Kyoto University The Hakubi Project

Seminar index

• 159th seminar   Jan. 15, 2019 (Tue.)  NEW
  『 Memory as an essential component for being “humans”: the study using fruit flies to uncover the underlying molecular mechanism - 』
• 158th seminar   Dec. 18, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『 Protein Design and Engineering Toward the Functional Biomaterials - 』
• 157th seminar   Dec. 4, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『 An integrated approach to understand and forecast natural ecosystem dynamics - 』
• 156th seminar    Nov. 20, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『 The A-bomb and Turning Points in the History of Science- 』
• 155th seminar    Nov. 6, 2018 (Tue.)
  『 Carbon Markets: Promising Climate Policy Instrument or Just the Devil in Disguise 』
• 154th seminar    Oct. 16, 2018 (Tue.)
  『 Discovering Linguistics: From Linguistics Olympiad to Ig Nobel Prize 』
• 153rd seminar   Sep. 11, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『 Electrochemical ammonia synthesis based on sustainable energy ~ Bread made from water, air, and sun~』
• 152nd seminar   Aug. 28, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『 What can we do and what should we do during Ebola outbreak? -』
• 151st seminar   Jul. 9, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『 Quantum computer: an intersection of information/physics, fundamental/applied, and science/engineering　-』
• 150th seminar   Jul. 3, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『 Neuronal activity in the prefrontal cortex during the course of updating knowledge for problem solution in a changing environment.』
• 149th seminar   Jun 19, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『 Low-carbon innovations and environmental policys -』
• 148th seminar   May 28, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『 Neural mechanisms for skilled body movements -』
• 147th seminar   May 10, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『For connecting multiple scale networks in the brain -』
　
• 146th seminar   May 8, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『Mathematical analysis of evolving surfaces -』
　
• 145th seminar   April 3, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『The Cluster of Instruction－how to compile huge Instructions into an Epitome -』
• 144th seminar   February 20, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『Quantum simulations using ultracold atoms - From quantum many-body systems to a black hole -』
• 143rd seminar   February 6, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『How do cells move and divide? –Synthetic cell approach–』
• 142nd seminar   January 16, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『Combination of geometry and applied mathematics: Geometric optimization』
• 141st seminar   January 9, 2018 (Tue.)  
  『A non-technical introduction to magnetic oxide perovskites』
• 140th seminar   December 19, 2017 (Tue.)  
  『Draw the Seven Seas and Seven Continents in International Law: Were the non-European Nations Always “Recipient” of International Law?』
• 139th seminar   December 5, 2017 (Tue.)
  『The Political Ecologies of Industrial Plantation Development and Access to Land in Laos』
• 138th seminar   November 21, 2017 (Tue.)
  『The role of soil microarthropod community in leaf and root decomposition』
• 137th seminar   November 7, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Can a study of ancient literature find an innovation?: Seeking new methods for comparative study of language style』
• 136th seminar   October 17, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Did Archaic Hominin Live in Japan? – Excavation of Torigasaki Site, Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture, Japan－』
• 135th seminar  (Farewell Seminars) July 19, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Understanding and reconstructing an animal's color pattern』
  『Feedbacks of ecology and evolution through the lens of plankton and snails』
• 134th seminar   September 5, 18, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Financial Strategy of Higher Education－Focusing on the Significance of Rating and the Issue of University Bonds－』
• 133rd seminar   July 18, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Introduction to von Neumann algebra theory』
• 132nd seminar   July 4, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Manipulation of gene expression of cells by LIGHT』
• 131st seminar  (Farewell Seminars) June 20, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Why We Love Sad Songs: Perspectives from South Asia 』
• 130th seminar   June 6, 2017 (Tue.)
  『The current situation and issues of the semiconductor spintronics』
• 129th seminar   May 23, 2017 (Tue.)
  『A new approach to strong electron correlation in molecular electronic-structure theory』
• 128th seminar   May 9, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Control of primate’s decision-making and functional identification of the brain circuitry』
• 127th seminar   April 4, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Molecular fossils of RNA viruses』
• 126th seminar   February 21, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Functions generated by the microbial diversity』
• 125th seminar   February 7, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Developmental behavioral genetics on personality traits and psychopathology』
• 124th seminar   January 17, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Ancient swords and the interchange between Japan and Korea』
• 123rd seminar  (Including Farewell Seminars) January 10, 2017 (Tue.)
