UK-JSPS Alumni Association

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08/03/2010   UK-JSPS Alumni Awards: FURUSATO and BRIDGE comparison chart
08/03/2010 Fund Call JSPS London Furusato Awards Call for Applications
Closing Date: 6th April 2010
Visit Start Period: Between May 2010 to March 2011
08/03/2010 Fund Call UK - JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Call for Applications
 Closing date for applications: 6th April 2010
Visit Start Period: Between August 2010 to March 2011
04/12/2009 Event Call Pre Departure Seminar and Alumni Event
21/10/2009 Event Call Pre Departure Seminar and Alumni Event(4th December 2009) Invitation   Programme
15/10/2009 Fund Call UK - JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Call for Applications
 Closing date for applications: 30th October 2009
Visit Start Period: Between 1st January 2010 to 31st March 2010 (now closed)
08/09/2009 Fund Call Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers (Short Term)
Call for applications with fellowship start period: May 2010 to the end of March 2011
Closing date for applications: 1 December 2009

Alumni Members' Activities

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23/02/2010 Event Call UK-Japan 150 Special Edition of Chemistry an Asian Journal Guest co editor: Dr. John Fossey, University of Birmingham
10/02/2010 Event Call

"Teacher Education and Citizenship Education in England."

Shaika-Kenkyu (Journal of Educational Research on Social Studies), Vol. 64, pp.1-7, 8-10, March 2006.

 Co written by Professor Ian Davies, University of York
10/02/2010 Event Call

"Teacher Education for School Subject Citizenship/ Social Studies Education in University and School."

Graduate School, Hiroshima University, joint symposium with the Japan Social Studies Research Association, February 2006

 Co written by Professor Ian Davies, University of York
08/02/2010 paper

A paper to come out of research at the Fracture Mechanics and Safety Assessment Engineering Laboratory, University of Tokyo, funded by a JSPS Summer Programme Award.

"JR-Curve Estimation by Drop Weight Tear Test."

Paper Accepted for presentation at the ECF 18 Conference, Berlin, December 2009

 By Mr. Antonio Caraballo (first author), Cranfield University
05/02/2010 paper

"Fractional Sampling OFCDM with Alternative Spreading Code."

IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS 2008), Guangzhou, China, November 2008

Co written by Professor Mohammad Ghavami, King's College London
05/02/2010 paper

"Retransmission Scheme with Code Sense for VSF/DS-UWB Ad-hoc Network."

International Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, London, UK, May 2005

 Co written by Professor Mohammad Ghavami, King's College London
05/02/2010 Event Call

"Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering."

ISBN: 978-0-470-02763-9, John Wiley & Sons, January 2007

 By Professor Mohammad Ghavami (first author), King's College London
05/02/2010 paper

"Stereoselective Radical Addition of an Acetal to Sterically Tuned Enantiomerically Pure N-Sulfinyl Imines"

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, Vol, 58, February 2010

 By Dr. Tito Akindele (first author), RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
23/11/2009 paper

"Geometric Frustration in Small Colloidal Clusters."

J.Phys:Cond.Matter.20,494222

 Co Written by Dr. Christopher Royall, University of Bristol
04/11/2009 Event Call

"Symmetry of Coherent Vortices in Plane Couette Flow." Presentation given at the ETC 12- the 12th EUROMECH European Turbulence Conference, Marburg, 7-10 September 2009 and at the Mechanical Engineering Conference, annual meeting, Kyoto, Japan, September 2009.

 By Dr. Sotos Generalis, Aston University and co authors
29/10/2009 Event Call

An article to come out of research at the RIKEN Plant Science Centre, Yokohama, funded by a JSPS Short Term Award.

"Large-Scale Phosphorylation Mapping Reveals the Extent of Tyrosine Phosphorylation in Arabidopsis."

Molecular Systems Biology 4, Article Number 193, April 2008

 Co written by Dr. Arsalan Daudi, Royal Holloway, University of London
19/10/2009 paper  

"Range of Validity of Weakly Nonlinear Theory in the Rayleigh-Benard Problem."

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Vol 78, No.8, August 2009

 Co Written by Dr. Sotos Generalis, Aston University
19/10/2009 paper  

"Hairpin Vortex Solution in Planar Couette Flow: A Tapestry of Knotted Vortices."

Physical Review Letters Vol 102, No.11

 Co Written by Dr. Sotos Generalis, Aston University
16/10/2009 Event Call  

An article that has come out of research at the Meiji Gakuin University funded by a JSPS Summer Programme Award.

