A NIMS permanent staff position for the IFCS Gr is open now. The application deadline is 19 June 2019. For detail, please visitNIMS homepage, or ouradvertisementpage.(19/04/19)
New post-doc positions for studies on battery, catalyst interfaces are open now. Please visit ouradvertisementpage. (19/04/19)
Tateyama groups are open now in (1) Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University in Tokyo (with Prof. Momma), and (2) Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics (TAC-MI) / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo (with Prof. Hitosugi). Later on, we can accept ph. D students. If you’re interested in getting ph.D in Waseda or Tokyo Inst. Tech., please get in touch with GL Dr. Tateyama. (01/04/19)
Two JST-PRESTO researchers (Dr. Randy Jalem & Dr. Atsushi Ishikawa) are working in the IFCS Gr, which provides a good environment for younger researchers. (01/04/19)
GL Dr. Y. Tateyama will give an invited talk in CPMD2019 (EPFL, Lausanne, CH). [2019/07]
GL Dr. Y. Tateyama gave an invited talk in 2019 MRS SPRING MEETING (Phoenix, AZ, USA). [2019/04]
Prof. Michiel Sprik (Univ. Cambridge) visited the IFCS Gr. [2019/04]
Group “Hanami" lunch under cherry blossoms in full bloom was held. [2019/04]
Dr. A. Ishikawa gave a contributed talk in 2019 ACS SPRING MEETING (Orlando, FL, USA). [2019/04]
Dr. R. Jalem, Dr. B. Gao and Dr. Y. Sun gave contributed talks in 2019 APS MEETING (Boston, MA, USA). [2019/03]
GL Dr. Y. Tateyama gave an invited talk in CSW2019 (Tokyo, Japan) [2019/01]
Dr. S. Iizuka and Dr. G. Shukri gave contributed talks in 2018 MRS FALL Meeting (Boston, MA, USA). [2018/11]
GL Dr. Y. Tateyama co-organised Symposium EN01 "Solid-Solid Interfaces in Batteries, Energy Storage and Conversion—Diagnostic and Modeling”in 2018 MRS SPRING MEETING & EXHIBIT(2-6 April 2018, Phoenix), with Dr. Kevin Leung, Prof. Yue Qi & Prof. Bruce Dunn, (02/04/18)
GL Dr. Y. Tateyama co-organised CPMD2017 Workshop (18-20 October 2017, Tsukuba) with Prof. Atsushi Oshiyama, (). Thank you for your cooperation!(20/10/17)
Aug 2018: EPFL student tour, guided by Prof. Michele Ceriotti, was held in NIMS Namiki site, and YT played the organiser role in the NIMS side. RJ gave his MI studies on battery materials. Several members of the group also contributed to the organisation. [Group photo]
Aug 2018: YT, RJ and BG visited Prof. Yanming Ma at Jilin University, Changchun, China for collaboration on the CALYPSO application to the battery issues. We had lots of detailed discussions on future targets as well. [Photo: Prof. Yanming Ma, Prof. David Singh with BG, RJ & YT]
Jul-Aug 2018: Prof. Jer-Lai Kuo and Dr. Yun-Wen Chen, Academia Sinica, Taipei, visited us for the kick-off of our MOST-NIMS bilateral program for the coming 2 years. We had intensive discussions about simulation studies on interesting energy issues. [Photo: Prof. Jer-Lai Kuo, Dr. Yun-Wen Chen, Dr. T. Miyazaki, Dr. A. Nakata and the IFCS/BM members]
May 2018: YT gave an invited talk in Simulations (and theory) in Physical chemistRy: an International Kermesse in Paris (SPRIK 2018), cerebrating 65th birthday of Prof. Michiel Sprik, held at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France. YT enjoyed lots of interesting talks and meeting old friends. On top of that, YT appreciated Prof. Marie-Pierre Gadget (U Evry val D’Essonne), Prof. Marialore Sulpizi (Johannes Gutenberg U Mainz), and Prof. Rodolphe Vuilleumier (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris) for their wonderful organisation. [Photo: At a tea time.]
