Background
In this age of global competition, Tohoku University (TU) will take an active role in leading the way as a new type of university in the post-corona virus era, in which there will be unprecedented innovation on a global scale in education, research, social co-creation, and general business operations conducted through online means.
To this end, TU actively supports and organizes international symposia, seminars, and workshops online. Collectively named the Tohoku University Global Webinar Series (TUGW Series), they will strengthen the world-wide dissemination of the University’s research results and various other initiatives.
Tohoku University Global Webinar Series
【Selected programs in the first round】
| Program (Program URL) | Organizing Department | Principal Overseas Partner | Event Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Webinar Series 2020 Transforming Education in the Era of New Normal Experiences and Prospects in Asia-Pacific  |
Graduate School of Education | ・UNESCO Bangkok Office ・Tsinghua University ・Peking Normal University ・Lingnan University ・Seoul National University ・National Chengchi University |
①June 20, 2020 ②June 27, 2020 ③July 4, 2020 |
| 2 | Key aspect of Emergency Planning and Management for Pandemic |
Graduate School of Engineering | ・University College London (UCL) | July 30, 2020 |
| 3 | International Workshop on Emerging ICT 2020 |
Graduate School of Engineering | ・Yeungnam University ・Dalian University of Technology |
Nov. 2-3, 2020 |
| 4 | The 7th Asian Conference on Mechanics of Functional Materials and Structures (ACMFMS, 2021) |
Graduate School of Environmental Studies | ・National Taiwan University of Science & Technology ・Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautic ・National University of Singapore ・Amirkabir University of Technology |
March 12-15, 2021 |
| 5 | The Seventeenth International Conference on Flow Dynamics |
Institute of Fluid Science | ・Syracuse University ・University of California, San Diego ・National Chiao Tung University ・University of Washington ・INSA Lyon |
Oct. 28-30, 2020 |
| 6 | Flow Dynamics Webinar |
Institute of Fluid Science | ・École Centrale Paris ・the French Academy of Sciences |
Oct. 9, 2020 (To be held every other month thereafter) |
【Selected programs in the second round】
| Program (Program URL) | Organizing Department | Principal Overseas Partner | Event Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Next Generation Webinar Series 2021, Sponsored by Educational Psychology |
Graduate School of Education | ・Harvard University | March 26, 2021 |
| 2 | 15th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2020) |
Research Institute of Electrical Communication | ・Japan Society for Software Science and Technology ・Special Interest Group on Programming and Programming Languages ・ACM SIGPLAN |
Sep. 14-16, 2020 |
| 3 | Tohoku University Global Project 2020 Seminar Intercultural Collaborative Learning Creating a New Environment for Learning and Redefining the Internationalization of Education |
Institute for Excellence in Higher Education | ・University of California, Riverside ・Simon Fraser University ・Monash University ・Hitotsubashi Unibersity |
February 19, 2021 |