"Three Versions of Komatsu Sayko's Nihon Chinbotsu (Japan Sinks)" Project MUSE, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2009, pp-45-57

 By Dr. Jessica Langer, Royal Holloway, University of London
16/10/2009 Event Call

Published September 2009

"Baron Kaneko and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05): A study in the Public Diplomacy of Japan"

 Translated by Professor Ian Ruxton, Kyushu Institute of Technology
16/10/2009 Event Call

Published September 2009

"A Diplomat in Japan Part II: The Diaries of Ernest Satow, 1870 to 1883"

 Transcribed and edited by Professor Ian Ruxton, Kyushu Institute of Technology
07/10/2009 Event Call "Glass Transition and Molecular Mobility in Polymer Thin Films." 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031802 Co written by Dr. Barbara Gabrys, University of Oxford
07/10/2009 Event Call "Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale: A Case of Medieval Pathos."A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Mitsunori Imai, President of Setsunan University. English Philology and Corpus Studies, Tokyo 2009, pp 23-39 By Professor Graham Caie, University of Glasgow
07/10/2009 Event Call

Forthcoming Lecture: 10th December 2009

"The Role of the Ancestral Tradition in Bereavement in Contemporary Japanese Society,"

Japanese Center, University of Cardiff

By Dr. Christine Valentine, University of Bath
07/10/2009 Event Call

"Emotion, Identity and the Good Death in Contemporary Japanese Society."

The Social Context of Death Dying and Disposal Conference, Durham University, 14th September 2009

 By Dr. Christine Valentine, University of Bath
06/07/2009 Event Call 1. Due out in August 2009:
"Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Japan", Stanford University.

By Dr. Ekaterina Hertog, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford.
30/06/2009 Event Call

"Bank Modelling Methodologies: A Comparative Non-parametric Analysis of Efficiency in the Japanese Banking Sector" [with L. Drake and R.Simper], Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 1-15, February 2009

"Japan: The Banks are Back! Or Are They?" Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, Vol. 17, No.1, pp. 16-28, March 2009

By Professor Maximilian Hall, University of Loughborough

19/06/2009 Event Call Publications that have come out of research at the University of Tokyo funded by a JSPS Short Term Award:

"Negotiating a loved one's dying in contemporary Japanese society." Mortality, 13. 1 (2009)

Forthcoming:
"Continuing Bonds in Cross-cultural Perspective: UK and Japan." Bereavement Care, 28.2. (2009)

"Japanese ambivalence about traditional mourning requirements." Pharos International. Autumn issue. (2009)

"Japanese Ancestor Veneration." In Clifton Bryant and Dennis Peck (Eds.) Encyclopaedia of Death and Human Experience. Sage Publications. (2009)

By Dr. Christine Valentine,

University of Bath
18/06/2009 Event Call "Phase space diffusion in molecular liquids: non-stationary random walk model,"
EMLG/JMLG Annual Meeting "Intermolecular Interactions and Liquid Structure" (Salzburg, Austria, 2009)		 Dr. A Dmitry Nerukh, Cambridge University participated in this conference with collaborator Dr. Makoto Taiji of RIKEN:
18/06/2009 Event Call Now submitted to J. Phys. "Abnormal diffusion in water: non-stationary phase space random walk model" Co written by Dr. A Dmitry Nerukh, Cambridge University.
17/06/2009 Event Call "Exploiting Boron's Affinity for Saccharides in New Hydrogel Domains"
Osaka University 05/02/2009
Kumamoto University 02/02/2009
Tokyo University 21/01/2009
Tokyo Metropolitan University 13/01/2009
RIKEN 09/01/2009
Ochanomizu University 08/01/2009		 By Dr. John Fossey, University of Birmingham, given at these institutions in Japan:
17/06/2009 Event Call "Flexibility and Cross-Sectional Structure of an Anionic Dual-Surfactant Wormlike Micelle Explored with Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Coupled with Contrast Variation Technique."J.Phys.Chem.B, 2009, 113, 10222 Co written by Dr. John Fossey, University of Birmingham.
17/06/2009 Event Call "Solid state structures and solution analyses of a phenylpropylpyridine N-oxide and an N-methyl phenylpropylpyridine"Chemistry-An Asian Journal, 2009, 4, 194 Co written by Dr. John Fossey, University of Birmingham.
17/06/2009 Event Call Article Published in New Journal of Physics, 10 March 2009. " Influence of Fabrication Errors on Wake Function Suppression in NC X-band Accelerating Structures for Linear Colliders." By Professor Roger Jones, University of Manchester and Cockcroft Institute