Bulletin 2011

Chairman of the Board James Leipnik (l.) presents NO. 22Bulletin YEAR 2011, EDITOR: CORRIE SIAHAYA-VAN NIEROP Patrick Masterson with a gift. FAREWELL CANON FOUNDATION INVITED LECTURE T O PATRICK THE LATEST LECTURE IN OUR captured the imagination of some 150 more than 20 patents, he was knighted SERIES OF INVITED LECTURES attendants. for “Services to Physics” in the Queen’s MASTERSON WAS HELD IN NOVEMBER 2010 AT Birthday Honours List, 2003. THE PIPPARD LECTURE THEATRE Sir Richard is a highly decorated and Prof. Patrick Masterson retires from the IN THE FAMOUS CAVENDISH renowned materials physicist who has More information at: Executive and Selection Committees after LABORATORY IN CAMBRIDGE. made fundamental contributions to the http://www.canonfoundation.org/ his service of 23 years. We will miss his physics and engineering of semiconductor programmes_3_lecture.html wits and wisdom! Entitled “Creative Tensions between devices. With over 600 publications and Science and Technology”, Prof. Sir Richard Invited Lecture 2010 at the Pippard Lecture theatre Prof. Sir Richard Henry Friend Henry Friend, a Cavendish Professor of WELCOME TO Physics, introduced attendants to the ANDREW FISHER science of plastic electronics and its commercial development. Prof. Andrew Fisher, Professor of Physics in the As a leader in the Optoelectronics Group Department of Physics and in the Cavendish Laboratory, he is well Astronomy at University placed to discuss the problems involved College London will strengthen our in taking scientific breakthroughs from the forces in the Executive Committee. research laboratory into the market place. In the Selection Committee he will His lecture, which discussed this topic assess application files in Natural and and looked to what the future might hold, Engineering Sciences. CELEBRATING 250 RESEARCH FELLOWS AT FELLOWS VISIT FELLOWS THE FELLOW MEETING IN CAMBRIDGE

The Canon Foundation in Europe is In November 2010 very proud to have built a vast network our Fellow Follow- of Alumni Fellows and although some up Meeting for UK Fellows have sometimes already finished and Ireland was their own Research Fellowship many years held in Cambridge ago, they are prepared to visit current on the same day as Fellows on behalf of the Foundation. the Invited Lecture by Sir Richard. At the meeting, Alumni Chair Dr. Helen Alumni Fellow (1991) Prof. Dr. Yoshitaka Westgeest proudly presented the firstbook Nakajima visited 2010 Fellow Mr. Bas made by Canon Foundation Fellows on: Verberk at Nagasaki University. Mr. Verberk Prof. Koji, Mr. Verberk, Prof. Nakajima and Mr. Verberk in his office Making Research Visible to the World. studies western influence onnanban Kanami Miyagi, Exchange Program Officer Inspired by the Fellow meetings, where armour, the Dutch influence on Japanese different disciplines find common ground, armour during Edo period (1600-1868) and the book contains essays from a variety Japanese armour in Western collections. of research topics. It was well received by Fellows and contacts of the Foundation. Alumni Fellow (1992) Prof. Dr. Yulia The book marks the milestone of having Mikhailova visited 2010 Fellow Mr. financially supported more than250 Sebastien Dhers at Hiroshima University. Research Fellows since 1990. Mr. Dhers studies the synthesis, magnetic At the meeting, recent Fellows made and optical properties of a new chiral presentations on their research and were molecule-based magnet. bestowed with a Certificate of Completion. They also received a brooch or lapel badge symbolising entrance to the Alumni Prof. Mikhailova, Mr. Dhers and Prof. Inoue Mr. Dhers at his lab Association of Canon Fellows. INTRODUCING THE 2011 RESEARCH FELLOWS

