ELyT Workshop 2022
2022 has been a wonderful year for ELyT events. It was the time to – finally! - gather altogether on site. For this occasion, we celebrated numerous events in Lyon on November 16th to 18th.
Doctor Honoris Causa of Prof. TAKAGI
In recognition of his impressive contribution to the scientific community on electromagnetic nondestructive testing and evaluation, as well of his wonderful involvement in the construction of Tohoku-Lyon partnership, it was a great delight and honor to award Prof. Toshiyuki TAKAGI the Doctor Honoris Causa title from Prof. Frédéric FOTIADU, president of INSA Lyon, under the honorary chairmanship of Gabriele FIONI, Deputy Rector for Higher Education, Research and Innovation of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes academic region, Frank DEBOUCK, President of the University of Lyon, Kenji KURATOMI, Consul , Head of the Japanese Consular Office in Lyon, Frédéric FOTIADU, President of INSA and Marie-Christine BAIETTO, Vice-President of Research and Development in INSA Lyon.
Alumni event
A round table organized jointly with the Japan consulate office in Lyon regarding expatriation to and from Japan was then the occasion of exchanging wonderful experiences of Japanese people working in France and conversely. Testimonies from three researchers from Tohoku University (Atsuki KOMIYA, Professor, Hiroki KURITA, assistant professor, and Yutaro KOHATA, Double Degree Ph.D. student) and two people from France (M. Eric FILIPPI, Director of the Lyon Japan Space - “Espace Lyon Japon”– and M. Florian LE COZ). The discussions emphasized the great knowledge and open mindedness, as well as opportunities, brought by such experiences.
ELyT workshop
Then, over two and a half days, researchers from ELyT and beyond exposed their latest research advances in the framework of Lyon-Tohoku collaborations or as basis for future collaborations. The workshop gathered 84 participants, with 40 presentations including 4 invited talks (Valéry Botton - INSA Lyon -, Anne-Lise Cristol & Yannick Desplanques - Centrale Lille -, Ausrine Bartasyte - Université de Franche-Comté – and Kostas Danas - Ecole Polytechnique). The workshop also included a dedicated symposium on the Core-to-Core project on ammonia combustion, showing the strong partnership concluded with Lyon, as well as a Double Degree Ph.D. round table, exposing the benefit, both at personal and professional levels, of pursuing such a cursus.
ELyT School
In conjunction with ELyT workshop, ELyT School allowed students to discover labs in Lyon (25 students in total, including 10 from Tohoku University), as well as intercultural aspects through dedicated activities. They also participated to celebrations and invited talks and round tables organized through the three days activities.
Inauguration of the Japan Room @ ECL
As an additional demonstration of the strong links between Lyon and Tohoku, the inauguration of the Japan Room @ ECL was a supplementary achievement. Such a space will be a privileged area for the short- and medium-term visits from Japanese colleagues and students to promote the bilateral collaboration.