  『Reconstructing the past from unearthed documents』
• 122nd seminar   December 20, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Compact Objects and Transient Astronomical Phenomena』
• 121st seminar   December 6, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Linguistics forever』
• 120th seminar   November 15, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Geometry and Physics』
• 119th seminar   November 1, 2016 (Tue.)
  『How Can We Analyze "Chinese-ness" Which Exudes into South Asian Society? : To Enhance Our Understanding for Contemporary China.』
• 118th seminar   October 18, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Can we use “ethology” for controlling invader animals?』
• 117th seminar  (Farewell Seminars) September 20, 2016 (Tue.)
  『My philosophical practice in Kyoto University』
• 116th seminar  (Farewell Seminars) July 19, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Breaking barriers』
  『Three years in my Hukubi days -what I have learned and challenged』
• 115th seminar  (Farewell Seminars) July 5, 2016 (Tue.)
  『What is possible on Hakubi? Reflections on Education and Self-Overcoming』
  『Kurobi Zemi』
• 114th seminar  (Farewell Seminars) June 21, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Inside and Outside View of Encounters around Early Madras』
  『High Energy Activity in the Central Region of the Milky Way Galaxy with the X-ray Astronomical Satellite "Hitomi"』
• 113th seminar  (Farewell Seminars) May 17, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Mysterious life of plants that have lost their photosynthetic ability and eat fungi』
  『Both Depletion and Excess of Oxygen Come Evil?』
• 112th seminar   May 10, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Studies on Marcel Proust』
• 111th seminar  (Farewell Seminars) April 5, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Chinese Muslims and Islamic Reformism during the Modern Period』
  『Kawase Yūzan and the Value of Free Print in the Late Edo Period』
• 110th seminar   March 15, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Deciphering the “Ubiquitin codes”』
• 109th seminar   February 16, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Genealogy of Meaning: The Unity versus Disunity of Science Debate』
• 108th seminar   February 2, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Impact of diffusion MRI on the diagnosis of the cancer』
• 107th seminar   January 19, 2016 (Tue.)
  『Biomimetic Microengineered Devices: Organ-on-a-Chip』
• 106th seminar   December 15, 2015 (Tue.)
  『What do inscriptions engraved in caves temples tell us?』
• 105th seminar   December 1, 2015 (Tue.)
  『A thought of the mantis shrimp's strike on shishi-odoshi framework』
• 104th seminar   November 17, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Reading Stories Written in Stone』
• 103rd seminar   November 10, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Inside of the head』
• 102nd seminar   October 20, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Prime, integral, rational, real, complex numbers and modular forms』
• 101st seminar   October 6, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Mysterious life of plants that have lost their photosynthetic ability and eat fungi』
• 100th seminar   September 15, 2015 (Tue.)
  『The art of swimming in the microworld』
• 99th seminar   September 1, 2015 (Tue.)
  『The End of Cellular Life Controlled by the End』
• 98th seminar   July 21, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Known knowns, Known unknowns, and Unknown unknowns』
• 97th seminar   July 7, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Oxygen-deficiency; Good or Bad for Cancer Therapy?』
• 96th seminar   June 2, 2015 (Tue.)
  『How to develop functional molecules to regulate curious functions of RNAs?』
• 95th seminar   May 19, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Astromineralogy from laboratories: What does stardust tell us?』
• 94th seminar   April 21, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Gravity and light: an introduction to gravitational lensing』
• 93rd seminar   February 17, 2015 (Tue.)
  『The US-Japan War and War Termination』
• 92nd seminar   February 3, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Heavenly knowledge in disguise – The Transmission of Buddhist and Christian Astral Sciences from the “West” to the “East” in the first millennium AD』
• 91st seminar   January 20, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Where Land and Sea Meet: Port Towns in the Early Modern South India』
• 90th seminar   January 6, 2015 (Tue.)
  『Patterns of Man: The Historical Role of Biography in Evaluating Human Diversity』
• 89th seminar   December 16, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Success at the Margins: Ethnographic Inquiry to Korean Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Economies in Japan』
• 88th seminar   December 2, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Regulation and Evolution of Color Pattern on Fruit Fly Wings』
• 87th seminar   November 18, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Current Status of the decipherment of Khitan Script』
• 86th seminar   November 4, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Toward better understanding of regional climate change』
• 85th seminar   October 21, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Birth of a Global Environmental Problem: Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing and Science and Politics on Global Fallout』
• 84th seminar   October 7, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Information Processing via Soft Body Dynamics』
• 83rd seminar   September 16, 2014 (Tue.)