Apr 2018: Symposium EN01 "Solid-Solid Interfaces in Batteries, Energy Storage and Conversion—Diagnostic and Modeling” in 2018 MRS SPRING MEETING & EXHIBIT (2-6 April 2018, Phoenix), which YT co-organised with Dr.Kevin Leung (Sandia), Prof. Yue Qi (Michigan State) & Prof. Bruce Dunn (UCLA), was successfully finished. YT appreciated the invited speakers from Japan: Dr. Kazunori Takada (NIMS), Prof. Taro Hitosugi (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), Prof. Akitoshi Hayashi (Osaka Pref. Univ.), Prof. Yasutoshi Iriyama (Nagoya Univ.) and Prof. Yuich Ikuhara (The Univ. of Tokyo) for their considerable contributions. We had many critical but essential discussions throughout the symposium. YT as well as RJ and KS gave contributed talks in this session. [Photo; 3 organisers: Dr. Kevin Leung, Prof. Yue Qi and YT.]
Dec 2017: YT won the “Best Use of HPC in Manufacturing” of HPCwire 2017 Readers Choice Awards together with RIKEN AICS for the achievements of "clarifying long-standing issues and advance development of next-generation batteries”. [Photo: with Prof. Kimihiko Hirao (Director of RIKEN AICS)]“Best Use of HPC in Manufacturing” of HPCwire 2017 Readers Choice Awards
Dec 2017: Randy Jalem (RJ), joined the IFCS-BM group as a permanent staff researcher! Welcome!
Oct 2017: “CPMD2017 workshop" was held in Tsukuba! YT played a co-chair role in the organising committee, and IH & KS contributed as the members. We had lots of interesting invited talks, posters and discussions. We also had a special session for Prof. Roberto Car’s 70th birthday. For detail, please visit LinkIconCPMD2017 Workshop webpage. [Photos: (left) A group photo of CPMD2017 Workshop, (middle) Prof. Michele Parrinello (ETH & USI) and Prof. Roberto Car (Princeton), (right) Prof. Jochen Blumberger (UCL), Prof. Marialore Sulpizi (Mainz), Prof. Jun Cheng (Xiamen) and YT.]
June 2017: YT attended PASC17 (Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference), held in Lugano, Switzerland. He organised two mini symposia, responding to the requests from researchers in Switzerland: (1) Atomistic Simulations of Interfaces; Complex but Deciding and (2) Still Toward First-Principles Simulations on Exascale Supercomputers, and invited Prof. K. Tsuda, Dr. S. V. Levchenko, Dr. M. Otani, Dr. K. Leung, Prof. J. Hutter, Dr. T. Nakashima, Prof. A. Oshiyama, & Prof. S. Goedecker. He also discussed with several friends working on computational researches: Prof. J. VandeVondele, Prof. M. Parrinello, Prof. R. Vuilleumier, Prof. S. Tenno, Dr. L. Ghiringhelli, Prof. A. von Lilienfeld & Prof. M. Ceriotti etc. [Photo: (left) with Prof. S. Goedecker, (right) at the entrance of the venue.]
Aug 2016: YT gave talks at BASF SE in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and BASF BELLA in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology about his simulation researches on battery materials. He also had fruitful discussions with the members of the battery research divisions of BASF such as Dr. Klaus Leitner and Dr. Balazs Berkes. [Photos: at the BASF SE headquarter in Ludwigshafen am Rhein.]
July 2016: YT stayed in Prof. Matthias Scheffler group, Fritz-Haber Institute (FHI) of Max-Planck Society, Berlin, Germany for 6 weeks and worked on surface informatics project together with Prof. M. Scheffler and Dr. Sergey Levchenko. In addition to the project, YT had lots of discussion with the members in the Theory Department of FHI such as Dr. Matthias Rupp. [Photos: with Prof. Matthias Scheffler and Dr. Sergey Levchenko & T- and M-buildings (where he worked) of FHI.]
