An IROAST Seminar was held on Oct. 24 based on the France-Japan Laboratoire International Associé on "Chiral Nanostructures for Photonic Applications” (LIA-CNPA) and directed by Dr. Reiko Oda of CNRS, an IROAST visiting professor, and by Prof. Hirotaka Ihara of Kumamoto University. There were four lectures from Dr. Dario Bassani, Dr. Birgit Habenstein, Dr. Brice Kauffmann and Dr. Antonie Loquet. After the seminar, the French visitors joined four research groups in the Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry to begin their future international collaboration.

After the seminar, they held a banquet and IROAST Director Takashi Hiyama joined them.