News Archive
2005

2005 Update

2005.12.20

NIMS-UNC Workshop on Nanoscale Materials Research was held at NIMS

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2005.12.16

Superconducting Materials Center signed a cooperation agreement with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA

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2005.12.13

Nanomaterials Laboratory signed a cooperation agreement with the California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA

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2005.12.12

Japan-Russia Workshop on Advanced Nanomaterials was held at NIMS

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2005.12.07

Prof. Robert Chang, Northwestern University, visited NIMS

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2005.12.02

VAMAS Chairman, Dr. Stephan Hsu, visited NIMS

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2005.11.30

Dr. Vallés, Head of Unit “Materials”, European Commission, visited NIMS

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2005.11.25

Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Mr. Matsuda, visited NIMS

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2005.11.24

Prof. Grin, Director of Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany, visited NIMS

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2005.11.24

Ecomaterials Center signed a cooperation agreement with Korea University

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2005.11.24

Vice President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences visited NIMS

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2005.11.22

Biomaterials Center signed a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China

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2005.11.21

Entrance Exam for Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering

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2005.11.10

Computational Materials Science Center signed a cooperation agreement

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2005.11.08

Ecomaterials Center signed a cooperation agreement with School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK

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2005.10.12

NIMS held a workshop with Polish institutes in Warsaw

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2005.09.28

Prof. Bunyaratvej, Secretary-General of National Research Council of Thailand, visited NIMS

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2005.09.26

Advanced Materials Laboratory signed a cooperation agreement with University of Sherbrooke, Canada

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2005.09.22

Prof. Viswanathan, Vice-Chancellor of Anna University, India, visited NIMS

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2005.09.15

Dr. Arthur Carty, National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada, visited NIMS

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2005.09.06

IfW - MPA NIMS Workshop was held in Darmstadt, Germany

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2005.09.06

Mr. Uehara was newly appointed as a Vice President of NIMS

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2005.09.01

The second NIMS - Osaka University Collaborative Symposium was held at NIMS

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2005.08.05

Prof. Montemagno, UCLA, visited NIMS to give a lecture

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2005.07.28

The 5th NIMS Advisory Board Meeting was held in Tsukuba

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2005.07.27

World Materials Research Institute Forum: Session 2 was held in Tsukuba

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2005.07.27

NIMS researchers won all the 2005 Tsukuba Prizes

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2005.07.22

Nanomaterials Laboratory and Ecomaterials Center signed a cooperation agreement with Charles University

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2005.07.19

Nanomaterials Laboratory signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Texas

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2005.07.13

NIMS assessment committee was held

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2005.07.11

The second NIMS-IRC Nanotechnology Summer School

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2005.07.07

Prof. Chunli Bai, Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited NIMS

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2005.06.27

NIMS-Industry Forum was held in Tokyo to hear industrial opinions on the next five-year research projects of NIMS

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2005.06.24

ICYS signed a cooperation agreement with International Center for Materials Research, UCSB

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2005.06.23

Nanomaterials Laboratory signed a cooperation agreement with Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

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2005.06.08

NIMS concluded a comprehensive research agreement with KAIST, Korea

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2005.06.06

World Materials Research Institute Forum was held in Tsukuba

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2005.06.03

Minister of Science and Technology of South Africa, Mr. Mangena, visited NIMS

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2005.05.25

Biomaterials Center signed a cooperation agreement with BITE, CIC, Universities of Leeds, UK

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2005.05.25

A Czech science and technology delegation visited NIMS

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2005.05.10

Members of the Committee on Education, Culture and Science of the House of Councilors visited NIMS

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2005.05.01

The nature article titled “Superconductivity in two-dimensional CoO2 layers” was ranked as the second most-cited paper in Physics in the last two-years

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2005.04.28

Prof. Kroto made a third visit to ICYS with two eminent US professors

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2005.04.22

Two Nobel Prize laureates visited NIMS

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2005.04.18

The first NIMS/ICYS - Penn Materials Workshop was held at NIMS

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2005.04.11

Advanced Materials Laboratory signed a cooperation agreement with Max Planck

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2005.04.06

Fraunhofer IZM - NIMS/AIST Joint Seminar was held at NIMS

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2005.04.01

Dr. Koinuma and Dr. Noda were newly appointed as Vice Presidents of NIMS

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2005.03.31

Prof. Barsony, Director of Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Hungary, visited NIMS

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2005.03.30

NIMS signed a cooperation agreement on joint graduate school program with WUT, Poland

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2005.03.16

Prof. Stoddart, UCLA, visited NIMS to give a lecture

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2005.03.10

President Kishi visited China to inspect nanoscience and technology research activities

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2005.03.07

Former Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Mr. Omi, visited NIMS

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2005.03.04

The 3rd NIMS International Conference was held in Tsukuba

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2005.02.28

Japan-US workshop on the Future of Sensors and Sensor Systems was held in Tsukuba

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2005.02.24

Two delegations from France and Korea visited NIMS

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2005.02.21

The 3rd International Symposium on Nanotechnology was held in Tokyo

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2005.01.07

40 Korean students visited NIMS as part of the Winter Institute Program

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2005.01.06

The article of Atomic Switch, developed by Nanomaterials Laboratory, was featured in January’s nature top ten

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2005.01.01

Dr. Watanabe was newly apponited as a Vice President of NIMS

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