Department of Systems Innovation,School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo
◆Information on Regular Admission◆
Information sessions are scheduled for April 26 and May 25.
Japanese Language Class for Systems Innovation
2021 S1 S2 Semester course (Online Course)
Applicants: Foreign students and researchers, who are assigned to the departments of Systems Innovation and Nuclear Engineering and Management and their spouses.
Please see the attached PDF and Japanese Class website.
Inquiry : sysnihongo@sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
2021 Degree Conferral Ceremony Winners of each award.
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, Graduate School of Engineering（Doctor）
Yuya ASHIDA (Graduated in September) /Professor Nishibayashi
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, Graduate School of Engineering（Master）
Masanori HIRANO (Graduated in September) /Professor Izumi
“SI Outstanding Graduate Student Award”
Shigeki KANEKO /Professor Yoshimura
“SI Outstanding Graduate Student Award”
Erika TANAKA /Professor Kato
“SI Outstanding Graduate Student Award”
Kazuhide MIMURA /Professor Nakamura
“Miyoshi Award” Department of Systems Innovation
Hiroaki KOSUGE /Professor Kawabata
“Miyoshi Award” Department of Systems Innovation
Yuta SHIMIZU /Professor Miyamoto
“Tamaki Award” Department of Systems Innovation
Souta NISHIDA /Professor Kato
Scholarship reward Award, The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineering
Kouta KISHI (Graduated in September) /Professor Shibanuma
ABS Award, American Bureau of Shipping
Daichi MITSUHASHI /Professor Kanno
【Awards and Commendations】Takuya Yamaguchi (M2) received Logistics Research Encouragement Award at the Japan Logistics Society.
The Logistics Research Encouragement Award, awarded by the Japan Logistics Society, is given to outstanding young logistics researchers who have achieved particularly outstanding results enrolled in educational and research institutions to which at least three regular members of the Japan Logistics Society belong.
In my master thesis, “Development of the global logistics intermodal network simulation model with large-scale parallel incremental assignment and application to the terrestrial ASEAN,” I proposed the new model that can solve the issues in the past assignment models. In addition, I conducted policy simulations mainly focusing on the terrestrial ASEAN using the proposed model, and verified the effects of several possible infrastructure policy scenarios.
I am very proud to have received this prestigious award for my master thesis, as the compilation in my graduate school. From the beginning of my study, I have had many opportunities including fieldwork abroad and joint research, and have been educated through discussions in lab activities. I would like to express my deep gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Shibasaki and all the people involved in my study. After graduation, I am going to make further efforts to give back to society what I have learned at The University of Tokyo.
Information on the entrance exams for October 2021 and April 2022, which will be held in August 2021, will be released after mid-May.
【Press release】Rapid coupling between solid earth and ice volume during the Quaternary: Yusuke Kuwahara (D1), Department of Systems Innovation, and Professor Yasuhiro Kato, Frontier Research Center for Energy and Resources/Department of Systems Innovation, and other researchers
Rapid coupling between solid earth and ice volume during the Quaternary: Yusuke Kuwahara (1st year of the doctoral course), Kazutaka Yasukawa (Lecturer), Koichiro Fujinaga (Researcher), Junichiro Ohta (Assistant Professor), Kentaro Nakamura (Associate Professor), Yasuhiro Kato (Professor) and other researchers.
The solid earth plays a major role in controlling Earth’s surface climate. Volcanic degassing of carbon dioxide (CO2) and silicate chemical weathering are known to regulate the evolution of climate on a geologic timescale (> 106 yr), but the relationship between the solid earth and the shorter (< 105 yr) fluctuations of Quaternary glacial–interglacial cycles is still under debate. Here we show that the seawater osmium isotope composition (187Os/188Os), a proxy for the solid earth’s response to climate change, has varied during the past 300,000 years in association with glacial–interglacial cycles. Our marine Os isotope mass-balance simulation reveals that the observed 187Os/188Os fluctuation cannot be explained solely by global chemical weathering rate changes corresponding to glacial–interglacial climate changes, but the fluctuation can be reproduced by taking account of short-term inputs of (1) radiogenic Os derived from intense weathering of glacial till during deglacial periods and (2) unradiogenic Os derived from enhanced seafloor hydrothermalism triggered by sea-level falls associated with increases of ice sheet volume. Our results constitute the first evidence that ice sheet recession and expansion during the Quaternary systematically and repetitively caused short-term (< 105 yr) solid earth responses via chemical weathering of glacial till and seafloor magmatism. This finding implies that climatic changes on < 105 yr timescales can provoke rapid feedbacks from the solid earth, a causal relationship that is the reverse of the longer-term (> 106 yr) causality that has been conventionally considered.
https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/soee/press/setnws_202103112237172355701573.html
Scientific Reports：
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84448-7
