Graduate School of Frontier Sciences |
| The Name of the Graduate School | Graduate School of Frontier Sciences | ||||||
| Disciplines | Department of Advanced Materials Science Department of Advanced Energy Department of Frontier Informatics Department of Complexity Science and Engineering Department of Integrated Biosciences Department of Medical Genome Science Department of Natural Environmental Studies Department of Environment Systems Department of Human and Engineered Environment Department of Sicio-cultural Environmental Studies Department of International Studies Department of Computational Biology Disciplines |
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| Type of Degree | Master of Science, Master of Integrated Biosciences, Master of Environmental Studies, Master
of International Studies Ph.D. |
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| The number of students who obtained a degree in 2004 |
Master (339)、Doctor (69) | ||||||
| Graduate School's Overview | The research we mainly focus on in our education programs may be described by seven scientific keywords: "materials", "energy", "information", "complexity", "bio-science", "environment" and "computational biology". These technical terms will each become more important in the research efforts of the 21st century due to the inherent problems of each field that is intricately related to human social activities. Usually, these kinds of issues cannot be solved by limited independent knowledge or even hybrids of these issues which have so far been separately developed in different fields. To meet these problems, we have to break the current old disciplines and reorganaize them to create a completely new framework of research programs. This might be said to be an audacious challenge against the trend in current academies where research activities tend to be engaged in a quite narrow spectrum of a limited science. However, this challenge is exactly what we will dedicate ourselves to in the School of Frontier Sciences. The keyword of this new school is "Transdiscipline". The Graduate School of Frontier Sciences was tentatively established on the Hongo Campus of The University of Tokyo (UT) in April 1998. It is planned for the Graduate School to move to the third campus of UT named "Kashiwa campus" in Kashiwa city of Chiba Prefecture and the move was completed in March in 2006. Biosciences moved to the new campus. The goal and focus of the education and research agenda in Kashiwa is to develop an innovative discipline, "Transdiscipline". while Hongo and Komaba, the first and second campuses of UT, are to inherit the traditional disciplines with immanent growth, Kashiwa will promote the transdisciplinary educational research in order to explore a new research field at which various different disciplines co-exist together. | ||||||
| The Name of the Discipline | Department of Advanced Materials Science | ||||||
| Number of Lectures | 46(Lectures in English:1) | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language Level | To be able to understand lectures in Japanese | ||||||
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| Homepage / E-mail address | http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/materials/index-j.html | ||||||
| Inquiry | Kaoru KIMURA, Professor bkimura@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Discipline's Overview | A "Material" is a complex many-body system composed of as many as 10constituent nano- scale elements such as molecules and atoms, which also consist of further smaller components of nuclei and electrons. Thus materials science enables us to comprehend and to utilize the wide variety of materials and their physical properties. However, materials science at the present stage allows us to deal with only a small fraction of the degrees-of-freedom of the many-body system. Our target is to fully explore the many additional degrees of freedom in order to establish new concepts and views, as well as to find novel ways of utilizing them by the following approaches. One is to obtain insight into the nano-scopic world from microscopic observations, and thereby to control the events occurring in this nano-space. For this to be achieved, we develop and utilize advanced techniques such as high-resolution electron microscopy, scanning-probe microscopy, using strong quantum-beams to probe materials including synchrotron and neutron radiation, and first-principles simulations supported by super-computers. New phenomena are explored in nano-space to exploit these new concepts. The other approach is to use macroscopic observations of the many-body effects as a whole, such as the effects of strong electronic correlations, in order to construct new views or to develop new material processes by grasping the whole system. For this purpose we employ extreme conditions such as ultra-high magnetic fields, ultra-high pressure, ultra-low temperature, ultra-short pulse laser, non-equilibrium plasma states, ultra-rapid-quenching, etc. Unifying these diverse efforts is the focus on synthesis and control of materials from macroscopic to microscopic dimensions. | ||||||
| The Name of the Discipline | Department of Advanced Energy | ||||||
| Number of Lectures Level | 23 | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language | Proficiency in the Japanese language is required except for certain research fields and cases where the approval of the selected supervisor has been obtained. | ||||||
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| Homepage / E-mail address | http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ae/index-e.htm | ||||||
| Inquiry | kimiya KOMURASAKI, Associate Professor komurasaki@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Discipline's Overview | “Energy”is the word used to describe the potential for work to be done. Any creature,
community, or system cannot continue to exist without its own mechanism for production,
absorption, conversion, transmission and utilization of energy. The mission of the Department of
Advanced Energy is to conduct educational and research activities on energy-related issues
from a wide view point of advanced modern physics, materials, instrumentation, control, system
engineering, environmental science and so on. The followings are fields in which we are going
to play a leading role: ・Plasma Physics and its Applications, ・High Enthalpy (High Speed and High Temperature) Flow Physics and its Application, ・Structures and Materials for Extremely Severe Environment, ・Energy Production, Conversion and Utilization in Space, ・Advanced Electromagnetic Energy Engineering, Superconductivity Technology, ・High Efficiency Energy Conversion Technology, and ・Systems Analysis for Energy Issues. We are aiming at making a contribution to human prosperity through Advanced Energy, gathering and synthesizing knowledge and technologies which have been studied separately in different academic fields. The Department of Advanced Energy will do its best to extend the envelope of existing education and research fields in Energy Technology and Science and to be a pioneer in a new innovative area. |
