MANA International Symposium 2012 successfully finished
The symposium started with an opening address by Dr. Sukekatsu Ushioda, NIMS President. Subsequent greetings were delivered by Dr. Koki Uchimaru, Director of Basic Research Promotion Division, MEXT, Prof. Toshio Kuroki, Director of WPI Program and Prof. Gunzi Saito, WPI Program Officer of MANA. The symposium continued with a briefing of MANA by Dr. Masakazu Aono, MANA Director-General.
![Sukekatsu Ushioda](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/ushioda_270.jpg)
Opening of the symposimum was addressed by Dr. Sukekatsu Ushioda, NIMS President.
![Koki Uchimaru](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/uchimaru_270.jpg)
Dr. Koki Uchimaru, Director of Basic Research Promotion Division, MEXT.
![Toshio Kuroki](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/kuroki_270.jpg)
Prof. Toshio Kuroki, Director of WPI Program.
![Gunji Saito](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/saito_270.jpg)
Prof. Gunzi Saito, WPI Program Officer
of MANA.
Afterward, a Special Session entitled "Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the first paper about the scanning tunneling microscope (STM)" was held. Three researchers including Dr. Heinich Rohrer, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1986 and the one of the inventors of STM, Prof. James K. Gimzewski, MANA Satellite PI, UCLA and Dr. Masakazu Aono, MANA Director-General, talked about the time of the development of STM, the history of its progress in the performance and applied research results of STM.
![Ei-ichi Negishi](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/negishi2_270.jpg)
Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi, Nobel Laureate in
Chemistry 2010, gives a Special Lecture.
![Heinich Rohrer](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/rohrer_270.jpg)
Dr. Heinich Rohrer, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1986, talks at the Special Session.
![James K. Gimzewski](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/gim_270.jpg)
Prof. James K. Gimzewski, MANA Satellite PI, UCLA
![Masakazu Aono](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/aono_270.jpg)
Dr. Masakazu Aono, MANA Director-General.
389 participants from 35 countries in total made active discussions and the symposium finished successfully.
![Naoki Yokoyama](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/yokoyama_270.jpg)
Dr. Naoki Yokoyama, Leader, Collaborative
Research Team, AIST.
![Motoko Kotani](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/kotani_270.jpg)
Prof. Motoko Kotani, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku Univ.
![Adrian Bachtold](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/bachltold_270.jpg)
Prof. Adrian Bachtold, Catalan Institute of
Nanotechnology, ICN.
![Nenad M. Markovic](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/markovic_270.jpg)
Prof. Nenad M. Markovic, Group Leader, MSD, Argonne National Laboratory.
![Hiroyuki Nishide](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/nishide_270.jpg)
Prof. Hiroyuki Nishide, Waseda University.
![Tsutomu Katsuki](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/katsuki_270.jpg)
Prof. Tsutomu Katsuki, WPI-I2CNER, Kyushu University
![Hiroshi Kitagawa](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/kitagawa_270.jpg)
Prof. Hiroshi Kitagawa, WPI-iCeMS, Kyoto
University.
![Mikael Käll](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/kaell_270.jpg)
Prof. Mikael Käll, Chalmers Univ. of Tech.
![David F. Williams](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/williams_270.jpg)
Prof. David F. Williams, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
![Yoshihiro Ito](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/ito_270.jpg)
Dr. Yoshihiro Ito, Chief Scientist, RIKEN.
![group photo of the participants at the symposium](/mana/news/2012/t363dl0000000dx5-img/group_photo_560.jpg)
The participants at the entrance of Eochal Tsukuba on February 29, 2012.