  『The fight against illicit art trafficking, pillaging, and other forms of art crime in Asia』
• 82nd seminar   July 29, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Fight against locust in Mauritania』
• 81st seminar   July 1, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Control of thermal emission by controlling electronic and photonic states』
• 80th seminar   June 17, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Rapid evolution and population dynamics』
• 79th seminar   June 3, 2014 (Tue.)
  『A History of Postwar Japan as Told by the Cinema』
• 78th seminar   May 20, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Role of gut hormones in type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease』
• 77th seminar   Apr 15, 2014 (Tue.)
  『Knots and Quantum topology』
• 76th seminar   Mar 18, 2014 (tue.)
  『"Aliens" and high energy astrophysics』
• 75th seminar   Mar 4, 2014 (tue.)
  『The Skill-dependent Justice』
• 74th seminar   Feb 18, 2014 (tue.)
  『Resilience of ‘hunter-gatherers’ socio-culture under the large-scale plantation development in Tropical Asia』
• 73rd seminar   Feb 4, 2014 (tue.)
  『Other understanding in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder』
• 72nd seminar   Jan 21, 2014 (tue.)
  『The Japanese Path Beyond Metaphysics: the Kyōto School and Neoplatonism』
• 71st seminar   Jan 7, 2014 (tue.)
  『The effect of spawning site selection by female from the viewpoint of Ethology (Animal behaviour), and application to controlling invader animals』
• 70th seminar   Dec 17, 2013 (tue.)
  『Greek Thanatology in Epigraphy』
• 69th seminar   Dec 3, 2013 (tue.)
  『Right-handed snakes and left-handed snails』
• 68th seminar   Nov 19, 2013 (Tue.)
  『Tailoring Genomes with Molecular Scissors』
• 67th seminar   Nov 5, 2013 (Tue.)
  『Number concepts in non-literate societies from an ethnomathematical perspective』
• 66th seminar   Oct 15, 2013 (Tue.)
  『The Nature of Mind according to the Philosophy of Dzogchen: Research on Buddhist Sources from the Himalayas』
• 65th seminar   Oct 1, 2013 (Tue.)
  『The Experience of Border-Crossing and Revival of Islam among Chinese Muslims in Northern Thailand』
• 64th seminar   Sep 17, 2013 (Tue.)
  『Crop domestication and reproductive barriers』
• 63rd seminar   July 16, 2013 (Tue.)
  『Seeing the nanoscale world using atomic force microscopy』
• 62nd seminar   July 2, 2013 (Tue.)
  『Quantum physics and information processing』
• 61st seminar   June 4, 2013 (Tue.)
  『Medieval Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, Shinto, and Dragon Cults』
• 60th seminar   May 14, 2013 (Tue.)
  『Gauge Theory and String Theory』
• 59th seminar   May 7, 2013 （Tue.）
  『Power of Emotion: Faith, Ethic, and Aesthetic in Early Modern South Asia』
• 58th seminar   April 16, 2013 （Tue.）
  『Black Holes and String Theory』
• 57th seminar   March 5, 2013 （Tue.）
  『Langlands program』
• 56th seminar   February 19, 2013 （Tue.）
  『Development and regeneration of auditory hair cells』
• 55th seminar   February 5, 2013 （Tue.）
  『Exotic Pathways to New Materials』
• 54th seminar   January 22, 2013 （Tue.）
  『Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and a Birth of the Modern Concert —Historical overview of its concert programs—』
• 53rd seminar   January 8, 2013 （Tue.）
  『Islam holding dialogues with China』
• 52nd seminar   December 18, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Making Medicine a Business: an Economic History Perspective』
• 51st seminar   December 4, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Focusing properties and generation of spatial tailored laser beams』
• 50th seminar   November 20, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Theoretical Particle Physics and the early Universe』
• 49th seminar   November 6, 2012 （Tue.）
  『The Global Education Reform Puzzle: Putting Together the Pieces』
• 48th seminar   October 16, 2012 （Tue.）
  『From the origin of life to cell manipulation: Temperature gradients at a small scale』
• 47th seminar   October 2, 2012 （Tue.）
  『How to Build a Supertree』
• 46th seminar   September 18, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Health Care Spending Growth and Health Technology Assessment』
• 45th seminar   September 4, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Alternative Methods for Energy Conversion: Generation of Cold Light by Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence』
• 44th seminar   July 17, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Closing the Regional Human Rights Gap in Asia: The Prospects for a Regional Human Rights Mechanism』
• 43rd seminar   July 3, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Health Promotion for the Elderly in the Kingdom of Bhutan』
• 42nd seminar   June 26, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Research on Science, Technology and Society』
• 41st seminar   June 5, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Visualization and manipulation of intermolecular interaction by high-pressure microscopy』
• 40th seminar   May 15, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Does Forest Management Alleviate Drought and Floods?』
• 39th seminar   May 1, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Formal Verification of Hybrid Systems with Infinitesimal Programming』
• 38th seminar   April 17, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Competitive Dynamics of Business Groups in Late-Industrialization』
• 37th seminar   March 27, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Is Protein Aggregation Our Friend or Not?』
• 36th seminar   March 6, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Adult Neurogenesis and Plasticity of the Brain』
• 35th seminar   February 7, 2012 （Tue.）
  『Language in Religious Context: Voices from Ancient Italy』
• 34th seminar   January 24, 2012 （Tue.)
