Message and Greetings
`About Our Center`
The Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) started afresh on October 1, 2005 as one of the R & D institutes of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) which was newly established as an gindependent administrative institutionh by integrating the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute and the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute.
The ASRC is aiming to be an international COE for the new frontier research of atomic energy sciences to discover new principles and phenomena, and furthermore to create new materials and methods in these research fields. In order to achieve these objectives of research we have four basic policies as our vision:
(1) The researches to be done at our center should be highly advanced with internationally excellent results. (2) The researches to be done at our center should be the results as obtained from making the best use of the specific activities of both researchers and facilities at our JAEA. (3) The researches to be done at our center should be those in the stage of the bud to be incubated until standing independently in basic research fields or producing interfaces with applied research fields. (4) The researches to be done at our center should be in conformity to the important attitudes of the third science and technology basic plan; to note the accountability to society, to watch the research outcome creating the interface with applied research fields, and to nurturing active new scientists in the corresponding research fields.
The research programs in progress, namely the names of the research groups, at our center are listed below as follows:
(1) Research Group for Physics of Heavy Nuclei
(2) Research Group for Nuclear Chemistry of Superheavy Elements
(3) Research Group for Strongly Correlated Supramolecules
(4) Research Group for Magnetism and Superconductivity in Actinide Compounds
(5) Research Group for Material Design and Experiments under Extreme Conditions
(6) Research Group for Positron Beam Material Science
(7) Research Group for Heavy Elements Biogeochemistry
(8) Basic Radiation Research Group
These are described in detail elsewhere at our home-page.
In order to promote these research programs, our center is collaborating with other R & D institutes of JAEA as well as universities/institutions outside JAEA, and several international collaborations are also running. In addition, our center is willing to accept new ideas and subjects of research as selected from the public applications from outside JAEA for the Reimei (Dawn) Research Fund of JAEA. Our center is involved also in presiding the selection committee for the application from inside JAEA for the Bud Research Fund of JAEA. Our center organizes every year the ASRC International Symposium with a scientific scope corresponding to each research program listed above. Our center publishes every half a year a scientific bulletin entitled Notes on Basic Science to report a summary of our scientific activities to other research institutions and universities.
To this end, on behalf of all the members of our center, I would greatly appreciate it if you could send us your advice and suggestions of our research programs in progress.
Yoshihiko HATANO, Director
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