Ms. Marie BOBOWSKI from imaging to identify biliary tracts and in Japan focusing on organ and literature “Reconstruir historias”. the Université des Sciences et liver cancers during laparoscopic tissue donation and the concept of Rebuilding histories, feminist Technologies de Lille 1, France hepatobiliary surgeries. altruism. interpretation of the Heian period will go to the Graduate School of and Italian Renaissance in Enchi Medicine at Nagoya University Mr. Xavier MELLET from Sciences Ms. Wulan REMMELINK at Leiden Fumiko’s and Maria Bellonci’s works. hosted by Prof. Koichi Furukawa. Po Paris will go to Waseda University, the Netherlands will

Medicine: Regulation of GD3 synthase University, Tokyo. His host is Prof. go to the Institute for Advanced Mr. Rinus VERDONSCHOT from expression in breast cancer. Yoshiharu Tsuboi at the Faculty Studies on Asia at the University of the University of Leiden, the of Political Science. Politics and Tokyo. Her host is Prof. Masashi Netherlands will go to Nagoya Dr. Vanessa FRANGVILLE - International Relations: The media Haneda. History: Learning by University. His host will be associate to the Maison Franco- composition of populisms. A Japan- seeing: botanical illustrations and the Prof. Dr. Katsuo Tamaoka at the Japonaise of Tokyo. From the France comparison. circulation of knowledge and skills Graduate School of Languages Institute for Transtextual and between Japan and the Netherlands & Cultures. Psycholinguistics: Transcultural Studies at the Mr. Wataru MIZUKAMI from the (18th-19th centuries). Processing Japanese Kanji: new University of Lyon Jean Moulin, will Graduate University for Advanced insights into language production go to the Institute of Comparative Studies, Okazaki, plans to do Dr. Hideaki SAKAI from RIKEN will mechanisms. Culture at Sophia University in research at the University of Bristol go to the University of St. Andrews, Tokyo. Her host will be Prof. James under the guidance of Dr. David Scotland. His host will be Prof. 2011 Research Fellowship co- Farrer. Anthropology: Ethnicity, P. Tew. Chemistry & Pharmacy: Andrew P. Mackenzie at the Faculty sponsored by EUI-Florence nation and nationalism in Japan and Quantum tunneling in biological of Physics and Astronomy. Physics: Dr. Michio UMEDA from the China: a comparative study of the systems. Electron liquid-crystal phases in University of Michigan will go concepts of Minzoku and Minzu. strongly correlated electron systems. to the European University Ms. Sylwia Maria OLEJARZ from Institute, Florence, Italy. Politics Dr. Takeaki ISHIZAWA from the The Cardinal Stephan Wyszynski Ms. Irene STARACE from the & International Relations: Electoral University of Tokyo will go to the University in Warsaw, Poland Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Reform and the dynamic adjustment Department of Digestive Pathology will go to Hokkaido University in will go to the Faculty of Foreign process of the political parties and at the Institut Mutualiste Sapporo with Prof. Kurata Nobuo Studies at Sophia University, electorates. Montsouris, Paris hosted by Prof. as her host. Philosophy & Religion: Tokyo. Her host is Prof. Elena Brice Gayet. Medicine: Development Communities’ involvement in the Gallego Andrada. Literature: of indocyanine green-fluorescent public debate on bioethical issues Doctoral thesis of comparative TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE

