We held a farewell party for Lukas, who was staying with us as part of the JSPS Summer Program, and a send-off party for Zizhen, who is going to study at Brown Univ. (The first party in the group and the second party at an izakaya in Aobadai.)

We held a farewell party for Greg and Harsh (both from Brown U.) who were visiting our group. In the second party, we went to a Japanese pub with Lukas, who is staying in Japan on a short-term visit through JSPS, and Prof. Tateyama.

We held a party in Shin-Yokohama to celebrate the successful completion of the ‘Workshop bridging between theory and experiment on all-solid-state battery materials at Tokyo Tech’ held at the Suzukakedai Campus, with members of the Tateyama-Ando Group and the members of Prof. Yue Qi’s group, who were visiting us.

Prof. Michael DeVolder (Univ. of Cambridge), who is also a GL at the Faraday Institution, a virtual battery research institute in the UK, visited the NIMS Tateyama Group and had various discussions and exchanges in addition to the seminar.

Prof. Wolfgang Zeier and student Johannes Hartel from the University of Münster, who are at the forefront of research into all-solid-state batteries and solid electrolytes, visited our laboratory. Here they are in a commemorative photo under the cherry blossoms in full bloom.