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Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemistry Course hold joint company briefing session

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 14:01:11 +0900

The Department of Applied Chemistry and the Department of Science's Chemistry Course hosted a joint company briefing session on February 25, 2021.
From the standpoint of preventing the spread of Covid-19, this year the information session was held remotely. A total of 42 companies participated, using the Remo web conferencing application. There were 221 participants in all, including 159 students as well as briefers from the participating companies. The session took place in a cordial atmosphere, with some of the company briefers being Kindai alumni. They fielded questions from the students, including those about job hunting.

TV appearances by Kindai University faculty members in January and February 2021

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:18:14 +0900

Program: "Yasashii News", February 25, 2021, TV Osaka
Appearance: Shinji Kajiwara, associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Associate professor Kajiwara commented on issues related to the future development of electric vehicles in Japan.

Program: "Tsunagaru Ehon", January 15, 2021, BS Asahi
Appearance: Tamio Ida, professor, Bio-Coke Research Institute (micro-energy engineering)
On a program introducing the SDGs, Professor Ida spoke about coffee roasted with bio-coke derived from spent coffee grounds.

Program: "What's This? Mysteries from Around the World", January 13, 2021, Fuji TV
Appearance: Takeshi Morimoto, professor, Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering (lightning discharge, remote sensing, atmospheric electricity)
Professor Morimoto explained mysterious lights shot in Australia.

Mathematical Seminar of Kindai University

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:08:23 +0900

Prof. Tomie of University of Morioka gave a talk titiled "A construction of Gray codes for pettern avoiding permutations" in Mathematical Seminar of Kindai University. Although the problems are easy to understand, almost of all are open. He is studing in such an active field and fascinating not only researchers but also graduate students. (Math.Matsui)

Dr. Nagatoshi Koumura for his lecture on "Discovery of molecular rotors that can be driven by photo-energy and Elucidation of the mechanisms".

Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:06:31 +0900

The Research Core "New Chemical Materials for Actuating and Transmitting Mechanisms" invited Dr. Nagatoshi Koumura for his lecture on "Discovery of molecular rotors that can be driven by photo-energy and Elucidation of the mechanisms". He had been a coworker of Professor Feringa, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 for their design and production of molecular machines. The clear, beautiful, and informative lecture fascinated us and stimulated our imagination so much.

Students of Soft Matter Physics Laboratory attended the Fifth Soft Matter Workshop

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:11:26 +0900

Students of Soft Matter Physics Laboratory attended the Fifth Soft Matter Workshop @ Tohoku University. Like in sports, the contest between different schools makes them strong and competent. - T. Dotera, Dept. of Physics

Research exchange between Yonsei and Kindai: Activity Report.

Mon, 11 May 2015 16:14:00 +0900

During two weeks last month (17-30 Apr. 15), we had held the brainstorming workshop on gravity and string theory, having Prof. Seungjoon Hyun, Dr. Sang-Heon Yi, and graduate school students Ms. Sang-A Park, and Mr. Byoungjoon Ahn from Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), as well as Dr. Masaki Shigemori from Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan). Together with several students and Faculty members at our Graduate School of Science and Engineering, we had a number of stimulating discussions, including two seminar talk sessions on theoretical aspects of gravity and string theory. The discussions we had during the workshop went deep into the problems of our common interest and, hopefully, will develop into successful future collaborations.

Dr. Sang-Heon Yi (right) and Dr. Masaki Shigemori. Dr. Yi gave a talk about his recent result on conserved charges in gravity, as well as an excellent review on recent developments in this research area. Dr. Shigemori talked about quantum mechanical aspects of black hole geometry.

Ms. Sang-A Park (left) and Dr. Akihiro Ishibashi. Ms. Park talked about her recent study on holographic principle and rotating black holes. Dr. Ishibashi talked about stability of higher dimensional black holes.

A snapshot just after the seminar session on Apr. 27, with Dr. Sang-Heon Yi, Ms. Sang-A Park, Mr. Byoungjoon Ahn from Yonsei, and some of our students at Kindai.

