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 In anti-chronological order (Last updated on November 4, 2003)
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November-December, 2002
  • December 31, 2002 Seeds in the bird feeder, set just outside of the room S306, have been eaten up during a few days (right photo was taken on December 31). Presumably due to silence in the room and snowfall, many sparrows might come and eat them in addition to a Parus major ("Shiju-kara" in Japanese), but it could not be confirmed, since I was out of Sapporo.
  • December 24, 2002 Interim report meeting of our laboratory was held. For the graduate students in the second year of master's course, this an final check point of master's theses. In the evening, a Bonenkai-party was held in Room S303 with a menu including Indian chicken curry made by Mrs. Bonamali Pal (Baisaki-san) and Oden by Ms. Murata. Group photos were taken by Mr. Koike in Professor Asakura's laboratory.
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  • November 17-23, 2002 Professor Ohtani participated and made a lecture in the 7th International Conference on TiO2 Photocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications (TiO2-7) held in Toronto, Canada. Many chemists in the field of photocatalysis joined and discussed. A photo was taken from a room of hotel in which the conference was held.
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  • November 3, 2002 Arrangement of a live camera was modified. The camera was placed in the room S306 and directed to a bird feeder set just outside of a window. An image is uploaded when any motion is detected. After four days of this arrangement, an image of a bird was recorded at the first time (Parus major: Shiju-kara in Japanese/right picture). A movie (left) was recorded in the morning of November 11, 2002
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September-October, 2002
  • October 10, 2002 Six graduate students (Master Course in Division of Material Science, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University) who passed the examination and join us from next April have been fixed. ). We have additionally one graduate student graduated from chemistry and relating course and two students graduated from non-chemistry course. The second chance of the entrance examination will be held in the end of next February. Those who are interested in taking the examination, please let Professor Ohtani know.
  • October 10, 2002 A party for the birth of Mr. Villacres's daughter, Maryam-chan, and Dr. Ikeda's son, Arata-kun, was held at S303. Baisakhi-san made original chicken curry for all of us. A left photo is an Okonomi-yaki, a ordinary menu. This time, young members of the office of our center joined us. A group photo was taken by Mr. Koike of Professor Asakura's laboratory also in this time (Thanks a lot)
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  • September 24, 2002 The first son of Dr. Ikeda, Arata-kun, was born. Congratulations!
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  • September 9-10, 2002 Laboratories in Catalysis Research Center, except for Professor Osawa's and Professor Takahashi's laboratories have moved to the main building of Faculty Science, a very old blick-made building. Our laboratories are located at southeast corner of the third floor. The original building of our center will be used by Graduate School of Science after thorough modification. We will move again to a newly build building in the north campus, presumably, in November 2003. A right photo is a "mountain" of packaging materials before the movement. For location of our laboratory, see [about us].
  • September 12-18, 2002 A season of academic meeting has come. September 12-13: Fall meeting of Electrochemical Society of Japan (Atsugi). Professor Torimoto, Mr. Iwasaki, and Mr. Aburakawa (first oral presentation) presented. 12-13: 2002 Symposium on Photochemistry (Kyoto). Dr. Ikeda and Mr. Kowata (first oral presentation). 12-14: Symposium of Colloid and Interfacial Chemistry (Sendai). 17: Meeting on Reference Catalyst (Hamamatsu). Dr. Ikeda. 18-21: Fall Annual Meeting of Catalysis Society of Japan (Hamamatsu). Professor Ohtani (invited), Professor Torimoto, Dr. Ikeda and Dr. Ikeue. 25-28: The 82nd Fall Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan: Professor Ohtani (invited). Total 11 presentations.
  • September 22, 2002 A live cam was set again at the window side of a new room (S306 in the main building of Faculty of Science). The camera is seeing a "Rigakubu loan and forest of elm." In the night, a lamp standing in the ceter looks like a moon.

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July-August, 2002
  • August 25, 2002 Power outage in whole Sapporo campus of our university. This page could not be accessed all the day. Due to the summer vacation, the live cam was not working for a few days after the power outage.
  • August 18, 2002 Presumably due to the setup of battery-assited power supply for the web server, this page could not be accessed all the day.
  • August 17, 2002 A live camera (Live Cam) was moved. This had been put on a window flame before the "dirty" double glass and its image was defocused (automatically!). The camera is now fixed with a "folder" (a left photo) and the image through a clean window glass. There is a focus on a parking place of Catalysis Research Center, as same as before. The right photo is taken from the focusing point (an arrow shows the place where the cam has been set). The scenery will be changed because we will move to the main building of Faculty of Science in the middle of September.
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  • August 9-11, 2002 CRC International Symposium on photochemistry@interfaces (pc@if) was held at Hokkaido University Conference Hall. This is the 13th international symposium organized by the center and we, Laboratory of Catalytic Reaction Chemistry, managed this time. We appreciate very much all the participants for cooperation. For details including photos, see web page of pc@if.
  • August 4-9, 2002 14th International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy: IPS-14 was held in Hokkaido University (University Conference Hall and Clerk Memorial Student Center) by Professor Akira Fujishima (Tokyo University) as a chairman. Our laboratory helped the managements. A photo is the "name tag" and "ball point pen" specially designed for IPS-14 by Professor Ohtani. Professor Torimoto and Dr. Ikeda presented their posters and Professor Ohtani gave an invited talk in a workshop.
  • July 29, 2002 A first daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Villacres, Maryam-chan, was born. Congratulations!.
  • July 24-25, 2002 Aurola Seminar, sponsored by Hokkaido Branch of Catalysis Society of Japan was held in Marine Hill Hotel Otaru. This seminar was organized by Dr. Ikeda in our laboratory. A photo was taken at a night session (?) of Professor Inoue (Nagaoka), Professor Ohtani, Professor Hattori (Sapporo), and Professor Okuhara (Sapporo).

