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All-Paid US-Japan Winter School on
New Functionalities in Glass
Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan
January 6-17, 2008
Sponsored by
NSF's International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass (IMI-NFG)
International Center for Integrated Research and Advanced Education in Materials Science (ICIRAEMS), Kyoto University,
Global Centers of Excellence Program (COE), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Here are some anonymous feedback and comments from US and Japanese participants:
"The Winter School is a great idea--- more collaborations should be encouraged."
"Meeting new people and learning about different research areas that I knew nothing about has
definitely sparked new interests and has me excited to be part of such an important field..."
"Nice to meet people from outside the immediate materials community and from different cultural backgrounds."
"Great lectures and good diversity of lecturers."
"The classes were well-structured and I like the lecture-style over the conference-style presentations."
"It's great meeting students from Japan."
"I made up my mind to attend graduate school fter attending the Winter School."
"I gained a lot of knowledge in academic, cultural and social aspects after attending the Winter School."
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