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| The Name of the Discipline | Department of Frontier Informatics | ||||||
| Number of Lectures | 30 | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language Level | To be able to understand lectures in Japanese | ||||||
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| Homepage / E-mail address | http://www.fi.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ | ||||||
| Inquiry | Minoru Fujishima, Associate Professor fuji@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Discipline's Overview | Objectives: The Department of Frontier Informatics deals with the research and education on
the trans-disciplinary area of information science/technology by the fusion of both fields of
software and hardware. Outline: Information has become indispensable resource in the modern world. It affects not only science and technology, but also economical and political aspects in the human society. The aim of this department is to fully develop the advantages of the information technology which allow everyone to know and express what one wants at any time, any place, and to suppress hazards it may invoke by always considering amenity with society and human beings. For this purpose, our research and education include both software and hardware science/technology. By fusing them, it may become possible to establish trans-disciplinary area which treats various aspects of the information processing as a whole, from the world outside to a person, treated adequately, and again from the person to the world. This novel science/technology thus established will lead us to reveal and cultivate inherent possibilities in the human intellect. |
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| The Name of the Discipline | Department of Complexity Science and Engineering | ||||||
| Number of Lectures | 30 | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language Level | To be able to understand lectures in Japanese | ||||||
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| Homepage / E-mail address | http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/complex/index-e.html | ||||||
| Inquiry | Masato OKADA, Professor okada@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Discipline's Overview | Department of Complexity Science and Engineering aims to research the complexity in natural
and artificial systems from the combined standpoints of basic sciences and engineering, and to
educate students who have the potential to create new concepts and skills on complex
systems. Modern sciences have greatly succeeded in understanding nature and artificial
systems in terms of simple rationalism that the world is possibly divided into elementary units
and to reconstruct the system by combining them again. In this situation, the elementary
systems are linear, because of the principle of superposition. The world is very complicated as we know after the birth of human beings and it is never reduceable to the simple synthesis of elementary systems. In this situation, the non-linear concepts of chaos, edge of chaos, multifractal, self-organization, self-organized criticality, and others have been proposed to better understand the natural and artificial systems phenomena. Besides, the understanding of complex systems will be fundamental to basic sciences and engineering in the next century. The Department of Complexity Science and Engineering is based on research and education concerning the complexity in natural and artificial systems and it involves two divisions. One is the complexity experiments having the disciplines of plasma physics, solid state physics, solid chemistry, earth and planetary sciences, and brain sciences, and the other is the complexity systems composed of disciplines of model theory, chaos theory, system control, large computing, computer graphics and basic theory of computation. |
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| The Name of the Discipline | Department of Integrated Biosciences | ||||||
| Number of Lectures | 39 | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language Level | To be able to understand lectures in Japanese | ||||||
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| Homepage / E-mail address | http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/integ/index.html / | ||||||
| Inquiry | Masashi UGAKI, Professor ugaki@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Discipline's Overview | "The basic concept of the Department of Integrated Biosciences, our new department, is the
emerging synthesis of biosciences in the 21st century. This new transdisciplinary department will consist of various staff members moving in from four preexisting graduate schools; Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science. This kind of synthesis has never been implemented before at The University of Tokyo. We are working in the firm belief that this effort will serve as a breakthrough to bring about a new and innovative development in the present rigid and inflexible graduate education and research in Japan. Therefore, we welcome students with “positive mental attitude”from various science fields. The purpose of our new department is to train young people who should be play a central role in the new century. |
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| The Name of the Discipline | Department of Medical Genome Sciences | ||||||
| Number of Lectures | 22 | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language Level | To be able to understand lectures in Japanese | ||||||
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| Homepage / E-mail address | http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/mgs/ | ||||||
| Inquiry | Hideki TAGUCHI, Associate Professor taguchi@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Discipline's Overview | "Genome" is one of the most important keywords in life science of the 21 st century. At a time
when whole genetic information of various organisms such as human has been revealed, new
paradigm of life science based on the genome is emerging. The fruits of the genetic information
have to be applied for the human health. In fact, the medicine of this century is rapidly
changing to new one, in which the genomic date are used to predict disease onset. "Medical
genome science" is a new research field, which elucidates the relationship between the
genome information and human diseases, and the goal is to translate the basic sciences into an
advanced clinic. Department of Medical Genome Sciences aims to train human resources, who should pioneer novel medical science that connects the basic biology to the advanced clinical research. This department will prepare a variety of interdisciplinary educational researches on the genome, proteome, and model organisms, in collaboration with the Human Genome Center and hospital in the Institute of Medical Science of The University of Tokyo (IMSUT). We welcome students, who have a lot of venture spirits with a global vision, and hope the students create a future of the post - genome research after the graduate school. |
