Research in Chemical Sciences & Engineering II Topical Lectures in Chemical Sciences & Engineering: Notice; To satisfy to get the course credit, you must 1) attend the lectures at least 7 times and submit at least 1 report in total, then you will get 1 credit for 1 academic year. 2) write a report which summarizes a lecture onto 1 sheet of A4 paper. 3) Send a report as an attached file by email to the “AGS Office” <ags@eng.hokudai.ac.jp> within 2 weeks after each lecture presentation finishes. If there are no special suggestions from the lecturers, the subject of the report will be summaries or comments on the lectures. ... 01.  18 April @Science#7-219/220 Prof. Michael M. Haley (Oregon University, USA) "Indenofluorenes and Quinoidal Analogues – A New Class of Electron-Accepting Materials" 02.  25 April @Seminar Room B/C, 4th floor, Institute for Catalysis Prof. Matthias Scheffler (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany) “Patterns, Correlations, and Causality in Big Data of Materials: Analytics for Novel Materials Discovery” 03.  02 May @Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building Prof. Sir Tom Blundell (University of Cambridge, the U.K.) “Genomics, structural biology and drug discovery: developing research eco-systems in Japan and UK” 04.  18 May @MC526, Engineering Prof. Zheng Jiao (Shanghai University, China) “Shape-controlled synthesis of porous semiconductor nanomaterials and their multifunctional applications” 05.  19 May @Science#5-205 Prof. Bastien Nay (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France) "Natural history and Nature-inspired synthesis of f fungal natural products" 06.  07 June @Science#6-204-2 Prof. Jiaxing Huang (Northwestern University, the U.S.A.) "Pencils, Paper and Movie Discs: Curious Minds and Materials Discoveries" 07.  09 June @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building Prof. Dr. Emiel J.M. Hensen (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands) “Hierarchical Zeolites in Catalysis” 08.  14 June @Science#6-204-02 Prof. Gerardo Ferbeyre (Université de Montréal, Canada) “SOCS1 Links Inflammation to p53” 09.  16 June @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building Prof. Dr. Emiel J.M. Hensen (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands) “Structure Sensitivity in Metal Catalysis” 10.  20 June @Science#7-219/220 Prof. Jamal G. Musaev (Emory University, the U.S.A.) "Multy-Disciplinary and Collaborative Efforts toward the Novel Catalysis and Technology Design: Insight into the C-H Functionalization and Water Oxidation Jungles" 11.  27 June @Science#7-219/220 Prof. Chaoyuan Zhu (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan) "Global-switching trajectory surface-hopping algorithm for conical intersections and intersystem crossings with its application to photochemistry" 12.  28 June @Science#7-310 Prof. Sang Youl Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea) "Photoresponsive Micells and Organogelators Based on Well-difined Poly(arvlene ether)s" 13.  08 July @Science#7-219/220 Prof. Samuel Dagorne (Université de Strasbourg, France) "Combining N-heterocyclic Carbenes with Oxophilic and High-oxidation-state Metal Centers State (Group 4, 12 and 13): Fundamental Reactivity and Use in Polymerization and CO 2 Functionalization Catalysis" 14.  15 July @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building Prof. Jeffrey W. Bode (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) “Reinventing Protein Synthesis by Developing New Organic Reactions and Functional Groups” 15.  16 July @Sapporo Pirka-Kotan <CSE Summer School> Prof. Emiel J.M. Hensen (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) "Catalysis across length- and time-scales: the case Fischer-Tropsch synthesis" 16.  19 July @MC102, Engineering Prof. Kevin C.-W. Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) “Synthesis of Functional Nanoporous Materials for Energy Applications” 17.  29 July @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building Prof. Redouane Borsali (CERMAV-CNRS, Grenoble Alpes University, France) “Carbohydrate-based block copolymer self-assemblies: Nanoparticles & Sub-10nm highly nanostructured thin films” 18.  29 July @Akira Suzuki Hall, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building "The 12th Hokkaido University – Nanjing University – NIMS/MANA Joint Symposium" 19.  03 August @Science#7-219 Prof. Wei Wang (Nanjing University, China) "Imaging the molecular interaction and electron transfer with optical microscopy" 20.  05 August @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building “HU-NTU-CERMAV Joint Symposium on Functional Materials 2016” 21.  06 September @MC508, Engineering Prof. Manfred Zinn (HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland) “Challenges in the bioconversion of syngas to bioplastic” 22.  12 October @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building Prof. Evamarie Hey-Hawkins (Leipzig University, Germany) “Catalysis – A Powerful Means for Sustainable Developments” 23.  24 October @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building Prof. Debes Bhattacharyya (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) “Biodegradable tissue scaffolds and coronary stents using nano-/micro-fibrillar polymer Composites approach" 24.  17 November @MC526, Engineering Dr. Damian Kowalski (Hokkaido University, Japan) “Anodic TiO₂ nanotubes as a platform for electrodeposited nanostructures” 25.  18 November @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building Prof. Prabhakar R. Sarode (Hokkaido University, Japan) “Structural Investigation of Combustion Synthesized Cu/CeO2 Catalysts by EXAFS and Other Physical Techniques” 26.  28 November @MC102, Engineering Prof. Yu-Cheng Chiu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) “Intrinsically Stretchable and Healable Semiconducting Polymer for Skin-Inspired Wearable Organic Transistor” 27.  10 January @N-308, Science Prof. Shih-Ching Chuang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) “alpha-Addition of Phosphines to Oligovnoates and New Functional Fullerene Derivatives As n-Type Materials in Organic Photovoltaics" 28.  20 January @MC526, Engineering Prof. Byeong-Su Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) "Empowering Inert Polvethers: Synthesis and Biological Applications of Stimuli-Responsive Polyglycerols" 29.  23 January @MC102, Engineering Prof. Myung-Han Yoon (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) “Multiscale modulation of nanocrystalline cellulose hydrogel for 3D neuronal bilayer formation” 30.  23 January @MC102, Engineering Prof. Jae-Suk Lee (Gwangju National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) “Optoelectronics Properties of Nanostructured Block Copolymers” 31.  26 January @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building Prof. Roman Nowak (Aalto University, Finland) “Mechanics Meets Electronics in Nanoscale: The Mystery of Current Spike and Nanoscale Confinement” 32.  07 February @MC102, Engineering Prof. Zhibin Guan (University of California, Irvine, the U.S.A.) “Bioinspired Design of Dynamic and Self-Healing Polymer Materials”