NEWS
2009 Dec.17: Nazli (D3) finished his first Doctoral defence
Nov.19: Nazli (D3) was selected as recipient of young authors travel support from 22nd International Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference (MNC 2009)
Nov.15: An article in Advanced Powder Technology, 2006 (WL: co-author) was (#1 ) in Top25 Hottest Articles (July-September 2009, data from Elsevier) ScienceDirect.Com (This article was, #11 in Jan.-Mar.2010; #5 in Oct.-Dec. 2009, #9 in April-June 2009, #8 in Oct. 2008-Mar. 2009, )
Nov.15: An article in Advanced Powder Technology, 2006 (WL: co-author) was extracted in Top 10 Cited (#3) articles published in the last five years (data from: Scopus, Elsevier)

Oct.19: Dr. Heru Setyawan (a faculty member of Departmet of Chemical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia) joined as Graduate School of BASE Visiting Fellow, for one month. > www.ITS
Oct.3: STEP program awardee (with the JASSO scholarship, one year): INDAH NURMAWATI joined as an exchange student. She is a final-year bachelor student of Dept. of Physics, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), a sister university of TUAT.

Sept.4 Three students (including one externally from another Lab) passed the entrance examination for Graduate School of BASE. They may join the group in April 2010 as Master degree’s students.

Aug.21: A guest from Indonesia: Prof. S. Winardi (Vice President, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember ITS, Surabaya)
Aug.18: A guest from Korea: Prof. T. Kim (Kumoh Univ. Technology)
Aug.6: A guest from Sweden: Prof. K. Deppert (Solid State Physics, Lund University)
July 15: A discussion/meeting with Dr. Honjo Tasuku (Member, The Council for Science and Technology Policy, Government of Japan) and other fellows from the Bureau of Science and Technology Policy at the Cabinet Office, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology….www.CSTP

Photo:www.TUAT/News
June 4: Article on WL’s comment was printed in an Indonesian newspaper (Pikiran Rakyat)
June 11: Together with colleagues at School of Agriculture, we started the long-term (few months) experiment on “aerosol and plants” using six chambers in Fuchu campus.
May 19-23: Dr. Tunlawit Satapnajaru (Environmental Science, Kasetsart University) visiting us.
May 1: Four master degree students and a bachelor degree student got official job offers, for April 2010.
April 14: Mr. Burimparth Pakornsiri (as visiting fellow) from Dept. of Environmental Science, Kasetsart University, Thailand joining for two months.
April 14: Ms. Sureepun Wannasawang, graduate student, Kasetsart University visited for a week.
April 10: Nazli Naim (Doctoral student) is named the 2009 Atoda Scholarship Fellow (a program at TUAT for graduate students)…東京農工大学 阿刀田央一基金受賞

April 1: Two students joined the master course at Grad. School of BASE.
April 1: Three bachelor course students (Dept. of Chemical Engineering) joined.
Mar.25: Graduation day (three B.S. students and one Master degree students)

March: National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP REPORT No.134): Our technology is one of the selected technologies from Japanese universities…文部科学省 科学技術政策研究所 … 科学技術調整費による業務として、第3期科学技術基本計画のフォローアップに係る調査研究「政府投資が生み出した成果の調査」中の「大学・研究機関の多様な成果」に研究室の成果が選ばれた: PDF file (1000 pages)
Jan.30: Dr. Asep Sofyan (Faculty member, Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung(ITB), Indonesia) joined for 40 days. Sponsor: JSPS-TUAT Biomass-related Program, www.JSPS

EVENTS
2009
Nov.30-Dec.2: 第47回 粉体に関する討論会. Hachioji (Speaker: Sasaki/M1)
Nov. 24-27: 6th Asian Aerosol Conference, Bangkok (WL: Committee member)
Nov.18-20: Inchem Tokyo 2009 (The biggest trade fair in Asia for Chemical Plant Engineering and Advanced Materials) – (WL: co-author of a poster)
Nov. 19: Sapporo, 22nd International Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference (MNC 2009) (Nazli: presenter)
Nov.7: Open Lab for public (by Sasaki,Iguchi,Gen,Lim)
Nov.4: Lab introduction to B3 students (by M1 and B4)
Oct.21-22, Osaka: Autumn meeting of Society of Powder Technology. (Speakers: Anzai/M2 and WL)
Oct.8: Sapporo,「エアロゾル・オゾン等による植物影響に関するシンポジウム」-増加する越境大気汚染から森林を守る- 主催:新学術研究領域「東アジアにおけるエアロゾルの植物・人間系へのインパクト」植物班, 共催:日本木材学会北海道支部,大気環境学会北海道東北支部 (WL: co-author)

Autumn tree in our campus, 2009
Sept.25: Midterm presentation for B4 students, 中間発表
Sept. 16-19: Autumn meeting, Society of Chemical Engineers, Hiroshima (Speaker: M1/Iguchi, M2/Takashima, WL: Session chair)
Sept.14: 4th Asian Particle Technology Symposium, New Delhi (WL:co-author)
Sept.14: Midterm presentation for M1 students, 研究計画発表
Sept.10-11: Electrochemical Society of Japan, Autumn Meeting. 電気化学秋季大会、特別講演, Koganei, Tokyo (WL: Invited talk). Program.
Aug.24-25: “Semi-open” Symposium of the Aerosol Project (Impact on Plants and Human), Koganei. …More
August 19-21: 26th Symposium on Aerosol Science and Technology, Okayama (Speaker: M2/Sagawa, D1/Hama)
July 22-23: The 3rd Asian Physics Symposium, Bandung, Indonesia (WL: International Advisory Board)
June 5: Open-seminar at Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Padjadjaran University, Bandung (WL: Invited Speaker)
June 3: National Seminar & Workshop: Science & Technology Nano 2009 Bandung (WL: Keynote Speaker, Committee)
May 26-27: Spring meeting of Society of Powder Technology, Tokyo. (WL: speaker and session chair)

Three in Shinjuku,Tokyo
March 25: Graduation day (for ST, NT, IY, SK)
March 23: Intermediate presentation for Master degree students (1st year)
March 18-20: Annual Meeting Society of Chemical Engineers Japan, Yokohama. (Speaker:D2/Nazli, Session-Chair:WL)
March 5: Dr.Sofyan (visiting fellow) presented at Symposium of TUAT-JSPS project on biomass (Chair: WL)

Feb.24: WL presented in 接合科学研究会, Yokohama National University
Feb.20: Doctoral degree: Intermediate presentation (NN)
Feb.17: Bachelor degree: Final presentation
Feb.3: WL presented in 外部評価委員会
Jan.19: Semi-open Seminar by WL (for BASE and Departments’ faculty members)