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| The Name of the Discipline | Department of Environment Systems | ||||||
| Number of Lectures | 44(Lectures in English:5) | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language Level |
To be able principally to understand lectures in Japanese. The degree program can also be completed by taking only English courses in and out of this department. |
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| Homepage | http://envsys.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ | ||||||
| Inquiry / E-mail address | Sohei SHIMADA, Associate Professor s-shimada@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Discipline's Overview | The environment in the 21st century in atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere is systematically studied in the view of material/energy/process engineering and environmental safety. Education and research programs focus on establishing necessary technologies, and integrating them in order to realize the desirable environment. | ||||||
| The Name of the Discipline | Department of Human and Engineered Environment | ||||||
| Number of Lectures | 304(Lectures in English:23) | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language Level | To be able principally to understand lectures in Japanese. The degree program can also be completed by taking English courses only. | ||||||
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| Homepage / E-mail address | http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/env/ | ||||||
| Inquiry | Hirofumi DAIGUJI, Associate Professor daiguji@thml.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Discipline's Overview | (Human Environment Division, Engineered Environment Division) As humans, artifacts and nature are closely related in the 21st century, science and technology need to be reestablished so that humans, artifacts and nature are studied as a common environment. This course studies the environment related to humans and artifacts in the four primary domains of physical, energy, information and industrial systems, in order to educate students adapted to “The Century of the Environment”. | ||||||
| The Name of the Discipline | Department of Sicio-cultural Environmental Studies | ||||||
| Number of Lectures | 54(Lectures in English:7) | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language Level | To be able principally to understand lectures in Japanese. The degree program can also be completed by taking English courses only. | ||||||
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| Homepage / E-mail address | http://sbk.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_e.htm | ||||||
| Inquiry | Ryo SHIMIZU, Associate professor: rshimizu@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Discipline's Overview | The urban environment where we live is defined as a community of human beings as well as a
physical complex made of buildings and civil constructions. At the same time, urban society
may not be maintained without any dependency on the natural environment. Environmental
problems and creation of the urban environment should be understood in the context of such
interrelationships among different components as above described. Department of Socio-
Cultural Environmental Studies applies the trans-disciplinary approaches within a department
which is a key concept of the whole Graduate School of Frontier Sciences. The Department is composed of 4 groups looking to 1) socio-cultural issues of the environment, 2) physical environment and sustainable environmental design, 3) sustainable water environment, and 4) spatial information of the environment. The target environments cover physical and socio-cultural aspects of the architecture, cities, regions and the globe in terms of scale. The research and education of the department include analysis, evaluation, prediction, creation and management related to the target environments. Department of Socio-cultural Environmental Studies plays the central role in “Integrated Environmental Design Program”, in which comprehensive aspects of environmental design are practically taught. |
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| The Name of the Discipline | Department of International Studies | ||||||
| Number of Lectures | 304(Lectures in English:23) | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language Level | To be able principally to understand lectures in Japanese. The degree program can also be completed by taking English courses only. | ||||||
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| Homepage / E-mail address | http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/env/ | ||||||
| Contacts for Further Inquiry | Jin Sato, Associate Professor satoj@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Overview of the Institute | Political and economic problems of any country are deeply related to what is happening outside of that country regardless of physical distance. Global warming, for example, cannot be effectively mitigated by policies of a single country alone and international cooperation becomes indispensable. Addressing globally common issues such as the sustainability of global environment and natural resources, international policy co-ordination and international development are increasingly critical. In the spirit of trans-disciplinarity, our department aims to tackle these issues by bridging research, education and practice. | ||||||
| The Name of the Discipline | Department of Computational Biology | ||||||
| Number of Lectures | 24 | ||||||
| Required Japanese Language Level | To be able to understand lectures in Japanese | ||||||
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| Homepage / E-mail address | http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/bi/e-index.html | ||||||
| Inquiry | Akihiro NAKAYA, Associate Professor nakaya@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp | ||||||
| Discipline's Overview | Our department has six laboratories of two research areas, bio-informatics science and bio- system science, in corporation with four laboratories in Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, one in Institute of Medical Science, one in Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, and two in Kazasa DNA Research Institute. We partly focus on traditional bio- informatics of building software useful for processing biological data efficiently, but we will also exploit novel methodology firmly grounded in informatics, unifying life science and informatics. This informatics-based approach stands at dawn but is expected to be in the central core of future life science. We welcome young people with different background such as informatics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and medical science who are willing to study and develop this new research field together. | ||||||
