Korea
• Plenary Lecture, 12th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials, August 21-26, 2005, Jeju, Korea.
• Keynote Lecture, 3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation (NanoSPD3), September 22-26, 2005, Fukuoka.
• International Symposium on Frontiers in Design of Materials (FDM 2005), November 12-13, 2005, Chennai, India.
• MRS2005 Fall Meeting, Symposium Z, December 1, 2005, Boston
• TMS2006 135th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Ultrafine Grained Materials - Fourth International Symposium: Processing and Microstructures II, March 14, 2006, San Antonio.
• TMS2006 135th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Symposium on Phase Transformation in Magnetic Materials, March 14, 2006, San Antonio.
• ICYS-ICMR Summer School 2006 on Nanomaterials, July 22(Sat) - 28(Fri), 2006 Tsukuba, Japan.
• The International Wrokshop of the SFB602 and the Oxide Thin film OTF 2006, University of Goettingen, July 26, 2006.
• KINKEN-WAKATE 2006, 3rd Materials Science School for Young Scientists "Physics and Applications of Advanced Magnetic Materials", Akiu, Sendai, August 26 - 28, 2006.
• 2nd International Symposium on New Materials Science, 21st Century COE Project "New Materials Science", Kyoto University, September 5 - 6, 2006.
• JAPAN NANO 2007, Tokyo Big Site, February 20 - 21, 2007.
• Dedication of the 'Wide-Angle Laser-Assisted Tomographic Atom Probe", Institute of Material Physics, University of Muenster, May 10, 2007.
• Asian Workshop on Metallic Glass and nanostructured Materials, Yonsei University, Seoul, May 18 - 19, 2007.
• Workshop on Nanoscale Order in Amorphous and Partially Ordered Solids, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, 9-11 July 2007.
• 9 th International Workshop on Non-Crystalline Solids, Porto 27 - 30, April 2008.
• The 51st International Field Emission Symposium, Rouen, June 29 - July 4, 2008.
• WUT - NIMS - EMPA Workshop on Nanomaterials for Energy and Environment Protection, Warsaw, June 15 - June 17, 2008.
• The 13th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched & Metastable Materials RQ13, Dresden, August 24 - 29, 2008
• 20 th workshop on rare earth permanent magnets and applications, September 8 - 10, 2008, Crete, Greece
• K. Hono, "Search of Heusler alloys and their applications to magnetoresistive devices", MS&T Oct. 27, 2009, Pittsburgh.
• Inter. Symp. "Emerging Challenges for Metals and Materials: Engineering and Technology", Nov. 15, 2009, Kolkata.
• 5th International Workshop on High-Resolution Depth Profiling, Kyoto, Japan, November 15-19, 2009

Community Service

• International Field Emission Society, Steering Committee Member (1995 - 1997)
• Member of the Board of Review of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (1996 - 2000)
• The 44th International Field Emission Symposium, Chairman (1997)
• Member of The Technical Divisions Committee, The Japan Institute of Metals (1999 - )
• Microscopy and Microanalysis of Engineering Materials 2000, Technical Committee, 2000, Melbourne
• NANO2000, Local Organizing Committee and Program Committee (2000)
• Journal of Metastable and Nanocrystalline Materials, Associate Editor (2000 - )
• Editorial Committee, Materials Transaction JIM and Journal of Japan Institute of Metals (2000.6- )
• Principal Editor, Scripta Materialia, (2001.1- )
• Principal Editor, Acta Materialia, (2001.1- )
• Nanostructured Advanced Magnetic Materials, June 9-13, 2002, Irsee, Germany, Organizing Committee Member and Guest Editor
• International Magnetics Conference 2005 (Intermag 2005), Nagoya, Program Committee (2003-2005)
• Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials (RQ12), Guest Editor (2005)
• Science Advisery Board, Netehrland Institute of Metals (2006)
• Bulk Metallic Glasses V, Local organizing committee and guest editor (2006)
• Advisory committee, Magnetic Society of Japan (2006 - 2007)
• TMS/ASM Phase Transformation Committee (2006 - )
• Auditor, Magnetic Society of Japan (2007 - )
• International Advisory Board of "Metals and Materials International", Korean Institute of Metals (2007.11 - )