Jun 2016: YT gave an invited talk in the IMLB2016 (The 18th International Meeting on Lithium Batteries) held at Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL [Photo: with Prof. Atsuo Yamada, Prof. Masashi Okubo, Prof. Yuki Yamada and their group members plus YT and KS for dinner.]
May 2016: YT and IH attended CPMD2016 held at University of Chicago. IH is a member of the organising committee chaired by Prof. Giulia Galli and YT is an invited speaker in the workshop. YT and IH have discussed the cutting-edge first-principles simulation techniques with many participants including Prof. Michiele Parrinello, Prof. Annabella Selloni, Prof. Joost VandeVondele, Prof. Rodolphe Vuilleumier, Prof. Angelos Michaelides, Prof. Xinzheng Li, Prof. Sheng Meng as well as Prof. Francois Gygi and Prof. Gilulia Galli. [Photo: with Prof. Giulia Galli and Prof. Michele Parrinello as well as the CPMD2016 board.]
Aug 2015: YT gave an invited talk on the DFT analysis of interfacial carrier transport, hysteresis and aging in the CECAM workshop "Perovskite solar cells: the quest for a theoretical description” held at the CECAM HQ, EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland. YT had intensive discussions with surface, interface and defects of PSC, with many participants including Prof. Filippo De Angelis, Dr. Edoardo Mosconi, Prof. Aron Walsh, Dr. Wan-Jian Yin, Prof. Ki-Ha Hong, and Prof. Koichi Yamashita etc. [Photo: with Prof. Filippo De Angelis]
Aug 2015: YT gave a lecture series “first-principles calculations of redox and electrochemical reactions around solid-liquid interfaces” in the 55th summer school of young scientists in Molecular Science, held at the Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo. In the lectures, YT explained the fundamentals of DFT for electron transfer, free energy calculation techniques, theories/methods for redox reactions, present status and future perspective of first-principles simulations of interfacial reactions. 14 students attended the YT’s class and all made nice presentations about the essential papers in this field. YT also enjoyed “nomi-nication” in the night sessions as well. YT appreciate all the students in his class, in particular, the class organiser, Ms. Ayako Kubo (Univ. Tokyo). [Photo: (left to right) Takagi, Baba, Yoko, Tanaka, Hayashi, Kubo, Tanimoto, YT, Ohta, Yoshida, Hirata, Umehara, Itoh, Itoh, Emori]
ドイツ・イノベーション・アワード ゴッドフリード・ワグネル賞2015Jun 2015: YT and KS received the 7th Germany Innovation Award “Gottfried Wagener Prize 2015” for their achievement of "Theoretical Elucidation of Reaction Mechanism on Electrolyte Interface in Lithium-Ion Battery with Highly-Efficient Use of Supercomputers”. The award ceremony was held at Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Roppongi, Tokyo. [Photo: (from left to right) Hono fellow (Prof.), Fujita vice president, Dr. Sepehri-Amin, Ushioda president (Prof.), YT, KS, Uosaki fellow (Prof.) in NIMS]
Nov 2014: YT succeeded in organizing a CECAM-like workshop in Japan together with his colleagues including Dr.Tetsuya Morishita (AIST), Dr. Motoyuki Shiga (JAEA), Prof. Ayori Mitsutake (Keio), Prof. Wataru Shinoda (Nagoya), Prof. Kenji Yasuoka (Keio), Prof. Masuhiro Mikami (Keio), Prof. Masaharu Isode (NIT), Prof. Noriyuki Yoshii, Prof. Hisashi Okumura (IMS), and organizing many discussions with the distinguished professors in NIMS together with Dr. Hiori KIno, Dr. Ikutaro Hamada (both in the NSCS group) and Dr. Tsuyoshi Miyazaki. [Photo: with Prof. Kiyoyuki Terakura, Dr. Bernd Ensing, Mrs. Brenda Klein, Prof. Michael L. Klein, YT and Prof. Michele Parrinello (from left to right).]
