Conference Report

Report on the 66th Fall Meeting(2005)ofThe Japan Society of Applied Physics
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The 66th Annual JSAP Meeting was held
over five days, from September 7 (Wednesday)
to 11 (Sunday) at the University of Tokushima
Josanjima Campus (in Tokushima City). The
organizers were expecting to see an increasein the number of participants, partly because
this is the first Annual Meeting to be held in
the Shikoku Region of Japan. Some of thetransportation routes were shut down on
Sept. 6, the day before the Meeting, due
to the effects of typhoon No. 14, and there
were some cancellations on the first day, forboth speakers and participants. The weather
was good for most of the rest of the week,
however, and the meeting was brought to a
successful conclusion, with no major incidents.
We would like to thank all of the membersof the Local Executive Committee for theirselfless efforts, but particularly Professor
Masuo Fukui of the University of Tokushima,who acted as Chairman of the Local Executive Committee, and the Vice Chairman, Prof.
Nobuo Nishida, as well as Prof. Yasuo Ohno,
Prof. Shiro Sakai, and Professors Masanobu
Haraguchi and Kikuo Tominaga, who were incharge of administration for the Local Executive Committee. We also received invaluableassistance from University of Tokushima President Toshihiro Aono; Prof. Yoneo Yano, Headof the Faculty of Engineering; Prof. Makoto
Wada, Head of the Faculty of Integrated
Arts and Sciences; Tadashi Matsuka, Head ofAdministration in the Faculty of Engineering;
Shigeki Mori, Head of Administration in theFaculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences; Prof.
Hiroshi Kobayashi (Tokushima Bunri University);Prof. Yoshihiro Shintani (Director, The University of the Air, Tokushima Learning Center);and numerous other university administration
officials. We would like to take this opportunity to express our deep appreciation for theirefforts.

