Part I
Sep 30: Electrochemistry for advanced energy materials (S. Yagi)
Oct 7: Effect of point defects on thermal conductivity of ceramics (W. Pan, Tsinghua Univ.)
Oct 21: Sustainable biorefinery concepts for materials and energy (A. Friedl, TU Wien)
Oct 28: Wide-bandgap semiconductor device technologies for energy savings (K. Kita)
Part II
Nov 7: Core-loss spectroscopy for materials science (T. Mizoguchi)
Nov 11: Process science for atomic layer deposition and etching (Y. Shimogaki)
Nov 13: Thermodynamics for high temperature materials processing (K. Morita)
Nov 18: Bioinspired polymeric materials with advanced functions (H. Ejima)
Part III
Nov 25: Atom dynamics in novel information devices studied by first-principle and machine-learning approaches (S. Watanabe)
Dec 2: Functional polymer gels as biomimetic softmaterials (R. Yoshida)
Dec 9: Materials reliability in space engineering (E. Sato)
Dec16: Physical metallurgy for next generation advanced high strength steel (S. Nambu)