Ndumiso Cingo, PhD, Centre Manager of the CSIR National Laser Centre, visited NAIST on February 8th.
Dr. Cingo has engaged in the policy of Photonics and Nanotechnology in South Africa. Examining the same field of research of the Graduate School of Material Science, NAIST is the purpose of this visit.

Dr. Junichi Kikuchi, the Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Materials Science, introduced the outline of NAIST, the School and his own research.

Following that, Dr Cingo presented the CSIR and the Laser Centre, then Dr. Jun Ota, Dr. Tsuyoshi Kawai and Dr. Kazuhiro Ikeda from the Graduate School of Materials Science gave the explanation of their research activities.

Finally, Dr. Cingo had a meeting with Dr. Hiroshi Daimon, the Dean of the Graduate School of Materials Science, and discussed the future opportunity of exchange between the universities. The visit of this time was so meaningful for both sides.

(* CSIR: The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)