ＭＲＳ-J News Vol.14 No.2  May 2002

To the Overseas Members of MRS-J

■Creation of Exvellent New Magnetic Materials ･････････････････････････  p.1
 Dr. Masahiko Naoe, Emeritus Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology
  The creation of excellent new magnetic materials for novel devices is required at the beginning years of the 21st century. Japanese scientists and engineers have played a role of worldwide leaders for researching and developing magnetic materials until the end of the previous century.
  Recently, Americans are superior than Japaneses for creating hopeful magnetic materials and inventing useful magnetic devices. For revival of Japanese activity, professors in Japan must now teach graduated students essential knowledges and send them to international conferences.

■The Extraordinary General Meeting of the MRS-J ･･･････････････････････ p.2
　The Extraordinary General Meeting of the MRS-J was held April 9th at the National Institute of the Materials Science, Meguro-ku, Tokyo. Following articles were approved.
(1) A business term will be changed from calendar-year basis to fiscal-year basis.
(2) Society’s annual revenues in 2002 will be estimated at 18.491 million yen.
(3) The 14th annual academic symposium will be held December 20 - 21, 2002.

■Laboratory for Electron Beam Research and Application, Institute of Quantum Science, Nihon University　・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・　p.3
Prof.  Isamu Satoh， Nihon Univ.
　The Laboratory for Electron Beam Research and Application (LEBRA) was founded in 1997, and has been conducting a five-year research project “Advanced Utilization of Tunable High-luminescence Monochromatic Light Source” under the sponsorship of the Academic Frontier Promotion Program of MEXT. LEBRA has also been extensively developing phases 1 & 2 “Super Molecular Factory” projects, i.e., creating specific functional molecular clusters and/or multi-functional giant moleculars by the help of photocatalysis or photo-enzyme reactions under the irradiation of tunable free electron laser.

■ The 14th MRS-Japan Academic Symposium ･･･････････････････････････      p.5
　The 14th  Annual academic symposium and the annual business meeting of the MRS-J will be held from December 20 to 21, 2002, at the Tokyo Institute of Technology , O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo. The Symposium includes 15 topical symposia. Proceedings will be published in the Transaction of the MRS-J.