Nov 2014: Prof. Michele Parrinello (ETH Zurich) and Dr. Bernd Ensing (Univ. of Amsterdam) stayed in the NSCS group for cutting-edges of the metadynamics sampling and electrochemical application. We then had a group dinner where Prof. Stefan Bluegel (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) also kindly attended. [Photo: with Prof.Kiyoyuki Terakura, Prof. Stefan Blugel, Prof. Michele Parrinello, Dr. Bernd Ensing, and the NSCS group members]
Nov 2014: For 10-11 November 2014, International Symposium on Extended Molecular Dynamics and Enhanced Sampling (NOSE30) was held at the Mita Campus in Keio University where Prof. Shuichi Nose worked before he passed away. YT played a role of vice-chair in the organising committee. We, the organising committee, aimed at organising the symposium on the cutting-edge theory for sampling as well as reminding us how to invent a new theory referring to the episode upon the birth of Nose dynamics. We also aimed to organise a symposium like a CECAM workshop for focused topic. We believe that NOSE30 was quite successful in this point of view.
Nov 2014: Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman (New York Univ.) visited the NSCS group and gave a CMS/MANA seminar talk on searching new polymorphism. We also had intensive discussions with hime. He is invited to NOSE30 international symposium. [Photo: with Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman, Dr. Motoyuki Shiga, and the NSCS group members.]
Aug 2014: Ms. Yuko Teramae, an undergraduate student in Ochanomizu Univ., joined the NSCS group for her three-week NIMS internship.
Aug. 2014: YT gave an invited talk in the symposium 'Modelling and Simulations of Electrochemical Interfaces and Materials for Energy Storage' organised by Dr. Oleg Borodin and Dr. Kevin Leung, in the 248th ACS national meeting, San Francisco. YT had lots of discussions with many researchers such as Prof. M. Sprik, Prof. F. De Angelis, Prof. A. Selloni, Prof. G. Galli, Prof. M. Sulpizi, etc. [Photo: with the symposium organisers; Dr. Oleg Borodin (left) & Dr. Kevin Leung (right)]
Apr 2014 Special Open Lectures in the NIMS CMS seminar series were given by Prof. Michiel Sprik, University of Cambridge, UK. Prof. Kiyoyuki Terakura, invited him to Tokyo Institute of Tech.. However, Terakura-sensei is a research adviser in NIMS now as well. So he and YT organized these advanced lectures on computational electrochemistry in NIMS MANA. [ Photo: with Prof. Michiel Sprik, Prof. Kiyoyuki Terakura.]
Mar 2014 YT and IH visited Prof. Michael L. Klein, Prof. John P. Perdew, Prof. Adrienn Ruzsinszky, and Prof. Xifan Wu at Temple University, Philadelphia for discussion of future collaboration. IH gave a Physics Department Seminar, organized by Prof. John P. Perdew. [Photo: with Prof. Michael L. Klein]
Nov 2013 Temple Univ-NIMS workshop was held at the WPI-MANA, NIMS. HK, IH and YT gave talks in the theoretical/computational session where Prof. Michael L. Klein, Prof. John P. Perdew, Prof. Adrienn Ruzsinszky, and Prof. Xifan Wu also gave talks. We have enjoyed discussion on the DFT fundamental and the beyond DFT. [Photo: Dr. Xifan Wu, YT, Prof. J. P. Perdew, IH (from left to right)]
Oct 2013 YT and IH, the two staff members gave invited talks on energy applications and van der Waals functional, respectively, in the 16th Asian Workshop on First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations (Asian-16), organised by Prof. Yanming Ma, in Beijing, China. We have discussed with many invited speakers such as Prof. Hardy Gross (MPI Halle), Prof. John Tse (Saskatchewan), Prof. Dario Alfe (UCL). [Photo: YT & IH with the workshop board.]
