2024 Faculty Courses School of Science Department of Physics Graduate major in Physics
Advanced Exercises in Organizing Physics Conferences I
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Physics
- Instructor(s)
- Takashi Mukaiyama / Kazuyuki Sekizawa
- Class Format
- Exercise
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- PHY.P624
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 17, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course aims to foster the basic knowledge and experience required in hosting international conferences.
Course description and aims
Students are expected to form a committee group and organize, prepare and carry out an international meeting.
Keywords
International conference, making an agenda, creating a poster, announcement, chair of the meeting, English as a common language, leading in organizing the conference
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Students prepare a proposal for the meeting and ask judge for eligibility.
If it is approved, the students are expected to organize the meeting.
Follow the instruction in this page. http://info.phys.sci.titech.ac.jp/leadership/application.html
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Students are required to organize themselves, i.e. sharing the tasks, choosing the speakers, making agenda, announce of the meeting via poster, email, managing the meeting, chairing the meeting. In principle, English will be used as a 1st common language. | After the meeting, the students are required to report the outcomes and expenditure of the meeting. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Unspecified
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Unspecified
Evaluation methods and criteria
By assessing the contribution of the student to the organization of the international meeting.
Related courses
- PHY.P621 ： Overseas Research Project in Physics I
- PHY.P622 ： Overseas Research Project in Physics II
- PHY.P623 ： Overseas Research Project in Physics III
- PHY.P625 ： Advanced Exercises in Organizing Physics Conferences II
- PHY.P626 ： Advanced Exercises in Organizing Physics Conferences III
- PHY.P627 ： Advanced Exercises in Physics Presentation I
- PHY.P628 ： Advanced Exercises in Physics Presentation II
- PHY.P629 ： Advanced Exercises in Physics Presentation III
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.