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May-June, 2002
  • June 22-23, 2002 The 19th Lilac Seminar and the 8th Exchange Seminar for Young Electrochemists, sponsored by Hokkaido Branch of Electrochemical Society, Japan, was held in Otaki Seminar House. Professor Ohtani and Dr. Ichizo Yagi (Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University) organized these meetings. Lecturers in the fields including electronics or biochemistry gave us interesting talks and discussed.
  • June 2, 2002 A live camera (LiveCam) was set at the window side of Professor Ohtani's room (Room 214, Catalysis Research Center). A picture, showing a view in the direction of north east is taken at every 5 minutes. A builiding in the center of the image is building no. 4 of Graduate School of Science, a house on the right is a laboratory of Professor Takahashi's group, and a white tank is of liquid nitrogen. You can see a water-blue colored "JEEP CHEROKEE" of Professor Ohtani in his presence. After sunset, a reflection of image of inside of the room is seen and, when he goes home, a night view is shown.

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  • June 1, 2002 A total access number of 110,000 has been recorded, after approximately 5 weeks since the 100,000 accesses. An average number is about 256 per day from then, and 90 per day from the beginning of counting in this web page (January 1999). The access statics will be shown on the top of this page.
  • May 9, 2002 A seminar introducing recent topics for the financial year of 2002 has started. Until last financial year, we joined to the seminar organized by Professor Shinri Sato, Photocatalysis Seminar, and from this financial year the seminar restarts. The first speaker is Mr. Yousuke ABURAKAWA of second-year graduate student. For details, see [seminar].

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March-April, 2002
  • April 25, 2002 Total access number of this web page exceeded 100,000!!! Approximately 8 weeks passed since 90,000 accesses to be an average of ca. 190 times a day. The period from the beginning of this web page is ca. 1,200 days corresponding to the average of ca. 80. A trend of increasing accesses has been seen since the beginning of financial year of 2002.
  • April 8, 2002 New comers presented their previous research work. A part of them used an LCD projector with Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • April 1, 2002 We have new members in our laboratory. Three postdoctoral research fellows for the PRESTO projects by Professor Torimoto and Dr. Ikeda (one of them, Dr. Bonamali Pal was working here as a COE Foreign Researcher), two graduate students of Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, and a research student of our center joined us. For details, see [member]. Those who left our laboratory in March 2000 are listed in the page [about us].
  • March 26-29, 2002 Following the annual meeting of Catalysis Society of Japan (Kanagawa University, Yokohama), the annual meeting of Chemical Society of Japan was held in Waseda University (Tokyo). Professor Tsukasa Torimoto (first day), Dr. Shigeru Ikeda (third day), and Dr. Bonamali Pal and Mr. Yusuke Kowata (fourth day) presented their results. The poster presentation by Mr. Kowata was made in the neighborhood of the poster board for Dr. Hiroshi Kominami (Kinki University).
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  • March 20, 2002 A farewell party was held at Room 127. Family of Dr. Hadi Nur also joined. The menu is Temaki-zushi, Okonomi-yaki, Sashimi, and Yakisoba. Left: a group photo, center: Ms. Nao Nakamura receiving a gift from our laboratory members, and right: a family of Dr. Hadi Nur.
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  • March 19, 2002 Lecture by Professor Yuji Wada (Osaka University) was held at Room 5-205, Graduate School of Science. The title was "Developments of nanomaterials as a photofunctional materials: How to combine conventional nanomaterials to recent nanotechnologies. [poster (pdf: 24K)]
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  • March 11, 2002 Dr. Keita Ikeue (Osaka Prefecture University), who will join us as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Ikeda's PRESTO project, visited Sapporo to find a house.
  • March 7, 2002 Dr. Shin-ya Murakami (Kinki University), who will join us as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Torimoto's PRESTO project, visited Sapporo to find a house.
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  • March 5, 2002 Farewell party of Catalysis Research Center was held at Clark Hall. Before the party, Ms. Nao Nakamura presented her master's thesis in the report meeting of Catalysis Research Center.
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  • March 2, 2002 Number of accesses to this page exceeded 90,000. It took approximately 10 weeks since 80,000 accesses (average daily access is about 140). A little smaller number is presumably doe to the shutdown of the server computer at the end of the last year and in the beginning of this year. Moreover the relating removal of our URL from the database of "Google."

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January-February, 2002
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  • February 21, 2002 The 2nd laboratory ski tour to Teine Highland ski field. Scenery at the back of our members in the photo (left) is Ishikari Plane.
  • February 16-20, 2002 Due to the replacement of a server computer system in the Computing Center, Hokkaido University, this page was not accessed. Now, all the pages has been recovered. If you find any troubles in our web pages, please inform us.
  • February 14-15, 2002 Final defense for Master's theses of graduate students belonging to the Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science was held. Ms. Nao Nakamura and Ms. Chigusa Abe, who are the second term graduate students of our laboratory, presented their theses and passed. Congratulations! tntn
  • January 17-18, 2002 Ski tour to Asarigawa ski field. This was our first trip with stay. At the hotel, we enjoyed party, karaoke, and mahjong.
  • January 4, 2002 A happy new year! This page could not be accessed from the end of last year to today due to the holidays of Computer Center of our university.

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