Several Canon Foundation (Alumni) Research Fellows and host professors CONGRATULATIONS TO were directly affected by the earthquake and tsunami which hit Japan on March 11. 1998 Fellow Prof. Eduardo Garcia-Rio was an important project for the conservation From April, 2006 Fellow Dr. Ellen van Our thoughts are with them, and indeed one of the invited speakers in February in and enhancement of the historical districts Goethem will be Associate Professor linked with all Japanese people who suffered Granada (Spain) at the “First Spanish Jap- of the city of Kanazawa. Objective of the to Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. from this triple disaster, now with the anese Workshop on Differential Geometry” project is the nomination of Kanazawa nuclear threat still affecting daily life for (http://gigda.ugr.es/spanish_japanese/ World Heritage by UNESCO. 2006 Fellow Dr. Tilo Wagner achieved his many. We wish for strength and a positive Home.html). One of the decisions during Ph.D. The official ceremony will be in July spirit for those who are rebuilding their the workshop was to celebrate a second 2003 Fellow Dr. Erica Baffelli was awarded 2011. Quoting from the acknowledgement: lives. workshop in Tokyo in 2014. Dr. Garcia-Rio a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies “Taking chance of that rare opportunity, I was also promoted in December 2010 to Fellowship (long term) and was visiting would like to express warm-hearted thanks Full Professor in Geometry at the Univer- researcher at Tokyo University November and appreciation to everybody in your dedi- sity of Santiago de Compostela. 2010-January 2011. cated team involved. Without your generous and above all timely (financial) support of 2000 Fellow Dr. Ikuko Sato was appointed 2004 Canon Fellow Dr. Carsten Rockstuhl that 423 pages “hercules” project - perhaps to the Chair of the course for International was promoted on July 1, 2010 to Junior world wide the most detailed one existing on Cooperation Studies in the Liberal Arts at J. Professor for Theoretical Nanooptics at the EU-Japan political cooperation to date - it F.Oberlin University, Tokyo (2010-2011) University of Jena, Germany. surely would not exist today”. and the Chair of the course for the division of the Law and Politics in the Liberal 2006 Fellow Mr. Harro van Asselt is now 2010 Fellow Dr. Kentaro Umeki took up Arts at J.F.Oberlin University (2011). a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of a new position at his host university Oxford at the Environmental Change Insti- from May 2011 after his Research Fel- 2002 Canon Awardee Prof. Paolo Cecca- tute. lowship. He will be “forskaassistant” or relli, was appointed UNESCO Chair and Assistant Professor at Luleå University of President of the International Laboratory 2006 Fellow Ms. Mercedes Rodrigo Garcia Technology (http://www.ltu.se/inst/tfm/ of Architecture and Urban Design in 2010, is currently a Ph.D candidate at the Univer- energiteknik?l=en) has begun to work in cooperation with sity of London, Birkbeck College, London Waseda University, the Kanazawa Institute Consortium. of Technology and the City of Kanazawa on ACCOUNT FROM A HOST PROFESSOR IN VIENNA

By Prof. Hans Lassmann, Medical elucidate the pathogenetic mechanisms due to Dr. Misu’s extraordinary expertise between my laboratory in Vienna and his University of Vienna, Faculty of Medicine, responsible for the formation of the in the field. The results are extremely team in Sendai. In addition his research Brain Research Center lesions in the central nervous system. interesting, since they show characteristic project is already very advanced and will Dr. Misu comes from the most famous differences in the mechanisms of tissue lead to very important publications in the The purpose of Dr. Tatsuro Misu’s visit in center in the world, at Tohoku University, injury between these two diseases. field of neurological research. my laboratory in Vienna was to perform working on neuromyelitis optica, which The cooperation with Dr. Misu was collaborative studies on the molecular is a disease with similarities but also fascinating and easy. He was able to Please let me thank at this occasion the pathology of neuromyelitis optica and important differences to multiple sclerosis. integrate into my multidisciplinary Canon Foundation for making this multiple sclerosis. In my laboratory we Comparing the molecular pathology research team without any difficulties visit possible. It turned out to be a very have extensive experience on multiple between these two diseases provides the and the discussions between him and the important step in stimulating sclerosis. We have one of the largest unique chance to dissect disease specific members of my team were very fruitful and scientific cooperation between Japan and international collection of autopsy brain pathogenetic mechanisms. enlightening. It became clear quickly, that Austria. tissue from multiple sclerosis patients The respective studies have developed in this research visit was only the starting and we have spent the last decades to a highly satisfactory way and this is largely point for intense future cooperation

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