The aim is to enrich the knowledge of the research fields related to “Materials and Energy” and “Information and Society” through the seminars as to various cutting-age academic researches.
The seminars are held in English by researchers from both domestic and overseas institutions.
There are about 30 Special seminars held every fiscal year.
2021 Specialization in Frontier Science
Researchers invited from domestic and abroad give lectures and exercises of state-of-the-art research topics and results in the fields of material science, energy engineering, information science and social engineering.
Video lectures on demand are available from Moodle (NitechOTM)(Course No.21-4-6601). Please check the lectures available on this Website.
Students can select and take lectures of choices. For credit, please take the lectures with required assignments during the 2nd~4th quarters (8 Lectures for 1 Credit or 16 Lectures for 2 Credits).
Specialization in Frontier Science Lectures on Demand【Internal Access Only】
① ”Old and new ways of ceramics processing”
Dr. Tobias FEY (Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
② ”Electronic Ceramics in the Carolinas”
Prof. Veronica AUGUSTYN (North Carolina State Univ., NC, USA) and
Dr. Craig NIES (AVX Corporation, Fountain Inn., SC, USA)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
③ ”Multifunctional piezoelectric materials”
Prof. Ashtosh Kumar DUBEY (Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
④ ”Basic of Neutron Diffraction”
Prof. Kenji OHOYAMA (Ibaraki University, Ibaraki, Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑤ ”Development of Catalytic Asymmetric Hydroboration and Aerobic Oxidation Catalyst
Systems”
Prof. Kyungsoo Oh (Chung-Ang University, South Korea)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑥ ”Crystal Chemistry of Complex-disordered Materials : Specific Case of Tellurium Oxide
Based Glasses and Metal Oxide Nanocrystals“
Dr. Phillipe THOMAS (CNRS-IRCER Laboratory, Limoges University, Limoges, France)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
Prof. Dominique de LIGNY (Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑧ ”Inorganic Glass Stabilized Fluorescent [Ag_m]^n+ Quantum Clusters and Their
Prof. Xushen QIAO (Zhejiang Univ., China)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑨ ”Metasurfaces and Metadevices with Mie Resonators”
Prof. Mark L. BRONGERSMA (Stanford Univ., USA)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑩ “Rational prediction of battery materials by using ab initio computations and informatics”
Dr. Randy JALEM (National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑪ “Isotopic labeling for investigating heterogeneous catalysts”
Dr. Nicolas BION (CNRS-IC2mp, Univ. Poitiers, France)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑫ ”Exhaust emission control catalysts”
Prof. Zhiming LIU (Beijing Univ. Chemical Technology, China)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑬ ”Thermoelectrics and Solar Thermal Conversion Materials”
Prof. Miao Lei (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China)
(Present affiliation: Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑭ ”An Overview of Power Semiconductor Devices”
Prof. Chih-Fang Huang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑮ ”Finite Element Method (Introductory Course)”
Prof. Saifulnizan bin JAMIAN (Univ. Tun Hussein On Malaysia, Malaysia)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑯ ”Integrated Thermal Energy Storage”
Prof. Shailendra Kumar Shukla (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑰ ”Statistical approach to speech synthesis —past, present, and future”
Prof. Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
Prof. Shohei Kato (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑲ ”Internet of Things : Past, Present and Future”
Prof. Kwei-Jay Lin (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
⑳ “Machine Learning and Predictive Modeling with Applications”
Prof. Chunshung Yang (National Research Council Canada, Canada)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉑ ”Introduction to Formal Argumentation”
Asst. Prof. Ryuta Arisaka (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉒ ”Active Inference: From Biological Organisms to Artificial Intelligence”
Asst. Prof. Rafik Hadfi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
Prof. Reyhan Aydogan (Ozygen University, Turkey)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉔ ”Internet of Smart Implants”
Prof. Ilangko Balasingham (Oslo University Hospital, Norway)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉕ ”Statistics for Data-Driven Science”
Prof Ichiro Takeuchi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉖ ”Computational Dosimetry Assessment for Human Exposure and Product Safety”
Assit. Prof. Junqing Lan (Chengdu University of Information Technology, China)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉗ ”Basics of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor”
Prof. Takashi Kosaka (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉘ “Behavior of seismic resistant steel frame strycture under extreme loading“
Asst. Prof. Ioan-Mircea MĂRGINEAN (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉙ ”The Complexity of Matrix Multiplication : Overview and Recent Progress”
Prof Francois Le Gall (Nagoya University, Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
Prof. Astrid M. L. Kappers (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉛ ”Human Augmentation through Telepresence and Wearable Robotics”
Dr. Yamen Saraiji (AvatarIn Inc., Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉜ ”Generative Model-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis”
Dr. Heiga Zen (Google Inc.)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
㉝ ”The role of fuel cells in a future energy scenario”
Prof. Donald A. Tryk (University of Yamanashi, Japan)
Now available on Moodle (NitechOTM) “Specialization in Frontier Science I”
2016-2019 Special Seminar Schedule
Please check the syllabus (http://syllabus.ict.nitech.ac.jp/)for details.