Open House Day at RIKEN AICS on October 24th, 2015 in Kobe

Annual open house day will be held at RIKEN AICS on October 24th, 2015. Although most presentations and activities will be held in Japanese, we have some English speaking staff and everyone is welcome to join. Please enjoy the already-famous view of the K computer as well as activities for kids, introduction of researches and others.

◆Open House day at RIKEN AICS◆

Date:	Saturday, October 24, 2015
Place:	RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) on Kobe Port Island (Nearest station: K Computer Mae of the Port Liner)
Time:	10am-4pm(please visit us by 3:45pm)
Admission:	Free

Program

• Take a look at K computer!
• Play corner
  

  - Virtual tour
  - Coloring
  and more

• Science plaza
  

  - Card game “Quark cards dealer”
  - Solve the mystery of magnets with the K computer!
  - Epicenter marking game—you can see moving pictures of the earth generated by the latest simulation, with explanations in cartoon
  - See the power of air
  - The K computer simulates the mechanism of life—challenging the complexity of the human body for new medical treatments

• Who is using the K computer? — the RIKEN AICS internal survey (only in Japanese)
• Exhibition corner
• Introduction of researches by RIKEN AICS
  

  - Experience the invisible world!
  - Computer simulation opens the door to next generation
  manufacturing—examine air pressure against a vehicle
  - How the K computer is operated and acts
  - New supercomputer, the next generation K computer!
  - Create weather conditions with things you can find at home. Tornado with pet bottles!? Cloud journey!?
  - Look at small electrons in molecules—new developments of the density functional method

• Small seminars (only in Japanese)
• Quiz rally 2015 (only in Japanese)
• Facility tours to see the cooling source building and the seismic isolation pits supporting the K computer. Advance registration required. (only in Japanese)

Information in Japanese

The event will be held as a part of open house day of the Kobe City Biomedical Innovation Cluster including RIKEN KOBE Branch.