Contributing to the future
through the space domain
宇宙領域を通して、未来へ貢献する
NEWS
- Event
International Symposium MISASA VIII “Future Planetary Exploration: Understanding of Planetary Surface Environments and Habitability” will be held.
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Prof Xue and her team’s research is published.
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IPM outline is updated.
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News Letter 10 is available.
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Associate Prof Ishii is awarded by Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences.
- Event
International Symposium MISASA VIII “Future Planetary Exploration: Understanding of Planetary Surface Environments and Habitability” will be held.
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We hosted Misasa International Student Internship Program (2024).
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We announce Prof Kanzaki’s Final Lecture.
- Event
News Letter 9 is available.
- Event
We hosted Misasa International Student Internship Program (2023).
- Call
[closed] We call application for professor / associate professor positions.
- Call
[closed] We call application for Misasa International Student Internship Program 2024.
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[closed] We call application for joint-research program (FY2024).
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[closed] We call application for joint-research program (the second term FY2023).
- Outreach
We hosted an outreach event “Let’s create a forest on the moon” in Okayama.
- Outreach
Junior high-school students (Junior High-School attached to the Faculty of Education, Okayama University) visited IPM.
- Outreach
Elementary and junior-high school students in Tottori visited IPM as a course work “Fostering young researchers” organized by the National Institute of Technology, Yonago College (KOSEN).
- Outreach
Undergraduate students of Kasetsart University, Thailand, visited IPM as a course work of an international youth exchange program “Sakura Science Program”.
- Outreach
We had an online exhibition booth at Japan Geoscience Union Meeting.
ABOUT IPM
The Institute for Planetary Materials, Okayama University is located in Misasa Town, Tottori Prefecture where is famous for radium hot springs. The origins of our institute can be traced back to before World War II, first developed as the Hot Spring Research Institute of Okayama University combining medical care and earth science study after the war. In 1985, the earth science research division became independent and was approved as a Joint Usage/Research Center, "Institute for the Study of the Earth’s Interior". In 2016, a renewed "Institute for Planetary Materials (IPM)" was established after several reorganizations, and research topics were developed from evolution of the Earth’s interior to the research that approaches the origin of planets and life including extraterrestrial sample returns. Now we continuously research these topics.
