日本, 東京都中央区晴海３丁目１
Dear Notre Dame Alumni,
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!
For the first time ever, the Notre Dame Club of Japan is organizing a dinner cruise to celebrate Christmas and the end of another year. Six faculty members (bios given below) are traveling from the University of Notre Dame to join this celebration.
During their visit to Japan, the University of Notre Dame delegation will also be meeting with counterparts at key universities throughout Japan to explore the feasibility of establishing regular joint conferences, faculty exchanges, and opportunities for graduate students. They will also be investigating opportunities for joint graduate programs and research initiatives/centers.
As a Club, this event is a wonderful opportunity for us to share our deep knowledge about Japanese markets, culture and opportunities with key stakeholders who have the desire and the mission to better connect the University of Notre Dame with academic institutions and communities in Japan.
DATE: Tuesday, December 9, 2014
TIME: 6:45 p.m. (This is a hard deadline. We begin boarding the boat and when everyone on the dock is aboard, the boat pulls away.)
PLACE: Harumi Boarding Place (Harumi 3-1, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan... This is about a 5 minute walk from Kachidoki Station Exit A3 on the Oedo Line).
FEE: 10,800 JPY (tax included): This fee covers a course dinner and all you can drink. If you sign up you are committed to pay for your ticket. (I will prepay for everyone on the morning of Tuesday, December 2nd so please bring exactly 10,800 JPY and pay me for your ticket as you get on the boat).
This event will be held on a traditional Japanese dinner boat known as a yakatabune. The boat features horigotatsu tables (i.e. a cavity in the floor with a table covering it), allowing guests to sit on the floor with their legs relaxed rather than formal seiza style so please do not worry about your knees.
The menu is traditional Japanese cuisine as seen on this page http://www.harumiya.co.jp/foods/menu/furisode/menu_furisode_autumn.html
However, in deference to our visitors from campus, the raw fish will be replaced with a thinly sliced roast beef.
I have been on this dinner cruise with my family and inlaws. It is a lot of fun. Typically, the boat will first cruise over to O-Daiba and then make its way up the Sumida River, finally arriving at the Tokyo Sky Tree which at 634.0 metres (2,080 ft) is the tallest tower in the world.
Sorry for the short notice. This was a complicated opportunity to create and book!
Go Irish!
Sean
Notre Dame Delegation Bios
Kenneth Henderson
Senior Assistant Provost for Internationalization, Notre Dame International
Professor and Department Chair, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Kenneth Henderson was appointed Senior Assistant Provost for Internationalization in 2012. He is professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry. He joined the faculty at Notre Dame in 2002, and has served as department chair since 2009. The Henderson group is interested primarily in synthetic main group chemistry, with an emphasis on the utility and function of highly polar complexes containing the s- and early p-block elements. A central theme is elucidating the structure of compounds containing these elements and unraveling the factors governing their formation. A particular focus is creating materials that will be of use in energy-related chemical research such as separation science and energy storage.
Nelson Mark
Acting Director, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
Alfred C. DeCrane Jr. Professor of International Economics
Nelson Mark was appointed to the DeCrane Professorship in 2003. Before coming to Notre Dame, he was Professor of Economics at the Ohio State University where he had taught and conducted research since 1983. His primary research interests are in the areas of international macroeconomics, exchange rate economics, and the Chinese economy. He has published his research in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and is the author of the textbook, International Macroeconomics and Finance: Theory and Empirical Methods. He is the North American editor of the Pacific Economic Review, which is the official publication of the Hong Kong Economic Association. He is also an associate editor of the International Journal of Finance and Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking and New Zealand Economic Papers.
Grant Mathews
Director, Center for Astrophysics at Notre Dame University (CANDU)
Professor, Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology
Prof. Mathews’ research interests involve the origin and evolution of matter in the universe from the first instants of cosmic expansion in the big bang to the present complex interactions of stars and gas in galaxies. Current research topics include the nature and origin of dark energy and dark matter. Prof. Mathews’ group also searches for manifestations of extra large “bulk” dimensions in so-called “brave-world” cosmology. Such dimensions can, for example, affect the history of the cosmic expansion, the formation and evolution of galactic structure, and the epoch of primordial nucleosynthesis. They also study the possibility for time varying fundamental constants and evidence for large compact dimensions. Other studies include general-relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of orbiting, accreting, collapsing and/or merging white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes.
Jonathan Noble
Acting Executive Director, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
Assistant Provost for Internationalization – Asia, Notre Dame International
Jonathan Noble was appointed assistant provost for Asia within Notre Dame International in 2012. His responsibilities include developing academic programs in Asia and Asian studies, and he currently directs the University’s first offices in Asia—located in Beijing and Tokyo—while also serving as the acting executive director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Holding a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and literatures from The Ohio State University, Noble focuses his research on contemporary Chinese culture and society. He is the author of some 50 articles, essays, and translations, and he was one of 20 China scholars in the United States selected in 2005 to participate in the inaugural Public Intellectuals Program sponsored by the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
Robert Norton
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research, Notre Dame International
Professor of German, Concurrent Professor of Philosophy
Robert Norton was first appointed Associate Vice President for Internationalization in October 2012 and is currently Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research in September 2013. He joined Notre Dame in 1998 as Professor of German and Chair of the Department of German and Russian and became Concurrent Professor of Philosophy in 2009. A graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Norton holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. Norton previously taught at Mount Holyoke College and Vassar College and has held guest appointments at the University of Chicago and Heidelberg University. His specializations include 18th- through 20th-Century German literature and philosophy, aesthetics and ethics, and German intellectual history.
Claudia Polini
Director, Center for Mathematics at Notre Dame
Rev. John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C Professor of Mathematics
Professor Polini's research interests include Commutative Algebra and its interactions with Algebraic Geometry. She is particularly interested in the theory of linkage and residual intersections; blow-up algebras, such as Rees algebras, symmetric algebras, special fiber rings, and associated graded rings; objects associated to an ideal such as its integral closure, its core and its reductions; and Hilbert functions. She has published her research in journals including Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Mathematische Annalen, and Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society.
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