Research Frontiers 2017 Research Frontiers 2017 115 IX. Outreach Activities To find new users in unexplored fields of application, SPring-8 holds various serialized seminars named “Workshop on Advanced Techniques and Applications at SPring-8”. Here are some representatives. w 15th: Novel functional materials using biological systems and the origins August 24, 2017 • Campus Plaza Kyoto (Kyoto) w 16th Cultural property analysis with SPring-8 June 10, 2017 • Tohoku University of Art and Design (Yamagata) w 17th Current status and future prospects of protein structural biology at SPring-8 August 3-4, 2017 • Osaka University (Osaka) w 18th Frontiers of metal nanoparticle catalyst development – Controlling with the structure and the function – (Co-hosted by Industrial Users Society of SPring-8) December 1, 2017 • AP Shinagawa (Tokyo) w 15th Novel functional materials using biological systems and the origins August 24, 2017 • Campus Plaza Kyoto (Kyoto) w 23rd and 24th Acceleration of drug discovery with SPring-8 - the utilization and the usage system - (23rd) February 26, 2018 - Knowledge Capital Osaka (Osaka) (24th) March 5, 2018 - Fukurashia Tokyo Station (Tokyo)