Third-year students (2021 academic year), first stage: STEAM-type learning 2

2021.09.18
lecture

[Date and Time] Saturday, September 18, 2021, 14:00-18:30

[Format] Online

[Number of Participants] 65

[Overview]

13:45-14:00 Zoom registration

14:00-14:20 Start: Explanation of the flow, introduction of the instructor

14:20-15:10 40-minute lecture + Q&A

. Students will be divided into 5 groups and will attend lectures from 5 different instructors.

Plasma research aimed at nuclear fusion power generation:

Michiaki Ii (Professor, Department of Advanced Energy Engineering, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

Interactive Materials and Experience Creation

: Research at the Intersection of Technology and Expression -

Yasuaki Kakehi (Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo)

Microscope for detecting light emitted by materials themselves:

Yusuke Kajiwara (Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo)

Understanding the Environment, Resources, and Planets through Molecular Geochemistry:

Yoshio Takahashi (Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)

Science and Technology Studies and Science Communication

: Connecting Scientists and Society—Its Purpose

Momoyo Matsuyama (Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo)

15:20-15:45 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 Consider the "goodness" of the research.

15:55-16:20 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.

16:30-16:50 Workshop 3:

Group discussion among participants of the same lecture.

Share the content of Workshop 2 within your group.

Reorganize ① and ② from Workshop 1, and ③ summarize questions for the instructor.

17:00-18:10 Group presentations,

instructor comments, and Q&A

18:10-18:25 Administrative announcements

~Scenes from an online lecture~



A lecture by Professor Itoaki

We learned about cutting-edge research aimed at nuclear fusion power generation



A lecture by Professor Yasuaki Kakehi.

We learned about his research that intersects science and art.



A lecture by Professor Yusuke Kajiwara.

The topic was microscopes with extremely high resolution.



A lecture by Professor Yoshio Takahashi.

It was a discussion about chemistry that connects the micro and macro levels.



A lecture by Professor Momoyo Matsuyama.

We thought about science communication.


This was the second session of a workshop where participants received lectures from researchers at the University of Tokyo and engaged in discussions with each other. The session provided an opportunity for participants to discuss research in various fields, including art and science communication. Being the second session, the discussion on the theme of "what constitutes good research" was more broad and lively