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Tenure-Track Faculty Open Symposium
   Date: February 2, 2012 (thu)
   Place: Digital Multi-Purpose Hall, West 9 bldg., Tokyo Tech

For details: here


Global Edge Institute Open Symposium
   Date: February 3, 2011 (thu)
   Place: Digital Multi-Purpose Hall, West 9 bldg., Tokyo Tech
       

  


Global Edge Institute Open Symposium
   - Date: Monday, February 8, 2010 9:30-16:00
          Tuesday, February 9, 2010 9:30-12:30
   - Place: Digital Hall, West 9 Bldg., Tokyo Institute of Technology
          Ookayama 2-12-1, Meguro, Tokyo
    *Presentation will made all in English. (no translation)


For details: here

Master genes for cardiomyocyte induction (by Dr. Jun Takeuchi)
   The paper has just been published in Nature.  April 27, 2009

For details: here

Global Edge Institute Open Symposium
  March 4, 2009(wed) Ookayama campus, Ferrite Memorial Hall
  March 5, 2009(thu) Suzukakedai campus, Suzukake Hall

For details: here

Global Edge Seminar

  - Mar 26, 2009 (thu)11:00-
    Speaker: Prof. James Mori (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Apr 9, 2009 (thu)
    Speaker: Hamid Laga
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - May 15, 2009 (thu)
    Speaker: Retdian NICODIMUS
           Noriyuki TAKAHASHI
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Jun 11, 2009 (thu)
    Speaker: Yoichi MURAKAMI
           Hiroya YAMADA
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Jul 9, 2009 (thu)
    Speaker: Mituhiro FUKUDA
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus / with Polycom
  - Sep 10, 2009 (thu)
    Speaker: Dilshad MASIH
    Place: Suzukakedai campus
  - Oct 8, 2009 (thu)
    Speaker: Toshiki TAJIMA
    Place: Suzukakedai campus
  - Nov 12, 2009 (thu)
    Speaker: Alex FUKUNAGA
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Dec 17, 2009 (thu)
    Speaker: Bun'ei Sato
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus / with Polycom
  - Jan 14, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Yuichiro Ueno
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Feb 25, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Tsuyoshi Michinobu
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus / with Polycom
  - Mar 11, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Jonathan Heddle
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus / with Polycom
  - Apr 22, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Asuka Terai
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - May 13, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Retdian NICODIMUS
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Jun 10, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Hiroya YAMADA
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Jul 8, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Yoichi MURAKAMI
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Sep 9, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Noriyuki TAKAHASHI
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Oct 14, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Tamas KALMAN
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Nov 11, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Dilshad MASIH
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Dec 9, 2010 (thu)
    Speaker: Tsuyoshi MICHINOBU
    Title: "Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Jan 13, 2011 (thu)
    Speaker: Retdian NICODIMUS
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Feb 17, 2011 (thu)
    Speaker: Yoichi MURAKAMI
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - Mar 10, 2011 (thu)
    Speaker: Hiroya YAMADA
    Title: Introduction ot Legged Locomotion
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
  - May 12, 2011 (thu)
    Speaker: Asuka TERAI
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
    Title: Experimental Examinations of Metaphor Comprehension
    - Jul 14, 2011 (thu)
    Speaker: Retdian NICODIMUS
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
    Title: Energy Scavenger -towards greener electronics-
  - Sep 22, 2011 (thu)
    Speaker: Tsuyoshi Michinobu
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
    Title: Commodity Plastics
  - Oct 13, 2011 (thu)
    Speaker: Satoshi Habuchi (Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Tech)
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
    Title: Single-molecule studies on organic and polymeric materials
  - Nov 17, 2011 (thu)
    Speaker: Tamas Kalman
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
    Title: The Poincare conjecture
  - Dec 15, 2011 (thu)
    Speaker: Celine Mougenot
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
    Title: Design Cognition: Studying How Designers Think
  - Jan 12, 2012 (thu)
    Speaker: Hiroya Yamada
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
    Title: Innovation of driving system for a robot
  - Mar 8, 2012 (thu)
    Speaker: Yoichi Murakami
    Place: S6-408A, Ookayama campus
    Title: Selected topics from my previous studies: Carbon nanotubes

                          For details: here


Job Opening 2010
Global Edge Institute invites applications for Tenure-Track Positions in the following
 research areas;  *Application has been closed.

    Associate Professor position
   - Condensed Matter Physics

    Assistant Professor positions
   - Mathematics
   - Organic and Polymeric Materials
   - Human System Science
   - Nuclear Engineering

For details: here

Job Opening 2009
Global Edge Institute invites applications for tenure-track positions at the assistant professor level in the following research areas;  *Application has been closed.
   - Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
   - Mechanical and Control Engineering
   - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
   - Communications and Integrated Systems

For details:       ( --> Past Job Opening )

Discovery of planets around giant stars -- New worlds of extrasolar planets --
Bun'ei Sato (Assistant Professor, Global Edge Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

For details: here

Bionano Symposium
"Engineering and modifying nanostructures using biological molecules
with applications in materials, electronics and therapeutics."

   ・Date: May 7th-8th 2008
   ・Place: Tokyo Institute of Technology Suzukakedai Campus Suzukake Hall
   *Participation is free. Registration is not required.
   

For details:

Global Edge Seminar
"Experiences of a foreign faculty member in Japan (1984-present)"

   ・Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:00-11:30
   ・Place: Room 408A, South 6 Bldg., Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
   ・Guest Speaker: Prof. Robert J. Geller, Professor of Geophysics, University of Tokyo
   ・Contents will include:
         - How he came to Japan
         - Experiences of a foreign faculty member
         - His research (global seismology)
         - Internationalization of Japanese universities: some personal opinions
   


Evolving Education and Research Center for Spatio-Temporal Biological Network Second International Conference
Evolving Education and Research Center for Spatio-Temporal Biological Network Second International Conference, Global COE program Bio members of Global Edge assistant professors will give a talk on their research.

   ・Date: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:00-17:00
   ・Place: Tokyo Institute of Technology Suzukakedai Campus Suzukake Hall
   ・Speaker: Jun Takeuchi, Jonathan Gardiner Heddle, Andres Daniel Maturana,
           Yuichi Harano, Md. Ezharul Hoque Chowdhury
   

For details: International Conference

Global Edge Institute Open Symposium
Global Edge assistant professors present their research activities and achievements in 2007.

   ・Date: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:30-17:20
   ・Place: Digital Hall, West 9 Bldg., Tokyo Institute of Technology
         Ookayama 2-12-1, Meguro, Tokyo
   *Presentation will made all in English. (no translation)


For details: Open Symposium