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JSAP International No.13 (January 2006)������������������At this Meeting, there were a total of 3,763 presentations ofresearch results, including 3,334 regular lectures and 422 symposiums
and other topical sessions (calculated in 15-minute segments, representing the same time allocated to regular lectures). Incidentally, therewere a total of 3,763 presentations at the Meeting (Tohoku Chapter)held at Tohoku Gakuin University last fall, including 3,372 regular
lectures and 384 symposiums and other topical sessions. Following are
the numbers of presentations in each Main Classification, including therelevant joint sessions. (The two figures indicate this year’s Meeting inTokushima and last fall’s meeting in Tohoku.) Radiation and Plasma:
195/186; Measurement and Control: 42/36; Optics: 159/126; Quantum
Electronics: 298/295; Optoelectronics: 153/167; Thin films and surfaces:
395/429; Beam applications: 257/236; Applied Materials: 131/137;
Superconductivity: 99/175; Organic Molecular Electronics and Bioelectronics: 417/401; Semiconductors A: 333/375; Semiconductors B:352/329; Crystal Engineering: 365/347; Amorphous materials andmicro-crystals: 59/61; and General applied physics: 79/74.
On the first day of the Meeting, 108 presentations were cancelledin the morning, and 31 were cancelled in the afternoon. As a result ofthe harsh weather brought on by the typhoon, participants were slow
to arrive on the morning of the first day, but at the lectures from thatafternoon onward, it was business as usual, and there were many active
discussions at the 32 lecture venues and poster sessions. The numberof regular lectures declined from last fall, but this was supplemented
to some degree by presentations from graduate students. Meanwhile,the number of symposiums and other topical sessions was up. Recently,
there has been an overall trend in which the number of presentations
at the fall meetings has remained constant, while the number at spring
meetings has increased slightly. Figure 1(a) and (b) shows the yearly
trends in the number of presentations and participants. There are anumber of reasons for the changes in the number of registered participants, including the Meeting location and dates, and conflicts withother international conferences. Despite the unexpected arrival of thetyphoon this year, the Meeting welcomed 5,635 registered participants.
When we received papers in electronic format, we requested that thepresenters indicate which of four key fields that paper was most closely
related to. The results, as shown in Fig. 2, are as follows: Nanotechnology: 1,383; Telecommunications: 402; Biotechnology: 111; and theEnvironment: 111. Thus, one of the most notable features of JSAP isthat papers related to Nanotechnology accounted for more than 41%of the total, and that the papers are distributed across a wide range ofclassifications.
During this year’s meeting, the “18th Scientist Awards for thePresentation of an Excellent Paper” were presented to 41 individuals
selected through a careful screening process from among 659 of the4,157 regular lectures presented at the Spring 2005 meeting by young
researchers aged 33 years and under, for which applications had been
received in advance. Chairman Hiroyuki Sakaki presented the awardsalong with a commemorative gift, praising these young researchers
for their achievements and offering words of encouragement for their
future endeavors. Special lectures commemorating the Scientist Award
recipients were held at the respective sessions. Special lectures were also
held to commemorate the 3rd Plasma Electronics Award, the 3rd Organic
Molecular Electronics and Bioelectronics Category Subcommittee Award,
and the 27th Japan Society of Applied Physics Paper Award. One of themost notable of these lectures was a presentation conducted by Dr. M.
Asif Khan, of the University of South Carolina Research Group, whoreceived the JJAP Paper Award as part of the Japan Society of Applied
Physics Paper Awards. This lecture represents a major step forward in
the internationalization of JSAP.
During this five-day period, two special events were held at theTokushima City hotel that acted as the venue for the Meeting: the37th JSAP School A, entitled “Semiconductors that create the 21stCentury — Nitrides that Create the Future,” and the a special lecturecommemorating the World Year of Physics, entitled “The Challenge ofApplied Physics: From foundations to applications — the researchers
who create the future.” At the School, instructors presented broad anddeep discussions regarding Nitride research in Japan, ranging from thehistory of this research to practical devices. The special lectures wereopen to members of the regional community, targeting adults as wellas high school and university students. First, Prof. Kenjiro Oura offeredan outline of the special lectures and the intent of the event as a whole,and talked about the relationship between Tokushima and Albert
Einstein. Chairman Hiroyuki Sakaki provided a review of the contributions that Japanese researchers and engineers have made to semiconductor research, in a lecture entitled “Using physics to open up thefuture for people and the Earth — A focus on semiconductor researchand device applications.” In a lecture entitled “Searching for the Ideal
Blue Light Emitting Device: My Nitride Research,” Prof. Isamu Akasaki
talked about the background and results of research devoted to GaN,
and about the importance of never giving up. Mr. Yutaka Tasaki, Vice
President of Nichia Corp., gave an impassioned speech on the importance of the “spirit of challenge” from a corporate perspective, under
the title of “Bringing light from Shikoku to the World — the road to thecreation of the LED Business.” These presentations received an excellent
response from the general listeners in the audience, who were heard
to say, “They speak directly to young people — it was an extremely
meaningful event.” According to a report by Dr. Yoshiki Naoi from theLocal Executive Committee, the school had about 500 participants —higher than any similar event held in the past — and the special lectures
welcomed more than 600 participants, of which almost 100 were highschool students or members of the general public. We would like tooffer our sincere thanks to all those who were involved in holding thisMeeting in various capacities.
Starting from this year’s Autumn meeting, advance participant registrations and reservations for the Digest could be made via the Internet.
The number of Digests is limited (No. 0 and Nos. 1-3), so we ask foryour kind cooperation in making reservations whenever possible. At
the both the Spring and Fall meetings this year, PC presentations weremade on a trial basis at all of the lecture venues. We encountered fewer
technical problems (e.g., with PC connections) than in the past, and weare planning to fully implement these PC presentations starting from theSpring 2006 Meeting. We expect that this will make the presentations
even more effective, for example with greater slide clarity and the useof video contents, and we look forward to seeing many interesting andmeaningful lectures next year.

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