CRC international symposium
  We started a new type of CRC International Symposium to promote the special area important for catalyst in 2005. The serial symposium has been held every year at different places and dedicated to one topic with lectures given by the top-class scientists. The last topic was gcross-coupling and organometallicsh started from Aachen University Germany in 2005, USA, France, Sweden, Moscow, China, and Canada (2012). We invited distinguished scientists in these fields including Prof. Akira Suzuki and Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi, Novel Laureates in 2010. This successful symposium about gcross-couplingh has expanded as a forthcoming symposium about "organic synthetic chemistry". We also have decided to focus on the Chemical theory for Complex System and started a new round for next several years. Catalysis is one of the most complex systems and is still difficult to understand. Theoretical approach to the catalysis is strongly desired but is not matured. In 2012 we have initiated a new theory division in CRC and invited Prof. Jun-ya Hasegawa to promote the theoretical approach in catalysis. It is a good occasion to invite world-wide top scientists and to share theoretical frontier on the catalysis and complex chemical system. Thanks to a kind help and advice of Prof. Shigeyoshi Sakaki and Prof. Koichi Yamashita, we have invited excellent professors in this field. We hope that all participants will enjoy the lectures and the symposium will open a new horizon in this field.
  ASAKURA Kiyotaka (CRC, Hokkaido University)
  Organizing committee
  ASAKURA Kiyotaka (CRC, Hokkaido University)  
  DANIEL Chantal (University of Strasbourg) Chair  
  HASEGAWA Jun-ya (CRC, Hokkaido University)  
  SAKAKI Shigeyoshi (FIFC, Kyoto University) Chair  
  YAMASHITA Koichi (University of Tokyo)