2017
(Dec. 12) Annual symposium of post-K priority area No. 5
Dr. Tateyama, Dr. Iizuka and Dr. Choudhary attended annual symposium of post-K priority area No. 5, held in Kobe Univ. Dr. Iizuka gave an oral talk and Dr. Choudhary gave a poster presentation.
(Dec. 01)
Won the “Best Use of HPC in Manufacturing” of HPCwire 2017
Dr. Tateyama 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)]
(Dec. 01) Welcome, Randy-san
Dr. Randy Jalem, joined the IFCS-BM group as a permanent staff researcher! Welcome!
(Nov. 21) ICAE2017
Dr. Tateyama gave an invited talk in ICAE2017, held in Jeju, South Korea and had many discussions with leading DFT researchers in Korea such as Prof. Ki-Ha Hong.
(Nov. 14) Battery Symposium in Japan
Dr. Tateyama and Dr. Sodeyama gave oral talks on the projects with Dr. Kirkham, Dr. AlAssadi, Dr Choudhary in the Battery Symposium in Japan, held in Fukuoka.
(Oct. 23) ISSS-8
Dr. Tateyama gave an invited talk in ISSS-8, The 8th International Symposium on Surface Science, held in Tsukuba, Japan.
(Oct. 18)
CPMD2017 workshop
“CPMD2017 workshop" was held in Tsukuba! Dr. Tateyama played a co-chair role in the organising committee, and Dr. Hamada & Dr. Sodeyama 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
CPMD2017 Workshop webpage. [Photos: A group photo of CPMD2017 Workshop]
(Oct. 01) Dr. Ishikawa was selected as a JST-PRESTO researcher
Dr. Ishikawa NIMS-PD was appointed as a PRESTO researcher in the JST PRESTO "innovative catalysts" field. Congratulations, Atsushi-san!
(Sep. 03) 6th Polish Forum Smart Energy Conversion & Storage
Dr. Tateyama gave an invited talk in the 6th Polish Forum Smart Energy Conversion & Storage, held in Bukovina Tatrzanska, where he had extensive discussions with Prof. Janina Molenda (AGH Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Poland), Prof. Joachim Maier (MPI Stuttgart), Prof. Rene Hausbrand (Tech. Univ. Darmstadt), Prof. Truls Norby (Univ. Oslo) and so on.
(Aug. 27) IUMRS-ICAM 2017
Dr. Tateyama gave an invited talk in a symposium organised by Prof. Tejima and Prof. Zettsu (Shinshu Univ.) in IUMRS-ICAM 2017, held in Kyoto University. He had lots of discussion with the other invited speakers such as Prof. Ying Shirley Meng (UCSD), Prof. Jeff Sakamoto (Michigan), and Prof. Denis Yu (Hongkong).
(Aug. 02) Summer school of catalysis society of Japan
Dr. Tateyama gave a lecture in the summer school of catalysis society of Japan, and had lots of discussions with active young students as well as the other lecturers.
(Jul. 27) NIMS MI2I Workshop
Dr. Tateyama gave an invited talk in a “NIMS MI2I Workshop” about brute-force first-principles sampling. He discussed with the other speakers such as Prof. Isao Tanaka (Kyoto), Prof. Chris Wolverton (Northwestern) as well as Prof. Junichiro Shiomi (Tokyo).
(Jul. 25) Visiting Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica
Dr. Tateyama and Dr. Sodeyama visited Prof. Jer-Lai Kuo, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei and gave talks in a workshop.
(Jul. 17)
Visit by Prof. Amalendu Chandra
Prof. Amalendu Chandra (IIT Kanpur), who is now staying in IMS, Okazaki for his sabbatical stay, visited the IFCS-BM group and gave a talk in the MANA/GREEN seminar series. We also had lots of interesting discussions on computational techniques and studies on aqueous and non-aqueous solutions.
(Jul. 09) FiMPART 2017
Dr. Tateyama gave an invited talk in FiMPART 2017, held in Bordeaux, France.
