Activity Reports
Hidden Gems of Basic Science
Student essays from the 2022 WISE FoPM Graduate Program Course “Scientific Writing, Publication, and Communication”
Research in the basic sciences has the potential to transform the future of science and society, sometimes in ways that the original researcher may never have thought possible. However, the value of such research is often underestimated by potential collaborators and taxpayers who fund academic research. In this course, graduate students in the sciences at the University of Tokyo uncovered “hidden gems” in the basic sciences and wrote essays to convince a general public audience that they should care about and continue to fund basic research. Their writing was refined by an innovative open science peer review process under the tutelage of instructors Drs. Kate Harris, Mark Vagins, and Charles Yokoyama. Please enjoy exploring and reading them.
AOYAMA Temma
The algebra with beautiful symmetry “Octonion”
CHEN Junyu
Needleless Blood Count
CHITOSE Akifumi
Asymmetry from which we are born
ESAKI Nanse
Can magnon be a platform for new technologies and the new topological physics?
FUJIWARA Kosuke
Shift Current as a New Solar Power Generation System
FUNAHASHI Ikuchi
Tiny dust is a quiet gift from the space
GU Ziying
Gravitational waves may reshape our daily lives!
HAYASHI Kota
Sleep better, live better: science could be of help
HORIE Kohki
Novel Cell-Friendly Microscopy
INOUE Shuhei
Protein Synthesis with Various Microbial Gene Sequence to Develop Unknown Functional Materials
JEONG Hyun
Black holes as an energy source
KARAYAMA Kiri
The anomaly of the mass of the W boson will lead to a new world in physics
KAWAI Chikara
Neutrino astronomy reveals the nature of the universe
KAWASUMI Kotaro
Will analogue black hole systems reveal quantum gravity?
KOBAYASHI Tsubasa
Protein Synthesis Solves the Mysteries of Life
LI Hongchao
The Charm of Magic-Angle Twisted Multi-layer Graphene
MATSUMOTO Akinori
Automatic creation of new materials
MOCHIDA Jun
Mysterious relationship between magnetic impurities and superconductivity
MUKAI Tomoya
A great approach for understanding living things: Mechanobiology
NAGAYAMA Ryuna
Will state-of-the-art thermodynamics make computers more efficient?
NISHIMURA Shunsuke
Quantum Mechanics hidden in Gems
OHGA Naruo
Irreversibility: a key to our complex, multi-layered world
OKABE Risshin
A new type of telecommunication by neutrons
SAWA Masato
Active matter physics unravels the mysteries of life phenomena and expands the scope of medicine
SHIRATANI Sora
Zipping physics compactly: power of tensor network
SINGH SHRESTHA Yaman
Overcoming the limits of the nature to disclose the biggest mystery of the universe
SUDO Hiroyuki
The Great Potential of Diamond in Basic Science
SUEKANE Kai
World of Relativity explored by optical lattice clocks
TAKAHASHI Hiroki
W boson mass discrepancy as a probe of the fundamental laws of physics
TAKEUCHI Ryoto
We live in a time-distorted world
TOMODA Hiroko
A new source for a “safe” and “useful” terahertz wave will be discovered?
UOZUMI Ryosuke
Laser Cooling: using light to cool down atoms
WANG Huidong
Lensless Imaging: A ‘sci-fi’ technique to a new world of recording beauty
YAMAZAKI Soichiro
Storing Information in Black Holes
ZHANG Huanyu
Is a superconductor just a conductor without resistance? -- Josephson Effect of Superconductors.