Activity Reports
Inspiring Young Minds
Student essays from the 2023 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, young students with no scientific role models may be discouraged from studying science if they cannot see the benefit for current and future generations.
In this course, graduate students in the sciences at the University of Tokyo wrote essays to inspire high-school students to consider a scientific career by introducing them to the great potential of academic research in the basic sciences. Their writing was refined by an innovative open science peer review process under the tutelage of instructors Dr. Kate Harris and Prof. Mark Vagins. Please enjoy exploring and reading them.
GU Hao
The Glass of Magnets and Beyond
NISHIMURA Naoki
Spin will change our lives: electronics based on new principle
KAMBARA Yuki
General relativity and navigation: we do not get lost thanks to Einstein
AKITA Jun
Beyond the Standard: Nonstandard Peptides at the Frontiers of Medicine
HAN Xiu
Synthesis of Urea--Total Synthesis of Natural Products, the Opportunities and Challenges Given to Chemists by Nature
KOTANI Yuki
Connecting Rings: Architecture on a Nanometre Scale
MIYAZAKI Ikumi
How "Bright" Is Your Curiosity? ~The Discovery of Glowing Protein from Jellyfish~
GUO Zhuan
Venus: A quest for life
ZHANG Zhaozhan
Stochastic method and interpretation of deterministic evolution
AOKI Takafumi
The Photoelectric Effect: Einstein’s “another” great work
AONASHI Tatsuya
Does the study of new elementary particles make our lives better?
ARAI Tomochika
The Use of Accelerators
UJI Tomoya
Looking into the pyramids by the nuclear emulsion detector
UCHIDA Yoshihito
The model of COVID-19: the equations which affect and attract people in all fields
KAWAGUCHI Kenzaburo
Make Earth in computer to know the future climate and effects of our activity on it.
SAITO Shunichi
Maxwell’s Demon: Connecting Thermodynamics, Information, and Life
SAITO Shota
Hopeful Future of Nuclear Fusion Generation
SUGAWARA Yusei
Attack biological problems using a state-of-the-art microscope.
SUDA Ryotaro
Zero Energy Loss Electrical Conduction: Empowering Life with High-Temperature Superconductivity
TAKANAMI Kaito
The Structure of Glass: from physics to AI
TERAWAKI Taisei
Einstein's innovative discovery which is indispensable for our modern lives
NISHI Kotaro
Eccentric Star Shape Footprint Unravel the Mysteries of Our Ordinary World
FAN Zhiyi
Particle Physics Changing the Method of Cancer Treatment
HOKKYO Akihiro
Entropy: What We Can and Cannot Do
YAMADA Yuka
Measuring the universe with cosmic “ruler”
YOKOYAMA Tatsuya
How come the existence of matter in the Universe?
TANAKA Takumi
Small black holes affect the life of large galaxies?
INADA Shiori
Where do we come from? – What rocks brought back from an asteroid tell us
SATO Takahiro
Imaginary Creatures in Real Life: The Advance of Cell Fusion
TSUOKA Kazuki
Unlocking a world of boundless possibilities of quantum computers
NAKAMURA Yuki
How did the laser come about, and what did it bring to us?
ANAI Keitaro
“Optical Quantum Computer” for the New Era of Computing
OMURA Satoshi
Giant magnetoresistance and its applications
MIYAMURA Takeaki
Quantum world made and controlled by our hands.