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The 14th Joint Seminar

Rice cake making at Reception of the 14th Joint seminar

Mini Piano concert with Japanese and German students.
The 14th joint seminar –Muenster-Nagoya–(October 1–2, 2012; Nagoya University)

March, 2013
Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya
464-8602 Japan
TEL +81-52-789-5907 FAX +81-52-789-5902
URL http://irtg.rcms.nagoya-u.ac.jp/english/index.html

The 13th Joint seminar
May 7th (Mon), 8th (Tue), 2012
University of Münster, Germany< Participants from Nagoya >Prof. Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Prof. Kazuyuki
Tatsumi, Prof. Akiyoshi Hishikawa, Assoc.
Prof. Susumu Saito, Asst. Prof. Yasuyuki
Yamada, Asst. Prof. Takashi Fukushima,
Asst. Prof. Hirofumi Yoshikawa
Kazuhiro Mouri, Yuki Iijima, Foo Siong Wan,
Katsuaki Kawasumi, Takuya Fujimoto

The 14th Joint seminar
October 1st (Mon), 2nd (Tue) 2012
Nagoya University, Japan< Participants from Münster >Prof. Gerhard Erker, Prof. Bernhard Wünsch, Prof. Ernst-Ulrich Würthwein, Prof. Jens
Müller, Prof. Armido Studer, Prof. Frank Glorius, Prof. Martin OestreichDavid Königs, Friederike Sibbel, Friederike Schröter, Michael Kurlemann, Tobias Greulich,Nils Schröder, Adrian Schulte, Raúl Adler, Christian Radunsky
GUEST: Prof. Ekkehardt Hahn
< Participants from Nagoya >Asst. Prof. Aiko Fukazawa, Asst. Prof. Yasutomo
Segawa, Asst. Prof. Daisuke Yokogawa, Nobuhiro
Taniyama, Takashi Miura, Chikako Shirataki< Visit of Dr. Schneider, New Head of DFG Japan >January 21 (Mon) 2013
Visitors: Dr. Jörg Schneider, Dr. Saiki Hase, Ms. Myra Bauersachs
New Head of DFG Japan office, Dr. Jörg Schneider visited Nagoya University on January 21, 2013. Dr. Schneider had a discussion with Prof. Yamaguchi, new leader of Nagoya side, and Prof. Tatsumi. Five German students
who are now staying in Nagoya for their research and three young Japanese researcher who are soon depart for Germany for their research alsojoined discussion together with two professors. Then they talked about theirlife and future goal as a researcher. All of them had a really good time todiscuss about this program.

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Strategic Young Researchers Overseas Visits Programfor Accelerating Brain Circulation 2011–2014

JapaneseGermans

Name
Tamaki Terada
Period April 15, 2012 – July 1, 2012
Group Prof. Dr. Gerhard Erker
Research Title[3:1] Site-differentiated [4Fe-4S] Clusters:
Synthesis and Characterization by NMR
Spectroscopy

Name
PeriodFrom Nagoya to Münster and Berlin

Name
Shun Ota
Period July 23, 2012 – December, 2013
Group Prof. Dr. Gerhard Erker
Research Title
Synthesis and Reactions of Thiolate–BridgedIron(Cyano/Carbonyl)–Nickel Complexes Modeling the Active Site of [NiFe] Hydrogenase
NameKazuhiro Hata
Period October 5, 2012 – May, 2013
Group Prof. Dr. Armido Studer
Research Title
Development of Oxidative Coupling Reaction
NameFoo Siong Wan
Period March 1, 2013 – March, 2014
Group Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wünsch
Research Title
Catalytic Transformations of Inert Organic
Compounds through Dehydration as a Key
Step
Name
Kengo Miyata
Period March 20, 2013 – March 2014
Group Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wünsch
Research Title
Syntheses of Opioid Ligands Based on Catalytic Asymmetric Dehydrative Allylation
NameKazuhiko Nagura
Period March 27, 2013 – March, 2014
Group Prof. Dr. Martin Oestreich
Research TitleDevelopment of Catalytic Reactions Involving
Si–B Bond Activation as a Key Step

From Münster and Berlin to NagoyaGroup

Andreas Feldmann
April 2012 – July 2012,
September 2012 – December 2012
Prof. Shigehiro Yamaguchi

GroupChristoph Rosorius
April 2012 – July 2012,
September 2012 – December 2012
Prof. Kenichiro Itami

Name
PeriodGroupKristine Müther
August 2012 – November 2012
Prof. Kazuyuki Tatsumi

Name
PeriodGroup

Christian Radunsky
September 2012 – December 2012
Prof. Kentaro Tanaka

Name
PeriodGroup

Christoph GlotzbachOctober 2012 – November 2012
Prof. Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Name
PeriodGroupFriederike Schröter
January 2013 – June 2013
Assoc. Prof. Susumu Saito

NamePeriodGroupTobias Greulich
January 2013 – June 2013
Prof. Shigehiro Yamaguchi

NamePeriodGroupFriederike Sibbel
January 2013 – June 2013
Prof. Kenichiro Itami

Name
PeriodGroup

Michael Kurlemann
January 2013 – June 2013
Prof. Kentaro Tanaka

Name
PeriodGroupJanine Fröhlich
January 2013 – June 2013
Assoc. Prof. Susumu Saito

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Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen

Memory of 14th Joint Seminar
The Japanese-German Joint Seminar’s
Joint Dinner was held at a restaurant thatevokes the lighthearted atmosphere of anamusement park and prepares fish that thepatrons catch themselves from a giant fishtank inside the building – the guests sit in
one of two large areas modeled after oldfashioned fishing boats, which themselves
are surrounded by water containing livefish.
German and Japanese participants weredivided into pairs and tasked with catching dinner for the group, where one person
would catch a fish over the side of the boat
and the other would pull it in using a net. Fish swim freely around the boats,
and after being caught were prepared in the style of the guests’ choosing, suchas broiled, sashimi, boiled in soy sauce, and meunière, and then brought tothe table for all to enjoy. While some German professors and students weresurprised when the prepared fish was presented very closely resembling its live
form, everybody greatly enjoyed the dinner with much joviality.

Technische Universität Berlin