  『The Changing life of the Salaryman: Examining Individualization in Japanese Society』
• 33rd seminar   January 10, 2012 （Tue.）
  『The Role of Buddhism in Creating Social Welfare: Learning from the Model of Bhutan』
• 32nd seminar   December 20, 2011 （Tue.）
  『The Nucleolus in Mammalian Oocytes』
• 31st seminar   December 6, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Past Activity of the Central Region in the Milky Way Galaxy with X-ray Observation』
• 30th seminar   November 15, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Two roles of adenosine 5’-triphosphate (ATP): Energy and signal』
• 29th seminar   November 1, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Observational Study of the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies』
• 28th seminar   October 18, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Entropy, Information, and The Second Law』
• 27th seminar   October 4, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Perspectives on Region and Regional Community in Southeast Asia』
• 26th seminar   September 20, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Mystery of Water’s Interface』
• 25th seminar   September 6, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Infinity in Mathematics』
• 24th seminar   July 19, 2011 （Tue.)
  『Recent trends and current states of robot research』
• 23rd seminar   July 5, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Evolution and Behavior of Tree Crop Genomes: How can we apply genome information to practical agriculture?』
• 22nd seminar   June 21, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Business Groups and the Wealth of Emerging Nations』
• 21st seminar   June 7, 2011 （Tue.）
  『What we (don't) know about the Universe』
• 20th seminar   May 10, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Ecosystem alteration by parasite: empirical evidences from riparian ecosystem』
• 19th seminar   April 26, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Conducting ethnographic research:Reflections from two Hakubi field-work perspectives』
• 17th seminar   March 1, 2011 （Tue.）
  『The Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology』
• 16th seminar   February 1, 2011 （Tue.）
  『Origin of Life and Synthetic Biology: The Expanding RNA World』
• 15th seminar   December 21, 2010 （Tue.）
  『Theory and Practice of Utilitarianism』
• 14th seminar   December 21, 2010 （Tue.）
  『Psychological and neural mechanisms involved in processing facial expressions』
• 13th seminar   December 7, 2010 （Tue.）
  『Biological interactions through plant volatiles』
• 12th seminar   November 14, 2010 （Sun.）
  『A tale of two coaches: The institutional differences and coaching similarities of American and Japanese basketball coaches』
• 11th seminar   November 2, 2010 （Tue.）
  『Superconductivity and recent topics』
• 10th seminar   October 19, 2010 （Tue.）
  『Number theory and zeta functions』
• 9th seminar   October 5, 2010 （Tue.）
  『Indian philosophy as classical philology』
• 8th seminar   September 21, 2010 （Tue.）
  『Linguistic diversity: What is it? Why should we care? And what can we do about it?』
• 7th seminar   August 3, 2010 （Tue.）
  『Debating strategies to foster Nevanlinna prize winners from Kyoto university』
• 6th seminar   July 20, 2010 （Tue.）
  『On the automated exploration of unknown chemical reaction pathways using quantum mechanical calculations』
• 5th seminar   July 6, 2010 （Tue.）
  『An approach toward the mechanism of tacit knowledge as implicit cognitive function』
• 4th seminar   June 15, 2010 （Tue.）
  『Investigating the mechanisms of memory using genetically-engineered mice』
• 3rd seminar   June 1, （Tue.）
  『Why do kidneys fail and how do they regenerate?』
• 2nd seminar   April 27, 2010 （Tue.）
  『"Arms races" of insects and plants: Exploring the process of co-evolution as revealed by fieldwork studies』
• 1st seminar   April 13, 2010 （Tue.）
  『Encouraging trans-border approaches』