“The 12th Joint Seminar University of Münster – Nagoya University”, the Noyori Materials Science Laboratory, Nagoya
Joint seminars provide opportunities for members of International Research Training Groups (IRTG) to gain experience outside their own universities and to combine partner universities’ research activities effectively.
Around 30 doctoral students, plus their mentors and the two coordinators of the “Complex Functional Systems in Chemistry - Design Development and Applications” IRTG, gathered for a joint seminar which was held at the Noyori Materials Science Laboratory at Nagoya University from 3-4 October. Professor Ryoji Noyori himself (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001) was among the participants, and 16 members of the IRTG had travelled to Japan from Germany. Dr. Alexander Olbrich, consul general at the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Osaka-Kobe and holder of a doctorate in chemistry, attended the seminar as a guest of honour. Dr. Iris Wieczorek, Director of the DFG Office Japan, participated in the seminar on 4 October and was once again impressed by the two universities’ dynamic cooperation in chemistry.
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Over three days, members of the IRTG, including the winners of the Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize 2011, Professor Kazuyuki Tatsumi and Professor Gerhard Erker, the IRTG’s coordinators, presented their outstanding research in the field of chemistry.
The social elements of the event – which included lunch, dinner, and rehearsing and staging a traditional kabuki play together –enabled newly established contacts to be strengthened.
