The Advisory Board, an external committee whose role is to evaluate the
work of NTT Basic Research Laboratories (BRL), met from February 16〜18,
2009. This was the fifth meeting of the Advisory Board, which was first
convened in 2001 to provide an objective evaluation of our research plans
and activities to enable us to employ strategic management in a timely
manner. On this occasion, we were happy to welcome a new member.
Over the course of the three days the board made valuable suggestions
and comments related to our research and management activities. They agreed
that the research level is generally high on an international scale, and
that it is important for us to maintain this top-level research and transmit
information about our research achievements to the world. They also raised
several issues related to human resources, the research budget and internal
and external collaboration. We plan to make improvements based on these
valuable suggestions.
At this meeting we held a poster session for the first time, and offered
researchers an opportunity to communicate with the board members. This
included a dinner party for the researchers at which they met and talked
with the board members. For the BRL and NTT executives, we organized a
Japanese style dinner, which provided a good chance to discuss the future
management strategy of NTT BRL from an international perspective. The next
board meeting will held in two years.
| Board Members | Affiliation | Research Field | ||
| Prof. G. Abstreiter | Walter Schottky | Low-dim. Semiconductor Physics | ||
| Prof. B. Altshuler | Columbia Univ. | Condensed Matter Physics | ||
| Prof. T. Hänsch | Max-Planck-Inst. | Quantum Optics | ||
| Prof. S. Haroche | École Normale | Quantum Optics | ||
| Prof. M. Jonson | Chalmers Univ. of Tech. | Condensed Matter Physics | ||
| Prof. T. Leggett | Univ. of Illinois | Quantum Physics | ||
| Prof. H. Mooij | Delft Univ. of Tech. | Quantum Physics | ||
| Prof. J. Ryan | Univ. of Oxford | Nano-bio Technology | ||
| Prof. K. von Klitzing | Max-Planck-Inst. | Semiconductor Physics |