(Jun. 26)
PASC17
Dr. Tateyama 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: at the entrance of the venue / with Prof. S. Goedecker]
(Jun. 18)
SSI-21
Dr. Jalem and Dr. Tateyama attended SSI-21 (Solid State Ionics) held in Padua, Italy. Dr. Jalem gave an invited talk on machine learning study of oxide electrolyte and Dr. Tateyama gave a contributed talk on charge distributions at solid-solid interfaces. Dr. Tateyama had many interesting discussions with Prof. Atsuo Yamada, Prof. Shinichi Komaba, Prof. Shirley Meng, Prof. Shyue Ping Ong, Prof. Yue Qi, & Dr. Oleg Bolodin etc. [Photo: with Prof. A. Yamada, Prof. S. Komaba, Dr. D. Asakura, & Dr. E. Watanabe]
(Jun. 15) Visiting Aomori High-school
Dr. Tateyama gave a special lecture in Aomori High-school, selected as a Super Science High-shchool.
(Jun. 09)
Summer BBQ party
The IFCS-BM group organized a summer BBQ party at Ninomiya House. We enjoyed many drinks and foods like big beef steaks provided by Dr. AlAssadi. [Photo: group photo]
(May 18) EIC2017
Dr. Tateyama, Dr. Sodeyama, Dr. Iizuka, Dr. Dou attended EIC2017 (an international workshop on electrified interfaces for energy conversions), held at Shonan Village Center. Dr. Iizuka and Dr. Dou also gave poster presentations. We had many substantial discussions with Prof. Marc. Koper, Prof. Masatoshi Watanabe, Prof. Prashant Kamat, Prof. Andrew Gewirth etc.
(May 10)
The final lecture of Prof. Kazuhiro Hashimoto
Dr. Tateyama attended the final lecture of Prof. Kazuhiro Hashimoto, The University of Tokyo, held at the Hongo Campus of The University of Tokyo. Dr. Tateyama was a member of JST Hashimoto-PRESTO. [Photo: with Prof. K. Hashimoto and some of the Hashimoto-Kasagi-Hanamura PRESTO members ]
(Apr. 17)
Visiting Sandia National Laboratory
Dr. Tateyama visited Dr. Kevin Leung at Sandia National Laboratory and gave a seminar talk. [Photo; with Dr. Kevin Leung and his friend.]
(Apr. 17)
MRS 2017 SPRING MEETING
Dr. Tateyama attended MRS 2017 SPRING MEETING. It was approved that Dr. Tateyama, as well as Dr. Kevin Leung, Prof. Yue Qi, Prof. Bruce Dunn will organise an symposium in MRS 2018 SPRING MEETING.! Dr. Tateyama had lots of discussions with many people like Prof. N. Yabuuchi, Prof. K. Tsuda, Prof. T. Oguchi, Dr. K. Leung etc. [Photo: with Prof. Naoaki Yabuuchi]
(Apr. 13) Visit by Prof. Ikutaro Hamada
Prof. Ikutaro Hamada in the Osaka University visited the IFCS-BM group and had collaboration discussion with Dr. Kirkham and Dr. Tateyama.
(Apr. 11)
Welcome + Farewell party
We had a welcome party to Dr. Atsushi Ishikawa, and a farewell party of Dr. Chris Kirkham will leave the IFCS-BM group and go back to UK in the end of April. [Photo: welcome and farewell party]
(Apr. 11)
Visit by Prof. Michiel Sprik
Prof. Michiel Sprik, a Professor in Theoretical Chemistry, University of Cambridge, visited the IFCS-BM group again and had extensive discussions on the interfacial reactions. [Photo: with Prof. Michiel Sprik after his seminar]
(Apr. 06) MIMD
Dr. Sodeyama gave an invited talk in International Workshop of Materials Informatics and Materials Data (MIMD), held in NIMS.
(Apr. 05)
A group lunch under the cherry flowers
The IFCS-BM group had a group lunch under the cherry flowers in the Ninomiya Park. [Photo: the IFCS-BM group, Dr. Sergey Levchenko, and friends.]
(Apr. 03) Welcome, Atsushi-san
Dr. Atsushi Ishikawa, from Waseda University, joined the IFCS-BM group as a NIMS post-doc researcher. Welcome, Atsushi-san!
(Apr. 03) NIMS President prize
GL Dr. Yoshitaka Tateyama was awarded a NIMS President prize. He was also appointed as the laboratory director of the newly-established MOP-MI laboratory, NIMS. Dr. Sodeyama also joined the MOP-MI laboratory.