Aug 2018: EPFL student tour, guided by Prof. Michele Ceriotti, was held in NIMS Namiki site, and YT played the organiser role in the NIMS side. RJ gave his MI studies on battery materials. Several members of the group also contributed to the organisation. [Group photo]
Aug 2018: YT, RJ and BG visited Prof. Yanming Ma at Jilin University, Changchun, China for collaboration on the CALYPSO application to the battery issues. We had lots of detailed discussions on future targets as well. [Photo: Prof. Yanming Ma, Prof. David Singh with BG, RJ & YT]
Jul-Aug 2018: Prof. Jer-Lai Kuo and Dr. Yun-Wen Chen, Academia Sinica, Taipei, visited us for the kick-off of our MOST-NIMS bilateral program for the coming 2 years. We had intensive discussions about simulation studies on interesting energy issues. [Photo: Prof. Jer-Lai Kuo, Dr. Yun-Wen Chen, Dr. T. Miyazaki, Dr. A. Nakata and the IFCS/BM members]
May 2018: YT gave an invited talk in Simulations (and theory) in Physical chemistRy: an International Kermesse in Paris (SPRIK 2018), cerebrating 65th birthday of Prof. Michiel Sprik, held at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France. YT enjoyed lots of interesting talks and meeting old friends. On top of that, YT appreciated Prof. Marie-Pierre Gadget (U Evry val D’Essonne), Prof. Marialore Sulpizi (Johannes Gutenberg U Mainz), and Prof. Rodolphe Vuilleumier (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris) for their wonderful organisation. [Photo: At a tea time.]
Apr 2018: Symposium EN01 "Solid-Solid Interfaces in Batteries, Energy Storage and Conversion—Diagnostic and Modeling” in 2018 MRS SPRING MEETING & EXHIBIT (2-6 April 2018, Phoenix), which YT co-organised with Dr.Kevin Leung (Sandia), Prof. Yue Qi (Michigan State) & Prof. Bruce Dunn (UCLA), was successfully finished. YT appreciated the invited speakers from Japan: Dr. Kazunori Takada (NIMS), Prof. Taro Hitosugi (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), Prof. Akitoshi Hayashi (Osaka Pref. Univ.), Prof. Yasutoshi Iriyama (Nagoya Univ.) and Prof. Yuich Ikuhara (The Univ. of Tokyo) for their considerable contributions. We had many critical but essential discussions throughout the symposium. YT as well as RJ and KS gave contributed talks in this session. [Photo; 3 organisers: Dr. Kevin Leung, Prof. Yue Qi and YT.]
Dec 2017: YT won the “Best Use of HPC in Manufacturing” of HPCwire 2017 Readers Choice Awards together with RIKEN AICS for the achievements of "clarifying long-standing issues and advance development of next-generation batteries”. [Photo: with Prof. Kimihiko Hirao (Director of RIKEN AICS)]
“Best Use of HPC in Manufacturing” of HPCwire 2017 Readers Choice Awards
Oct 2017: “CPMD2017 workshop" was held in Tsukuba! YT played a co-chair role in the organising committee, and IH & KS contributed as the members. We had lots of interesting invited talks, posters and discussions. We also had a special session for Prof. Roberto Car’s 70th birthday. For detail, please visit LinkIconCPMD2017 Workshop webpage. [Photos: (left) A group photo of CPMD2017 Workshop, (middle) Prof. Michele Parrinello (ETH & USI) and Prof. Roberto Car (Princeton), (right) Prof. Jochen Blumberger (UCL), Prof. Marialore Sulpizi (Mainz), Prof. Jun Cheng (Xiamen) and YT.]
June 2017: YT attended PASC17 (Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference), held in Lugano, Switzerland. He organised two mini symposia, responding to the requests from researchers in Switzerland: (1) Atomistic Simulations of Interfaces; Complex but Deciding and (2) Still Toward First-Principles Simulations on Exascale Supercomputers, and invited Prof. K. Tsuda, Dr. S. V. Levchenko, Dr. M. Otani, Dr. K. Leung, Prof. J. Hutter, Dr. T. Nakashima, Prof. A. Oshiyama, & Prof. S. Goedecker. He also discussed with several friends working on computational researches: Prof. J. VandeVondele, Prof. M. Parrinello, Prof. R. Vuilleumier, Prof. S. Tenno, Dr. L. Ghiringhelli, Prof. A. von Lilienfeld & Prof. M. Ceriotti etc. [Photo: (left) with Prof. S. Goedecker, (right) at the entrance of the venue.]
