Forum F-2: "United Approaches to Materials Science"

Scope
The 21st century COE program for a United Approach to New Materials Science at Kyoto University is aiming at creating a new research field, "New Materials Science", where 'united' approaches in research and education are conformed from basic chemistry and metallurgy, both of which possess different histories of development and view points in materials science. The two conventional scientific fields have so far developed independently although they are in a mutually complementary relationship. Historically, chemistry has been concerned mainly with phenomena observed in the length scale of atomic bond and in the time scale of atomic collision, while metallurgy has been with those in much longer length and time scales. The creation of united approaches in materials science from these two fields should therefore be promising for progress in designing and processing new materials with some new functions that we never experienced before. In this symposium, research and educational approaches to New Materials Science will be discussed.

Topics
* Approach from Chemistry
* Approach from Metallurgy
* Approach in Research
* Approach in Education

Invited Speakers
Prof. George Smith (Oxford Univ., U.K.)
Prof. David E. Luzzi (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Dr. Terence E. Mitchell (Los Alamos NL, USA)
Prof. Enge Wang (Institute of Physics, China)
Prof. Dang-Moon Wee (KAIST, Korea)
Prof. Koichi Eguchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Kazuyuki Hirao (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Takeji Hashimoto (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Hirokazu Hasegawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Masaharu Yamaguchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Kozo Osamura (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Masanori Murakami (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Kozaburo Tamura (Kyoto University, Japan)

Chairpersons
Yasuhiro Awakura^1,2) (Kyoto University, Japan, awakura@mtl.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Zempachi Ogumi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Shunsaku Kimura (Kyoto University, Japan)
Takenao Yoshizaki (Kyoto University, Japan)

Sponsors
21st Century Center of Excellence(COE) Program; COE for a United Approach to New Materials Science