NIMS NOW International 2006.Vol.4 No.11 <November>

Contents

• Special Features: Introduction of 20 New Projects and Recent Achievements - Computational Materials

  For Design of Nanofunctions

  Development of Advanced First-Principles Simulation Techniques

  Elucidation of Physical Properties by the Nanoscale Analysis

  - Control of Electronic and Magnetic Properties using the tools of First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations -

  Strong Correlated Electron Systems in Copper Oxides and Design of Novel Functions

  Microstructure Analysis by the Phase-Field Method

  - Application to Pb-Free Solder Alloys -

• NIMS NEWS

  NIMS Participates in International Science, Innovation and Technology Exhibition INSITE 2006 (South Africa)

  Visitors from Finnish Finding Agency
  for Technology and Innovation

  MOU with India's Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

  MOU with SUNY at Stony Brook, USA

  Launch of the NIMS Alumni Association

• Hello from NIMS

  Science and Mountain Trekking

  Michal Jerzy Wozniak (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)