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Message from Director General

• Sadamichi Maekawa
  About “Notes of Basic Science”

Preface

• Yukitoshi Miura　(Executive Director, Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
  “Expectations for Basic Research”

Interview

• Shinsaku Kambe (Group Leader of Research Group for Materials Physics of Heavy Element Systems)
  "Physical properties of actinides are interesting!"

Notes

• Mamoru Matsuo (Research Group for Spin-energy Transformation Science)
  "Spin-current generation from liquid-metal flow"
• Yuki Fukaya (Research Group for Nanoscale Structure and Function of Advansed Materials)
  "Asymmetric structure of germanene"

Infomation

• Makoto Oka (Group Leader of Research Group for Hadron Nuclear Physics)
  "Theoretical Physics Institute (TPI) Kicked Off"
• Hirochika Naganawa　(Research Group for Interfacial Reaction Field Chemistry)
  "Studies of liquid-liquid systems in research group for interfacial reaction field chemistry"

Essay

• Jiří Pospíšil (Research Group for Materials Physics for Heavy Element Systems)
  "Interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in orthorhombic compounds"
• Jun’ichi Ieda (Research Group for Spin-energy Transformation Science)
  "Das Lebens und die Forschung in Deutschland"

News&Views

• Tetsuya K. Sato (Research Group for Heavy Element Nuclear Science)
  "Measurement of the first ionization potential of lawrencium, element 103"

ASRC Schedule