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Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo Winter Vacation Lectures for High School Students 2021 Online
Yuichi Iino (Director, Public Relations Office / Professor, Department of Biological Sciences)
The Faculty of Science usually holds a lecture for high school students during the winter vacation. This year, continuing from last year, the lectures were held online on December 26 (Sun.) and 27 (Mon.), 2021. The lectures were streamed from Koshiba Hall to the Faculty of Science's YouTube channel, where questions were taken from viewers in real time via slido, and the graduate students assisting the lecturers mediated the Q&A session.
 Scenes from the day. Professor Hiroki Ota, Department of Biology |
On the first day, Associate Professor Yusuke Miura of the Department of Earth and Planetary Physics and the Department of Earth and Planetary Environmental Studies gave a presentation on "The Earth's Climate as Represented by a Global Climate Model," Associate Professor Koji Terashi of the International Center for Elementary Particle Physics gave a presentation on "The Quantum Computer Approach to the Elementary Particle World," and Associate Professor Shinya Taka-Maeida of the Department of Information Science gave a presentation on "The Future of Computers. The second day featured six lectures: "Another Earth: The World of Exoplanets" by Professor Motohide Tamura of the Department of Astronomy, "The Complete History of Sapiens from the Perspective of Ancient DNA" by Professor Hiroki Ota of the Department of Biology, and "Uncovering the Mechanism of Living Things with the Power of Chemistry: What kind of research field is Analytical Chemistry? ～The first lecture was given by Prof. Masanori Manabe, Department of Chemistry. The first lecture, in particular, commemorated the Nobel Prize awarded to Dr. Shukuro Manabe, and introduced his achievements that led to the award, as well as recent developments. The overall structure of the lecture covered a wide range of fields but was complementary and related to each other, and the results of the questionnaire showed that viewers, mainly high school students, had their intellectual curiosity greatly stimulated. The Public Relations Office and the Information Technology Team collaborated in the distribution of the program, even though it was held on a holiday. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all those who viewed the news and to those who assisted us in various ways.
Faculty of Science News, January 2022