The ‘CREATE SYMPOSIUM 2023－Science of Sustainable Cities’ was held in Singapore on Monday, July 10, and Executive Vice President Toshiya Ueki, Prof. Kaoru Maruta, the Director of the Institute of Fluid Science, and Prof. Hideaki Kobayashi, also of the Institute of Fluid Science, participated.
The symposium’s organizer, Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), is an international and interdisciplinary research center initiative by the Singaporean government, aiming to promote cutting-edge research. This symposium gave participants the opportunity to present and discuss their research results.
Prof. Kobayashi gave a keynote lecture on research into and the application of ammonia combustion and its role in decarbonization, a countermeasure against global warming. Prof. Maruta joined a panel discussion on environmental systems.
In parallel with the symposium, EVP Ueki also met individually with Vice President Luke Ong of Nanyang Technological University and Deputy President Liu Bin of the National University of Singapore. He also spoke with representatives from some of CREATE’s overseas partner universities: Cynthia Barnhart, the Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President Thomas Hofmann of the Technical University of Munich, Pro Vice Chancellor Anne Ferguson-Smith of Cambridge University, and Vice Chancellor Katherine Yelick of UC Berkeley. EVP Ueki introduced Tohoku University’s strengths and latest initiatives, and the possibility of future cooperation was discussed.
