Second Cohort (2020 Academic Year) First Stage: STEAM (Cross-Subject) Learning 2

2020.09.26
lecture

[Date and Time] Saturday, September 26, 2020, 13:40-18:15

[Format] Online

[Number of Participants] 57

[Overview]

13:40-13:55 Zoom registration

14:00-14:20 Start: Explanation of schedule and rules, introduction of instructors

Agricultural Reconstruction: Discovering and Solving Challenges on the Ground -

Agricultural Regeneration in Nuclear Disaster-Affected Areas through Agricultural Science


- Masaru Mizoguchi (Professor, Department of International Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

Intelligent

Systems (AI Center), University of Tokyo / Professor, Department of Intelligent Mechanical and Information Systems, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, and Department of Mechanical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering) explores the origins of human intelligence and creates "artificial intelligence."

Extreme Weather and Global Warming

: Focusing on the Recent Situation in Japan —

Takashi Nakamura (Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo / Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science / Chairman, Japan Meteorological Agency's Committee for the Analysis and Review of Extreme Weather)

Understanding Society Through Data and Computation: An Introduction to Computational Social Science -

Fujio Toriumi (Associate Professor, Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)

14:25-15:15 40-minute lecture + Q&A

. Students will be divided into four groups and will attend lectures from four different instructors.

15:20-15:40 Workshop 1:

Group discussion with other participants from the same lecture.

① Summarize the professor's research content (purpose/background, methods, results, achievements/challenges, social significance).

② Based on the summary, formulate questions.

15:45-16:15 Workshop 2:

Group discussion among participants from different lectures.

Participants will present the content they summarized in Workshop 1 to other participants from different lectures, followed by a question and answer session.

16:20-16:50 Workshop 3:

Group discussion among participants from the same lecture.

In Workshop 2, participants from different lectures share questions within their group.

Reorganize and summarize the points from Workshop 1 (① and ②).

17:00-18:00 Group presentations,

instructor comments, and Q&A

18:00-18:15 Administrative announcements

~Scenes from an online lecture~