The 9th Steering Committee was held at NIMS, Tsukuba

28 October, 2014 : NIMS/Namiki-site

2014.10.29 Update

The 9th COE Steering Committee was held on 28th October, 2014, at NIMS (Namiki-site), Tsukuba Japan, after the 8th Committee held in March 2014, also at NIMS. From Saint-Gobain side, Dr. Didier Roux (Vice-president: R & D Director), Dr. Bernadette Charleux (Deputy R & D Director), Ms. Florence Chanzy (Contract Officer), Dr. Adam Stevenson (SG CREE), and Dr. Mari Kono (SGKK) attended. From NIMS side, Dr. Junichi Sone (Executive Vice President), Dr. Yoshio Aoki (Director of External Collaboration Division), Dr. Naoki Ohashi (Director of Energy and Environment Division), Mr. Akira Yaegashi (Team Leader of Research Collaboration Team), Ms. Haruko Sorai (Academic Research Office) and Dr. Yoshio Matsui (Collaboration Coordinator) attennded.
The committee summarized the management of the center for the last 6 months, including progress in NIMS-SG COE research programs,and had quite active discussion about future direction of newly established UMI-LINK, for NIMS-SG-CNRS three-party collaboration, in the presence of Drs. Dominique Massiot, Jean François Tassin, Patrick Nedellec and Pascal Breuilles of CNRS.

Presentation by Dr. M. Kono, SG Co-Director.


Presentation by Dr. A. Stevenson (SG CREE) and Dr. T. Uchikoshi (NIMS), on EPD program.


At the room for UMI-LINK Labolatory. From left, Patrick Nedellec (CNRS), Didier Roux (SG), Dominique Massiot (CNRS), Jean François Tassin (CNRS), Pascal Breuilles (CNRS), Bernadette Charleux (SG) and Florence Chanzy (SG).




At Room W-501, WPI/MANA Bldg, NIMS Namiki-site