Tohoku University Global Webinar Series (TUGW Series)

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