The Japan CF-research Society (JCF)

The Japan CF-research Society (JCF) was established in March 29, 1999 at the First Annual Meeting of JCF held in Osaka.

In the Meeting from 29 to 30 of March, there were presented 20 papers including three theoretical ones with total attendants about 40. Papers were presented by Y. Arata, Y. Iwamura, H. Kozima, T. Mizuno, R. Notoya, T. Ohmori, K. Ota, A. Takahashi, N. Yabuuchi, H. Yamada, E. Yamaguchi, and others.

Followings are Representatives of JCF for this year (1999) elected at the 1st Annual Meeting.

Senior Consultant Members;

Yoshiaki Arata,

Michio Enyo,

Hideo Ikegami and

Hideo Kozima.

Chief-in-Directors;

Akito Takahashi.

Sub-Chief-in-Directors;

Kennichiro Ota.

Directors;

Naoto Asami,

Yoshiyuki Asaoka,

Yasuhiro Iwamura,

Hideo Kozima,

Tadahiko Mizuno,

Kennichiro Ota,

Akito Takahashi,

Eiichi Yamaguchi and

Hiroshi Yamada.

The annual meeting of JCF will be held annually with the next one in Hokkaido in 2000.

The home page of JCF is opened with its address as follows:

http://fomcane.nucl.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/user/jcf/

E-mail address of Prof. Akito Takahashi is as follows:

akito@nucl.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Rules and Regulations of JCF (translated into English arbitrarily by H.K.)

1. Name of the Society: The society is called as CF (Nuclear Reactions in Solids) Kenkyu-kai in Japanese and as Japan CF-research Society in English.

2. Object of the Society: The objects of JCF are promotion of science and technology through research in CF (nuclear reactions in solids), development of mutual communication and friendship among its members and also enlightenment and development of CF research in Japan.

3. Activities of the Society: The society performs following activities.

1) Research and development of science and technology in CF phenomenon.

2) Communication of research information among members and representative activity in international relationship.

3) Organization of the annual meeting, meetings of individual branches, workshops and lectures.

4) Publication of periodicals, reports of research activities, and useful materials for CF research.

5) Collection of papers, reviews and data on CF phenomenon.

6) Other activities related with development of CF research.

4. Members: (omitted)

5. Membership Fees: (omitted)

6. Representatives of the Society: There are following representatives in the Society. (1) Senior consultant members (several), (2) Chief-in-directors, (3) Sub-chief-in-directors, (4) Directors (several).

(Representatives elected for the year 1999 are listed above in the news.)

7. Fields of Research: Main fields of research of JCF will be interdisciplinary ones which range two or more established branches of science and technology, listed below for instance, and are accepted by established societies with difficulty.

Nuclear physics, Controlled nuclear fusion, Radiation physics, Condensed matter and solid physics, Materials science, Surface physics, Metal technology, Hydrogen occlusion and emission by solids, Electrochemistry, Heat measurement, Accelerator beam science, Laser technology, Atomic power technology, Quantum technology, Molecular dynamics, Ultrasonic technology, and so forth.