On March 14, 2024, Prof. Takanari Ouchi brought Dr. Jonathan Steven Paras from Sandia National Laboratories to East Nippon Works Area of Nippon Steel Corporation together with Prof. Shunsuke Yagi. Dr. Paras also visited the IIS on March 15, 2024. He gave a lecture
on his research, entitled “An Irreversible Thermodynamic Formalism of the Electronic Contribution to the Entropy in Metals”. There were many active questions from the graduate students, and a fruitful discussion was held . In addition, he visited the Ouchi Laboratory, Ogura Laboratory, Mizoguchi Laboratory, Ikeuchi Laboratory, Yagi Laboratory, Nakagawa Laboratory, and Okabe Laboratory. At the subsequent exchange meeting, the faculty members of the IIS gathered and engaged in in-depth discussions on a wide range of topics with Dr. Paras.