The 11th Steering Committee Meeting

3rd February, 2016 : Saint-Gobain HQ (Paris, France)

2016.02.08 Update

The 11th NIMS-SG COE Steering Committee Meeting was held on 3rd February, 2016, at the Saint-Gobain HQ in Paris, after the 10th Committee held in March 2015 at the same place. From Saint-Gobain side, Dr. Didier Roux (Vice-president: R & D Director), Dr. Bernadette Charleux (Deputy R & D Director), Mr. David Lechevalier (SG US R&D center), and Dr. Mari Kono (SGKK) attended. From NIMS side, Dr. Yoshio Aoki (Director of External Collaboration Division), Dr. Naoki Ohashi (Director of Energy and Environment Division), Ms. Yuko Imanishi (Group Head, Research Collaboration Office) and Dr. Yoshio Matsui (Collaboration Coordinator) attended.
First, Dr. Aoki introduced the new President of NIMS, Dr. K. Hashimoto. Then the summary of the management of the COE was reported by Dr. Kono and Dr. Ohashi, partly based on the "activity report" of the first term (2010-2014) of COE. After the brief summary of the feasibility study by Dr. Matsui, Dr. Lechevalier reported on the proposal of new ceramics research program.
In the second half of the meeting, the members of CNRS, Dr. Fabien Grasset, Dr. J.F. Tassin, and Univ. Renne1, Dr. Malyline Guilloux-Viry, Dr. Stephan Cordier joined and discussed on recent activities of LINK (NIMS-SG-CNRS) three-party collaboration research.

The next 12th Steering Committee will possibly be held in October 2016 in Japan, in conjunction with NIMS-UR1 joint Workshop.

Group Photo (from left, Y. Imanishi, D. Lechevalier, Y. Matsui, M. Kono, F. Chanzy, D. Roux, Y. Aoki, J-F. Tassin, M. Guilloux-Viry, S. Cordier, F. Grasset, B. Charleux and N. Ohashi)


COE Meeting (Presenter: N. Ohashi, NIMS)


COE Meeting (Presenter: D. Lechevalier, SG)