Mat3ra in Tsukuba: Visiting Sekisui Chemical and the University of Tsukuba CCS

On September 29, 2026, the Mat3ra team spent the day in Tsukuba, Japan, visiting two long-standing partners: Sekisui Chemical and the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) at the University of Tsukuba.

Sekisui Chemical

The day began with a visit to Sekisui Chemical, where the team was welcomed by Shimmei-san and colleagues for a conversation about materials research and potential areas of collaboration.

University of Tsukuba — Center for Computational Sciences

From there, the team headed to CCS at the University of Tsukuba, where Prof. Minoru Otani and Prof. Yasuteru Shigeta, CCS Director, hosted a tour of the center's computing facilities — including a look at CP-PACS, the parallel array supercomputer that was the fastest in the world in 1996, and its successor, PACS-CS.

The visit also included further conversations around the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Mat3ra and CCS, and the two-year framework for collaboration it lays out.

Between meetings, a reminder of local lab etiquette: shoes off, slippers on.

Thank you to everyone at Sekisui Chemical and the University of Tsukuba CCS for the warm welcome and the engaging conversations — we're looking forward to continuing the collaboration.