Last Wednesday we had the oral examination for the undergrads in our department. For the final clarification, our undergrads have to pass the three hurdles, consisting of i) approval from the supervisor, ii) oral defence against the other professors, and iii) thesis evaluation. The situation depends on university and even department. In some places, one […]
After the official labo-visiting days, a few students sent me an e-mail message to request an extra labo-visiting for them. Such a request from the students who did not come to our group in the official days is greatly welcome. This is because our group is rarely chosen as the prime laboratory for the students […]
We had the oral examination for the master students. In our department, they have to submit their thesis by the end of January. Afterwards they have interviews with a few professors who are assigned as the reviewer and give the students some critical comments from their expertise. Around one week later than the thesis submission, […]
In the last week, I attended the international workshop IWEAYR-13 in Jeju, Korea, with all the students in my group including undergrads. As I wrote before, the workshop is an unique event in which professors do not present any results by themselves but they give the opportunity for students. In addition, the organization focuses mixing […]
In the last week, we had the labo-visiting days for undergrads. This opportunity is arranged by the department for the students who will be assigned to the laboratories in coming April. I bought (from my pocket, of course) some snacks and drinks for the visitors to please them ;->. Indeed, our group has several disadvantages […]
In these days, I am struggling with my own code. The code is not new, and actually it was written several years ago, by myself. I am reading the code as I have a necessity to use it, but it is very difficult. There are several tricky parts for which I cannot remember the necessity. […]
In the Christmas vacation I was busy for reviewing some funding proposals. To my observation, there seemed too many research plans which strongly heads to industrial applications. Although such a direction is along the social demand, as a researcher in a basic science, it is somewhat pity. Indeed, only a few proposals mentioned theoretical directions… […]
The last year was great as usual, owing to the great help made by the labo members including students of course, the other professors and staffs in Nagoya University (specifically in Department of Materials Physics), the editorial board members and staffs of the Journal of Society of Rheology Japan, collaborating private sectors (in particular Sumitomo […]
In the mid of December, I attended the annual meeting of the international polymer processing society held in Mexico. Honestly speaking, I am not quite keen about this society meeting, but this time I was the organizer of polymer rheology session. As the organizer, I must be at the conference room, at least during my […]
These weeks our students are busy for the thesis and for the preparation to attend to the coming IWEAYR meeting in Jeju. Joining the event is a challenge, in particular for undergrads since that is their first opportunity to present their works outside. To go for it, they have to make the abstract, slides, poster […]