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Kick-off Seminar and International Career Seminar held
FoPM Kick-off Seminar was held at Koshiba Hall on December 19th, 2019. Prof. Hitoshi Murayama, the Program Coordinator, explained the purpose and outline of the program to the FoPM students who were enrolled in the program in this academic year.
Following the Kick-off Seminar, the International Career Seminar -International Postdocs- was held and more than 80 students from the Graduate School of Science and other graduate schools including the FoPM students attended. In the seminar, current or former postdocs talked about their experiences working as a postdoc abroad as well as tips for a successful international postdoc application. All the talks were so informative that the audience listened attentively. The program of the seminar is as follows:
Postdoc experience abroad
| 5:30-5:50pm | Hajime Fukuda (Particle Theory) Postdoc, UC Berkeley |
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| 5:50-6:10pm | Yuji Chinone (Experimental Cosmology) Project Assistant Professor, Research Center for the Early Universe, Graduate School of Science, UTokyo Past position: Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley (-2019) |
| 6:10-6:30pm | Toshihiro Nomura (Experimental Condensed Matter Physics) Research Associate, Institute for Solid State Physics, UTokyo Past position: Scientist, HLD-HZDR, Dresden (-2019) |
How to write a successful postdoc application
| 6:30-7pm | Thomas Edward Melia (Particle Theory) *Video link Project Assistant Professor, Kavli IPMU, UTokyo Past position: Postdoc, CERN & UC Berkeley (-2017) |
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| 7-8pm | Information exchange session |
*MC: Hitoshi Murayama, Professor, Kavli IPMU
