RIKEN President Ryoji Noyori went to Malaysia from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3 on a trip to sign an agreement on a joint graduate school program between RIKEN and the University of Science, Malaysia (Universiti Sains Malaysia). He also delivered two lectures at the invitation of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (Academi Sains Malaysia).
The trip was aimed at strengthening cooperation with the Southeast Asian nation. He concluded a coordinated graduate school agreement that expands the current program, which has been in place since 2001, from the life sciences to include physics and chemistry. Every year three or four grad students (for a total of 10) in this expanded International Research Associate program will receive research guidance for up to three years.
President Noyori discussed wider cooperation between RIKEN and USM in the future, and met four doctorate students who will study at RIKEN from next year for three years under the coordinated graduate school agreement.
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On Dec. 2, President Noyori delivered two lectures at the University of Malaya (Universiti Malaya). In the morning, he gave a Nobel Laureate Lecture, ‘Chemistry: The Key to Our future’ and in the afternoon, a Dialogue with Researchers, ‘Asymmetric Catalysis: Science and Opportunities.’ A good-size audience of young researchers and students gathered for the afternoon lecture, and afterward participated in a discussion that President Noyori enjoyed very much.
