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The 34th Public Lecture in the Faculty of Science
Yuichi Iino (Vice Dean / Professor, Department of Biological Sciences)
Once a year, the Faculty of Science and Graduate School of Science holds a public lecture to convey the excitement of science to the general public. The 34th Public Lecture was held on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 22, 2022, and was broadcast from Koshiba Hall on the Faculty of Science's YouTube channel.
Professor Noriyuki Hibiya
First, Professor Noriyuki Hibiya (Department of Earth and Planetary Science) gave a magnificent talk on the formation and measurement of the deep ocean circulation, a global flow around the deep ocean on a millennial scale, in the lecture "Deep Ocean Flow Guided by the Moon: Challenges to the Mystery of the Deep Ocean Circulation Around the Earth.
Associate Professor Hideyuki Umeda
Next, Associate Professor Hideyuki Umeda (Department of Astronomy) gave a talk on the evolution of stars, their consequences, and the observation and prediction of their changes, using Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion, which was feared to be a supernova explosion in the near future, as the topic of "Betelgeuse: the life and fate of a red supergiant star in Orion.
Assistant Professor Fukusato
Finally, Assistant Professor Tsukasa Fukusato (Department of Information Science) gave an easy-to-understand, visual presentation on the development and current state of the art of digital technology for creating animated cartoon images in his lecture entitled "Digital Technology for Creating Attractive Animated Works.
Following the style of our department's recent lectures, the lecture was designed to allow interactive dialogue by accepting on-time questions using the web system "slido" and having graduate students from the speaker's laboratory act as intermediaries for the questions.
The highest number of viewers via the YouTube channel on the day of the event was approximately 200. According to the results of the questionnaire, the lecture was characterized by the wide age range of the participants, with the largest number of participants in their 60s, and a peak among teenagers. The subtitle of this lecture was "The Life of the Ocean, the Life of the Stars, and the Life of People: Science Runs Through Them," and we believe that the audience was able to think about the world on various scales through this lecture, which covered a wide range of fields in the Faculty of Science.
Under the supervision of the Communications & Public Relations Committee of the Faculty of Science, the Public Relations Office and the Information Technology Team collaborated in the preparation, recording, and distribution of this lecture. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all those who viewed the lecture and to all those who assisted in various ways.
Published in Faculty of Science News, May 2022