RCAST NAVI 2013/08

  RCAST NAVI 
  2013/8
  http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/


========================================================
  1. [Topics]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Professor Hiroshi Segawa (Energy and Environment):
    An article "Wideband dye-sensitized solar cells employing a phosphine-
    coordinated ruthenium sensitizer" has been published in Nature Photonics
     (July edition) and it was featured on front cover of the magazine.
    http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v7/n7/covers/index.html

  * Professor Hisashi Nakamura (Climate Science Research):
    Professor Nakamura hosted a session of "Coupling processes with
    hydrosphere (ocean) and cryosphere" at Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere
    Assembly 2013 held in Switzerland from 8 July to 12 July, 2013.
    http://www.daca-13.org/index_EN


========================================================
  2. [Awards]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Tatsu Matsuda (Research Associate) from Nishimura Laboratory (Urban
    Conservation Systemns) with JAIST gallery (Ms. Noriko Rinno):
    DSA Design Award 2013 (Japan Design Space Association)
    http://www.dsa.or.jp/

  * Tatsu Matsuda (Research Associate) from Nishimura Laboratory (Urban
    COnservation Systemns) with JAIST gallery (Ms. Noriko Rinno):
    BEST 100 of JCD DESIGN AWARD 2013 (Japan Commercial Environmental Design
    Association)
    http://www.jcd.or.jp/index.html

  * Takeshi Kurose, Aya Kubota, Takuya Hagiwara, Asuka Segawa and Kaisi
    Douki from Nishimura Laboratory (Urban Conservation Systems):
    Architectural Institute of Japan
    http://www.aij.or.jp/

  * Masami Ooyama and Ayaka Shibata from Nishimura Laboratory (Urban
    Conservation Sysmtems):
    JAPAN SOCIETY CIVIL ENGINEERS
    http://www.jsce.or.jp/

  * Ryotaro Takanashi, Ikue Akinai, Asuka Segawa, Kaishi Douki, Yukiko Hara
    and Yuri Honma from Nishimura Laboratory (Urban Conservation Systems):
    Japan Institute of Landscape Architecture
    http://www.jila-zouen.org/


========================================================
  3. [Media]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * 13 August, 2013
    Professor Katsuhiro Nishinari (Mathematical Physics of Emergent
    Systems):
    Professor Nishinari appeared on NHK Journal (NHK Radio) on 13 August,
    2013.
    http://www.nhk.or.jp/r1/

  * 13 August, 2013
    Professor  Katsuhiro Nishinari (Mathematical Physics of Emergent
    Systems):
    Professor Nishinari appeared on NEWS WEB (NHK) on 13 August, 2013.
    http://www.nhk.or.jp/

  * Professor Hisashi Nakamura (Climate Science Research)
    Professor Nakamura contributed  a comment to 47NEWS dated 13 August,
    2013 about Shimanto City records hottest day ever in Japan at 41
    degrees celsius.
    http://www.47news.jp/


========================================================
  4. [Press Release]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * 19 July, 2013
    Lecturer Hirokazu Takahashi (Intelligent Cooperative Systems) from
    Professor Kanzaki Laboratory:
    "Tracking axonal action potential propagation on a high-density
    icroelectrode array across hundreds of sites"
    http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/rcast/report/2013/0719.html

  * 9 August, 2013
    Project Professor Takashi Minami (Vascular Biology):
    "The Calcineurin-NFAT-Angiopoietin 2 signaling axis in lung endothelium
    is critical for the establishment of lung metastases"
    http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/rcast/report/2013/0816.html


========================================================
  5. [Publication]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * 30 July, 2013
    Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama (Systems Biology and Medicine):
    Title: "Houshanou ha torinozokeru"
    Publisher: Gentosha
    http://www.gentosha.co.jp/book/b6828.html