(Mar. 31)
Dr. Sergey Levchenko visited the ESICB
Dr. Sergey Levchenko visited the ESICB, Kyoto University together with Dr. Tateyama, and gave an ESICB colloquium. He also had several discussions with young scientists in the ESICB. [Photo: with Dr. Sergey Levchenko and the members of Prof. Hirofumi Sato group and ESICB theory group in Kyoto University.]
(Mar. 27) Visit by Dr. Sergey Levchenko
Dr. Sergey Levchenko, a Group Leader of Theory department, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Berlin, visited cMI2 (Prof. Terakura) and the IFCS-BM group. As we’re doing an on-going collaboration, we had lots of the collaboration discussion.
(Mar. 22)
A Big Farewell Party
Dr. Hamada, Dr. Haruyama and Dr. AlAssadi will leave the IFCS-BM group in the end of March. Dr. Hamada becomes associate professor in Osaka University, Dr. Haruyama moves to a post-doc position in AIST (supervised by Dr. M. Otani), and Dr. AlAssadi will be assistant professor in University of Tsukuba. We had a big (COSTCO) farewell party for them with other GREEN members including Prof. Uosaki, Prof. Miyano and Dr. Kubo. [Photos: the IFCS-BM group, GREEN project members, Dr. Y. Kubo, and Dr. K. Uosaki]
(Mar. 17) JSPS March meeting
Dr. Haruyama gave an oral talk in the JSPS March meeting held in Osaka University.
(Mar. 16) ATP symposium, the annual meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan
Dr. Tateyama gave an invited talk in an ATP symposium regarding next-generation batteries in the annual meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan, held at Keio University, and had lots of essential discussions.
(Mar. 02)
IBA 2017
Dr. Tateyama, Dr. Choudhary, Dr. Assadi, and Dr. Sodeyama attended IBA 2017 held in Nara and had several discussion with the leading researchers. [Photo: Joint dinner with Prof. Yamada and Prof. Okubo group in Nara]
(Feb. 28) MANA International Symposium 2017
Dr. Tateyama attended the MANA International Symposium 2017 and chatted with his friends, Prof. Andrew Rappe (U PENN) and Prof. David Bowler (UCL).
(Feb. 25) Wokshop on characterisation of surfaces and interfaces
Dr. Sodeyama gave an invited talk in a workshop on characterisation of surfaces and interfaces, held in Shonan International Village and had a lots of discussion with the experimentalists.
(Feb. 22) MI2I forum
Dr. Sodeyama and Dr. Jalem gave poster presentations in MI2I forum held in Tokyo.
(Feb. 20) Visiting Fritz-Haber Institute of Max-Planck Society
Dr. Tateyama visited Fritz-Haber Institute of Max-Planck Society, Berlin, Germany for the collaboration discussions.
(Feb. 17) The final lecture of Prof. Maki Kawai
Dr. Tateyama attended the final lecture of Prof. Maki Kawai, The University of Tokyo, held at the Kashiwa Campus of The University of Tokyo. Dr. Tateyama was a member of JST Kawai-PRESTO.
(Feb. 13) Visiting Imperial College London
Dr. Jalem visited Imperial College London in UK to discuss potential collaborations.
(Feb. ) Visiting Oxford University and Cambridge University
Dr. Hamada visited Oxford University and Cambridge University (Prof. Michiel Sprik etc.) in UK to discuss potential collaborations.
(Feb. 02) AP-HOPV17
Dr. Haruyama gave a poster presentation in AP-HOPV17 held in Yokohama.
(Jan. 22) 41st International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites
Dr. Sodeyama gave an invited talk in the 41st International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
(Jan. 27) ISSP, theory seminar
Dr. Hamada was invited to ISSP, The Univ. of Tokyo, and gave a talk in the theory seminar series.
(Jan. 20) Visit by Dr. Takashi Kumagai
Dr. Takashi Kumagai (group leader, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society) visited the IFCS group and gave a talk in the MANA seminar series. We enjoyed many discussions.
(Jan. 18) Special lectures in the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering
Dr. Tateyama gave special lectures in the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, hosted by Prof. Shigeto Okada and Prof. Ayuko Kitajo. Prof. Naoaki Yabuuchi (Tokyo Denki Univ.) also gave special lectures together. Then we exchanged a lot of useful information.
(Jan. 12) 18th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science
Dr. Sodeyama attended the 18th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods, held in Trieste, Italy.