Aug 2016: YT gave talks at BASF SE in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and BASF BELLA in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology about his simulation researches on battery materials. He also had fruitful discussions with the members of the battery research divisions of BASF such as Dr. Klaus Leitner and Dr. Balazs Berkes. [Photos: at the BASF SE headquarter in Ludwigshafen am Rhein.]
July 2016: YT stayed in Prof. Matthias Scheffler group, Fritz-Haber Institute (FHI) of Max-Planck Society, Berlin, Germany for 6 weeks and worked on surface informatics project together with Prof. M. Scheffler and Dr. Sergey Levchenko. In addition to the project, YT had lots of discussion with the members in the Theory Department of FHI such as Dr. Matthias Rupp. [Photos: with Prof. Matthias Scheffler and Dr. Sergey Levchenko & T- and M-buildings (where he worked) of FHI.]
Jun 2016: YT gave an invited talk in the IMLB2016 (The 18th International Meeting on Lithium Batteries) held at Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL [Photo: with Prof. Atsuo Yamada, Prof. Masashi Okubo, Prof. Yuki Yamada and their group members plus YT and KS for dinner.]
May 2016: YT and IH attended CPMD2016 held at University of Chicago. IH is a member of the organising committee chaired by Prof. Giulia Galli and YT is an invited speaker in the workshop. YT and IH have discussed the cutting-edge first-principles simulation techniques with many participants including Prof. Michiele Parrinello, Prof. Annabella Selloni, Prof. Joost VandeVondele, Prof. Rodolphe Vuilleumier, Prof. Angelos Michaelides, Prof. Xinzheng Li, Prof. Sheng Meng as well as Prof. Francois Gygi and Prof. Gilulia Galli. [Photo: with Prof. Giulia Galli and Prof. Michele Parrinello as well as the CPMD2016 board.]
Aug 2015: YT gave an invited talk on the DFT analysis of interfacial carrier transport, hysteresis and aging in the CECAM workshop "Perovskite solar cells: the quest for a theoretical description” held at the CECAM HQ, EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland. YT had intensive discussions with surface, interface and defects of PSC, with many participants including Prof. Filippo De Angelis, Dr. Edoardo Mosconi, Prof. Aron Walsh, Dr. Wan-Jian Yin, Prof. Ki-Ha Hong, and Prof. Koichi Yamashita etc. [Photo: with Prof. Filippo De Angelis]
Aug 2015: YT gave a lecture series “first-principles calculations of redox and electrochemical reactions around solid-liquid interfaces” in the 55th summer school of young scientists in Molecular Science, held at the Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo. In the lectures, YT explained the fundamentals of DFT for electron transfer, free energy calculation techniques, theories/methods for redox reactions, present status and future perspective of first-principles simulations of interfacial reactions. 14 students attended the YT’s class and all made nice presentations about the essential papers in this field. YT also enjoyed “nomi-nication” in the night sessions as well. YT appreciate all the students in his class, in particular, the class organiser, Ms. Ayako Kubo (Univ. Tokyo). [Photo: (left to right) Takagi, Baba, Yoko, Tanaka, Hayashi, Kubo, Tanimoto, YT, Ohta, Yoshida, Hirata, Umehara, Itoh, Itoh, Emori]
ドイツ・イノベーション・アワード ゴッドフリード・ワグネル賞2015Jun 2015: YT and KS received the 7th Germany Innovation Award “Gottfried Wagener Prize 2015” for their achievement of "Theoretical Elucidation of Reaction Mechanism on Electrolyte Interface in Lithium-Ion Battery with Highly-Efficient Use of Supercomputers”. The award ceremony was held at Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Roppongi, Tokyo. [Photo: (from left to right) Hono fellow (Prof.), Fujita vice president, Dr. Sepehri-Amin, Ushioda president (Prof.), YT, KS, Uosaki fellow (Prof.) in NIMS]
Nov 2014: YT succeeded in organizing a CECAM-like workshop in Japan together with his colleagues including Dr.Tetsuya Morishita (AIST), Dr. Motoyuki Shiga (JAEA), Prof. Ayori Mitsutake (Keio), Prof. Wataru Shinoda (Nagoya), Prof. Kenji Yasuoka (Keio), Prof. Masuhiro Mikami (Keio), Prof. Masaharu Isode (NIT), Prof. Noriyuki Yoshii, Prof. Hisashi Okumura (IMS), and organizing many discussions with the distinguished professors in NIMS together with Dr. Hiori KIno, Dr. Ikutaro Hamada (both in the NSCS group) and Dr. Tsuyoshi Miyazaki. [Photo: with Prof. Kiyoyuki Terakura, Dr. Bernd Ensing, Mrs. Brenda Klein, Prof. Michael L. Klein, YT and Prof. Michele Parrinello (from left to right).]
