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Interim Evaluation and Follow-up of WPI Program

Summary

The missions of the WPI program are ambitious; in addition to top quality of science, we equested internationalization, fusion studies and reform of existing systems, aiming to stablish internationally opened and globally visible institutions in Japan. nder these missions, 5 WPI centers were launched in October 2007; they are AIMR on aterials science at Tohoku University, IPMU on universe at University of Tokyo, iCeMS on cell biology at Kyoto University, IFReC on immunology at Osaka University and MANA on nanotechnology at National Institute for Materials Science. In December 2011, the sixth WPI center, I2CNER, was established on energy issues at Kyushu University.

WPI centers have been followed up closely every year by site visit teams and the Program Committee. Their performance is guided by program director (PD) and program officers (POs).

This year, the five initial WPI centers were subjected to an interim evaluation on their scientific achievement and implementation of the WPI missions.

The high performance of the WPI program was evidenced in the questionnaire surveys, in which WPI centers were well-recognized in the science community and highly reputed by scientists. An assessment of their publications also indicates outstanding scientific achievements of these WPI centers as a whole. The average numbers of citations per paper is 13.9, being ranked fifth after Rockefeller, MIT, Harvard and Caltech. Among 2,500 publications during 2007-2010 period, 5.1% WPI papers are ranked in the “top 1% of papers”, second to Rockefeller University.

Interim evaluation of the 5 WPI centers is as follows: AIMR, B; IPMU, S; iCeMS, A minus; IFReC, A; and MANA, A. Definition of scores S, A, B, C, and D is given in Section D-2 (page 8). Following this interim evaluation, these 5 WPI centers will be further supported for the next 5 years.

On the occasion of this interim evaluation, AIMR proposed a new strategy, in which mathematics is injected into traditional materials science of Tohoku University in order create a new materials science. Accordingly, the director will be changed to Dr. M. Kotani, a female
mathematician, from FY2012.

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