FUTI’s Grant to the Columbia-UTokyo Joint Lecture Program Renewed

Photo caption: Prof. Hideo Aoki of UTokyo’s Physics Department giving a special lecture to Columbia’s visiting students in March 2013.

Photo caption: Prof. Hideo Aoki of UTokyo’s Physics Department giving a special lecture to Columbia’s visiting students in March 2013.

FUTI has renewed its research grant to the Columbia-UTokyo Joint LectureshipProgram led by Prof. Yasutomo Uemura of Columbia University. In 2011, as an outreach effort at Columbia and UTokyo, the “Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics (F-CMP)” course was initiated based on live and video-recorded lectures for entry-level graduate students. In March 2013, with partial support of FUTI, 14 Columbia students went on a 10-day tour to Tokyo and Kyoto after taking the Japanese physics lecture course in the Fall 2012 Semester at Columbia via video broadcast under the guidance of Prof. Uemura.

FUTI’s grant of this year is intended to support the travels of 6 graduate students (2 from UTokyo, 1 from Kyoto, and 3 from Columbia): just like the 2012 New York tour for UTokyo students and the 2013 Japan tour for Columbia students. They will engage in research collaborations with F-CMP lecturers and grad students from their counterpart. Additionally, in the Fall 2013 Semester, they are planning to organize a live lecture course (G6022) of F-CMP at Columbia. The lecturers will include a few members of the Columbia Physics Department, Prof. Uchida of UTokyo who will be visiting Columbia for two months, plus several faculty members of Rutgers University and Rice University. (You can view a video on this project prepared by Prof. Yasumoto Uemura below).


Message to Friends of UTokyo, Inc from Prof. Yasumoto Uemura


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