＊Program of Brainstorming sessions on gravity and string theory
■20 Apr.15 (Mon) 15:00--17:30 at bldg 31 room 802
Dr. Sang-Heon Yi (Yonsei University):　
"A new look into old material: Conserved charge in gravity"
Dr. Shigemori Masaki (YITP. Kyoto University)
"The microstate geometry program - the past, present, and future"

■27 Apr. 15 (Mon) 16:30-18:00 at Bldg 31 room 802
Ms. Sang-A Park (Yonsei University)
"Holographic conserved charges for rotating black holes"
Dr. Akihiro Ishibashi (Kindai University)
"Instability of higher dimensional rotating AdS black holes"

＊Graduate School of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University and Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kindai Unviersity have recently made an agreement of international partners.

Lectures by Professor Roberto Percacci from SISSA, Trieste, Italy

Thu, 07 May 2015 16:31:21 +0900

We invited Professor Roberto Percacci from SISSA, Trieste, Italy (with which we made agreement of exchanges (MOU) last year through our international office) for a series of intensive lectures and our continuing collaboration on functional renormalization group. The lectures are given on March 2 and 3 in Department of Physics. The details of the content can be found at the above URL. This approach can be applied to all kinds of quantum field theories, but it is expected that the approach opens a way to study quantum effects of gravity, one of the long standing and most important problems in theoretical physics. He stays at our laboratory for March 1-8, and will have intensive discussions on our continuing collaboration on the quantum gravity. This visit was made possible by the support of JSPS Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research No. 24540290 (main investigator: N. Ohta) combined with the support of Kindai University.

"Quasicrystals: A third type of solid", Science channel

Thu, 07 May 2015 16:29:33 +0900

Science channel explores the marvelous world of quasicrystals.
Cast: An-Pang Tsai (Professor, Tohoku University), Tomonari Dotera (Professor, Kindai University)

Not so long ago scientists thought there were only two types of solids: crystals, composed of order arrangements of atoms, and amorphous materials, in which the atoms are connected in a disorder fashion. But then a third type of solid was discovered, overturning the conventional wisdom. These new materials, called quasicrystals, have fascinated scientists with their beauty and strangeness. Prof. Dotera (Dept. of Physics) explains his study on "soft quasicrystals."

Team Kindai won the silver prize at Die and Mold Grand prix

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:22:24 +0900

Team Kindai supervised by Prof. Nishiyabu (Dept. of Mec.) was awarded a silver prize in the Japan-China University Die Grand Prix held at Tokyo Big Sight.

"Kindai Monozukuri Kobo" opened

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:26:00 +0900

We started a new organization for research and education on manufacturing, "Kindai Monozukuri Kobo". We are planning to have the opening ceremony on April 25 at Higashiosaka Campus. For a schedule, the location, and other detailed information, please refer to our website.

Prof. Munakata was awarded Fellow status from the Chemical Society of Japan

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:27:38 +0900

At the 95th Annual Spring Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) on March 26-29 at the Nihon University Funabashi Campus, Professor Megumu Munakata (a former professor at the Chemistry Course of Department of Science, a former vice president, a former dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering, the director of the Liaison Center) was awarded the title of "the Fellow of the Chemical Society of Japan" (CSJ FELLOW). The award ceremony was held on March 28. CSJ annually bestows this title on its members who have made significant contributions to academic studies, education, or industrial development, have promoted the field of chemistry and chemical technology-related fields, or have contributed to the development of CSJ. Professor Munakata previously received the Chemical Society of Japan academic award and the Coordination Chemistry Society award, reflecting his great contributions in chemistry, especially coordination chemistry. His contributions to society also include serving as a vice president and the director of the Liaison Center of Kindai University. His CSJ fellow award reflects all of these reasons.

International partners: Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:44:20 +0900

Graduate School of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University and Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kindai University made an agreement of international partners.