Nov 2014: Prof. Michele Parrinello (ETH Zurich) and Dr. Bernd Ensing (Univ. of Amsterdam) stayed in the NSCS group for cutting-edges of the metadynamics sampling and electrochemical application. We then had a group dinner where Prof. Stefan Bluegel (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) also kindly attended. [Photo: with Prof.Kiyoyuki Terakura, Prof. Stefan Blugel, Prof. Michele Parrinello, Dr. Bernd Ensing, and the NSCS group members]
Nov 2014: Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman (New York Univ.) visited the NSCS group and gave a CMS/MANA seminar talk on searching new polymorphism. We also had intensive discussions with hime. He is invited to NOSE30 international symposium. [Photo: with Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman, Dr. Motoyuki Shiga, and the NSCS group members.]
Aug 2014: Ms. Yuko Teramae, an undergraduate student in Ochanomizu Univ., joined the NSCS group for her three-week NIMS internship.
Aug. 2014: YT gave an invited talk in the symposium 'Modelling and Simulations of Electrochemical Interfaces and Materials for Energy Storage' organised by Dr. Oleg Borodin and Dr. Kevin Leung, in the 248th ACS national meeting, San Francisco. YT had lots of discussions with many researchers such as Prof. M. Sprik, Prof. F. De Angelis, Prof. A. Selloni, Prof. G. Galli, Prof. M. Sulpizi, etc. [Photo: with the symposium organisers; Dr. Oleg Borodin (left) & Dr. Kevin Leung (right)]
Apr 2014 Special Open Lectures in the NIMS CMS seminar series were given by Prof. Michiel Sprik, University of Cambridge, UK. Prof. Kiyoyuki Terakura, invited him to Tokyo Institute of Tech.. However, Terakura-sensei is a research adviser in NIMS now as well. So he and YT organized these advanced lectures on computational electrochemistry in NIMS MANA. [ Photo: with Prof. Michiel Sprik, Prof. Kiyoyuki Terakura.]
Mar 2014 YT and IH visited Prof. Michael L. Klein, Prof. John P. Perdew, Prof. Adrienn Ruzsinszky, and Prof. Xifan Wu at Temple University, Philadelphia for discussion of future collaboration. IH gave a Physics Department Seminar, organized by Prof. John P. Perdew. [Photo: with Prof. Michael L. Klein]
Nov 2013 Temple Univ-NIMS workshop was held at the WPI-MANA, NIMS. HK, IH and YT gave talks in the theoretical/computational session where Prof. Michael L. Klein, Prof. John P. Perdew, Prof. Adrienn Ruzsinszky, and Prof. Xifan Wu also gave talks. We have enjoyed discussion on the DFT fundamental and the beyond DFT. [Photo: Dr. Xifan Wu, YT, Prof. J. P. Perdew, IH (from left to right)]
Oct 2013 YT and IH, the two staff members gave invited talks on energy applications and van der Waals functional, respectively, in the 16th Asian Workshop on First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations (Asian-16), organised by Prof. Yanming Ma, in Beijing, China. We have discussed with many invited speakers such as Prof. Hardy Gross (MPI Halle), Prof. John Tse (Saskatchewan), Prof. Dario Alfe (UCL). [Photo: YT & IH with the workshop board.]
